myrmidon

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by myrmidon 6y ago
> This means LLVM no longer miscompiles code for languages with high-quality aliasing information. This affects Rust, for instance, and might net 0-5% better run-time performance: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust&#x
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by myrmidon 6y ago
The raise is to overcome laziness and inherent risk (new boss and coworkers might be incompetent and unfriendly). As long as the wage gap is less than the required "risk/laziness incentive", rational employees will not leave
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by myrmidon 6y ago
I can see your point, but I disagree with the "CAN software interface is typically simpler"-- in my experience, there is often a significantly larger API surface with CAN than with I2C on microcontrollers, and you are forced to de
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by myrmidon 6y ago
The closest comparable protocol IMO would be SPI-- which generally requires more wiring and more "slave management" (addressing a certain slave device is typically done via dedicated chip-select connection, while sharing data line
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by myrmidon 6y ago
I'm trying to understand your perspective. Would you be ok with Stallman defending Minsky if the victim had been one year older? Do you think it should be illegal to publicly defend alleged perpetrators/what Stallman did? Would
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by myrmidon 6y ago
> In the United States CO2 emissions per capita have been on a downward trend since the 1970s [...], the U.S. is doing well This is very misleading, because US CO2 per capita numbers are (still) very high, and only surpassed by a few oil
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by myrmidon 6y ago
This is nonsensical. Rocks don't rot either.
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by myrmidon 10y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/984/
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by myrmidon 10y ago
> I mean, if the masses are destitute, they can't afford the stuff being made at those fancy factories, so the owners of those factories won't make money. I think that's beside the point. Why would the "aristocracy&qu
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by myrmidon 12y ago
In that case, you might want to give http://gnomoria.com/ a try, which is similar to dwarf fortress, but significantly less complex, easier to control, and looks decent out-of-the-box. You might also be interested in https
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by myrmidon 12y ago
Thanks! Transparent moderation is always great, but I feel that de-baiting links is really important and generally underappreciated... Keep up the good work!
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by myrmidon 12y ago
(buf[i]&0xf0) >> 8 would be zero (always). One hex digit (0x0f) is 4 bits wide, not 8 (one byte <=> two hex digits).
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by myrmidon 13y ago
> Libusb is almost as good on non-windows (which needs some pseudo driver to allow the library to generically talk to the device)... If it's your USB-device, you can add a WCID descriptor [1], and use the WinUSB/libusb API. N
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by myrmidon 13y ago
LuaJIT contains a pretty fast interpreter, thus it makes sense to use it on consoles (with the JIT turned off by compile-time-flags) instead of the Lua reference implementation.