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by fnj 9y ago
Didn't you ever have to program a Persistor 68332 with an ancient version of CodeWarrior? How about CCS C for the 18F PIC?
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by fnj 9y ago
Is "Server 200" really something from 1817 years ago?
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by fnj 9y ago
Most societies consider that there are certain human rights (the right to make one's livelihood in this case) which should not be subject to voluntarily relinquishing. Do you think it would be a fine thing to allow signing oneself into
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by fnj 9y ago
I have been given "agreements" to sign in which the non-compete clause is plainly unconditionally worded: no matter what the cause of termination. I don't know whether they expected to enforce it or not. I redlined the part c
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by fnj 9y ago
I think he means you may not have #pragma once available in every embedded compiler. Embedded compilers are a mixed bag; gcc is a standout.
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by fnj 9y ago
Nice try but not working.
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by fnj 9y ago
Be aware that the strlcpy paper's timing data comes from another era altogether; an era in which a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 and a 166 MHz Alpha had some slight relevance. Nowadays your phone has 10 to 100 times as much performance. Worr
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by fnj 9y ago
Xonsh (a terrific python-based shell) addresses this with great elegance.
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by fnj 9y ago
It won't work on dash or on BSD ash either. Do what you want, but you won't be doing it working for me because I care about portability.
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by fnj 9y ago
Why switch? I'll tell you why I switched from Thunderbird to Claws. I got sick of Thunderbird's pathological memory leaking. I start by email client when I log in and leave it running indefinitely (days-weeks). Thunderbird continu
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by fnj 9y ago
> And in Austin, energy rates are 1/3 of that. Are you saying electricity delivered to the home costs 3 cents/kWh in Austin? I flat out don't believe that. We're paying over 20 cents on Cape Cod. I can believe 10 cent
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by fnj 9y ago
> desktops are getting more efficient, too. You can have an impressive amount of computing power (GPU and CPU) with a couple hundred watts. Jeeze, my desktop, a full socket 1150 Core i3, is under 100 watts. Heck, I have a file server wit
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by fnj 9y ago
> Laptops have always been substantially more efficient than desktops. Not when you compare like to like. You should be comparing those feeble laptops with NUCs.
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by fnj 10y ago
People always make such a big deal out of getting ashift "right". In actual fact, there is NEVER any valid excuse to make ashift any smaller than 12. It should default to 12. It is a scandal that it still defaults to 9. You aren&#
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by fnj 10y ago
How much of the internet's destructive hacking do they "power"?
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by fnj 10y ago
I would phrase it this way. No matter how much RAM you have, the gosh darn internet browser will easily gobble it all up.
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by fnj 10y ago
> I'm genuinely curious - why do you need 64 GB of RAM on a laptop? How about this? For when you want to run VMs that are non-trivial.
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by fnj 10y ago
No it doesn't. Lighter makes it easier to manipulate. Thinner makes it more difficult to hold and manipulate. Did you ever try to "manipulate" a sheet a paper without a surface to set it on?
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by fnj 10y ago
Fedora/RHEL yum has a much better solution: installonly_limit , defaulting to 3. Kernels which have been updated will only be kept up to this depth. The excess are automatically trimmed during update.
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by fnj 10y ago
Comparing floating point numbers for equality us tricky. In fact it is a classic fool's errand. Comparing for lesser or greater is not tricky.
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by fnj 10y ago
No place is "completely safe" to build a nuclear power plant (or anything else!). If nothing else, no matter where you build it, it is not 100% proof against attack by military action or evildoers.
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by fnj 10y ago
Certainly true from a direct-deaths standpoint. There were zero killed by the Fukushima explosions, and zero acute deaths due to the radiation release. (It's a lot harder to settle on long-term chronic radiation sickness effects.) 11 w
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by fnj 10y ago
> Nuclear waste is stable I am fighting an almost overpowering impulse to laugh and cry at the same time. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump-...
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by fnj 10y ago
That comparison is based on properly functioning nuclear power plants and coal. I daresay when you throw in the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, the balance shifts dramatically in the opposite direction. Also, the radiation from nuclear
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by fnj 10y ago
Oh come now. 70,000-90,000 years? If the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet's economically accessible uranium resources, reactors could run more than 200 years at current rates of consumption. https:/
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by fnj 10y ago
A nuclear power plant disaster is pretty much going to bankrupt somebody, no matter who insures it. Even if the insurance is nationally subsidized, something like Fukushima is going to be a crushing burden on the whole country.
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by fnj 10y ago
The last time I did that was in 1978 on a Rabbit - with no experience whatever. It was a piece of cake and they worked fine. I did the timing belt, too. I sure as heck wouldn't try it on my 1999 Golf. I can't even change the headl
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by fnj 10y ago
HAMMER2 has been worked on for at least 6 years; AFAICT by one guy. Every year it is supposed to be happening Real Soon Now, but never appears to make any evident progress. Matt Dillon does very impressive work, but the critical mass just i
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by fnj 10y ago
Graphics is IO, not language. There is absolutely no reason for it to be bloating the language itself.
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by fnj 10y ago
Modules, dammit! Year after year, decade after decade we have been waiting for modules, and instead we are fed with nothing but minutia.

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