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by elteto 2y ago
Absolutely. All those contingencies are planned out and coded down in software.
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by elteto 2y ago
It’s just people looking for something to crap on. God forbid those engineers celebrate years of their own work.
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by elteto 2y ago
I'm still looking for the incovenient truths because I couldn't find them in that article... A couple thousand words with no real insight or information.
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by elteto 2y ago
#pragma once is a de-facto standard now, and if it’s not in the actual standard then that says more about the failings of the standard writers than anything else. And there’s absolutely no reason to typedef _standard_ int types anymore. Not
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by elteto 2y ago
Not much, really. Most sensors are low speed: tens to hundreds of Hz. Then you have some high speed sensors, like strain gages, that are up in the 30+ kHz range.
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by elteto 2y ago
Because I dislike interspersing executable statements at module level with function definitions. I’d rather have all code live inside functions and have one main entry point for the script. It’s just a personal preference, nothing wrong wit
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by elteto 2y ago
POD means you can memcpy without incurring undefined behavior, same as you would in C to copy a struct.
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by elteto 2y ago
While that does absolutely suck, and I’ sorry you find yourself in that situation, it’s not a consequence of Obamacare. It’s just that the time you remember when things were better happens to be before Obamacare. As another commenter said,
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by elteto 2y ago
This is literally not true if you live close to any urban center. Plenty of specialists available in any city. The US healthcare system is broken in many, many ways but "obamacare made me wait 6 months" is not one of them.
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by elteto 2y ago
Does your house not have a roof?
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by elteto 2y ago
Agreed. And most of the people with these attitudes have never written actual safety critical code where everything is written to a very detailed spec. Most likely the designers of the system thought of this edge case and required adding a
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by elteto 2y ago
Indeed it does. It was a notoriously fickle design to get right and for a long time they outsourced some parts of it to a company. One of the few things they outsourced. I remember you could find a listing on the company website for this ve
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by elteto 2y ago
I think you are trying to make this out something that it isn’t. Visibility at the “cost” of negligible impact is more important than raw performance. That’s it. I’m a regular user of Linux with some performance sensitivity that does not go
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by elteto 2y ago
Didn’t really get the point of the post as it just presents something without a conclusion. 9X% of users do not care about a <1% drop in performance. I suspect we get the same variability just by going from one kernel version to another.
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by elteto 2y ago
I think he means that the stack is not something that you are forced to work with when programming in assembly. You can put data wherever you want (and are allowed to), and jmp into whatever random memory address you want. You can use CPU i
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by elteto 2y ago
I’m always skeptical of people giving away their alpha.
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by elteto 2y ago
But that’s just where you happen to draw the line and is not really relevant. You do believe in whatever your bestiary happens to contain, like magical burning bushes, giants, and super-strong men with magical hair. Whether a goblin is in t
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by elteto 2y ago
15 minutes… the horror.
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by elteto 2y ago
It actually is incredibly human-centered, to the point that humans were made in _his_ image and the Sun is supposed to turn _around_ the Earth. But all this makes sense when you realize it’s a primitive human myth made by primitive people w
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by elteto 2y ago
I do know one thing: fairy tales are not real.
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by elteto 2y ago
How arrogant and silly to look at these incredible pictures and think “Yep, this was all made for ME. I am the center of the universe!”.
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by elteto 2y ago
There are 4 bytes in word: const char word[] = {‘w’, ‘o’, ‘r’, ‘d’}; assert(sizeof word == 4);
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by elteto 2y ago
I haven’t read Endurance (it’s on the list!) but was deeply impressed by this quote from a fellow explorer: “For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situa
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by elteto 2y ago
I wanted to like awk and tried really hard but in the end was disappointed by what I see as unnecessary complications or limitations in the language. For example, it has first class support for regexes but only for matching. You can’t do ‘s
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by elteto 2y ago
A more apt analogy would be: You are the captain and pilot of the ferry. And it is such a complicated ferry that you are extensively trained on how to navigate it. It is, in fact, so complicated and different that there are other ferries ar
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by elteto 2y ago
I think the value is in knowing the network and cross-reference against it. Innocent bystanders or people who happened to just go to the hospital today will probably fall off during this process. Not to mention that you can filter out by th
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by elteto 2y ago
I wasn't thinking years, but months but I didn't know about the recent upgrade. At any rate, if the pagers allowed any data exfiltration they have been collecting that data since whenever the last upgrade was.
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by elteto 2y ago
This almost reads like science fiction, what an incredible attack from a technical POV. A couple of thoughts: 1. The beepers were compromised and have been for a long time. I don't know how easy it is to exfiltrate data from them if th
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by elteto 2y ago
For an exciting and gripping story of the laying of the first Trans-Atlantic cable check out A Thread Across the Ocean, by John Steele Gordon. It is quite the page turner.
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by elteto 2y ago
Kranz, while an important character in the Apollo saga, wasn’t even an astronaut. I don’t know what history puts him “ahead” of Neil. Or even ahead of the other greats like Grissom.

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