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by irdc 2y ago
I know regulation isn’t as popular on HN as it is on, say, Reddit, but note that this is going to be enabling a lot of innovation in mobile apps in the EU.
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by irdc 2y ago
This makes it sound like using async/await is more like hand-optimising your code, somewhat similar to rewriting it in assembler. If a way can be found to improve thread switching times (eg. by only switching registers the program actu
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by irdc 2y ago
The rationale for async/await I keep hearing is that the separate stack required for each thread uses a lot of memory. I’m not sure going full on function colouring is the answer though. A concerted effort for language runtimes to use
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by irdc 2y ago
I wonder how fast this would be when using a trampoline, i.e. returning the next function as a function pointer and calling that from an outer loop. That would have the advantage of being portable C.
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by irdc 2y ago
Maybe this is a good place to call attention to the Dutch Home Computer Museum ( https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/en/ ), who did place their collection in a separate foundation.
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by irdc 2y ago
Exactly. And should RISC-V turn out to have been a hype (which I don’t think, but I do recognise that convincing the various MBA types that think they make the world go ‘round is not a given) they can do the opposite. Which is nice for a ch
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by irdc 2y ago
3b. Eventually, should ARM increase their prices, be able to produce a chip that only has the RISC-V cores but is otherwise 100% compatible with the RP2350. And thereby giving their clients the option of porting their software to RISC-V and
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by irdc 2y ago
Not every kind of battery chemistry tolerates high-speed charging (in fact, I’d say that most don’t) Knowing that this particular battery chemistry is not limited in that sense is very relevant to end users, who are of course the ones who h
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by irdc 2y ago
> Being 5V tolerant doesn't mean that your 3V output can sufficiently drive an input that expects 0-5V levels correctly. It's fine for TTL (like your 74LS245 is), which registers voltages as low as 2V as a logical 1. Being able
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by irdc 2y ago
It would be fun to speculate what IQ escape velocity looks like. Just how much can we boost those neurons? How many Whetstones can your wetware do?
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by irdc 2y ago
There’s no proof of decline and death being “intentional” (as much as nature has intentions). At this point it’s just as likely that our bodies just tend to naturally poison us with glycated connective tissue, transthyretin, various peptide
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by irdc 2y ago
I’d still take it (or, something that does the same but is proven safe and effective in humans) while waiting for something that matches your desiderata. I’ve seen what ageing can do to people,…
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by irdc 2y ago
> what Apple ought to do is maintain a codified standard of bad behaviors that address the specific dark patterns they are worried about and just hold that over developers’ heads The problem with doing that is that it likely results in a
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by irdc 2y ago
One could argue that anything that anything that makes the development process itself more efficient, as opposed to the compiling, is worth it since programmers themselves ain’t getting any faster anytime soon, but timing out after more tha
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by irdc 2y ago
Can you give examples of the issues you mention? Or are you merely scare mongering?
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by irdc 2y ago
There’s also the cost of rewriting (yes, from assembler) all the existing code. And don’t forget QA.
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by irdc 3y ago
Getting help for mental health issues is a whole lot easier if you have the money.
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by irdc 3y ago
At this point, considering the apparent ease with which a project that is used pretty much everywhere was taken over, that seems like a reasonable position.
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by irdc 3y ago
“Given enough underfunded maintainers, all security is shallow.”[0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
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by irdc 3y ago
One thing that comes to mind is that “Jia Tan” might be more accurately seen as a “sleeper” of some sort: a foot soldier who infiltrates a juicy open source project and waits for further instructions; backdooring sshd might not have been pa
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by irdc 3y ago
> Probably the worst CPU architectural mistake of all time is locating that table at address 0. That’s not something unique to x86; eg. the PDP-11 also had its interrupt vector table starting at address 0. This only became a real problem
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by irdc 3y ago
I’m sure patches are welcome :)
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by irdc 3y ago
In their defence, the OpenBSD developers do put their mon^H^H^Htime where their mouth is and release their work even with dubious features included. How much those features actually matter, instead of how much expert opinion says they mat
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by irdc 3y ago
> Almost as if people don't want to hear a health-based solution may work. Yes, may , not will . And there’s an entire academic discipline dedicated to figuring out what solutions people ought to try. This forum is not part of sai
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by irdc 3y ago
What is this “C programmer” you speak of? Anyone who’s been doing this for long enough is a polyglot.
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by irdc 3y ago
Did you hear about the Dutch childcare benefits scandal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand... ) yet? That one affected about 28’000 parents with 70’000 children and, due to the illegal separa
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by irdc 3y ago
Making the batteries easily swappable could be a way to address both the charging and safety issues: should a battery catch fire while the plane is in the air, the pilots could have the option of jettisoning the affected battery bank, worst
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by irdc 3y ago
Truth be told I had hoped for something a little more archaic than Windows 95.
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by irdc 3y ago
Note that this works well in the case of colon cancer because it has a slowly-progressing prodromal stage in the form of polyps whose weak blood vessels cause tiny amounts of blood loss into the stool.
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by irdc 3y ago
I’d be interested in seeing the Verilog code but he sadly seems to never have shared it.

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