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by rdc12 8y ago
Fairly cheap to pickup a USB Wifi dongle (and many of them are almost flush to the port), might be a better bet than a Broadcom internal card (thou no experience of FreeBSD with Broadcom, just a general thought).
92.
by rdc12 8y ago
Too much Hydro (by percentage of generation) also leaves the power generation at risk if a drought occurs too[1][2][3]. There is just too much uncertainty in long term seasonal rain fall levels, especially with the effects of climate change
93.
by rdc12 8y ago
I think part of the beauty of static type systems, for refactoring guiding, is that most (if not all) issues arise at the time of change, when the change is fresh in your mind, locality of reference if you will.
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by rdc12 8y ago
Except it is not a loop[1], but a non-tail recursive function (with dual calls), if the compiler can optimise that to a loop that is actually impressive. Most likely function call overhead (and in the slower cases, interpreter overhead) is
95.
by rdc12 8y ago
"Also, I've been fairly critical of Rust in the past because that view was in-line with the opinions of my friends, but now that I've decided to go out of my way to learn a new programming language, I might as well use this a
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by rdc12 8y ago
Sounds like this could have probably been avoided, if they had done random testing on the swabs themselves to give confidence that they were not compromised by contamination.
97.
by rdc12 8y ago
With large scale dams there is also huge environmental impacts and displacement of the local population. You have to form a sizeable reservoir lake etc. They also take considerable time to build.
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by rdc12 8y ago
Has been a long time since I watched either of these Rusty Russell - Advanced C Coding For Fun! - A series of crazy tricks that is quite enlightening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0 Tridge - Linux powered cof
99.
by rdc12 9y ago
Linus probably doesn't have contributions (as the code author) in all parts of the kernel anymore, entire subsystems have been created since he transitioned to his more curating role.
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by rdc12 9y ago
From the article he made contributions starting at least in 99 (so 20 years ago), it will probably be non-trivial to remove all the code he has previously written. Even if you could remove all the code that he has claim too, that would only
101.
by rdc12 9y ago
In person and by video of the same material experience can be quite different. One of my current lecturers, is very engaging, with great natural flow in the lecture room, but watching via video somehow fails to capture this. That is for lec
102.
by rdc12 9y ago
If you were writing D from scratch today, would you go for a full back end solution or would you target the LLVM?
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by rdc12 9y ago
If it can be built by someone with no experience in less then an hour, then is it really building in any true sense. Or to put it differently is there a real difference between building something and assembling something out of a kit-set?
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Verifying bubble sort in Whiley(whiley.org)
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by rdc12 9y ago
In the late 90's early 00's, we had a pet cockatiel that could perfectly mimic the sound of dial-up modem dialing. He would also do the tunes to TV theme songs and a few regular TV ads.
106.
by rdc12 9y ago
Or to put it another way, find something new and valuable as your Trojan horse?
107.
by rdc12 9y ago
On the other hand part of the complaint in the main article is the lack of basic core utils at a standard that OpenBSD would consider. Or things that could be a base world dependency for them.
108.
by rdc12 9y ago
How many people would be using bcache in production fullstop, I'm guessing not many.
109.
by rdc12 9y ago
For me the key concept that comes to mind for a JIT compiler, is profiling at runtime to decide what to compile and how aggressively which this article doesn't deal with. The other big thing is how to make the profiling and compilation
110.
by rdc12 9y ago
You can always remap it in software too, setxkbmap or xmodmap will do it on a Linux, Windows and OSX will have a way to achieve this too.
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by rdc12 9y ago
It is also worth making note, that Intel (and to a lesser extent AMD), have had a fair amount of advantage by being further ahead in chip fabrication technology, having more transistors has played a major role in how Intel kept it's st
112.
by rdc12 10y ago
Isn't this line from #3, undefined behavior not mentioned in the article (sequence point violation) zp++ = xp + *yp;
113.
by rdc12 10y ago
Languages Rust Ocaml Matlab/Numpy/? Some form of numerical programming environment anyway Haskell (maybe if I have time towards the end of year) ARM/Risc-V assembler (as a target, see below) More general. I want to finally ma
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by rdc12 10y ago
Sadly there is also a dam in Africa, in similar dire position, due to being built on a geologically unsuitable site. [1] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/one-of-africas-bigges...
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by rdc12 10y ago
Are the minion cores comparable to the PRU's in the Beaglebone?
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by rdc12 10y ago
In fact, there is occasionally (ok very rarely) sea snakes are found on the coast of the North Island. http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/80026544/Ven...
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by rdc12 10y ago
That is a pretty classic joke around NZ.
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by rdc12 10y ago
Land based fauna, there is pretty much nothing to worry about, other then maybe wild pigs. Couple of venomous spiders but they are fairly mild to humans anyway. Sea based, the usual sharks, sting rays etc. But as most countries attacks are
119.
by rdc12 10y ago
I think by default in vanilla zsh, will expand something like 'sudo !!' by hitting tab after the second bang.
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by rdc12 10y ago
Good history ofreverse engineering nature thou.

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