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by pm215 7y ago
A lot of the headline grabbing stuff wasn't the grid's fault though: * the railways didn't have traction power disconnected -- but one type of (new) train saw the within-specification frequency drop, shut down, and in many ca
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by pm215 7y ago
The understanding I picked up from having some dealings with the UK medical system and reading about it in the course of trying to deal with my RSI is that it's kind of a blanket term that gets applied to any chronic hand pain; there s
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by pm215 7y ago
My somewhat off-beat recommendation is "Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code". The sources to a 1976 version of Unix written in an archaic dialect of C and targeting a long-dead CPU architecture are obviousl
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by pm215 7y ago
Personally I do upgrade-in-place -- my main home machine is an in-place upgrade from its original install of Debian 0.93r6 back in 1996 or so (with different hardware now, of course). Some upgrades have been hairier than others, but fixing
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by pm215 7y ago
Oh, I totally wouldn't recommend paying the subscription (those to whom it is professionally worthwhile won't be seeking my recommendation in the first place). But a significant chunk of the UK population have free access because
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by pm215 7y ago
The free-via-local-UK-public-library access is actually pretty pain-free -- you just click the 'sign in' button, enter your library card number, possibly click a link to tell it which particular local library the card is for, and
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by pm215 7y ago
The GPO was the General Post Office ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office ) which by the 1940s dealt not only with snailmail but also telegraph and telephones. GPO engineers built the Colossus computer at B
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by pm215 7y ago
Random historical note -- xargs dates back to 1977 or 78 -- https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.unix.questions/... has a post in 1988 from the original author saying they wrote it at Bell Labs a
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by pm215 7y ago
FWIW I own a Henry, and I had no idea the name was a play on Henry Hoover's name -- it's not manufactured by Hoover, after all, and it postdates the word becoming a generic term by a long way. I think the article's take on it
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by pm215 7y ago
If you do London->Edinburgh by train now, then assuming you're willing to book to a specific train and book a couple of months in advance (which is probably what you were doing with your plane ticket) then you can get a ticket for 5
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by pm215 7y ago
Yes, I think the 'done by the compiler' part is really important for takeup. You can see a good example of a variant of this in the article: > diff time [ie in the standard code-review workflow] deployment saw a 70% fix rate, w
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by pm215 7y ago
You wouldn't believe how much discussion it took to decide that that minor drm_cache.h change really was the right fix for that issue :-)
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by pm215 7y ago
From a purely pragmatic point of view, this is probably a bad idea. My take is that new architectures/ABIs get a certain "budget" for doing "weird" things. Every choice you take that isn't the same as existing
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by pm215 7y ago
People have got at least some cards working on server-class arm setups. On the other hand I think they might be using the 'emulate x86 uefi rom in an arm uefi system' hack, so there might be more effort required on a non-uefi setu
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by pm215 7y ago
A little digging through the look-inside preview suggests it's the one labelled 5.46 in this list of epigrams by Philodemus: http://www.attalus.org/poetry/philodemus.html
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by pm215 7y ago
Whether there are damages depends on the context. In 2015 an HIV clinic in London used the to: field instead of bcc: on a patient newsletter, thus exposing the names of 700 patients, many of whom knew each other due to the small geographic
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by pm215 7y ago
I like the intermediate position: enable -Werror for development builds (which for QEMU means "builds from head-of-git"), leave things as just warnings for (source) releases, and give the user an escape hatch (eg a configure --dis
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by pm215 7y ago
How low cost do you want low cost to be, and how annoying are you prepared for it to be? I just picked (fairly arbitrarily) Monday 19th August, and although Expedia does offer a GBP18 Ryanair flight SXF - BRU you have to accept an 0620 depa
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by pm215 7y ago
Do you have a source for "most" here? Most of the senior devs I know are full-time non-contractors (though that is quite possibly just a property of my friend group and location (Cambridge)).
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by pm215 8y ago
The NEMU folks did a talk at KVM Forum last year -- the impression I got was that their intent was to use NEMU as a testbed and demo platform of what you could do to produce a slimmed-down version of QEMU, and then as they established worka
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by pm215 8y ago
My recommendation for that sort of use would be to look at using a 'management layer' app that sits above QEMU and handles all the fiddly command line details for you -- https://virt-manager.org/ (which uses/
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by pm215 8y ago
Valgrind does add support for newer instruction set extensions (for instance the latest release two weeks ago added the RDRAND and F16C instruction set extensions). It would probably be less work to just directly add Valgrind support for an
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by pm215 8y ago
Basically, punishing game design was somewhat traditional. It was only later that the IF community (game authors and players) shifted towards an understanding that games should be "fairer". For instance Graham Nelson's "
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by pm215 8y ago
A commenter on Zarf's blog ( https://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/all-of-infocoms-game-sourc... ) reports that ZILF is capable of at least building the Zork source to something that will start up, though given t
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by pm215 8y ago
Er, Trinity is there: https://github.com/historicalsource/trinity
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by pm215 8y ago
The programmers don't want the code in the paper to work correctly, though. What they want is for the C spec to rule it incorrect without also ruling a lot of existing working code to be invalid. Rust's approach is certainly eas
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by pm215 8y ago
The "n2362+appendix" pdf is only 7 pages if you ignore the appendix which is "changes to the actual C standard to implement the proposal", so it's not that long to read, and it starts with a description of the basic
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by pm215 8y ago
QEMU runs the 'seabios' bios image in the guest, so you could certainly run a 'bare metal' custom image instead of the default BIOS blob if you wanted. At the basic level of "prod the UART, prod the timers" we
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by pm215 8y ago
Isn't "a collection of other open source projects" pretty much exactly what a "distribution" usually implies? What you get is the curation/selection of what's included and some reassurance that all the pie
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by pm215 8y ago
Strictly speaking ARM hasn't stood for anything since 1998 or so when it rebranded itself as part of going public (before which it had a period of being Advanced RISC Machines, though it did start as Acorn RISC Machines). Indeed it&#x2

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