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by ksrm 9y ago
32 bit signed integer. Unsigned will be fine for a good while yet.
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by ksrm 9y ago
Unless they block YouTube ads, I think a lot of people are still going to use an ad blocker.
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by ksrm 9y ago
>UK citizens only please. Sounds illegal.
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by ksrm 9y ago
If you buy a Unicom "Cross-border SIM" in Hong Kong, it will work unfiltered in mainland China.
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by ksrm 9y ago
Some of Leo Bodnar's balloons have circumnavigated the Earth multiple times. The small foil balloons don't expand like a latex balloon does, so they can hold a stable altitude without bursting. http://www.leobodnar.com&
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by ksrm 9y ago
You will never be able to build an acceptable phone with the Raspberry Pi's SoC. It just doesn't have the required power management functionality.
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by ksrm 9y ago
Is there anything anywhere comparing ROM and RAM usage of Rust vs. C for embedded devices? Can you write anything meaningful in Rust with say 8KB of RAM?
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by ksrm 9y ago
Why would you ask your employer for permission? Permission to do what, write your own blog post?
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by ksrm 9y ago
Nobody owes you a living. You are free to think up a better business model.
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by ksrm 9y ago
Technical blog titles considered harmful? :)
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by ksrm 9y ago
Presumably they don't all point to unique IP addresses, so would blocking their IPs be more effective?
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by ksrm 9y ago
Your account is 2 hours old and all of your comments consist of you complaining about C++/proselytising Rust. Please stop trolling.
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by ksrm 9y ago
This sort of language doesn't make for a good HN comment.
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by ksrm 9y ago
Make sure the graphic designers get to work on time!
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by ksrm 9y ago
That looks excellent. Thanks for posting it!
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by ksrm 9y ago
For Windows check out billy. It's an extremely lightweight music player (single exe) which can load large collections very quickly. https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html
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by ksrm 9y ago
sin(30 rad) = -0.988032
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by ksrm 9y ago
This reminds me of writing assembly for VLIW DSP chips，where each 'instruction' is actually several that run concurrently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word
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by ksrm 9y ago
The system works!
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by ksrm 9y ago
The airline should never have let it get to that point. That is precisely what is unethical about it.
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by ksrm 9y ago
So they're guaranteed a seat on the flight? Sounds like a winning strategy for them.
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by ksrm 9y ago
What is to stop the four "winners" of this auction demanding more money? (Apart from the threat of assault of course!)
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by ksrm 10y ago
Perhaps a viable way to break the monopoly that C/C++ has in embedded software is to create a language that compiles to C. That way people can use their existing compilers (which may be the only choice for a particular target), drivers
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by ksrm 10y ago
Why on earth was this flagged?
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by ksrm 10y ago
To be specific: horizontal distance is given in nm, vertical distance is given in feet.
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by ksrm 10y ago
There appears to be a prophylactic compound that can prevent the effects of VX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyrylcholinesterase#Prophyla...
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by ksrm 10y ago
There's a great one at the start of Slavoj Zizek's Welcome to the Desert of the Real : In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by censo
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by ksrm 10y ago
The same thing happened in the UK with BT. There is genuine competition and it works reasonably well.
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by ksrm 10y ago
>Everyone tends to plug in their laptop/phone and charge to 100%, then leave it there for long periods of time. Why is this a problem for Lithium batteries?
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by ksrm 10y ago
Oversupply, or in other words lack of demand for labour. Approximately everybody needs a job.

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