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by leeter 5y ago
IANAL, but no. You can still get sued.
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by leeter 5y ago
IANAL, the risk is generally not in the downloading per-se but the distribution and use. The copyright owner can sue for use or distribution of the IP. So you might be able to download and look but that would then basically prohibit you fro
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by leeter 5y ago
Honestly? Having written software for both Win32 is actually pretty nice to work in. Better in many ways than the alternatives. Most of the things Raymond goes on about are weird quirks you can ignore for the most part. Whereas there are so
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by leeter 5y ago
NGL... that inspired my comment XD
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by leeter 5y ago
Which they explicitly prohibit, in fact if you look at how they design the APIs they'll deliberately add reserved members to ensure they hold the space so that it's much harder to break.
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by leeter 5y ago
This forgets MS: MS: "Let's design it so either it never breaks or if we can't avoid that we'll just add a FooEx or Foo2 method call" This is why so many Win32 methods take structs that have a size parameter that mu
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by leeter 5y ago
Good to know I was looking in the wrong spot, I was looking for what looked like the most likely header other parts of the code would be using.
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by leeter 5y ago
I can't find support for those flags outside of two files, I'm 90% sure the kernel requires CMPXCHG8B which isn't supported on 486 iirc
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by leeter 5y ago
It does... and doing a quick search of the kernel source it's not actually used for anything I can't find it referenced outside of itself. There is FPU emulation for m68K that is, but x87 is not.
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by leeter 5y ago
Me: "Surely the Linux Kernel has build options for x86 that includes no-FPU" 20 minutes later: "Oh right they removed i386 as a target because it sucked and wasn't maintained that includes i486... so now you'd have
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by leeter 5y ago
I was more disappointed they didn't seem to have a "Make MIDI" option; or if they did I missed it.
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by leeter 5y ago
I seem to recall Chef Achatz actually talking about food as an emotional experience given his own trials with cancer and actually losing his ability to taste for awhile. I can't find the interview (or it might have been Chef's tab
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Marshall Fire Storymap(storymaps.arcgis.com)
2 points by leeter 5y ago|0 comments
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by leeter 5y ago
Nice didn't know this existed!
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by leeter 5y ago
Honestly I was thinking similar but not exactly the same. More something with a VT-d memory map/port map so that the DOS application could potentially directly interface with legacy hardware without interfering or making the PIF incomp
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by leeter 5y ago
You can absolutely leave long mode once entered; it's just annoying and silly. In fact one of the plausible options for running a DOS on UEFI would be downgrading the mode to 'unreal' mode. But you'd still have to put BI
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by leeter 5y ago
Appears so? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux... not sure that's used for /dev/random/ but I thought it was, but the question is when because ea
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by leeter 5y ago
It is, was, they were warned and launched anyway. I assume they calculated they could get through it and didn't. Live and learn. My guess is this was in budget an 'acceptable losses' to the constellation. Fun site to track th
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by leeter 5y ago
There are actually genetic reasons that some percentage of the population tastes both common artificial sweeteners as bitter https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/38/5/379/360864?logi... It's
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by leeter 5y ago
Oh it's still a thing from hardware companies, I recently had to warn a dev away from using a lib by ST because it didn't have a license and it created legal vuln they might have to deal with down the line. While that would have b
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by leeter 5y ago
You're misunderstanding. I was responding to the idea that simply shutting of the mains will protect from burst pipes. It wouldn't; all it would do is trap the water inside the existing pipes with no outlet. Completely draining (a
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by leeter 5y ago
> I can just run a bucket of water then shut off the main to make sure the pipes don't burst. Don't do this... please don't do this. Just set all your taps (internal and external) to drip slowly. That's all you need
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by leeter 5y ago
This too, we're a technical consultancy (DevOps) so we get the gamut of reactions from "You're on my turf" to "Finally someone that my boss will listen to". Getting the former early on severely hurts your chanc
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by leeter 5y ago
This 100%, I've literally been hired onto a client to basically tell management something their internal team had been saying for ages. The challenge wasn't telling management that; but rather getting them to (politically very car
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by leeter 5y ago
I also did this (around ~2008), a friend of mine and I built near identical Atom boxes with first gen (Diamondville) 64bit atoms on Intel motherboards running 865 chipsets IIRC. The GPU/Chipset was louder than the CPU because the CPU w
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by leeter 5y ago
For games generally those parts can be shifted to the GPU because they feed the rendering pipeline anyway. Doing so has other benefits of lowering latency for that data to be picked up by the graphics bits already there etc. Also the clock
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by leeter 5y ago
Other than BIOS/UEFI as far as I know nothing is stopping them from using existing chipsets/motherboards. I don't recall anything on the chipset itself being inherently tied to x86 per se. I think even port IO is handled in t
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by leeter 5y ago
Someone needs the courage to make a motherboard and CPU with off the shelf parts and a socketed chip in the non-x86 space. That was one of the key reasons that the IBM PC succeeded: it was easy to clone. Without that it's likely it wou
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by leeter 5y ago
They are also incredibly tolerant to current/voltage spikes because they are purely resistive, which makes them ideal for situations when power could be 'interesting' as they will still function unless they are run well beyon
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by leeter 5y ago
I'd say it was extremely intentional given this: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-api/20180905165436.GA25206@kroah.co... And that's for a userspace header.

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