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by fnj 10y ago
/usr may be pronounced "user" for convenience, but it was conceived as "Unix System Resources directory", not "user directory".
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by fnj 10y ago
Penicillin was discovered by accident in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming. The first cure by penicillin was in 1930, but it wasn't until well into 1942 that volume production and wide use began.
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by fnj 10y ago
The device runs machine code. Client code can be written in any language which can be either compiled or interpreted to machine code.
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by fnj 10y ago
> sysvinit was full of redundancy; apparently BSD found a way to make a thin abstraction layer to make init files clean. They are completely different systems of init scripts. Just for starters, BSD does not have run levels, so the rcn.d
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by fnj 10y ago
But can you really understand HTTP without understanding TCP?
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by fnj 10y ago
But most of the outstanding ones are renaissance people.
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by fnj 10y ago
It's hard for me to "get into" developers who don't know how the system works. I don't mean they have to be full-fledged sysadmins, but it just seems natural to me that they should have a decent understanding of the
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by fnj 10y ago
It has enjoyed success during its lifetime, but the userbase has looked like an upside-down hockey stick for some years now. I would say that having your userbase drop from a dominant majority of the market to well below 10% of the market
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by fnj 10y ago
If you call Firefox incredibly successful.
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by fnj 10y ago
I would get a Teensy 3.2 and start programming bare metal with Arduino. You could also start with Arduino on AVR, but the Teensy gives you a lot more headroom and performance and a very small physical size for very small $. Arduino is jus
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by fnj 10y ago
> Don't overload operators for anything other than math. It just confuses people. Do you think << and >> in iostreams confuses people? > unique_ptr and move semantics have promise, but it may be too soon for those fea
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by fnj 10y ago
It might also have something to do with the fact that 60 is evenly divisible by 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2.
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by fnj 10y ago
The knee-jerk intolerant censors are out in force today, eh?
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by fnj 10y ago
A technical tour de force, but the premise is flawed. "I" have no representatives. "We" have representatives as a group. The mob who rules by force of numbers; all strictly democratically acting. Right off the top, the p
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by fnj 10y ago
Commercial jetliners never fly at 18,000 m (nor at 515 m/s). Max is about 11,000 m or so, and about 250 m/s. It would be interesting to know if consumer GPS ever worked aboard the Concorde.
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by fnj 10y ago
As many have noted, this is not UBI; full stop. Also, you can't "test" something that is supposed to be universal by definition, on a micro scale and to a selected subset.
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by fnj 10y ago
"Somebody" has to pay for welfare, too. The fact that all social welfare programs have a cost is not a reason to reject all social welfare out of hand. Do you really think welfare programs should be abolished? What level of starvi
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by fnj 10y ago
> I can't really go into details because of NDAs This does not instill confidence of seriousness about documentation.
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by fnj 10y ago
Parsing columns of text with awk or any other text tools is vexingly problematic. How do you even define "column"? What if columns contain whitespace? How do you differentiate that from the whitespace between columns?
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by fnj 10y ago
> This is what made Unix last. An unfortunate turn of phrase. It's ambiguous. Do you mean last as in "endure"? Or do you mean last as in "last place"?
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by fnj 10y ago
Once I checked out the reference at the end of README.md, I like it. I could try to object that the "magic" has been moved into the addressing modes of the mov, but that would be a bit arbitrary. If you focus only on direct memory
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by fnj 10y ago
It's not clear to me how [simple unconditional] mov could possibly do the job alone. I believe it could only work if it incorporates "magic" memory locations - e.g., storing at location x executes math combining location x an
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by fnj 10y ago
A router has nothing to do with providing WiFi. You should have a separate router and WAP. For the router, any fanless mini-PC with two ethernet ports. Run OpenBSD or pfSense.
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by fnj 10y ago
> unless you’re using Arch Linux pacman -S ed
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by fnj 10y ago
Can you present any imaginable situation where resolution of arbitrary time/dates to a billionth of a second is not adequate?
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by fnj 10y ago
Not really. They are never added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided. They are never compared for greater-than or less-than. Possibly they are compared for equality. About the only mathematical operations I can think of which are ever done
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by fnj 10y ago
Not quite. A lot/most of Chinese have only learned Chenglish. That's not a criticism; it's an observation. IME, Indians and Germans who use English are generally extremely proficient in it.
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by fnj 10y ago
Why promulgate the absurd premise that doubling the RAM would cut the battery life in half ? As the article is at pains to say, 16 GB of RAM only consumes 1.49 A, while the CPU is 4.61A, and the display is a very big power hog. I am not in
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by fnj 10y ago
Clutchless shifting is a lot of fun, but hard to do truly properly. With synchromesh, you may not be audibly grinding the gears, but you are going to wear the synchros unless your rev-matching is very good.
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by fnj 10y ago
I drove manual for a long time, but after switching to automatics, I got quite good at left-foot braking without much trouble. You can get a slight advantage on reaction time doing it. The trick, besides not instinctively hitting the brake

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