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by mmastrac 10mo ago
This comment makes no sense. Both Swift and Objective C are precompiled languages.
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
There are multiple stages of IR in the compiler, basically
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
In fairness, Perl died because it was just not a good language compared to others that popped up after its peak. Sometimes people just move to the better option.
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
Is it possible to permanently disable Gemini on Android? I keep getting it inserted into my messages and other places, and it's horrible to think that I'm one misclick away from turning it on.
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
I think this is an "everything sucks here" kind of story. We don't understand the immune system enough to make transplants less risky. We don't seem to know if QoL is better between those who take the procedure vs those
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
It's a bit of an awkward syntax to get a reliable assembler. Does it at least allow you to prove the behaviour of a larger block of assembly? For example, could I use it to prove that a block of assembly is equivalent to a given set of
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
sudo is not fully battle tested, even today. You just don't really see the CVEs getting press. https://www.oligo.security/blog/new-sudo-vulnerabilities-cve...
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
Either it would generate a more robust (and likely more recognizable) solution, or it would fail to converge, really. You may need to train on a smaller number of FPGAs and gradually increase the set. Genetic algorithms have been finicky to
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
This was always a silly change but I save two keystrokes a few times daily so I guess there's that.
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
> Who's to say https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1p0huk5/comment/npj...
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
Publishing private correspondence with single board member(s) is super distasteful because the opinion of one member is not the opinion of the whole board. Sure, he got tacit agreement from one, but that's not agreement with the organi
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
I still get Google hits on my 25 year old DJGPP/NASM tutorial...
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
Not a lawyer but I don't think home repairs void most home insurances in common law countries unless you are working with parts that are particularly dangerous, part of a safety system to protect others, and/or absolutely require
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
The move from LGPL to Apache/MIT as the default license only _really_ benefit business. There was a lot of FUD against LGPL that was probably driven by the fact that businesses wanted to slurp up open-source libraries and bundle them i
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by mmastrac 11mo ago
Ooh. I've been putting together a VT420 emulator and I am trying to figure out the best way to build one from scratch. I will probably end up building an RP2040 version of the video controller. These look great, but I wonder if there&#
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I just pushed the graphical driver and they really do look great!
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by mmastrac 1y ago
The emulator supports it, though there's a few bugs in it so you can try it out. The animated GIF in the README demonstrates it too :) I would call the splitscreen multisession... gimmicky at best? The two-session version is alright, b
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by mmastrac 1y ago
The SSU feature is woefully underdocumented and the patent gives you _some_ information, but it's missing all of the details. I hope to break this part out into a project of its own. I am 100% certain a VT420 will never be able to supp
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Related, I'm working on a VT420 emulator that's about 90% there... https://github.com/mmastrac/blaze It's prerelase and I haven't pushed the experimental graphical interface yet but you can actually
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I've started working on a VT420 emulator which is about 70% complete: https://github.com/mmastrac/blaze
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I tried it on a low-complexity Rust PR I worked on a few months back and it did a pretty good job. I'd probably change where the highlights live (for example x.y.z() -> x.w.z() should highlight y/w in a lot of cases). For the m
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by mmastrac 1y ago
What's interesting is that HDMI is supposed to have a scrambling system that prevents any repeating pattern from causing EMI. I wonder if there was an unshielded, unscrambled raw data path somewhere in the switch.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
For those of you who watch Adrian Black on YouTube, you might remember him angrily tearing out RF shielding from the older computers. On the other hand, I have been struggling to get my IP KVM at home working and it turned out that the caus
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by mmastrac 1y ago
"Drugs won the War on Drugs"
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by mmastrac 1y ago
"The efficiency gained from using Carmichael’s totient is minimal. More efficiency can be gained by using Garner’s algorithm." The proof of which is left to the reader?
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I've been using it for years and it is really great. I haven't had to open Chrome for a non-working website in quite a while. Adblock is really something -- you _really_ notice it if you have the misfortune of using a different br
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by mmastrac 1y ago
Unfortunately the Google TV is direct attach, no cable.
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by mmastrac 1y ago
I am curious if the Cx series has the same issue as my B2 where Dolby Vision (Atmos?) seems to kill the video processing circuitry and requires me to power-cycle it. Apparently the only fix is to disable it in your source, but it works like
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by mmastrac 1y ago
A MAC address is needed to bootstrap IP, even if non-routable - and because we don't want to bootstrap MAC addresses, we just assign them statically. From the very beginning (oversimplifying a bit, but I digress), a MAC has really just

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