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by nrclark 5y ago
That's the capture-by-reference vs capture-by-value distinction in a nutshell, yes. Capture-by-value takes a snapshot of the value instantly, and stores it until the block is executed. Capture-by-reference waits to evaluate the variabl
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by nrclark 5y ago
C could really use a standardized defer feature. I don't like the proposed syntax though, because it introduces a new meaning for the & operator. In all other uses, the & operator modifies the type of the operand, to be the opp
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by nrclark 5y ago
Very cool, and useful. I'll try it out on my next PCB.
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by nrclark 5y ago
It's a complicated problem. I have the luxury of a tech job that lets me work from home, and forgives a couple of distracted days if my toddler's home sick with me. Not everybody is so lucky. Lots of people have jobs where they ca
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by nrclark 5y ago
If your boss is sabotaging interviews, then it's time to start interviewing.
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by nrclark 5y ago
Vzw.com is an actual domain owned by Verizon, yes. On a desktop, it redirects to the Verizon login portal.
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by nrclark 5y ago
There are lots of cool features to like here. I'm not in the camp of Electron-haters, you just have to understand what it is and isn't. Nobody (including the author) is advertising Tabby as a lightweight terminal with high-perform
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by nrclark 5y ago
Do their products have much in the way of phone-home / cloud access?
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by nrclark 5y ago
Zig is a really exciting language to see grow. As a minor correction to your post: C99's flexible arrays are stack-allocated, not heap-allocated. Since stacks are often small, this feature actually wound up causing a bunch of designers
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by nrclark 5y ago
Zig is growing fast, and the dev team should feel proud of what they're building. I think it's great to see metrics like this because they demonstrate an attention to detail that will be necessary for Zig's success. Metrics h
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by nrclark 5y ago
JSON is greppable if all you need a simple key-value from a known format and indentation. It's much harder if you don't know the indentation/line breaks, or if it's whitespace-free, or if your key can ever appear in your
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by nrclark 5y ago
This is really cool! Great puzzles.
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by nrclark 5y ago
Sperm can hang around in the fallopian tube for almost a week. It's also possible to ovulate without a visible period, and it's possible to ovulate in-between "normal" periods. Don't assume any hard-and-fast rules w
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by nrclark 5y ago
Freecell has ads in it now, and tries to push a subscription service. Microsoft is really doing themselves a dirty by trying to nickel-and-dime its customers with stuff like this.
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by nrclark 5y ago
Screens are hard to source. The market has trended towards larger phones over the years, which means that screen manufacturers have trended towards larger screens. It's much harder to source a 4.5" screen than a 5.7" screen t
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by nrclark 5y ago
Nice! What about place/route?
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by nrclark 5y ago
For any Renesas folks reading this, you should consider throwing in with the open-source Icestorm toolchain. Icestorm brought a ton of exposure to Lattice's low-end FPGAs, and that was with no official support from Lattice. Renesas cou
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by nrclark 5y ago
> the anals of history Now that's a Freudian slip if I've ever seen one.
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by nrclark 5y ago
Working in embedded Linux, I don't require experience in my exact technology stack for a senior engineer. But I certainly do expect some experience in the same problem domain. Like let's say I build systems with Yocto Linux. Someb
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by nrclark 5y ago
Slight off-topic, but I wanted to address the above concern. APT, DNF, and many other package managers have an "autoremove" command that will uninstall unused dependencies. So if you did "apt-get -y install $PACKAGE &&amp
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by nrclark 5y ago
On the off-chance that you're asking because you're involved in the package manager, here are a few things I'd really like to see as a crusty graybeard / software carpenter / package maintainer. Maybe some/all
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by nrclark 5y ago
I've written a few CLI utilities in C over the past couple of years. Here's why I keep choosing it for tools that I want to distribute. C is the lowest common denominator. It has good compilers that just work, with no drama or sur
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by nrclark 5y ago
Maybe or maybe not. It depends a lot on how the chip's boot ROM is designed.
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by nrclark 5y ago
If you connect to Linux servers from a Mac, you should try out iterm2's tmux integration. Iterm2 knows how to manage Tmux transparently, so you don't have to even think about it. You just get resumable SSH sessions that save your
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by nrclark 5y ago
They talked about it in the latest cppcast episode. It's not dead officially yet, but it's dead.
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by nrclark 5y ago
I use Make extensively for glue scripts or build scripts that call other tools. Make gives you four big advantages over a pure shell-script: 1. Tab completion. All major bash-completion packages know how to show Makefile targets in response
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by nrclark 5y ago
Sure thing. I can't share any of my employer's schematics, but here's one that's drafted in a similar style: https://digilent.com/reference/_media/reference/programmable... There's no
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by nrclark 5y ago
Nice, I didn't realize. All the tutorials and stuff out there all show a hierarchical schematic as the only way to get multi-sheet, instead of just a flat schematic with some stuff on one page and some stuff on another. I know the UI h
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by nrclark 5y ago
For any Kicad devs reading this thread, are multi-sheet schematics on the roadmap at all? I work with some Orcad designers who view it as a necessary feature for the style of schematics that they draw. They feel like forced-hierarchical is
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by nrclark 5y ago
That's not as true now as it used to be. AFAIK the Atom line was recently rebranded as Pentium Silver.

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