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by marshray 7y ago
Agree this was not appropriate for the specific post it was in reply to. But notice how much of the discussion here does involve terms like "classified" or "cleared for public release".
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by marshray 7y ago
As a tinkerer: 1. I can read the official specs without agreeing to an onerous license. 2. There are several open source implementations I can choose to run on an FPGA. 3. I can choose the simplest combination of features. Want a multiply i
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by marshray 7y ago
One of the best moves I made the first 10 years of my career was stepping through every single line of C++ I ever wrote just to observe it working as I thought (and a lot of times it wasn't). MSVC++/Visual Studio made this a very
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by marshray 7y ago
And where it all comes together is when async lets us write concurrent functions that compose together well in a way that functions that can block on IO and lock acquision do not.
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by marshray 7y ago
It's not a crazy idea, there are indeed logic types that implement some gate types with a single transistor. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor–transistor_logic These were more commonly used back
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by marshray 7y ago
It's only simpler because "electricity is moving electrons" is not a meaningful claim. What is the physical unit of 'electricity'? There's not one, because it's not a thing.
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by marshray 7y ago
If you want to get pedantic, you can't "make electricity" either because 'electricity' isn't a defined concept. Usually when people use words such as "make electricity", they actually mean to refer to
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by marshray 7y ago
Ever seen the flickering light of a television behind someone's curtains? Ever seen an app that can identify what song is playing?
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by marshray 7y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by marshray 7y ago
Also, it's used with high levels of added distortion.
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by marshray 7y ago
You don't sound too thrilled about the way things are going. You can change it if you want. Volunteering to help with for some in-person activity can provide that essential social connection. Also, consider talking to a professional. T
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by marshray 7y ago
An important difference is that solar panels and battery cells can be replaced in far smaller units on a rolling basis if desired. E.g., "we'll replace another row of roof shingles this month" vs. "reactor unit 2 will be
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by marshray 7y ago
When you cat a file, this is what you are allowing it to do to your console/terminal: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/console_codes.4.html
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by marshray 7y ago
Simple: Modelines come from a time before we understood that ordinary user applications working with ordinary files needed to be engineered securely.
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by marshray 7y ago
That everyone there above the bottom-tier staff were jerks. (Not referring to my current or any recent job.) I've turned this over in my head for more than a decade now and have concluded there was no question I could have asked, or ot
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by marshray 7y ago
Perhaps "special" here means "implements the std::marker::Copy trait"? Or is there something else going on?
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by marshray 7y ago
I think you may be proving his point that bottom-up explanations don't really make it easy to get a high-level understanding of chip features.
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by marshray 7y ago
One of the original, and continuing, uses of browser scripting is to tweak the layout based on client rendering quirks. ISTR (late 1990's?) reading about fingerprinting attacks that didn't require script or even CSS. Subtle change
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by marshray 7y ago
/me waves
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by marshray 7y ago
> I'm only saying this to spark and extend discussion Another term for this is 'trolling'.
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by marshray 7y ago
I assure you it's quite common for teens who exhibit shocking behavior to grow into well-adjusted adults.
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by marshray 7y ago
I have a son this age (and some familiarity with his encounters online) and I found it eminently believable. I think I'll have him read it.
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by marshray 7y ago
Until WWII, the US population generally favored isolationism and were very reluctant to get involved in "Europe's wars". The attack on Pearl Harbor instantly showed Americans that we were no longer insulated from the world. &
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by marshray 7y ago
The 'edit-compile-run-debug' cycle is so expensive, chip design is all about simulation. Chip vendors, and the tools they use to design them, actually do a significant amount of work for error cases. This is important not just for
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by marshray 7y ago
Use whatever works for you. That's the point. I'm a fan of plain text and source control myself.
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by marshray 7y ago
> ML requires a solid math background B-t. > at least those who don't just copy-paste code snippets from SO This is like the late 1990's listening to "real coders" complaining about web developers using Javascript
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by marshray 7y ago
This sentiment gets expressed every time programming is made more accessible. It always turns out that the difficulty of "setting up a basic [hello world application]" is entirely unrelated to the essential complexity of the pro
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by marshray 7y ago
I see your analogy, but (NoSQL and its clients) are conceptually much higher up on the stack. Interestingly, the paper does say: [eBPF] enables applications to perform up to L7 protocol (e.g., HTTP or Memcached) processing. Furth
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by marshray 7y ago
One could say this about any library or OS feature. Berkeley Sockets, for example. Porting code is easier when there are portable APIs. But that doesn't diminish from the quality of the abstraction.
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by marshray 7y ago
I just made a socket server for a small protocol, no (explicit) Tokio. [dependencies] futures-preview = { version = "0.3.0-alpha.14", features = ["io-compat"] } futures-util-preview = "0.3.0-alpha.14"

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