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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The video which this appears to be a transcript of is over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOSnQM1Zu4w
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I remember talking to an American visiting the UK who was doubled over in laughter at all the signs everywhere saying "Way out".
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
(Sorry)
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> ... a biscuit isn't exactly a cake... Certainly not. By law. Biscuits are luxury goods, and as such are taxed appropriately, whereas cakes are essential food items, and have a lower tax rate. This culminated in a VAT tribunal in 1
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's also the exact opposite of what you want in a certificate authority. You want simple, secure, and dependable, not complex, hard to verify, and easy to game.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Betteridge [0] needs an update. When the headline question is asking whether the authors can do something they can be proud of, the answer is yes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The article describes the 68030 as a 68020 with an added MMU. One of my Amigas a while back had a 68EC030, which is described as a 68030 without the MMU. So, I'm wondering what the difference really is between the 68EC030 and the 68020
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
So the pseudocode: if (p is not NULL) { dereference p } is UB? That's crazy, but not actually unbelievable.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I don't think it'd be possible to get the compiler to treat unsigned integer overflow as defined using macros. But I'm not a subject matter expert.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have a suggestion - it may be completely off the wall, but hear me out. C needs a mechanism to declare in a source file that certain behaviour must be defined, where that behaviour is undefined in the C standard but the target architectur
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Presumably (and really don't take my word for this - I'm a Java bod) the p dereference needs to come before the p NULL check for the p NULL check to be ignored. (Otherwise, how can a NULL check protect a dereference.) And theref
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
fork() doesn't actually copy entire pages of memory. But it does have to copy the page tables (note - someone else might be able to chip in and tell me that Linux has an optimisation for that too). The actual pages are held with a copy
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
You'd then have an explicit early-fail footgun instead of a rake in the grass, which has to be an advantage. However, fork() is still not necessarily a good design, and the reason for that is that the vast majority of the time the reas
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I cycled a lot before I learnt to drive. The concept of gears was very firmly in my head by then - all I had to do was learn to good clutch control. If a wrong gear means you are pedalling too fast or too slow, you get the idea very quickly
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's a good choice of location, because you have a decent chunk of Isle of Wight in between the noise of the rocket (and any consequences of rapid unscheduled disassemblies) and populated land.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
At least then you can google for "Microsoft Windows" and get specific results, but yes it is annoying that it pollutes all the search results when you are looking for sheets of glass.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
And there I was all excited, expecting long-term preservation of writing by 3D-printing molten rock. I'm a strong believer that names of software packages should be chosen to be something that doesn't yet return any results from a
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The problem with redefining instructions to now give defined results where before they were undefined is that software developers might start relying on that defined behaviour, but CPUs from other manufacturers and emulators might still giv
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's not more efficient, for the reasons stated earlier.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's probably not even that good a heat storage system. And that's for two reasons. 1. Sand has a lower heat capacity than water. Water is much cheaper than sand. Yes, you can't heat water to 600C, but that's not a p
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have a large American-style fridge/freezer. I measured the power consumption, and it came out as an average of 70W, or 1.68kWh/day. For the size of fridge, this isn't bad. However, I was slightly surprised to see that this
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
You can get gloves that are touchscreen-compatible.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Cause and effect isn't a judgement call. The revolution did lead to the current situation, in that if it hadn't happened then the current situation wouldn't have happened. That doesn't deny that responsibility for the
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It seems like a hard problem to solve: I want to be siloed into subject interest groups, like to do with the various hobbies and work that I'm interested in. But I don't want to be shoved into an echo-chamber for politics. How
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yeah, I was thinking that. However a quick google says that the average laptop drive uses around 4W when accessing and 1.5W when idle. I'm also measuring at the mains point, and I'm not sure how efficient the transformer is - they
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I use an old EeePC901 with a broken screen with two 4TB USB drives plugged into it for my remote backups. Built-in UPS. Though I measured it last night and was slightly surprised to find it using 19W while idle.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I doubt it. The rate at which you get new riders and old riders forgetting their painful lesson will naturally become equal to the number of people learning a painful lesson, and the number of reckless scooter riders will tend towards a sta
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Hey, I can go down to the local supermarket and buy kidneys. They're cheap. You didn't specify human, did you?
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have been considering a grey water solution that would achieve two things. The bath in my house is upstairs, and I have an additional toilet downstairs, almost directly underneath. So, I could let the bathwater drain into a tank above the
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Blank page. Where's the content?

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