exDM69

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by exDM69 9y ago
Where I'm from, libraries borrow power tools for free. It kinda makes sense because they already have the infrastructure for storing, borrowing and getting back lost items. Other things you can borrow or use in local libraries: cargo b
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by exDM69 9y ago
Unfortunately that puts you at a disadvantage and is a small downside of your previous job. Many professions these days require a portfolio to show, and programming is quickly becoming one of them (and it's better for your career if yo
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by exDM69 9y ago
If you're interviewing with 10 companies, that would mean a solid month of work. I'd much rather spend 15-30 minutes on the whiteboard per company. But the whiteboard test should only be a smoke test for can/can-not program (
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by exDM69 9y ago
> They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. Absolutely not. If most applicants need to do 4-8 hours worth of homework, they'll never have the time to review the results for every applicant. And maki
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by exDM69 9y ago
This is a terrible solution at many levels. Paying someone who isn't on your payroll (yet) needs a lot of bureacracy on both sides (e.g. taxes). And even if it's paid, it's still a not-insignificant time investment for the ap
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by exDM69 9y ago
> Imagine if someone said "I would be concerned I'd be seen as a carpenter and not a woodworking artisan". Carpenters build houses, woodworkers build furniture. IT people reinstall operating systems, fix printers and netwo
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by exDM69 9y ago
The Singleton pattern can be used to fix the order of static constructors. I think that this is the only reasonable use for the singleton pattern (which is just a global variable in disguise). In my opinion, it's better to not rely on
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by exDM69 9y ago
Yes, the satellite you picked was launched from Baikonur on a Proton M rocket in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimiq#Nimiq_6 https://www.satbeams.com/satellites?norad=38342
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by exDM69 9y ago
AFAIK silicon has a crystalline structure which causes wafers to break on straight lines and at right angles. This might make things difficult for non-rectangular parts. There's also a ton of practical issues regarding the process. Pho
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by exDM69 9y ago
I did a university project with a Cell back in the day and it was awfully difficult to program. It was similar to GPGPU programming but instead of gigabytes, the SPUs had kilobytes of memory. Orchestrating the movement of data to/from
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by exDM69 9y ago
Maybe it's a viable research project, but still far off from reality. The largest chips that can be manufactured with current technology are about 900 mm^2 in size, but a normal 10" wafer is about 51000 mm^2, which is 50x larger t
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by exDM69 9y ago
You've misunderstood. They put many chips inside one package, but the individual chips are still from different wafers.
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by exDM69 9y ago
The "aperture size" in semiconductor manufacturing is a the practical limiting factor in chip size, and some chips (GPUs in particular) are already at the limit. It's basically the maximum size of the photolithography process
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by exDM69 9y ago
I live at 60 degrees Northern latitude, and I sleep a lot more in the winter. And it's really difficult in the summer too, because it never gets dark and you need to go to bed to get up in the morning. For some reason it's not dif
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by exDM69 9y ago
> The point being, it is just as likely that the writer of this post wasn’t left out any more than he would have been in the past. Although this may apply to OP's problem(s), it's not really the case everywhere. I'll give
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by exDM69 9y ago
I disagree with this. A lot of GNU C works on both, GCC and Clang which covers most platforms out there. Those extensions are useful and allow better portability across architectures. E.g. SIMD extensions is much better than writing two imp
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by exDM69 9y ago
That's a bit dishonest way to put it. The situation with extensions has vastly improved w.r.t. OpenGL. In the link you provided, it only needs to enable the appropriate window system extension. It also prints out some info about other
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by exDM69 9y ago
OpenGL is a terrible API with 25 years worth of legacy baggage. There are many ways of doing everything and a portable engine needs to support many methods for even the simplest of things because the newest and best methods aren't supp
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by exDM69 9y ago
ISS is at 400+ km altitude where the atmosphere is really thin. It's also very heavy for low thrust electric propulsion.
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by exDM69 9y ago
At least some of the code in there appears to be Miranda code, which is a predecessor to Haskell.
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by exDM69 9y ago
This is just spoofing the PCI VID:PID numbers to the driver and relying on driver bugs(?) to function. You could do the same with a few lines of kernel hacks far easier than soldering. It does not enable any features that are fused off in t
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by exDM69 9y ago
With PCI-e passthru using intel_iommu, you can set this up with a gaming GPU. The driver can't tell that it's not running on bare metal. This requires dedicating the whole GPU and the PCI-e slot to the virtual machine guest. For m
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by exDM69 9y ago
None of the dependencies seemed to be Linux-specific at a quick glance. You might be able to install all that on Windows (not sure how pleasant experince it'll be). Virtualbox won't help you, because you can't give proper acc
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by exDM69 9y ago
If there were doctors and nurses who have basic computer literacy and entry level coding skills taking part in the acquisition and development process of the IT systems they use, I bet they wouldn't suck as much as they do. Most specia
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by exDM69 9y ago
They do stretch a little over time. I have kite flying lines from Dyneema and Spectra, and they stretch over time and need to be equalized (move the knots so the lengths match). But it's very little, I had about 2.5cm change in 25m ove
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by exDM69 9y ago
Abundance of choice makes things harder for sure. But overall it's so much easier these days. Even if you're spoiled for choice, you can get the tools and documentation for free. Back then it was either the BASIC interpreter that
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by exDM69 9y ago
There are lots of cruise ships in the Baltic Sea, and there's perhaps 2-3 cases per year where someone falls overboard and quite a few who go missing without a trace (ie. fall overboard at night with no-one noticing). Practically no-on
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by exDM69 9y ago
I disagree, now we have tons of free internet resources available. Back then I had to bicycle to the library to borrow a book, and hope that the accompanying diskette with the compiler in it was still working. Programming is still programmi
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by exDM69 9y ago
I would say that emiting LLVM IR is easier than C. I have done a few toy compiler projects with LLVM and it is very nice. I've never done a compiler that emits C, but I can't imagine it being any easier. At least you'd have t
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by exDM69 9y ago
> 3) The ones that seem to be causing the biggest headaches on YouTube lately are the bigger creators. You're probably referring to the recent events where well-known youtubers have published questionable content and causing an outr

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