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by rdc12 6y ago
I doubt even you would be that keen to write a C++17 compiler from scratch :P
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by rdc12 6y ago
In many cases it will prove difficult to even be able to build or run software that hasn't been touched in 10+ years. Preserving the computational environment is a whole another concern for future software archeology.
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by rdc12 6y ago
Given how brittle autovectorizers can be (small changes to the code preventing the heuristic from firing), that is pretty much the only reliably fast way to write such a library currently, and perhaps indefinitely.
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Little rust starter: Lifetimes made easy(dev.to)
1 points by rdc12 6y ago|0 comments
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by rdc12 6y ago
I hope they they create an archive of their content to prevent being in a position they can loose it all again
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by rdc12 7y ago
Making my way through the Robotics Specialization (Penn Uni series) on Coursera, almost finished the first course on Aerial Robotics. By the end of the year I hope to have built a autonomous drone, with a custom flight controller (both moto
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by rdc12 7y ago
Microcontrollers (assuming no RTOS in use), typically don't have multiple processes, they have the main thread of execution (which in the article is the entire program) and have interrupt routines that a run in response to an external
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by rdc12 7y ago
The other approach to delay's (keep in mind, that there is no other process to yield the CPU too) is to use a timer (a peripheral of the micro controller). This would take a fair bit more code to configure the timer, and setup an inter
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by rdc12 7y ago
Pretty sure people have discovered that is not reliable on some drives too, that it may only destroy the logical to physical map, and not change the actual data cells. It is surprisingly difficult to ensure deliberate data loss
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by rdc12 7y ago
On an SSD writing zeroes, may only trigger a remap of the NAND cells. There is a paper where data has been recovered under such situations... So writing zeroes hasn't been future proof for a decade or longer.
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by rdc12 7y ago
The switch of FreeBSD's ZFS master being ZoL is still work in progress, and is not the default ZFS in FreeBSD yet. (FreeNAS being FreeBSD + Configuration + Management Software). A fair number of the ZoL 0.8 features (encryption, alloca
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by rdc12 7y ago
Brad Fitzpatrick is a pretty high profile programmer, would be extra crazy to remove his name.
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by rdc12 7y ago
The other sad thing about this, is that anyone who comes up with a legitimate tech along this line, will probably fail to get funding now
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by rdc12 7y ago
The really crazy part is it all started with two fairly small things, finding a supply of dev kits from an e-waste facility and a dump of passwords that didn't seem that significant at first, and all the antics depended on those two th
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by rdc12 7y ago
Or still be in possession of your phone, if eysomeone is trying to gain access to the data on your laptop, good chance they will be interested in your phone too
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by rdc12 7y ago
That would be about the time this store started. https://www.thenile.co.nz/
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by rdc12 7y ago
I have also found it works pretty well (works 80% to 90% of the time), at fetching videos from random websites that self host a video
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by rdc12 7y ago
youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.
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by rdc12 7y ago
Pretty much the HN version of nerd sniping. https://xkcd.com/356/
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by rdc12 7y ago
The former, the article briefly mentions only certified climbers may climb some sections
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by rdc12 7y ago
Worst comment I have seen was in an systems paper at Uni (assignments in a MIPS's like assembly language). add $1, $2, $3 #add some stuff.
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by rdc12 7y ago
Is anyone good at C++ thou, didn't Bjarne only rate himself as 7/10 at C++ coding
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by rdc12 7y ago
Since that is criminal (rather than civil) wouldn't they have to convince the DA/Prosecutor to try the case, which seems unlikely in practice.
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by rdc12 7y ago
"To get around the prison’s strict no-internet policy, the program built a “faux-internet” using video seminars." That would be a pretty significant barrier to contributing to an external project.
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by rdc12 7y ago
There is plenty of hunters in NZ, there is even a wikipedia page on hunting in NZ I just discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_in_New_Zealand
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by rdc12 7y ago
And a strip and gut, tech acquisition company.
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by rdc12 7y ago
You would probably get some benefit on a per CUDA core basis, but the extra space required would mean less CUDA cores, overall it would probably be a net loss on problems well suited to GPU acceleration
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by rdc12 7y ago
At the software level, you don't get a choice about this thou, the CPU is going to speculate about a bounds check regardless, the optimization is it a different abstraction layer. Pretty much any thing on the market with the compute po
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by rdc12 7y ago
That problem could probably be solved using an FPGA (or even simpler tech)
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by rdc12 7y ago
Fair point I have no familiarity with his earlier work, or even that there was suspicion of a connection, I did mean for my point to be a bit more general, just seemed like a reasonable example

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