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by jepler 5y ago
This broke my blog, but then I fixed it.
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by jepler 5y ago
The goal here is to have a USB peripheral, so that this little device can plug in on USB and identify to the host system as an audio source (likely without even needing to install a driver, since audio sources & sinks are part of the US
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by jepler 5y ago
Very detailed, I love these kinds of write-ups.
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by jepler 5y ago
No, K&R is not a relevant read if your goal is to learn to read and write idiomatic C++. And, I don't know what is. Honestly, I'm super happy that through a job change I get to write C again and not C++. C++ is just so big.
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by jepler 5y ago
text data bss dec hex filename 311218 2284 36 313538 4c8c2 arm-linux-gnueabihf/libgmp.so.10 374878 4328 56 379262 5c97e riscv64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 480289 4624
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by jepler 5y ago
https://ieee-cog.org/2021/assets/papers/paper_215.pdf
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by jepler 5y ago
Not much information about the hardware randomness source. Information on how to generate digital TRNG from a reverse-biased PN junction has been all over the internet for a couple of decades. My 2009 design, which simply slotted into an Ar
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by jepler 5y ago
Not to be confused with https://tmbg.bandcamp.com/album/the-escape-team
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by jepler 5y ago
The indirectly linked stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14840901/is-the-random-l... goes into more detail: mt19937 is, but distributions (particularly, based on my experience a few years ago, float
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by jepler 5y ago
URL should have been https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998676
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by jepler 5y ago
My experience is different. The C/C++ (draft) standards documents are regular reference material for me, alongside web searches, man pages, & experimentation. (the draft standards are available for free in pdf format and for all pr
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by jepler 5y ago
> These 1806VM2 are still being made by Angstrem, if you need to build a PDP-11 computer to run Tetris on, or repair a Buran shuttle you may have laying around. wow!
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The QUIC API OpenSSL will not provide(daniel.haxx.se)
3 points by jepler 5y ago|0 comments
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by jepler 5y ago
My go-to is ezgif, any comparisons to be made? I see these folks don't YET have mp4 (etc) to gif, that's almost always step 1 for me.
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by jepler 5y ago
You can also (except this is awful!) work in the space of negative numbers through almost all of parsing and then, unless the sign is "-", negate the value just before returning it. However, having a base unsigned parsing routine
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by jepler 5y ago
Analyzing uses of abs(SIGNED) in a large software system several years ago, I found that the most useful replacement was `UNSIGNED absdiff(SIGNED a, SIGNED b)`. The _absolute_ difference of two N-bit signed numbers can always fit in an N-b
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by jepler 5y ago
At risk of making a gross oversimplification, sfconservancy seems to be pursuing the angle that GPLv2 _ALSO_ was intended to prevent tivoization. see e.g., https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivo
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by jepler 5y ago
And 112.6 and 27.192, also in China, are connecting at a few MiB/s each client IP. However, its clients aren't serving up the "\0" client IDs and are connecting with encryption. https://emergent.unpythonic.ne
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by jepler 5y ago
After a short time serving one of those torrents, I have lots of connections from China, each pulling down about 130KiB/s. My outgoing bandwidth has been rising slowly, from only 400KiB/s when I started writing this comment to 3Mi
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by jepler 5y ago
Most of my work is contract work with Adafruit. Almost every week we put out new hardware and most of those get open source drivers and/or creative projects that appear on Github and the Adafruit Learning System. The sales of the hardw
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by jepler 5y ago
I've been using & contributing to open source for a long time. I had the good fortune to end up on the radar of the project lead for Adafruit's CircuitPython, and when he found out I was looking for something different, it was
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by jepler 5y ago
What is early? What is stopping working? I semi-retired at 44, but I am still working as a contract programmer and bill for about 20-25 hours a week. I worked a ho-hum programming job for nearly 20 years (yes, just the one), feeling miserab
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by jepler 5y ago
Yes, there are a few developers I directly fund via patreon and github sponsors. I also do occasional one-off donations. I have also given money to nonprofits that are adjacent to open source, such as the Free Software Conservancy. I also w
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by jepler 5y ago
The Fair Housing Act: Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, nati
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by jepler 5y ago
It probably refers to the size of the whole wafer.
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by jepler 5y ago
This won't stop people who disrespect the license or personally insult the developers [indeed, it's bound to cause a whole lot if it! I hope we can do better in this thread], but it will have a negative effect on contributions. I
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by jepler 5y ago
[I don't know how to properly title this item. The first paragraph: I’m Maggie Dennis, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability.[1] I’m reaching out to you today to talk about a series of
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Wikimedia Foundation actions to protect communities(lists.wikimedia.org)
15 points by jepler 5y ago|6 comments
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by jepler 5y ago
It's got a 10W, 2019-launched Celeron CPU. Maybe adequate for light web surfing?
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by jepler 5y ago
Why not point at the original article: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/01/nsa_quantum_computing...

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