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by krylon 3y ago
That is funny. Interesting career trajectory.
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by krylon 3y ago
Thank you very much!
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by krylon 3y ago
I don't know a lot about standards organisations. But the people who actually create the standards are not getting paid by ISO. So I don't know what expenses ISO has to cover other than the cost of publishing the standard itself,
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by krylon 3y ago
It's kind of the default for ISO standards, not just for programming languages. Ada is - to my knowledge - the exception, the standard document and the rationale are available free of charge. However, the draft documents are usually
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by krylon 3y ago
Hehe, that thought was going through my mind as well just now. It's not really such a far out idea; if Microsoft wanted to, they could certainly put the manpower behind it to make it happen. It would also be the most delicious plot twi
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by krylon 3y ago
If you combine multiple CPU sockets, you could get there. EPYC, IIRC, supports up to 64 cores per chip, so if you build a machine with 16 sockets, you get 1024 cores. To my knowledge, no such machine exists today, but HPE offers (or used to
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by krylon 3y ago
Fascinating! I was skimming through TFA, wondering if anyone actually uses Oberon for real. TIL: Yes, they do.
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by krylon 3y ago
A naive observer (ahem, that might be me) could wonder why the AGPL did not become more widespread. It was, after all, created to address the exact scenario of someone taking GPL software and putting it on a server where people can access t
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by krylon 3y ago
I suspect a fair amount of hard real time applications are not running on 3GHz CPUs. A 100MHz CPU (or lower) without an MMU or FPU is probably more representative. But it's not really so much about being fast, it's about being abl
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by krylon 3y ago
My inner compulsive optimist would say that means they'd be especially happy about volunteers with access to actual hardware. But it's possible there's just not many people interested in this platform. Hardware was expensive,
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by krylon 3y ago
NetBSD support for ia64 is a "work in progress" according to their website: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/ia64/ Do hobbyists looking to keep their machines alive actually need Linux or would another FOSS
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by krylon 3y ago
This is very well written. I know little about assembly programming and Intel's ISA, let alone their microarchitectures, but I could follow the explanation and feel like I have a rough understanding of what is going on here. Does anyon
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by krylon 3y ago
The search box in the start menu was a huge improvement for me. And AeroSnap to a lesser degree. On MATE, I set Win+arrow keys to do the same thing.
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by krylon 3y ago
True, but the GP wrote "community linux ( in apt ecosystem )" Arch, Gentoo, and NixOS don't use apt. However, neither does OpenSUSE, which is probably a better choice for non-technical users.
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by krylon 3y ago
I think PowerPC had the FPU builtin from the beginning.
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by krylon 3y ago
I was going to wait a week or so to upgrade anyway. But thanks for the clarification.
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by krylon 3y ago
I discovered this trick in 2008, during my one excursion into assembly programming. But it was for a different purpose. I even did it in inline binary. I felt so clever. X-D
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by krylon 3y ago
I've only ever seen Realtime Operating System abbreviated as RTOS, so that should not be a problem. I mean, it hasn't been so far, and ReactOS has been around for a while.
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by krylon 3y ago
They didn't, it was a rebranded version of MonoDevelop, which is an entirely different codebase.
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by krylon 3y ago
To be fair, when I was working on Windows, SSMS was one of the first programs I opened, and (almost) never closed it. I was using it frequently enough this worked well for me.
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by krylon 3y ago
You can always open eshell and run ed(1), as it is the standard editor. ;-)
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by krylon 3y ago
It's technically correct (which as everyone knows is the best kind of correct), it just, uh, omits a few details for the sake of brevity.
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by krylon 3y ago
Better late than never, I guess.
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by krylon 3y ago
That is nice. The big plus for VeraCrypt (and TrueCrypt before that), however, is that it works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you need an encrypted flash drive for sharing data between different systems, it's the only option that I
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by krylon 3y ago
I love it. FWIW, works great on Firefox 117.0.1 running on Linux/amd64
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by krylon 3y ago
Along with Air's Moon Safari, one of the Progression Sessions opened my ears to electronic music.
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by krylon 3y ago
I am not a C++ person, but that does sound nice. I'm just not ready for the kind of commitment it takes to dive into C++. ;-)
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by krylon 3y ago
With an ad blocker, the page is quite readable. I never ::1 without it. EDIT: Embarrassing typo detected and corrected.
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by krylon 3y ago
Lua makes coroutines first class citizens. I have only built one toy project with it, but it was very enjoyable. Someone even managed to implement Erlang-style concurrency on top of Lua's coroutines. That was a lot of fun to play with.
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by krylon 3y ago
We had one patient with meningitis (bacterial) during my Zivildienst. The doctor didn't think it was meningitis until after the lab tests said so, and we all had to take rifampicine for post-exposure prophylaxis. Fortunately, the patie

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