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541.
by pm215 6y ago
I think there are similarities -- the project's root is the project's, so why does eg the Travis CI system get to insist on having a config file sat in the project root?
542.
by pm215 6y ago
I don't think there's generally a cultural reason. It just doesn't happen all that often because the "someone else" coming along probably isn't familiar with the project workflow either so they don't know
543.
by pm215 6y ago
I feel that HN somewhat does the 'factoring into smaller groups' by having each topic's conversation be pretty clearly separated from each other one's, and quickly expiring off the frontpage. So the group of people who a
544.
by pm215 6y ago
The main thing "did the candidate have any questions for us yes/no?" tells you is "has the candidate read the usual 'how to prepare for interviews' guides where this is noted as a very common question for which
545.
by pm215 6y ago
I think a more interesting analysis of "security vulnerability costs for static linking" would look not at just "how many bytes does the end user download" but "what are the overall costs to the distro to support
546.
by pm215 6y ago
Thanks for noting the typo -- I mentioned it to Diziet, who has now corrected the error.
547.
by pm215 6y ago
Unfortunately names get baked into things, so it's not as easy to change as just saying "let's change". "x86_64" is what Linux 'uname' and the gcc triplet naming conventions use, so that's what I
548.
by pm215 6y ago
Original Arm had an ISA which didn't mandate a stack direction -- the stack pointer register (r13) was not special and it was only the calling convention that decreed that it was the stack pointer. The instruction set's LDM/S
549.
by pm215 6y ago
The second item is warning against a particular misuse of pointers that was apparently widespread at the time. On VAX Unix, it happened that the memory at address zero of a process was readable and contained zeroes. So a lot of code would m
550.
by pm215 6y ago
I think an attempt at a world-spanning set of recommendations would have been spread so thinly as to be useless for everybody, even if in theory it covered their region. I think it's better to have an article that picks a country/
551.
by pm215 6y ago
Interesting how these things have a variable performance between countries -- in the UK DPD is one of the better couriers (informing you of a 1 hour slot when delivery will happen, including a mini-map and 'you are delivery 46, van cur
552.
by pm215 6y ago
It's a piece in a UK newspaper: obviously they're going to focus on the situation for most of their readers and the options that somebody in the UK might have for online shopping. It's not trying to be a survey of the whole g
553.
by pm215 7y ago
Not exclusively -- London's the biggest city, and more generally the south east of England covers one tenth of the land area but has over one third of the UK population living there. So lots of people live down south, as well as in the
554.
by pm215 7y ago
The Navigator in Shelford is another good Thai-food pub in the area.
555.
by pm215 7y ago
There is comfort to be had in the habit of drinking a big mug of a hot drink, caffeinated or not. I drink coffee for that as much as anything else, and given the popularity of decaf coffee so do many others...
556.
by pm215 7y ago
I think the last array entry {executeNoMatch , "A?"} will match on any string (and print the fallback "I don't know how to VERB" message), so it's impossible to fall off the end of the array. If you wanted to
557.
by pm215 7y ago
No, because (as the commit message notes) gcc does not support output constraints on asm goto, so the kernel can't be using this feature at the moment. (Indeed, nothing can be...) On the other hand, Torvalds has mentioned in the past (
558.
by pm215 7y ago
The lack of discovery is not inherent in a command line system. The usual counter-example is something like TOPS-20 https://www.bourguet.org/v2/pdp10/users/chap2#sec_2 where the command line system was built
559.
by pm215 7y ago
Yes, you're right, I misremembered. (It came in with CPUs with the virtualization extension, so not A9.)
560.
by pm215 7y ago
Integer division is mandatory from v7VE on upwards (so roughly Cortex-A9, A15 and later), and it's definitely in the 32-bit support of any 64-bit capable core. If Raspbian is compiling its packages for the lowest common denominator arm
561.
by pm215 7y ago
As far as I'm aware, ilp32 support for aarch64 has been proposed and implemented, but the patches weren't accepted upstream in the kernel because nobody was able to make a sufficiently convincing case that there was enough benefit
562.
by pm215 7y ago
I hear this is a firmware bug, and should automatically sort itself out once we hit March (but there is a bugfixed f/w due too). My pet theory/guess was that there was a misimplementation of some algorithm like Zeller's congr
563.
by pm215 7y ago
The Alpha did have a memory model that was weaker in some respects than pretty much every other RISC CPU. I'm not clear on the details, but I think that one of them is described in https://www.kernel.org/doc/Docum
564.
by pm215 7y ago
Jazelle is dead. The v8 version (or maybe even v7; I forget) of the 32-bit architecture basically mandated that only 'trivial' Jazelle (which is the not-actually-there version) could be implemented, and 64-bit has never had anythi
565.
by pm215 7y ago
It's not very "new". People have been working on porting, improving and optimizing software for the Arm server ecosystem for more than a decade now; really performant and widely available hardware may be new on the scene, but
566.
by pm215 7y ago
Well, it depends whether you happen to have that idiom in your personal dialect or not. The most high-profile use of it I happen to know of is from the 80s hit "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades", which starts out &
567.
by pm215 7y ago
Not as far out as the memory system, but Arm provides 'DC ZVA' ( https://developer.arm.com/docs/ddi0595/b/aarch64-system-inst... ) which clears a full cache line to zero at once, which is more efficie
568.
by pm215 7y ago
Arm is another company that is frequently and currently hiring compiler engineers (mostly for UK Manchester/Cambridge; looking at the current listings it's largely looking for people with some experience at the moment but there ar
569.
by pm215 7y ago
I'm in the UK. My lawn is about 1/3 clover already, as it happens, just by natural process of it being stuff that grows better in the conditions on that part of the lawn. I don't consider that to be not-a-lawn, it's fair
570.
by pm215 7y ago
It is simpler in the sense that there is not really any thought required. I have to mow my small lawn every three weeks or so, true, but I know how to do that, because it's the same thing everybody does and you grow up watching your pa

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