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by pm215 2y ago
Unfortuately there is none. QEMU is a large project and doesn't have much formal design or API documentation. On the other hand it's not big enough (compared for instance to the Linux kernel) to have a wider community interested i
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by pm215 2y ago
I visited Sizewell A for a tour as a young teenager, though I don't remember much about it beyond walking over the top of the reactor, and getting an educational comic booklet about how nuclear power worked. I think this was when they
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by pm215 2y ago
The git repo, sure. It's all the workflow stuff around it that is harder to migrate -- issue reporting, what workflow you use for code review and merging changes, CI, etc. Those too can be moved, but I wouldn't use the word "
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by pm215 2y ago
"I watched the hawk landing in the tree" ; "I saw the hawk landing in the tree" -- both fine grammatically.
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by pm215 2y ago
What I mean is that, to use an English example "in comparison to X, Y" and "in contrast to X, Y" are not grammatically different -- the words are all doing the same jobs in the same structure, it's just a different
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by pm215 2y ago
I think some of the "Japanese has a ton of grammar points" is an effect of how the Japanese-as-a-second-language teaching resources label things, where a lot of what you could classify as "sentence patterns" are describe
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by pm215 2y ago
The Wikipedia article suggests that it was not Amazon and online bookselling that broke the Net Book Agreement, but big high street chain bookstores like Dillons. One of the references links to a newspaper article from December 1994 saying
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by pm215 2y ago
"problem" is perhaps not the ideal choice of word here. There's nothing inherently wrong with treating programming as a job and doing something else outside that in your free time, in the same way that we don't all have
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by pm215 2y ago
Maybe I'm biased because I've spent a lot more time with them, but I rather prefer the Arm manuals, because I found they more reliably have the exact detail and solid pseudocode for how everything behaves. Plus for ages Intel spli
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by pm215 2y ago
I'm about 25 years in, and no, I don't have regrets about work stuff that I come back and think about. Partly I've been very lucky in how things have worked out, of course, but also work just isn't that big a deal in the
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by pm215 2y ago
Mmm. I think for the channels I watch for these races they pick the "preroll" option and are right to do so, because 3 mins of ads an hour would be pretty obnoxious in a 2.5h race. (For the random-settings races which can go 4 or
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by pm215 2y ago
I think that might depend somewhat on what the stream is. For instance I watch quite a bit of Zelda Ocarina of Time Randomizer race restreams on Twitch. For those it is much much better to have some up-front ads when I join the stream, whic
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by pm215 3y ago
There's a lot of inertia here, but also the tarball is or was the one point of commonality where you could say "this is the standard thing every upstream provides". Today almost everything has a git repo, but it still isn&#x2
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by pm215 3y ago
Sure, but how many of the people running distro compiled code do perf analysis? And how many of the people who need to do perf analysis are unable to use a with-frame-pointers version when they need to? And how many of those 10% perf improv
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by pm215 3y ago
There definitely are correct patterns for handling signals -- the problem is more that there are also quite a lot of "looks plausible but has a race condition" ways to write code. The whole signals infrastructure in Unix has alw
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by pm215 3y ago
Looking at the Level 9 interpreter sources from https://github.com/DavidKinder/Level9 it looks like the pre-bitmap games stored their images as little bytecode programs (with instructions for move, draw, fill, etc, plu
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by pm215 3y ago
One problem from the open source project side of things is that unless the project happens to be one where at least one regular contributor is a consultant who is already set up to do work-for-hire like that, it can be way too much hassle t
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by pm215 3y ago
My impression is that a lot of the fallout was related to checks in configure scripts and equivalent. That kind of code was traditionally written a lot more sloppily and was much less likely to have the "standard" set of warnings
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by pm215 3y ago
https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/q1.html says it had a "neon-orange plasma display", which would have been pretty advanced for the time.
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by pm215 3y ago
A house that is uninhabitable in winter is not fit for purpose; it would be a work of art, not of architecture. Any architect who builds impracticable houses should expect their subsequent owners to fix the problems as best as they can. The
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by pm215 3y ago
It depends a bit, I think, on how much drift you accept without considering the project to have changed so much it's not the same thing. But for instance some of the older universities in Europe are pretty much the same institutions wo
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by pm215 3y ago
You don't have to use Virtualization.Framework. Hypervisor.Framework is the lower level API -- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor ; QEMU uses that.
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by pm215 3y ago
They're still trundling along pavements in Cambridge UK, doing small deliveries in a very local area for the Co-op supermarket. My assumption is this is burning VC cash. They do get around without human minders, at least, though AIUI t
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by pm215 3y ago
From a user perspective the difference is important, because it's often the difference between "can use this for real work without worrying about exactly what's going on under the hood" and "you probably shouldn&#x2
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by pm215 3y ago
Generally if you say "virtualization" people will assume you mean "use the hardware support to run a VM on the host CPU". For that you must have the same host and guest CPU architecture. Anything else is "emulation&
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by pm215 3y ago
For this specific case it's a bit less clear because the house has been extended significantly and so the ground floor floor plan is no longer L-shaped, but if you check the floor plan for the first floor (UK terminology) you can see t
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by pm215 3y ago
Public transport within London has always been both differently managed/funded and also massively better than public transport anywhere else. If you're using London as your only data point you get a very skewed view of the UK publ
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by pm215 3y ago
It's in hw/net/lance.c -- that device doesn't appear in the -device help output because it's not a user creatable device, it's a sysbus device. The PCI card device that wraps it we call 'pcnet', and w
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by pm215 3y ago
Conversely, if you as the sender get a bounce at least you know something went wrong and can try a different way to contact the other person (different email, telephone, text message...) Bouncing is the traditional approach, and the origina
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by pm215 3y ago
These particular registers aren't part of the CPU proper anyway, so not in the register file in that sense -- they're mmio mapped, and https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hard... concludes that

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