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by joosters 6y ago
TLDR: When defining a struct, put the biggest items first. This works well in almost all cases. If you need to squeeze out all padding, use compiler directives like '#pragma pack', but be aware of the performance implications.
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by joosters 7y ago
Ah, that's fair enough, but it isn't 'real time', which is the thing I was assuming from the 'RT' in the name. Perhaps linux-ll would be a better name, for 'low latency'. RT just confuses what it is t
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by joosters 7y ago
But none of the apps they would be running (their browser, in this specific case) are RT. So if the application isn't asking for a hard limit on latency, they aren't going to get anything different on a RT OS.
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by joosters 7y ago
Why would a real-time OS help at all with latency? All RT means is that the latency can be reliably upper-bounded (but note that that upper bound might be very high/slow), it doesn't mean that the latency will be reduced. Real-t
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by joosters 7y ago
The person with the bigger army?
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by joosters 7y ago
Not sure I follow? If two people have a 'rational' bet, then is that legal in your eyes? Surely you can't be saying that irrational actions should be illegal, or that gambling on 'irrational' decisions (however one
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by joosters 7y ago
Hold down Return after typing it for a very blinged-out window!
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by joosters 7y ago
Firefox 75 on Mac works fine for me.
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by joosters 7y ago
Western Canadian oil was -$0.15 today, i.e. you can be paid to take oil from the producers! https://twitter.com/zeroshorts/status/1252108066843054097 n.b. you'll still have to also pay the cost of piping the
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by joosters 7y ago
Many people solved their lack of money problems through launching blockchain-related companies. The actual systems they launched can't be considered substantial, functional, or often even real, but the (actual) money that poured into t
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by joosters 7y ago
...Yet, this formula has never before been stated. That is, until now. ...page goes on to detail things that have been widely published and discussed all over the place.
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by joosters 7y ago
It's got to be something like that, unfortunately I just don't know the exact syntax. I've got some other javascript bookmarklets in firefox, but looking now at their links, they are a mess of %-encoding, and I'm not sur
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by joosters 7y ago
No, they are just being hypocritical. Was their story unbelievable without their own use of low-budget artwork? If not, why then did they feel the need to also underpay artists themselves?
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by joosters 7y ago
Is there any way to turn this into a bookmarklet, so that clicking on it would prefix the current URL with that?
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by joosters 7y ago
You have to admire the chutzpah of the author, who bemoans the dwindling pay for illustrators, yet illustrates their own article with a picture from a $10 subscription service. Well played!
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by joosters 7y ago
Is it just me, or does all garbage collector development seem to go through an endless loop of: * We've optimised this release for throughput * We've optimised this release for latency * We've optimised this release for minim
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by joosters 7y ago
I'm going to need a faster machine :( The in-browser version just burns CPU for me, with no visible change after a few minutes. Another amazing game-of-life machine is the digital clock: https://copy.sh/life/?gist=
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by joosters 7y ago
If the compiler knows that the loop will terminate in 'x' iterations, it can do things like hoist some arithmetic out of the loop. The simplest example would be if the code inside the loop contained a line like 'counter++&#x2
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by joosters 7y ago
I would guess that it is because it gives some freedom to the compiler. e.g. If you have two pointers 'foo' and 'bar' that point to two separate structures (e.g. two arrays of ints), the compiler can always assume that t
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A Comic Strip Tour of the Wild World of Pandemic Modeling(fivethirtyeight.com)
5 points by joosters 7y ago|0 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
But the end users can't run the typescript, whereas they can run javascript directly. So, an external tool is required by the developer. A similar comparison would be shipping a program to end users, saying that 'no dependencies r
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by joosters 7y ago
public money forcefully taken as taxes I'm sure that one day, some big event is going to come along that will make Americans appreciate taxpayer-funded services that provide for everybody.
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by joosters 7y ago
Have a look at the extensive errata Intel publish for their CPUs. There are hundreds of mistakes in the chips’ behaviour, and yet each buggy CPU would pass your set of tests with flying colours. While you could never release a CPU that didn
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by joosters 7y ago
They've had generations to learn that, why do you think they will suddenly get clever now?
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by joosters 7y ago
That's too defeatist: these contact tracing tools will be gathering data that isn't available any other way - otherwise, they'd just be going straight to Verizon etc for what they need. Presumably the bluetooth recording will
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by joosters 7y ago
The only place that sticks pages from today's newspaper on the wall is your local bookmaker, showing the Racing Post data for the 2:10 race at Newmarket. ...but now you too can recreate the charm of your local bookie at home :-)
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Firefox Default Browser Agent(firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org)
2 points by joosters 7y ago|1 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
If all the API calls create a mailbox on demand, and never return a "mailbox doesn't exist" error, then the GET doesn't make any observable changes - it's as if the mailbox has always existed.
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by joosters 7y ago
I think their point was that the concept could be expanded as per their suggestion, as a simple way to fix the security issues. Having the server send a 'this is my site base' header would be helpful even without having path suppo
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by joosters 7y ago
The lack of scrollback is what stopped me from using mosh before. I never knew about Eternal Terminal, but I've just installed it and it seems to work well (my issue is unreliable connections, rather than latency, so the lack of predic

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