paulmlewis

4 ms·

1.
by paulmlewis 8y ago
Ted Unangst had a few posts where time getting featured heavily, e.g. https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads and the linked mailing list thread https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports
2.
by paulmlewis 9y ago
I don't follow Wayland closely but there's a thread proposing stabilisation from a little while back https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-Ma...
3.
by paulmlewis 9y ago
They're a big enough problem that they created Rust to deal with them.
4.
by paulmlewis 10y ago
Nor your boots! :-)
5.
by paulmlewis 10y ago
I'm no expert so may be corrected, but I assume just an inverter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_inverter
6.
by paulmlewis 10y ago
> The primary chops up the high-voltage DC from the PFC circuit and feeds it into the transformer. It chops it up to AC for the transformer.
7.
by paulmlewis 10y ago
heh, brings back memories, we had a real-world Logo Turtle at secondary school in about 1990. This one's a little shinier though.
8.
by paulmlewis 10y ago
We have plenty of human biting mosquitos in the UK, I'm quite allergic to some of them.
9.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
I ask this from a position of seeking knowledge rather than being adversarial, the discussions on undefined behaviour from a C language perspective always seem muddled to me between what's undefined at the C language level such that a
10.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
Only a handful of comments but it was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10759434
11.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
Does it need to be? I think the suggestion is allow using your own tablet with a standard interface, if it breaks in a few years replace it with a newer one. That way the you're not stuck with the obsolete infotainment unit that would
12.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
Thanks for mitmproxy, used it for the first time the other day :-)
13.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
That's a fair point, my cars are old enough to come under the older UK road tax rules so are not taxed based on emissions, but their emissions are better than the requirements for their age. Still it would be nice if there were inexpen
14.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
I think the majority of modifications are simply adjusting the calibration or lookup tables for things like fuel maps, enabling / disabling things like key left in ignition buzzers and the like, mostly data items rather than code modif
15.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
I'm sure there's some irony in that sentiment ;-) Aside from the VW thing I think pretty much all diesels are above emissions standards in open road testing.
16.
by paulmlewis 11y ago
Thanks, first time submitting, I didn't spot those ones.
17.
EFF Wins Petition to Inspect and Modify Car Software(supporters.eff.org)
730 points by paulmlewis 11y ago|107 comments
18.
by paulmlewis 12y ago
There's a core-utils in rust repo https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
19.
by paulmlewis 14y ago
Interesting, I'd given up all hope of the flickering being fixed.