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by guenthert 2mo ago
Among those qualifiers would also be 'free open source'. I'd think there are hardened operating systems which are not much, if at all, talked about in public. Perhaps, in the age of LLMs finding most security vulnerabilities
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by guenthert 3mo ago
Meh, I prefer (reverse "stressed") myself. Say what you mean!
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by guenthert 3mo ago
Nobody stopped anyone to come up with variants, just from calling those ANSI Common Lisp compliant. There are after all many, most of which are long dead already.
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by guenthert 3mo ago
It is my understanding that easing bootstrap was the original motivation of the fork of CMU CL. I'm a bit confused about that, since CMU CL supports compilation to byte-code (which should make a port to a new architecture comparativel
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> Isn't biggest attack surface in drivers? That would be my guess too, the current batch however is all over the place: Bluetooth, file systems, etc. (the network layer ones are probably the most interesting ones). And the severity
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by guenthert 3mo ago
How about the distinction between the boolean value false, the empty list and whether an empty list ought to be true or false? ]:->
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by guenthert 3mo ago
Not sure about that. I rather think it's the very dynamic nature of Python (e.g. at run time one can add members to classes) which limits performance gains achievable by compilation. Iirc PyPy got to some five fold performance gain a
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by guenthert 3mo ago
"Didn't have the time at that moment to file a bug report" Because you were busy working on that so urgently needed port of Linux to the Sega 32X?
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by guenthert 3mo ago
'social physics of conversation'? Were social dynamics of conversations meant?
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by guenthert 3mo ago
"significantly more expensive" and "relatively small" Well, both are true of course. You will have to put numbers on those to make sensible decisions. Historically, creating processes in Linux has been cheaper than in o
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by guenthert 3mo ago
As long as we're pedantic ... the subject is shared memory . Unless you specify the same, non-null, target address in the call to mmap (and the kernel happens to grant you that mapping on all calling sites), the addresses will be dif
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by guenthert 3mo ago
I think it's rather unfortunate that writing regression tests is seen as a heavy burden. Compared to determining the cause of a bug and the right strategy to fixing it in a maintainable way, writing such a test should be simple, no? I
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by guenthert 3mo ago
This seems to be a multi-phased project. First phase (completed) was the re-write in Rust. There doesn't seem to be a performance gain and no significant one should be expected. In a 2nd phase a new architecture is implemented which
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by guenthert 3mo ago
Dunno. I got rather the impression that it's ambitious single-developer projects with no intention of maintenance which leverage those 'AI' code generators the most. Who wants to contribute to an unmaintainable code base?
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by guenthert 3mo ago
They ought to, but are they? In https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ I don't see a requirement to provide a regression test for a bug fix.
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by guenthert 3mo ago
[too late to edit] I do realize that it might be more challenging to rent as a foreigner, particularly if you don't speak German well.
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> Especially given that there aren't interesting media to immerse yourself into in German, compared to other languages like Japanese or Korean. There's nothing interesting to read im Land der Dichter & Denker? Perhaps foll
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> We bought our first home without fully understanding the laws, the government system, or the tax rules. That's bizarre. In Germany about half the population rents their primary dwelling; many life-long. There's really no ru
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> suddenly the final decision is not what was agreed upon in the meeting. Are you sure you're not reading too much into that? I've witnessed plenty of times (in the USA) that agreements of a meeting were later 'forgotten&
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by guenthert 3mo ago
What makes it a Russian company? The team is allegedly spread across the globe, the company (Flipper Devices Inc.) is registered in DE, USA and there's a London office.
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> Managers don't really read or review the codes. There's such and such. In some companies, the leaf engineers report to a team lead, which might or might not be granted this 'manager' title. Those poor fellows esse
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> A modern 300cc four stroke Vespa will use 3.3 litres of fuel per 100km Uh, I know motorcycle engines aren't particularly fuel-efficient (it's not a priority), but there seems to be, er, room for improvement.
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by guenthert 3mo ago
There are many reasons to use a dedicated host (or VM) for a DB server, but if only the accessible memory needs to be limited a container is the simpler, more efficient tool. Said that, I would expect to be able to configure how much memor
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by guenthert 3mo ago
One cannot create a noise-free, perfectly linear 32b ADC using 2 lesser ADCs as described above. That is however not needed and I suspect isn't what they are attempting. If, say, two 24b ADC (20b noise free, non-linearity 2LSB) with o
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by guenthert 3mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a profound insight is gathered in session 1 with user A and stored in context A1, this might be available to user A in session 2, if that still has access to context A1, but won't be available to us
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by guenthert 3mo ago
What? You still operate your ADCs without active cooling? I'm writing in jest, but long time ago, - hp - used actively cooled FETs (not a very popular approach today as that caused problems with condensation and we have better FETs n
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> use two separate ADCs at two different gains and combine their output That's what could be done if ADCs were perfectly linear and noise free and limited only by their bit-width. Sadly, they are not. The non-linearity one can i
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by guenthert 3mo ago
> There are precisely zero 32 bit ADCs in existence. > There are ADCs that will provide 32 bits per sample but that's entirely different. Now that requires elaboration. There is e.g. AD's LTC2500 ( https://www.anal
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by guenthert 4mo ago
Some more than others. E.g. Deutschlandfunk Kultur is broadcasted in decent quality, as is NDR3. Klassik Radio fares poorer, but that's due to the bandwidth allocated to them. Comparison here is FM, not FLAC.
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by guenthert 4mo ago
DAB+ receivers can (and many do) display signal quality. Not playing distorted, noisy signals is a feature I greatly appreciate.

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