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by jburgess777 7y ago
RFC 4638 provides a mechanism for this. It relies on the Ethernet devices supporting a ‘baby jumbo’ MTU of 1508 bytes and support for it is still a bit scarce. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4638
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by jburgess777 7y ago
There has been significant progress in reverse engineering bitstream formats of some FPGAs which has allowed the development of open source FPGA workflows. If you want to know more, take a look at: Icestorm http://www.clifford.at
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by jburgess777 7y ago
Did you try the lfs-test-server? https://github.com/git-lfs/lfs-test-server
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by jburgess777 7y ago
I was disappointed this wasn’t about fuzzing the other Z machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility
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by jburgess777 7y ago
He was probably talking about a product from Electric Cloud: https://electric-cloud.com/plugins/directory/p/emake/
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by jburgess777 7y ago
Bugs in the C library string localisation have previously caused a problem in PostgreSQL as well: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Abbreviated_keys_glibc_issu... Since Postgres 10 they use ICU instead of relying on the
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by jburgess777 7y ago
The British museum had an exhibition called “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds” which included Heracleion. There is a book about the exhibition available and the BBC made a documentary which is available on iPlayer (for those with a TV lic
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by jburgess777 8y ago
STM32 chips are used on a lot of quadcopter flight controllers, often using open source firmware like Betaflight https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki
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by jburgess777 8y ago
You say that, but AWS has still launched EC2 instances with both AMD and ARM CPU cores recently. I imagine Amazon buy enough Intel CPUs for them to take notice.
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by jburgess777 8y ago
This report also included this statement in the summary: "Due to areas of concern exposed through the proper functioning of the mitigation strategy and associated oversight mechanisms, the Oversight Board can provide only li
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by jburgess777 8y ago
The article below has a graph showing the number of "Client SSD vs HDD units" shipped by Samsung over the last 6 years. Given current trends, the SSD shipments will very likely exceed HDD in the next 12 months. https://
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by jburgess777 8y ago
This article provides more background information than the original story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/mike_lynch_autonomy... Earlier in the year the former CFO was convicted of fraud: https:&#x
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by jburgess777 8y ago
It is in the AWS documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance... "Each vCPU is a hyperthread of an Intel Xeon CPU core, except for T2 instances."
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Mitch Altman also gave a talk about ArduTouch at EMFCamp this year. A video can be found here: https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2018-24-ardutouch-music-synthesize...
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by jburgess777 8y ago
You might want to look at some of the 'Pi UPS' systems which have been developed. Once they indicate the power has failed you can start a graceful shut down. One example can be found here: https://pi.gate.ac.uk/pag
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Yes, I$ and D$ are the instruction and data cache respectively.
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by jburgess777 8y ago
The tile architecture was dropped from the Linux kernel in 4.17 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Making an OpenSource GPS is technically challenging. For an idea of what is involved see: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm Here are some other similar projects: http://sdrgps.blogspot.com/ https:&
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by jburgess777 8y ago
What motivates you contribute to HN? There is an old proverb of "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step". Almost all contributions make a positive step for improving the map for everybody. In the time it took to
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PostGIS Polygon Splitting(blog.cleverelephant.ca)
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by jburgess777 8y ago
There has been an update to the article: Update 6/22: Samsung made an update to its statements regarding the NF1 SSDs. The drives are based on the Phoenix controller, they do not use a PCIe 4.0 interface, but rely on a more traditional
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Take Cambridge Analytica as a more recent example. The company declares bankruptcy after the scandal involving the misuse of Facebook users data but many of the company directors have new jobs at Emerdata, owned by the same parent company.
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by jburgess777 8y ago
It is probably a good an example of the "second system effect" [1] where developers were given an opportunity to go back and fix the problems they saw in IPv4. Some obvious examples: - IPv4 options are too inflexible, lets provide
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by jburgess777 8y ago
The IETF is working on a document which describes many reasons why DNS may stop working. EDNS related issue are in section 3.2: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-no-response-iss...
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by jburgess777 8y ago
This appear to use a Cyclone FPGA from Intel, which was previously Altera: https://www.altera.com/ It will be interesting to see how this compares to some of the existing designs based around the Lattice ICE40. The Lattice
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by jburgess777 8y ago
> C cannot read the overflow bit after an ADD ... The compiler should offer a macro for that. If you use GCC then __builtin_add_overflow() is what you are looking for: "The compiler will attempt to use hardware instructions to imple
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Surface Mount Device. The name given to components which are soldered directly to the surface of the PCB (printed circuit board). SMD devices are very common now and replace older components which had legs (or leads) which had to pass throu
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by jburgess777 8y ago
I am sure the similarity with the E Corp logo in Mr Robot is pure coincidence (or maybe not) http://mrrobot.wikia.com/wiki/E_Corp
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Yes but depending on what Uber do with the technology it might be of no use to anyone else. The technology also depends on contacting servers which have information about the local 3D topology which implies that it is unlikely to be useful
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by jburgess777 8y ago
Wembley stadium in the UK is used as technology showcase for one of our mobile providers: https://wembley.ee.co.uk/ For more dynamic situations (think Glastonbury music festival) the telcos have been deploying mobile cell t

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