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by pajko 6y ago
Sweden is a bit over-bureaucratic. To get a work visa, you need a job. To get a job, you need a home address in Sweden. To rent something to get a home address, you need work visa and a job, and it takes a lot of paperwork to break this cyc
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by pajko 6y ago
SAC is also worth mentioning. It was my source of utilities back then, distributed on CDs included with a computer magazine (still did not have access to the net for a couple of more years). https://www.sac.sk/
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by pajko 6y ago
Actually it does more than that. Try pinging 64465365 or 127.7575
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by pajko 6y ago
Well, I have programmed under MISRA C at a company for a couple of weeks before I left. Have seen with my own eyes that a colleague of mine added suppression comments for MISRA warnings about unchecked return values of some timer functions,
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by pajko 6y ago
They are already looking at home-growing talent: [1] This article talks about electronic components in general, not just chips, plus "work together to bolster Europe’s electronics and embedded systems value chain". [2] is about qu
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by pajko 6y ago
MIPS was being used in set-top-boxes and media players as well, like https://www.imaginationtech.com/blog/dont-let-the-cpu-contro...
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by pajko 6y ago
intmax_t is a beast in itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316933
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by pajko 6y ago
For me, the main thing causing slowdowns is the bad quality or complete lack of documentation about how the existing/external APIs work, and a big part of the development is trial-and-error.
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by pajko 6y ago
Looks like it can have adverse side effects and it's very easy to overdose, leading to fatal organ failure. Also several factors, like existing medication or just consuming grapefruit juice, can affect concentration in the body. If my
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by pajko 6y ago
Isn't it interesting that there appears to be somebody named "Ransom Nova" in Pakistan, studying computer science? https://www.linkedin.com/in/ransom-nova-73b214191/
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by pajko 6y ago
And some of them does a "sane" defined thing on some of the platforms, but enforcing them for all of the platforms would mean a lot of burden to the implementors working on those.
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by pajko 6y ago
This is radioactivity, the source is a Cs-137 canister lost in January, 2019. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/container-with-rad...
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by pajko 6y ago
Clock frequency is not everything and it's not necessarily good if somebody tries to solve something with raw power. Unfortunately the RISC-V instruction set is crippled performance-wise, by design. It looks like a clone of MIPS, which
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by pajko 6y ago
At 14, I wrote a functional virus on paper, hand-calculated the jump offsets and entered the "code" in debug.com. The first version was 273 bytes long. It did not do much, just printing the BELL character, then looking for non-inf
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by pajko 9y ago
Let's not forget about the notorious Xbox 360 "demo": https://www.anandtech.com/show/1686/5