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by komadori 3y ago
I read "No Time on Our Side" by Roger Chapman a few months ago on the recommendation of HN commentor /u/z991 [1]. It recounts the 1973 rescue of a damaged submersible on the ocean floor from the perspective of the crew t
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by komadori 3y ago
I was going to write that expertise in one area doesn't necessarily transfer to competence in another, but then it occurred to me: Perhaps the radio is still running off the same valve that his father installed in 1978 and that is part
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by komadori 3y ago
Business Software Alliance, a Microsoft-backed software licence enforcement outfit.
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by komadori 3y ago
I would expect the moderators to have some subject knowledge and often it doesn't take much to spot that an answer is blatantly fantastical as LLMs sometimes are. The finer points of some API might need actual checking, but a lot of th
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by komadori 3y ago
Were they fired, made redundant, or otherwise "let go"? My assumption is that severance is only paid under such circumstances, but, as the grandparent poster points out, the linked article makes it sound like they chose to leave f
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by komadori 3y ago
This reminded me of Cooperative Linux , a port of Linux that ran inside the Windows kernel as a driver. http://www.colinux.org/
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by komadori 3y ago
I know, I'm one of them. Nonetheless, it still exists.
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by komadori 3y ago
EU citizenship was established by the Treaty on European Union [1] in 1992. While EU citizenship is different and additional to national citizenship, it does exist in law. [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cell
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by komadori 3y ago
64-bit longs and doubles take up two slots in the JVM's local variable table, whereas Object references only take one. So, if anything, the design of Java bytecode assumed 32-bit pointers.
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by komadori 4y ago
Ultimately, only ample real-world play-testing can answer these questions from a human perspective. I share your concern though. You don't want to publish a game only to find, when attacked by real players in quantity, that your design
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by komadori 4y ago
The joke is that reading about Java on the Haiku website felt a bit incongruous, so I was expecting a parody. Here is my stab at one: Java technology has been moving forward much faster in recent years, and we feel that the time has come to
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by komadori 4y ago
An article on haiku-os.org which begins "Java technology has been moving forward much faster in recent years...". I honestly thought it must be the start of a belated April fools joke!
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by komadori 4y ago
I think the experience was and remains valuable to me. I don't think that the changes in technology that I've seen in my career thus far have been so profound as to invalidate the value of that eduction. I often hear the sentiment
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by komadori 4y ago
That brings back memories! I used to have commit privileges for xine and worked mainly on hardware acceleration for Solaris/SPARC. When I started university the internet access in the student accommodation was only via HTTP proxy, and
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by komadori 4y ago
AFAIK, Valve pays CodeWeavers to work on Proton, so Proton is more of a curation of Wine like CrossOver Office rather than a hard-fork.
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by komadori 4y ago
Coincidentally, one of the UK's remaining three coal plants, West Burton A, apparently ceases operation today (31st March 2023). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65127874...
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by komadori 4y ago
I think the foetus has a vested interest in not growing too large!
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by komadori 4y ago
The ground was harder.
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by komadori 4y ago
I hope it's possible to fit a pointing stick (TrackPoint) keyboard within that 3.7mm, and that someone first- or third-party makes one. I'm keen to try replacing my ThinkPad with a Framework as soon as that's available, but n
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by komadori 4y ago
No worries :-). To be fair, it does sound, "staff-er", like someone who produces "staff". I've never it used as a reference to recruitment, but perhaps in some contexts it is used that way.
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by komadori 4y ago
That just means a member of staff.
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by komadori 4y ago
Rust doesn't have optionals built into the language except insofar as Option<T> is defined in the standard library. The difference is that Rust allows you to define new value-types, whereas Java has a small fixed set of "pri
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by komadori 4y ago
A TMDS symbol is 10 bits long so a pixel clock of 25Mhz needs a DVI bitrate of 250Mhz. You can generate DVI with an overclocked RP2040[1], but even then you have to halve the horizontal resolution because the general TMDS encoding algorithm
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by komadori 4y ago
I used to do that too back when I used MATLAB professionally (also circa a decade ago), but I found with each successive release it worked less and less reliably as use of Java spread through MATLAB's internals.
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by komadori 4y ago
There were extra-high density floppy disks which held 2.88 MB. However, as with the change from double density to high density, it required a different magnetic coating on the media to work (reliably).
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by komadori 4y ago
The one next to Bletchley Park is The National Museum of Computing. It's a really great place and, IMHO, much more interesting than Bletchley Park itself. https://www.tnmoc.org/
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by komadori 4y ago
Often followed by, "Oh, I didn't realise it was illegal."
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by komadori 4y ago
> You can recover() panic() just fine in Go. You can catch_unwind() panic!() in Rust too :-).
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by komadori 4y ago
Perhaps they mean anonymous (discriminated) unions of some kind with that syntax?
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by komadori 4y ago
Why weren't you using the Linux version of Quartus?

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