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by jmgao 6y ago
This seems like it'd degenerate into "pawn moves only", since you can immediately undo any other move.
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by jmgao 6y ago
You can redeem points at 1.5 cents/point as a statement credit on groceries/dining (including delivery orders). I'm almost done burning my way through 150,000 points to be able to cancel my card. edit: The keyword to search f
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by jmgao 6y ago
Ratings on chess sites are massively inflated compared to USCF/FIDE ratings. 1700 on lichess is probably somewhere around 1200 USCF.
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by jmgao 6y ago
Well, it could be worse: you could be building Chrome OS, which builds both Chrome and Android as part of its build.
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by jmgao 6y ago
That's entirely dependent on the company. Google grants RSUs based on a dollar value when the grant is approved.
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by jmgao 6y ago
And if you're on Linux, you can read the memory directly with process_vm_readv.
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by jmgao 6y ago
And that's for static code. Chrome runs like garbage under rosetta for me, with frequent stutters, presumably because of the cost of dynamically recompiling freshly emitted code.
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by jmgao 6y ago
I'm using upstream directly. I started using Zephyr with STM32, but even if I hadn't, I'd probably have started with upstream just to make it easier to send patches back upstream.
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by jmgao 6y ago
My main one right now is a low latency game controller firmware: https://github.com/passinglink/passinglink I think the most important thing to do figure out what you actually want to make. Any microcontroller SDKs are
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by jmgao 6y ago
I've been using Zephyr with Nordic chips for all of my personal projects lately, and it's been fantastic. (Zephyr's the upstream for the mentioned "equally excellent nRF-Connect-SDK") Unlike most of the other option
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by jmgao 6y ago
Verily tried it in Fresno, and it kinda worked: https://blog.debug.com/2020/01/three-great-years-of-debug-fr... They repeatedly released sterile male mosquitos, though, instead of a gene drive, which is better fro
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by jmgao 6y ago
This doesn't list the biggest gotcha of all, the fact that the cmsg API is incredibly sharp and there are at least 7 ways you can screw it up. Nearly every single use of cmsg in Android's source tree was buggy in at least one of t
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by jmgao 6y ago
> can’t do simple things like propor multi language spell checking lol
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by jmgao 6y ago
Nope. From the study guide [1], rebase does not even appear to be mentioned, but "Define components of GitHub Actions workflows, including events that trigger workflows, workflow files, workflow runs, and jobs" and "Describe
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by jmgao 6y ago
10^50 is definitely not 60 bits: log_2(10^50) = 50 * log_2(10), and log_2(10) > 3
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by jmgao 6y ago
> It boils down to the fact that a CPU using all of its cores uses more power than a CPU using only one of its cores. This is true if your cores are all the same and running at the same frequency, but voltage/frequency scaling make
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by jmgao 6y ago
Do you doubt that they commit espionage against Russia, or just their technical capability? If the former, then this article might surprise you: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/world/europe/norweg
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by jmgao 6y ago
> No individual would make such a mistake, true, but an organisation of several people could easily fail in the same way. You might be able to claim that it's unlikely for someone to make this mistake if the changes were in one sing
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by jmgao 6y ago
> More recently, f2fs has started to support this feature as well, following the Ext4 implementation and framework, thanks to an effort led by Google. Most, if not all, of the information described here also applies to f2fs, with small c
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by jmgao 6y ago
Here's the ATF definition: https://atf-eregs.18f.gov/diff/555-202/2019-06912/2019-06266...
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by jmgao 6y ago
TIL! That definitely makes the use case a lot more dubious. Doing some googling, I'm wondering whether the original intent was to switch everything over to SCTP: data channels seem to have used the same protocol as media pre-2014. Mayb
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by jmgao 6y ago
Congestion control seems pretty important for videoconferencing, especially given that these are mobile apps that are especially prone to signal degradation/tower switching that will drastically affect throughput. I'd argue that b
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by jmgao 6y ago
Why is that not true for the rest of the standard library? You don't really need a HashMap in your standard library, or mutexes, just a memory allocator and atomics.
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by jmgao 6y ago
If your String type must be valid Unicode (which is true for pretty much every language that isn't C++), it cannot represent all paths. On most unixy filesystems, filenames are arbitrary byte sequences which aren't valid UTF-8, an
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by jmgao 6y ago
> constant camera exposure Sure, just take an image and color the night part completely black. Street lighting is around 10 lux -- sunlight is 100,000 lux.
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by jmgao 6y ago
> Mandating that every one of your customers has a Yubikey is somewhat trickier to do in practice, and a nightmare to manage the logistics around lost keys. Mandating that everyone that has access to your admin console has a U2F key, on
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by jmgao 6y ago
It depends a lot on the version of the game: in the last version released in arcades (Super Street Fighter II Turbo aka Super Turbo or ST), Guile is roughly in the middle. It's fairly unanimous that the top tiers in ST are Dhalsim, Cla
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by jmgao 7y ago
PCIe specifies that you can get 75W from the connector, which adds up quickly.
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by jmgao 7y ago
Starcraft is not deterministic, and the nondeterminism can matter in significant ways. In Starcraft 1, every ranged attack had a 120/256 chance of missing a unit that was up a hill or behind a tree, and a 1/256 chance of missing a
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by jmgao 7y ago
That's Wyse, a different company.

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