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by phire 2y ago
The major source of conflict is that the disto model for c/c++ dependencies is simply not good. Developers only tolerate it because the problem was previously unsolved before linux package managers. We are talking about a time before e
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by phire 2y ago
I did. The problem with nix repl, is that it only seems to help if you already understand both nix and how the derivations are actually implemented in nix. It's pretty useless as a learning tool.
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by phire 2y ago
Nobody is converting suburban shopping malls into appartments. The Arcade is a special case, because it's actually a central-city mall, located right in the heart of the city, near a bunch of other apartment and office buildings. It&#x
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by phire 2y ago
They reported a dual GPS failure. My guess, they picked an airport they knew well, that they could probably navigate to with nothing more than a compass and landmarks. And if they suspected GPS jamming (personally, a dual GPS failure over R
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by phire 2y ago
I certainly consider it to be immutable. But NixOS is immutable in a very different way to all the mention distos, which are focused on containers, isolation, and layers; Maybe the author doesn't consider it to be in the same category?
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by phire 2y ago
Qualcomm already had a license for ARMs patents. An older licence with much better terms.
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by phire 2y ago
There are preview builds of Geekbench that are native RISC-V.
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by phire 2y ago
My memory is that before the lawsuit, Qualcomm were using both arguments, "we have the right to transfer the licence, and even if we didn't, we have our own license". The first argument was always the weaker argument, the lic
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by phire 2y ago
Qualcomm already had a "modify" licence, back from when they were doing their own custom ARM cores. So the actual central issue was if Qualcomm had the right to transfer the technology developed under the Nuvia architecture licens
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by phire 2y ago
I suspect it's mostly irrelevant. ARM should be able to re-file the lawsuit and get financial damages out of Nuvia, which Qualcomm will need to pay. But I doubt the damages will be high enough to bother Qualcomm. I don't think ARM
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by phire 2y ago
Yeah... Part of the reason why existing functionality is limited and nobody uses them to implement custom instructions, is that trapping is actually quite expensive. The switch to kernel space and back is super expensive, but even if a CPU
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by phire 2y ago
> Family controls are pretty good nowadays, fwiw. Yeah, I do feel like people confuse "giving children their own smartphone" with "giving children unrestricted access to a smartphone". Parental controls really chang
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by phire 2y ago
My rule of thumb: If the headline and the body contradict, always trust the body (or even better, the peer reviewed journal article). Never trust headlines, they are optimised for clicks, not accuracy. It's also common for headlines to
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by phire 2y ago
Seems clear enough to me: "challenged a group of Year 8 pupils to give up their smartphones completely for 21 days." I'm not sure how you can read "completely" as "only during school time"
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by phire 2y ago
Because it wasn't a "smartphone ban". They convinced a group of students to give up their phones completely for 21 days, outside of school too. The reason why they went to bed sooner is somewhat obvious. It's not somethi
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by phire 2y ago
The table couldn't be fixed. But it can be bypassed. The microcode update would need to disable the entire FDIV instruction and re-implement it without using any floating point hardware at all, at least for the problematic devisors. It
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by phire 2y ago
He is a Green. Has talked about detonating nuclear weapons over the poles to melt ice.
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by phire 2y ago
It's a 16x slot, but it only provides 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 Appears to be a SoC limitation, which only has a single 4x PCIe 3.0 interface, and doesn't appear to support bifurcation (splitting into two 2x slots, or four 4x slots). Yo
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by phire 2y ago
Yeah, I was wondering how TV-like this channel looked. It's tempting to wrap it in fake horizontal/vertical blanking so it still looks like a TV signal (and you can send it through existing equipment that's expecting a TV sig
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by phire 2y ago
Teletext had an instantaneous bitrate of 6.9Mbit, but it was only active for a few lines per frame during vertical blanking. The continuous bandwidth of teletext was only 324 Kbit. The main innovation of Sega Channel (and similar approaches
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by phire 2y ago
The military are technically correct here. As the constitution is written, the nullification vote doesn't directly end martial law. It simply binds the president to withdraw martial law. In hindsight, that might be a slight flaw, there
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by phire 2y ago
> the drones are left with a bit more autonomy than the Star Trek equivalents I'm not sure I would describe it as more autonomy. The central ship computer was absolutly dominant within the hive mind, and had control over the ancil
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by phire 2y ago
Further thoughts: While this executor + fixer setup does work for most usecases, it's still impossible to recover the state. The relevant state is simply held in the halted 68000. Which means, the only thing you can do is handle the fa
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by phire 2y ago
> run two CPUs "time shifted" by one cycle and inject a recoverable interrupt on the second CPU. That's not quite how it was implemented. Instead, the second 68000 was halted and disconnected from the bus until the first
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by phire 2y ago
Yeah, that fact alone goes a long way to proving there is no technical merit to cryptocurrencies. The reason they are now called "centralised crypto exchanges" is that "decentralised crypto exchanges" now exist, where tr
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by phire 2y ago
Fun fact, centralized crypto exchanges don't use crypto internally, it's simply too slow. As a contractor, I helped do some auditing on one crypto exchange. At least they used a proper double-entry ledger for tracking internal tra
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by phire 2y ago
> It's only needed for rare occasions. The two RS-422 ports are actually used quite often on these old Macs for printers, modems and apple talk networking. It was the only communication port, as there was no parallel port. They we
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by phire 2y ago
Yes, but there should be some optimisation opportunities. Off the top of my head: Any multiply by a constant less than 1.0 will never overflow the unboxed range (but might underflow) and there should be times when it's provably better
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by phire 2y ago
It was more about Memory usage than anything else. It was designed for a market with feature phones running J2ME apps in about 4-8MB of RAM. The CPU was probably fast enough to do decent JIT compilation, but a JIT compiler would take a few
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by phire 2y ago
I actually have an LC III in storage, so I might actually be able to make use of this article. I think this will allow me to classify today as productive.

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