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by gens 8y ago
You need to wait a bit. Anyway. I'm sorry. I forgot for a second that I don't want to take part in these kinds of discussions. Tesla, in this case. You can have your faith.
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by gens 8y ago
I was reading the LKML(linux kernel mailing list) back when some.. people were pushing DBus (a message transport protocol) into the kernel (in a slightly different form, as kdbus). Main reasons were performance (dbus sucks there) and.. i th
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by gens 8y ago
What about Nissan? That aside, i don't trust any car maker to make good software. Especially infotainment. Especially if it has bluetooth/wifi. And especially if there's internet involved. Let's just say i'm holding
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by gens 8y ago
I learned it from a paper "Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details" (link below), where the author uses a different form of the equation. I like the 3D in this one. http://silviojemma.com/public/papers
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by gens 9y ago
It's all during boot or shutdown... >I like how people somehow breathlessly say "systemd developers prove they don't know shit, of course its their fault!!!" and then immediately follow it up with a bunch of fairly ba
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by gens 9y ago
>Yes, except that none of the tools in question have any support for doing that and so mounting the filesystem read-only rather than read/write would break them. All 4 of the tools (that can even be wrapped in a shell script until t
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by gens 9y ago
So read/write efi is needed to set what happens when the computer boots and to see what state it was/is (relating to boot stuff). To see the state you don't need write permission, obviously. When things are set, they are set
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by gens 9y ago
What userland is it ? And why is it a problem for that userland to mount it itself ? Why would you even write to efi ? Maybe at boot, i don't know, but certainly not while running ? Not all the time ? Oh i hope there isn't a singl
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by gens 9y ago
Not as secure, but nowhere near the death traps as some(many?) describe them. Things that are written in C these days are usually written in C for performance reasons. FFMPEG would not have even close to the performance it has if it was wri
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by gens 9y ago
amd64 is just an extension on x86. I took the (64bit) syscalls from a kernel header, that i can't find now, so you can take from that header you found. C calling convention for x86 is to push everything on the stack (and use call, that
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by gens 9y ago
> Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is impossible to secure. Back then the compilers sucked. They would take complete crap of code and still it would work. They were like browsers are today. (f
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by gens 9y ago
The official fasm tar comes with a few hello world examples. One shows you how to say hello with libc, other with the kernel (then there's x86 and amd64 versions of bout). http://chamilo2.grenet.fr/inp/courses&#x2F
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by gens 9y ago
> In recent years, motors have started to be designed for the non sinusoidal waveforms that come out of chopper power supplies. From what i remember, square waves are better for a motor. Thinking about it i see no benefit of it being si
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by gens 9y ago
No, he did not. Not as far as i remember. I am not British, and i did want to dramatize it a bit. In my defense, words are to convey meaning as much as to describe action. (you don't literally "beat a dead horse" or "far
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by gens 9y ago
I don't know why it is not common knowledge that different people have different priorities, different ways of thinking about things and, well, that they are different. Not only that but people can even have opinions that contradict th
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by gens 9y ago
I don't like to be told what programming language i should use. You can scoff all you want, but i will be using C for most of my projects.
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by gens 9y ago
And some Fedora developers want to bring this kind of shit to linux.
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by gens 9y ago
> .. which is written in plain C using GLib .. That's about as "C" as C++ is. Why not Gneural or libpng or even GNU make ? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gneuralnetwork.git https://github
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by gens 9y ago
Interesting talk: "The Ultimate Game Boy Talk" at CCC https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8029-the_ultimate_game_boy_talk
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by gens 9y ago
> awk, bc not production level languages. I think you're being disingenuous there. First of all, we are talking about programming languages here, not about how widely they are used in "production". I know that awk is used
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by gens 9y ago
I also mentioned FORTRAN. A 10min investigation would bring fruit to your curiosity. But wth.. Lisp, scheme, closure, modula and smalltalk are the ones that come to my mind now that offer ONLY safe data access (modula3 has "unsafe&qu
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by gens 9y ago
If i went into every thread about rust and mentioned how Ada is great (or any other language, including C), id' get downvoted. Why is that ? "Hyper-sensitivity" ?
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by gens 9y ago
It is COMPLETELY different from rust. Not only in the syntax, but also in the things it does and how it does them. http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content A lot of languages "emphasize safety at the top of their feature
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by gens 9y ago
Erlang is completely different then rust (or C, Ada, FORTRAN). Why, on a topic about (an amazing language that is) erlang would you talk about other languages. Especially when they are nothing like erlang.
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by gens 9y ago
Can i ask why do you mention rust ? By that i mean what prompted you to write about rust here and now.
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by gens 9y ago
The biggest problem is getting into orbit. https://api.media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6180_-_en_-_saal_2_-_20141... Around 19'th minute. Then again, Mars is far so it would take some time to get there. Then again again, m
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by gens 9y ago
"Communicating Sequential Processes" by Tony Hoare http://www.usingcsp.com/ I read it multiple times and still don't quite understand it all. There are more great papers i read but this one comes back to mind
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by gens 9y ago
Most of the things by freedesktop.org in the last.. idk 5-10 years. Console-kit/logind, AppData, dbus being used for the lower parts of user-space, and probably many more that i don't recall now. Oh, and pulseaudio. EDIT: How coul
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by gens 9y ago
Linux has lately gotten a lot of bad standards.
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by gens 9y ago
I would like to apologize for calling people idiots. It is not a nice thing to say.

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