guenthert

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by guenthert 9d ago
> I (a)sync everywhere by pushing git lfs commits to my home server. Don't let IT hear that unless you work on FOSS.
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by guenthert 10d ago
"real-time GPS-driven moving map display" Not the IMHO more interesting analog tech which lifts signals out of thermal noise.
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by guenthert 12d ago
They could have said 3300 stones stones ...
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by guenthert 12d ago
I thought that was an invention out of necessity during the WW times, but no, it's much older: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Muckefuck
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by guenthert 12d ago
Holy cow, a 386 with VGA and SoundBlaster on a $1 MCU? I recall VICE emulating the Brotkasten on 386 PCs some thirty years ago, later UAE doing it for Amiga. How long til my currently running system (anno 2016) is being emulated?
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by guenthert 19d ago
Well, the Budesamt für Verfassungsschutz (office for the protection of the constitution -- not generally known for their left-leaning point of view) classified the AfD as proven right-extreme. On that ground outlawing that party has been c
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by guenthert 19d ago
> prefer IRL service, viewing and touching actual hardware. That did Fry's in, didn't it? People coming in viewing, touching hardware in store and then buy it on-line (elsewhere) so that they could save 2.5%. Or worse, buyin
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by guenthert 22d ago
iiuc, this is differential GPS (DGPS) and not only airports are doing that. At least in Europe there are quite a few such transmitters, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_DGPS-Sendern
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by guenthert 27d ago
Meanwhile it did launch and separated from launch vehicle. Most recent status update can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/
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by guenthert 27d ago
Oh, ELF file manipulation. I thought this would be about getting Linux to run on a Teensy. https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/linux-on-teensy-4-x...
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by guenthert 28d ago
If they can't be bothered to write the code, can they be bothered to maintain it?
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by guenthert 1mo ago
> Creating the world's first dual instruction set CPU. World's first? What about the VIA C3 (or earlier NEC V20)? I'm sure there are more / earlier ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_
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by guenthert 1mo ago
Most architectures perform best in combination with a compiler of a statically typed language. SPARC at least still had rudimentary support for tagged data types.
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by guenthert 1mo ago
> This manipulation of word choices virtually guarantees AI will always sound like a robot. You make it sound as if that were a bad thing.
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by guenthert 1mo ago
How does Clamiga compare with the most recent CLISP which did support AmigaOS? CLISP's maintenance status is mentioned, but I can't help wondering in which way that would be relevant.
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by guenthert 1mo ago
> Have you ever ridden a bike with a geared derailleur, and forgotten to shift into low gear at an intersection, or had to suddenly stop before you had a chance to shift into low gear, so it's more difficult getting started again? Y
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by guenthert 1mo ago
Why not? The vulnerabilities you read about are due to oversights, not inherently lacking capabilities of the language. For every program exhibiting any given of such, you'll find thousands which don't make the same mistake at t
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by guenthert 2mo ago
> The killer feature used to be the REPL. The killer (hah!) feature is arguably its homoiconicity, allowing to modify the language easily within itself ("macros"). This has the obvious advantage that you can add missing feature
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by guenthert 2mo ago
"because the problematic behavior was removed from the standard over 27 years ago, we'll never have closure on what the intended interpretation is." Obsolete standard turns out to be insufficiently strict, news at 11.
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by guenthert 2mo ago
> Even SBCL doesn't do TCO at all times. Compiling at (debug 3) means no TCO. Presumably one intends to debug the code, when setting (debug 3). Then it'll be helpful to see the stack, no? > Another related footgun is deep r
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by guenthert 2mo ago
Only if they are using an insufficiently smart compiler. SBCL handles TCO just fine, as do a number of other implementations, see : https://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html
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by guenthert 2mo ago
Hmmh. My Samsung Galaxy S4 doesn't boot w/o battery. Not sure, whether early in the boot process the presence of a battery is tested or whether there just isn't enough juice.
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by guenthert 2mo ago
If it is indeed 300* faster, I'm sure more rational corporations will rethink their license policy or be left in the dust.
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by guenthert 2mo ago
And it's a huge distraction. Afaik (and I'm no climate researcher), the increased albedo of greater cloud coverage due to greater vaporization because of higher temperatures is the only known negative feedback effect. Everythi
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by guenthert 2mo ago
I'm rather surprised that they did end. After all, Itanium is one of few architectures (also the Russian Ebrus comes to mind) which doesn't exhibit the SPECTRE vulnerability.
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by guenthert 2mo ago
C-Kermit? I (barely) remember tinkering with the FORTH version on a Epson HX20 (late in its life) anno 1995. The sources seem to originate (today) at https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Kermit%20Protocol%2...
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by guenthert 2mo ago
> In fact, I like most of the rules, rules are good because they ensure order, fairness and equality. I'm sure some of the more entrepreneurial minds will argue that many of those rules stifle innovation and progress. But also on a
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by guenthert 2mo ago
The proxy is needed for session management (specifically suspending sessions), no?
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by guenthert 2mo ago
> Haven't tried over the internet, It works, the user experience however might not be great. Latency is your enemy, as are occasional drop-outs. For remote connections outside a LAN, naked X11 isn't recommended. NoMachine&#x
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by guenthert 2mo ago
> The only filesystem that was completely unaffected by any power failure was UFS, on FreeBSD (obviously with "soft updates" enabled). And with "completely unaffected" you mean the internal (meta-data) consistency was

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