kosma

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by kosma 7y ago
How do I uninstall this? It doesn't show up anywhere after installation.
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by kosma 7y ago
Obligatory (and hilarious) read: "The Night Watch"[0] by James Mickens. > You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque language that exposes raw memory addresses? Why not use a modern language with garbage collec
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by kosma 7y ago
It's not an ESD or a surge tester; the manufacturer doesn't even pay much attention to differentiate between the two. Surge testing is done with well-defined waveforms like 8/20us pulses of specific voltage; ESD testing is do
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by kosma 7y ago
This has already happened, and quack doctors are already using this to peddle fecal transplant cures on local autism groups.
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by kosma 7y ago
(0) There's no control group. This isn't science.
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by kosma 8y ago
Most small microcontrollers are vulnerable to program memory extraction and replacement - even the supposedly secure ones.
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by kosma 8y ago
It's not a false hope for autism; it's a false hope for parents of autistic kids. Autism is not a mysterious affliction that takes entire families in its hold and shouldn't be portrayed as such.
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by kosma 8y ago
I have a Rolleicord with a film back set aside for this very purpose. The biggest issue is actually film plane flatness and focus - those are hard to get right!
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by kosma 8y ago
Could some research-savvy person check the paper to see if there's any causality proven, or just correlation?
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by kosma 8y ago
That's precisely how little endian works: first memory location is LSB. union { uint32_t l; uint8_t b[4]; } u = { .b = { 0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78 } }; assert(u.l == 0x78563412);
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by kosma 8y ago
> the US, at least in theory, we have a system that is founded on the idea that a human being has inalienable rights As long as you're a US citizen.
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by kosma 8y ago
Because the software is inconsistent (and thus buggy) in that regard. Also, barely any developer possesses the knowledge and infrastructure necessary to build their software for dozens of arcane architectures. Packagers create the glue betw
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by kosma 8y ago
The fixed-location variable allocation strategy the author mentions is called overlaying or compile-time stack[0]. It's still very much alive today, thanks to architectures like 8051 that are not really stack-friendly (even though they
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by kosma 8y ago
No GFCI will save you on the secondary side of a transformer. My point is: working with standard 120/230V requires just following codes and guidelines. Tinkering with HV in non-standard setups requires understanding of how and why.
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by kosma 8y ago
I'm a bit of an outlier (autistic and extrovert). Every attempt at remote work or freelancing so far has been a disaster for me: I could neither build enough structure at home to get consistent results or even consistent working hours,
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by kosma 8y ago
There is a far bigger problem than thermodynamics in play, namely: dust. Not just in computer cases: it also applies to places like photography darkrooms. The usual pattern of placing a single blowing-out fan in a ventilation duct is all wr
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by kosma 8y ago
The Art of Unix Programming. It teaches the "why"s, not just the "how"s.
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by kosma 8y ago
Autism is not a mental illness. Please do not spread misinformation.
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by kosma 8y ago
Thank you for this comment; it has been an eye-opener for me. I always eyeballed those statistic and assumed 0.95 is good; now I've realized that it's not specificity, but (100%-specificity) that matters.
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by kosma 9y ago
Thousand times this. C for All is "what the language researchers want", not "what the C users need".
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by kosma 9y ago
With ASD, social ineptitude doesn't go away when anxiety is sorted out. Autistic people usually have it the other way round: it's their ineptitude that inevitably causes anxiety due to repeated failures.
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by kosma 9y ago
It's not a technological problem: you only need to catch someone cheating once .
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by kosma 9y ago
There's already a tool for that: http://wav-prg.sourceforge.net/ - also works with the ancient mini-jack-to-cassette adapters.
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by kosma 9y ago
That's a funny way to spell "SAMLA" :)
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by kosma 9y ago
I am Polish, and my brain is actively resisting reading it in Polish. Had a good laugh. Thanks!
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by kosma 9y ago
You don't even need to melt them. Just reaching the Curie point should be enough.
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by kosma 9y ago
There are other thinking styles beside verbal. You're basically throwing out a large portion of candidates, including very talented ones (as having visual/logical thinking style comes with its own perks, sometimes very valuable).
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by kosma 9y ago
Corrected title: "China to have 626M surveillance camera botnet within 3 years".
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by kosma 9y ago
Most well-written portable interrupt code needs to pass an explicit context anyway, so... it's not as bad as it sounds.
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by kosma 9y ago
A significant chunk of schizophrenia-diagnosed patients have already been chipped away; it turned to be autism spectrum disorder instead. I wouldn't be surprised if other such corrected diagnoses followed, gradually dismantling the sch

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