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by pmjordan 11y ago
GCD is purely callback-based. It works neatly with Apple's "blocks" (inline capturing functions) extension to C, which make dealing with callbacks slightly nicer, but it's still just a sequence of callbacks. Fully fledge
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Indeed, depending on the drivers used, the VRAM contents can even survive across reboots. I saw this with some drivers on Linux some years ago, not sure if they still don't clear VRAM on boot.
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by pmjordan 11y ago
I seem to remember Agner Fog mentioning that the `adc` x86 instruction (add with carry) was considerably slower on many CPUs than `add` (regular addition) because it essentially had 3 dependencies (2 operand registers and carry flag), and h
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by pmjordan 11y ago
I can confirm similar local measurements with MacBook Pros and a D-Link DAP-2950 across a room with a wood partition blocking line of sight. If the AP is advertised as 600Mbit/s, chances are it only supports 1 or 2 streams (MIMO antenn
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by pmjordan 11y ago
There is a difference, in the standard, between undefined and implementation-defined (unspecified) behaviour though.
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Considering the source is available - https://github.com/WhisperSystems/ - it should be reasonably straightforward to take the piece of code out that accesses your contact list? (On iOS, and by the sound of it, latest
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by pmjordan 11y ago
"Western" seems like an odd term to distinguish Europe/North America from Africa, but I assume that's what you meant. I don't have any data to back up or refute such a claim, but it makes sense: Europe & North A
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Doesn't South Africa have a backhaul problem though? Overpriced internet in North America tends to be artificial scarcity at the last mile. I'm not sure that's the case in SA? I've visited quite a few times and yeah, you
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Isn't their OSX app signed with a Developer ID certificate? If a relevant person at Apple has their feelings sufficiently hurt by f.lux for iOS, they could revoke said certificate.
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by pmjordan 11y ago
I can't comment on £1500 specifically but there's plenty of (IMO) well-paying demand for low-level dev work out there in the tech industry in general. (Whether you consider the tech industry parasitic is of course another matter e
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by pmjordan 11y ago
As interesting and insightful as this is, I'm very curious about how much the chosen level of categorisation affects the final result. For example, I notice that "registered nurse" and "nursing aide" are considered
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Agreed, it seems a really poor example used to make a fair point. I've never spoken to Neil Oliver personally, but on TV programmes he presents (Coast, etc.) he certainly uses flowery, poetic language. I don't think it's an a
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by pmjordan 11y ago
I'll need to try this as an OpenGL (ES) shader in an app I work on regularly. I've been meaning to replace the default bilinear filtering with something a bit nicer-looking for ages, and this seems like it fits the bill nicely, as
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by pmjordan 11y ago
I'm going by the abstract here, but: You'd build the suffix tree from the haystack, whereas their algorithm preprocesses the needle. So I guess it mostly depends if you're going to be repeatedly searching different strings in
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Having lived in all 3 countries, I can tell you that Austrians (roughly centred on solar time, and Vienna, 1/4 of the country's population in one city, almost half an hour ahead of solar) are very much early risers compared to Spa
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Only if using the magnetic stripe. If the transaction is authorised using the smartcard chip on the card, the PIN is (AFAIK) used to unlock the authorisation on the chip and thus needs to be entered while the card is in the machine.
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by pmjordan 11y ago
They certainly look useful at first glance. The first's library implementation is based on boost.coroutine which as far as I'm aware uses stack-switching, so this is more of a syntax demo than a demo of the final implementation de
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Most of my work involves kernel programming (device drivers for hardware or virtualisation companies etc.); almost all of the rest of it is writing networking code (custom protocol implementations). So my reasons for evaluating[1] Rust are
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by pmjordan 11y ago
That's the case in many European countries with sophisticated welfare systems. In Austria, we can pay extra (I think ~1.5% of income) as self-employed to get unemployment benefits but I don't know how popular that option is in pra
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by pmjordan 11y ago
That seems a likely explanation. It seems unlikely that there were actually only 3 magi, considering the bible's obsession with numbers even in places where it's unlikely that the number is accurate. It seems to me the authors wou
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by pmjordan 11y ago
HN has some form of "no numbers in titles" policy. I'm not even sure list articles are allowed at all.
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Leaving aside upgrades and repairs, it makes disassembly for recycling purposes overly difficult, i.e. expensive, when everything is glued. This reduces the profitability and therefore likelihood of recycling each individual component to th
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by pmjordan 12y ago
You need SOME code to display debug info or at least a message when the processor encounters an unrecoverable exception. Otherwise all crashes would just freeze the system.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Most current PCIe SSDs behave to the PCI bus & operating system like an AHCI controller with a SATA SSD attached to it. Advantage of this is that it's well supported by firmware (BIOS/EFI) and operating systems (stock drivers)
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by pmjordan 12y ago
UK & Ireland: Yes, and still do, although it's apparently a corruption of "hatch" (as in cross-hatch). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#Usage_in_the_United...
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by pmjordan 12y ago
The practice of medicine by human Doctors probably can't be much further optimized from what it is right now. Maybe this is true for the 95-99% most common of conditions. Doctors can be shockingly bad at diagnosing anything they don&
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Yes, the Great wall of China, that strange natural phenomenon, formed by tectonic forces over millions of years.
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by pmjordan 12y ago
Nvidia and AMD GPUs probably generate more heat than Intel chips and so have likely been more badly affected. Has there been some breakthrough in the alloy used for solder that makes this less of an issue now? Also interesting that I'v
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by pmjordan 12y ago
VAT is state global Nit pick: this isn't strictly true - Spain's various islands (Balearic islands, etc.) have a different VAT rate to mainland Spain. And there are 2 towns in Austria with the same VAT rate as Germany's, no
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by pmjordan 12y ago
I don't know to what extent this affects HFS+, but case insensitivity in general is locale dependent. The classic example is the Turkish distinction between dotted and dotless I - http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot

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