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811.
by pja 10y ago
If you cut & paste the makefile in the blogpost, you’ll discover that the blog itself has converted the tabs in the makefile to spaces. Not very helpful to any confused newbies out there!
812.
by pja 10y ago
The tabs in the makefile have been converted to spaces by the blog-posting software. The commands for implementing rules are always indented by a tab. This is a classic makefile newbie make gotcha & everyone gets bitten by it at some
813.
by pja 10y ago
That’s a problem with the mastering, not the recording format: There’s plenty of dB available in a CD to cover the full range of human hearing. Sadly you have no guarantee that a random 24/192 recording wont have the same compression &
814.
by pja 10y ago
Yes, absolutely. I do this & have done for a decade or more. But that decade probably helps - my mail server has kept the same static IP the entire time, so has a pristine spam reputation. I added SPF a couple of years ago as otherwise
815.
by pja 10y ago
Even into the 90s, my (biotech) employer at the time would advertise in New Scientist because that’s where the readership was. I agree that it wasn’t great then, but today’s NS is another level of awful.
816.
by pja 10y ago
New Scientist has gone horribly, horribly downhill over the last few decades. It’s a pale shadow of its former self :(
817.
by pja 10y ago
Welcome, fresh faced new employee, to your first PIP!
818.
by pja 10y ago
I thought concrete buildings without steel frames came down instantly in earthquakes. What am I missing? Concrete buildings without sufficient bracing at the corners where supporting beams meet floors fail pretty much instantly in earthqu
819.
by pja 10y ago
Sure, some HFT strats are locally encoded. But that’s not the only way to make money. If what you want to do is run arbitrage between different exchanges then being faster than everyone else gives you an edge. You can take advantage of pric
820.
by pja 10y ago
They almost certainly already have servers in a DC in Frankfurt - the point is that being able to communicate current prices between the major markets faster than anyone else gives you a trading edge over other market participants.
821.
by pja 10y ago
All I know is that I mentioned Pokemon GO to my kids (it’s not out in the UK yet, so no advertising push to make them aware of it already) and they were instantly telling me that they had to have it. I can’t imagine any other brand having
822.
by pja 10y ago
It’s not as simple as that. Wikipedia says: Some cuprates have an upper critical field of about 100 tesla. However, cuprate materials are brittle ceramics which are expensive to manufacture and not easily turned into wires or other useful
823.
by pja 10y ago
Well there are the pro-immigrant story notes, the race bending casting and so on - those things all played to social justice / left groups & probably helped win people over in marketing the thing (having the interest of the PoTUS d
824.
by pja 10y ago
Because it’s very, very good? That isn’t any kind of guarantee of success, but it’s a damn good base to start from.
825.
by pja 10y ago
No, but they can make thinks extremely awkward & almost certainly use it as leverage to exit the UK if they really want to. (Betteridge’s Law applies?)
826.
by pja 10y ago
If they get their unicode data from the same, OS supplied source that supplies the wcwidth() function (or be using wcwidth() themselves) a libc update should fix both, I think.
827.
by pja 10y ago
I got a change into Unicode 9.0 too! It was just a tweak to emoji characters to mark them all as East Asian Full Width instead of Narrow or Ambiguous so that they displayed correctly when using a fixed width font in a terminal console. This
828.
by pja 10y ago
Speed limits are not targets, they’re just legal limits. The reasonable speed to be driving along a given road might be much slower than the posted limit.
829.
by pja 10y ago
The UK press likes to sprinkle its satire around fairly liberally & TheRegister goes for the full bore approach: Every article there is partially satire.
830.
by pja 11y ago
Often construction entrances need a banksman to help delivery lorries reverse out safely & manage the traffice on the road to make space. That’s not something you can really automate at the moment & in the grand scheme of things not
831.
by pja 11y ago
Yeah, and as one of the comments to that blog post says, for bit twiddling operations like this, modern compilers are good enough to generate the optimal assembler the vast majority of the time: If you write the equivalent C code uint
832.
by pja 11y ago
IIRC homebrew doesn’t handle inter-package dependencies very well - it’s no apt - but apart from that it seems to mostly work OK.
833.
by pja 11y ago
IIRC, StrongARM was about 5-10x faster than contemporary (non-DEC) ARM chips of the time, which topped out around 30-40MHz. What made BASIC blisteringly quick on it was that the BASIC interpreter that Acorn had originally written for their
834.
by pja 11y ago
Weirdly my experience with interviewing for an SRE role was the reverse: the phone screen was pretty much a straight programming problem (in a Google Doc, ugh) but then one of the on site interviews was very shell programming focused. I gue
835.
by pja 11y ago
That’s because the best quality streams are delivered that way by Google so if you want the higher quality video+audio you have to download them separately and remux them locally.
836.
by pja 11y ago
“Until recently, science has basically ignored the fact that we are all walking around with two genomes in every cell,” Dowling says, “that of our own nuclear genome, and that of the mitochondria.” Really? I was taught about mitochondria
837.
by pja 11y ago
Well, someone picked .bro as the initial extension by simply shortening .brotli, and someone else pointed out that .brt might be less potentially controversial. You can find the exchange on (I think) the chrome bugtracker somewhere (or mayb
838.
by pja 11y ago
Another alternative is to use a blob of Sugru to add better strain relief to the cable entry point. Sugru has just the right amount of flexible stiffness when set. Use the white stuff if you want to hide it, or a nice bright colour to call
839.
by pja 11y ago
Anybody with the slightest interest in this topic should read Charlie Stross’ (cstross on HN) series of essays on the publishing industry: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...
840.
by pja 11y ago
In the medium term, my guess is that they want to force Apple to alter the code in the secure enclave of all iPhones manufactured so that in the future the phones can be backdoored on demand either by Apple under warrant or the FBI themselv

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