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by nickcw 3y ago
I'm a bit burnt by Chrome OS devices falling out of support. After the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) point don't expect any security updates. No security updates for something which is primarily web browser based makes it pretty us
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by nickcw 3y ago
Rclone uses WinFSP on windows to mount cloud storage systems via the FUSE compatibility layer. This enables one implementation of a FUSE filing system to work on lots of OSes. Bill Zissimopoulos also wrote cgofuse which rclone uses to acces
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by nickcw 3y ago
I don't remember I'm afraid. My dad ran a business making keyboards at the time and he was always bringing home keyboards he'd bought to examine. When he was through examining them I got to play!
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by nickcw 3y ago
That is a sweet keyboard. It is rather better than my homemade one from 1982 https://twitter.com/njcw/status/1368566103933337603 My dad gave me a old keyboard from something and I traced the zx81 PCB to discover h
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A new data structure for ordered integer maps(github.com)
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I wonder what practical benefit this will have to the CPUs? Presumably a few less transistors, but a small % I'd guess. Will it make anything run faster? If so, what?
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by nickcw 3y ago
As the author of rclone I thought I'd have a quick look through the docs to see what this is about. From reading the docs, it looks very similar to `rclone mount` with `--vfs-cache-mode off` (the default). The limitations are almost id
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by nickcw 3y ago
To make an analogy with Linux, the weights are (up until now) a very large closed source firmware blob.
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by nickcw 4y ago
Rclone users noticed this new limit back in February. Here is a thread discussing it on the rclone forum: https://forum.rclone.org/t/new-limit-unlocked-on-google-driv... It would be nice to have official confirmation o
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Euler Found the First Binary Digit Extraction Formula for π in 1779(scholarlycommons.pacific.edu)
3 points by nickcw 4y ago|0 comments
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by nickcw 4y ago
The barrel shifter was one of the things I loved about writing assembly code for the ARM. Shift anything, any amount for free! There is a nice writeup about what it could do for you here: https://www.davespace.co.uk/arm&#x2F
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by nickcw 4y ago
Chip designers have noticed this similarity in the past have and attempted to push some of the work done by the CPU back into the compiler. Itanium and the Mill CPU both work(ed) like this I believe.
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by nickcw 4y ago
> Which are members of the open source program and which aren't. You can tell which are members of the open source program if you go to their docker hub page and you'll see a banner "SPONSORED OSS" Here is an example:
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by nickcw 4y ago
Our last Miele dishwasher lasted for 11 years. The current one has been going for 10. We are a household of 6 and often set the dishwasher off 2 or 3 times a day so we are probably hard users. As for our Miele washing machine - it is still
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by nickcw 4y ago
I love reading what Derek Sivers writes - he has become a wise man. Quick responses and slow responses reminds me of Daniel Kahneman's book "Thinking, Fast and Slow". I found it a very thought provoking read and in particular
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by nickcw 4y ago
This F-Droid emacs appears to have been build straight from the emacs repo which is cool! I was hoping for a screenshot but I couldn't find one. I have emacs installed in Termux on Android. Termux provides an extra button bar above the
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by nickcw 4y ago
I found it a surprise. However it is really useful when using comptime and doing those really awkward cross platform things (like delving into the innards of a stat_t) - your FreeBSD stuff with its different member names will be completely
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by nickcw 4y ago
This is very different to most static languages. From the article: The whole process is lazy — only things transitively used from main are analyzed. Compiler won’t complain about something like fn unused() void { 1 + "&qu
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by nickcw 4y ago
Just in case you were wondering Serial digital interface (SDI) is a family of digital video interfaces first standardized by SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) in 1989. For example, ITU-R BT.656 and SMPTE 259M de
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by nickcw 4y ago
I was always very impressed with MythTV. It was the first project that I saw that made really good use of versioning their mysql database with SQL queries to change the schema linked to the software version. I used it extensively. I obsessi
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by nickcw 4y ago
Can you clarify the terms an conditions about Cloudflare R2 please? On the R2 page https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ we see: > No more egress charges. You shouldn’t have to pay to access your data. Pay no
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by nickcw 4y ago
When I make rclone releases I usually spend an hour or two taking the git log, removing irrelevant stuff and rewriting messages to make them make sense from a users point of view. I then take that and try to pick the top 3 or so items for u
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by nickcw 4y ago
Why has Twitter shut down the API? Is it because third party clients don't show adverts and it is feeling the pinch? Or for some other reason?
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by nickcw 4y ago
My favorite illustration is from Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie. Here is a link to an article with my favorite picture from the book as its main image: https://hackerboss.com/thinking-forth-the-unsung-classic/ It shows t
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Forming the habit of analog journaling – Why digital format did not work for me(skarlso.github.io)
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I think it is the Spigot algorithm for Pi https://www.gavalas.dev/blog/spigot-algorithms-for-pi-in-pyt... If you enjoy Pi stuff then I'd recommend the Pi Unleashed book https://link.springer.com/bo
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Elon Musk set to become number-one influencer on Twitter(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by nickcw 4y ago|0 comments
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Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon(theregister.com)
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by nickcw 4y ago
I'd recommend gforth. It runs on lots of systems and is well maintained. https://gforth.org/ Eventually you'll build your own forth (seems to be a right of passage!)
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by nickcw 4y ago
I treasure my copy of Thinking Forth. I was at a formative age when I read it and I learnt so many great programming concepts from it. The most important being keep breaking the problem down into simpler bits so you can understand and name

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