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by pm215 2y ago
Arguably awarding early is more in line with the intention expressed in Nobel's will: "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". It seems to have drifted into "who did so
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by pm215 2y ago
Seems like it could be rather expensive to retrofit, compared to cost of putting it in the house to start with (certainly I couldn't imagine getting it retrofitted into my UK house -- the labour alone to dig channels into walls and the
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by pm215 2y ago
Back when I was at school in the 1990s, there was a dot matrix printer in the computer room still, which was the default printer for any of the computers on the network. One of the classic user errors was that somebody would try to print a
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by pm215 2y ago
Reading LWN I don't get the impression that the kernel is immune to "Your patch works and provides a feature some people might like, but I don’t like it, go away" -- even big corporate contributors sometimes wind up in year l
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by pm215 2y ago
Depends what you want to be portable to -- now that 64 bit only Arm CPUs are becoming more common, building for 32 bit means you cannot run on those systems.
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by pm215 2y ago
On the other hand I think there are definitely situations and play styles where the player resorting to a wiki is a failure of game design. I mostly don't use wikis, but if I get into a situation where I don't feel like I'm m
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by pm215 2y ago
The industry was motivated by costs, but the government regulation was motivated by deaths and injuries. And the graph in the article certainly rather suggests that when the government regulated that's when the number of deaths fell...
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by pm215 2y ago
If you want to try a horizontal text layout novel for some reason, "私小説―from left to right" is one. It's a deliberate choice because it's a semi autobiographical novel about the author's life as a bilingual Japanese
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by pm215 2y ago
The description of the Japanese woodblock printing process in https://education.asianart.org/resources/the-ukiyo-e-woodblo... says that the artist's initial drawing is pasted face down on the woodblock, which is t
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by pm215 2y ago
I haven't turned my Perq 1 on in 20 years or so -- who knows if it would still run. I did play around with "what would microcode for a rot13 instruction look like" back when I was a student, but I didn't even try assembl
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by pm215 2y ago
They did design the CPU board absolutely with the intention of the "user facing" instruction set being a bytecode, though. In particular there's hardware support for an opcode file of up to the next 8 bytes in the instruction
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by pm215 2y ago
I think it's more "we only have a megabyte of RAM, in some cases we'll just have to use the part the framebuffer is in". The Scavenger (its equivalent of the fsck filesystem checker) did the same thing.
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by pm215 2y ago
It doesn't seem to display properly on all browsers - I got that on Linux Firefox at work earlier, but Android Firefox seems to manage to display it OK.
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by pm215 2y ago
Also we appear to be unable to build new houses at anywhere the rate needed to meet demand, so it's unsurprising that old houses are retained and that people are willing to live in houses with suboptimal energey efficiency...
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by pm215 2y ago
95 quid is a lot, given that one delivery costs you at most 5 quid, and usually you can avoid that by having your order be over 35 quid or over 10 quid of books to qualify for free standard delivery. So there's quite a wide range of Am
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by pm215 2y ago
I think at Kings Cross also they have a tendency to not announce platforms until quite soon before departure.
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by pm215 2y ago
Yeah, it doesn't actually insert a breakpoint, because then you need to look at the instruction to see what all the places it could end up next are (eg if it's a conditional branch you need a bp on both fall-through and take-branc
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by pm215 2y ago
Generally speaking, hardware single-step is done by the OS telling the CPU "when you next execute an instruction in usermode, immediately afterwards take an exception and give me back control". (The details are more fiddly and the
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by pm215 2y ago
This is true, but for at least some race conditions the rr "chaos mode" can help in tracking them down. Chaos mode basically randomly adjusts its thread scheduling so that it sometimes doesn't run a thread at all for a few se
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by pm215 2y ago
It may be unrealistic for many people, but it should not be unrealistic for the subset of people who have available funds to invest in the stock market, which is who the GP's advice is for. Putting money into stocks before you have an
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by pm215 2y ago
The bug is a race condition which is triggered by code which runs when the timeout expires and the SIGALRM handler is run. If there is no time limit, then the SIGALRM handler will never run, and the race doesn't happen. (As the advisor
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by pm215 2y ago
Hamming's _You and Your Research_ (another HN perennial) has a variant on the theme too: "Most great scientists know many important problems. They have something between 10 and 20 important problems for which they are looking for
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by pm215 2y ago
It's quite common in large C programs to have setups where some code might be under an if() statement and the if() condition is something that is compile-time 0 if support for a feature wasn't compiled in. (The idea is that you ge
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by pm215 2y ago
A reasonable criterion for whether somebody sucks/is good at investing would be something like "what % return did you get over the last decade, and how does that compare to (a) markets in general and (b) other investors in your fi
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by pm215 2y ago
The A8 errata doc is at https://developer.arm.com/documentation/prdc008070/latest/ these days and does have a description of 657417 with enough detail to make writing a reproducer possible. Instructions cross
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by pm215 2y ago
If it hardlocked an A8 but not an A9, chances are very high that an emulator would run it with no problem, because nobody deliberately tries to emulate the kind of CPU bug that lets an app hardlock the CPU. GP appears to have been intereste
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by pm215 2y ago
Were you exploiting an A8 erratum, or detecting "this is an A8" somehow and then making it barf in a less processor specific way?
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by pm215 2y ago
Well, you can donate to the project (there's a paypal link at the bottom of https://www.qemu.org/sponsors/ which donates to the Software Freedom Conservancy earmarking it as being for QEMU), *but* doing that won
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by pm215 2y ago
Wake me up when those industry users want to pay somebody to improve the developer documentation :-)
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by pm215 2y ago
The primary nexus for QEMU developers is the qemu-devel mailing list. (Very high traffic because it's also used for patchmails.) The irc channel is a bit more variable and tends in particular to be quiet outside UK/Europe working

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