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The Ada code that caused the Ariane 5 1996 failure (German)(sarahandrobin.com)
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by noselasd 8y ago
No not really. You have to define the bounds you were talking about. People believing that a float type can represent all integers that the int type in their language can represent is not exactly uncommon.
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by noselasd 8y ago
well, 2.1 isn't an integer.
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by noselasd 8y ago
Not all of them, e.g. 9007199254740993 can't be represented in a double precision format (what javascript uses) For single precision floats you start having issues representing integers as low as 16777217
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by noselasd 8y ago
cases like that's everywhere. 2.875.toFixed(2) = "2.88" while 2.675.toFixed(2) = "2.67" 7205759403792794 + 1.1 = 7205759403792795 7205759403792794 + 1.9 = 7205759403792796
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by noselasd 8y ago
If I can choose between stuffing 6x15TB or 6x14TB at comparable cost into my NAS, I'd buy the 6x15TB ones.
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by noselasd 8y ago
Arn't lawn mowing automated already ? All my aunts and uncles are too old to do it themselves now and bought a robot to do it. Stuff like these, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LlaaV2iMb0 scoots around and keeps the l
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by noselasd 8y ago
It's a buffer as long as there is a forest. Once you establish a forest where there previously was none, you have tied up a certain amount of carbon in all those tree trunk/root/branches. Sure, the individual trees will event
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by noselasd 8y ago
>>>> 8) Death in childbirth is rarer >Well most of the progress were down in the 19th century, so >they're counting mostly insignifcant things (statistically, >I don*t mean childbirth is insignificant at all, got k
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by noselasd 8y ago
There's an awful lot of stars, it would be very unlikely that we look at all of them from the top down where we could not detect a planet passing in front of the star. Kepler glares at single piece of our galaxy and monitors about 150,
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by noselasd 8y ago
There are currently no evidence that life on earth happened more than once.
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by noselasd 8y ago
The claim was every . Really ? Every company in China is owned or influenced by the government business ? No, not even close. The companies I have visited and seen are far more interested in minding their own business and wants as little t
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by noselasd 8y ago
> Every Chinese company is at least partially owned, controlled, or heavily influenced by the Chinese government. This is absolutely not true.
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by noselasd 8y ago
ping would refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility) in this context, which is quite unrelated to TLS.
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by noselasd 8y ago
If your program copes with all the implications it entails, you could chroot() to the relevant directory.
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by noselasd 8y ago
Trivial if you have access to an SS7 network that has a direct access or a roaming agreement with the network of the victim, and the proper tools to do that. But you will not manage to do it within 2 minutes if you have.
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by noselasd 8y ago
The piece of memory was previously allocated with a struct header_t at sizeof(struct header_t) bytes below the passed in block pointer. So just recovering and using a pointer to that struct header_t from the block pointer in this way is fin
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by noselasd 8y ago
Not everything is as regulated as you make it appear to be. e.g. virtually every pig farm in Denmark regularly gets antibiotics, and MSRA is found on pretty much every pig farm. The average antibiotic use in Europe was 152 mg/kg of liv
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by noselasd 8y ago
it sounds like quite a stretch to say everything shares the same genes. A lot of the genes have come into existence long after distant species split apart, and other genes have disappeared from one specie while continuing in others.
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by noselasd 8y ago
> the parsing must be done. Therein lies the bulk of the problem, gcc doesn't parse the assembly code. The assembly is just copied with some minor string replacements for the registry names, and it's up to the assembler to dea
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by noselasd 8y ago
I don't think we'll see the fork/exec semantics going away anyway soon - inheriting privileges/file-descriptors etc. in this way is quite core to all unix like OSs. posix does provide posix_spawn() though, which an OS co
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by noselasd 8y ago
> BTW, are there many applications integrating a MCU core with FPGA rather than a AP core? I only have seen Xilinx products that uses Cortex-A core. It's common enough that you'll have them available as part of the FPGA toolcha
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by noselasd 8y ago
For patreon it's trust based. Each contributor gets a mail with a link to a private rss feed they have to enter in their podcast app - and you're not supposed to share that with anyone. I would assume the platform has some measure
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by noselasd 8y ago
Maven is that simple when someone have gone through all the pain of setting things up - but someone have to do that too - it is a battle for all but the very simplest of projects.
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by noselasd 8y ago
https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles puts a vizualisation on the data backing this up - there's a lot of fascinating statistics to look at.
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by noselasd 8y ago
The current state of nuclear reactors is largely thanks to one man , Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. A quite interesting character who through his work for building up a nuclear powered fleet had to build up the entire supply chain of suppliers
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by noselasd 8y ago
It does to a great extent. You provide more towers that each has a smaller coverage area.
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by noselasd 8y ago
Arduino boards arn't designed to operate in a rugged environment such as a car which is a pretty hostile environment regarding vibrations, electro magnetic interference and thermal cycling.
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To communicate with all the other traffic lights and sensors at the other intersections on the road to optimize traffic flow.
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I hope this means you did not end up on all the crackpot sites that runs counter to any sane scientific approach and runs their arguments based on refuting existing research based on incompleteness and plain disbelief ? Do you have some cre

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