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by mjw1007 6y ago
You're not being terribly clear. Do you mean to fund things like this from taxes, like (say) CERN or NASA?
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Before Firebug Mozilla had Venkman and the DOM Inspector.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Note the question in the article is not the question in the HN title. It's « I'm told the Sun is a big hot ball! Awesome! I love balls! What color is the ball? ». Under « Methods - Question design » in the article: « The "bal
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by mjw1007 6y ago
You could use the same trick for other languages and packaging systems, as long as they support linking multiple major versions of the same library into one program.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The reference manual is at https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest/
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The 64-bit ARM ISA was basically redone from scratch, around 2010. It isn't "mostly the same instructions but with 64-bit registers" the way 64-bit x86 is.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The Rust RTIC framework for embedded code (previously named RTFM) works rather like that. https://rtic.rs/0.5/book/en/ It's designed for working with interrupts safely rather than threads (so the "i
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I think SDRAM can do REQUEST1-REQUEST2---RESPONSE1-RESPONSE2 can't it?
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by mjw1007 6y ago
« The big change here is that the command and address bus is being shrunk and partitioned, with the pins being reallocated to the data bus for the second memory channel. Instead of a single 24-bit CA bus, DDR5 will have two 7-bit CA busses,
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Yes. Some of my first Rust projects were that sort of embedded thing.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The report could certainly be clearer here. They don't unambigously say that the table with the primary key was the one rejecting the data, and they do say « We are now extending our test frameworks to include a linter in place for int
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I am saying: - The problem the author describes can happen (I have seen it happen) - I do not know whether it happened in the case of etcd I am not saying: - I have a proposed solution to this problem - The people who do the difficult work
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I don't know anything about what's happened with etcd in particular, but I think there is a genuine problem in this area with the model of "the people doing the work get to make the decisions". If you have a piece of sof
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by mjw1007 6y ago
The final slide identifies this as a proposal, and and anticipates that there will be changes before the plan is finalised. Does anyone know if there's been movement since? It proposes that the strategy should be announced on July 15th
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Perhaps they consider that people who spend effort on looking good or dressing "properly" are playing defect in a game of Prisoner's Dilemma.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
So if I see someone with a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and I don't perceive anything that gives me the impression of sunbeams shining out of their face, should I assume they have ugly thoughts rather than good ones?
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by mjw1007 6y ago
As far as I know, the first commits working on ARM support for Linux were in 1994, which is quite a lot more than a decade ago. Debian has had an ARM port since 2000.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Supposing you have an accurate mental model of what git does, the odd thing is that many of the most common commands don't correspond to simple operations on that model. Most notoriously, 'checkout' and 'reset' have
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Yes, some of it seems oddly written. On first reading, I thought this bit was the author reporting that other people are frustrated with TDF, and that this indicates that there is a problem: « Frustration with how TDF markets and positions
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this article is taken from Metz's proposed article (if it turns out that that never gets published).
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The full article considers both possibilities, and doesn't settle on one of them as more likely.
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I agree that you shouldn't document "how", but when I'm reading unfamiliar code, I find I what I miss is "what", not "why". To my mind, in well-written code each function should be documenting its con
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by mjw1007 6y ago
I think this direct message technique has always been going on. The reason people on Usenet would say "The lurkers support me in email" (until they learned that saying that was taboo) is that the lurkers were supporting them in em
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by mjw1007 6y ago
« It’s important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time » With the benefit of twenty years of hindsight, I think the programmer
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by mjw1007 6y ago
Many of the richer English-speaking Hong Kong residents send their children to school in England (or at any rate did thirty years ago). And the schools they were sent to are largely the same as the schools that the people who run the UK wen
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I'm not sure it's best to think of that situation as an occasion when the UK made a choice. If the US had said "we wish Hong Kong to declare independence and will provide military backing as required", I expect the UK wo
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This is what's used in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Appointments_Commissi...
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I'm pretty sure that neither "ed-tech that tracks our students’ every move" nor "plagiarism detection software" can be described as an ancient barrier. I'm not sure many of the rest of the list can be either, t
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In principle, you remove the incentive for plagiarism by making the students' reward for their work be what they learn as a result, rather than some kind of certificate.
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On the other hand, a lot of what made the original Postgres distinctive has ended up being either removed or considerably downplayed: the "object-relational" features, rules, versioned data, and so on. (I think what the paper refe

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