rleigh

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by rleigh 2y ago
They are both part of the United Kingdom (which is the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland). Great Britain the name of the island both are located upon. England and Scotland will always be a part of Britain, because that's a
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by rleigh 2y ago
You're trying to argue that water is not wet. This is seriously bad-faith argumentation. Having a compatibility shim in GTK and testing that, once, would save any downstream user from having to do any work at all for this change. T
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by rleigh 2y ago
Yes, you could. But this needs doing in every single downstream user of GTK. Far more efficient to do it once, in the toolkit itself. This is why sane people don't use GTK. The maintainers literally couldn't care less that their
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by rleigh 2y ago
Yeah. It really does take more effort to leave perfectly working functionality in place than to do the work to remove it. Come on. Many of the decisions made by the GTK+ developers are utterly unjustifiable. Take the removal of GtkHBox an
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by rleigh 2y ago
No. Why should anyone avoid discussing what happened? We can all see with our own eyes how much GNOME cares about collaboration and interoperability with others. It's zero. It's been this way for a very, very long time. And th
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by rleigh 2y ago
They don't really define "complexity" well enough. CMake is more complex internally than the autotools in terms of the functionality available and the internal implementation details. But it does much, much more than the Au
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by rleigh 3y ago
While using a setuid binary to edit the password/group "databases" is the historical default, there's no real technical reason why it must be that way. The passwd program could communicate with the database service via
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by rleigh 3y ago
Confocal and multiphoton microscopy were the staple of my Masters and PhD research. I was hooked from the first time I got to operate one, the sheer beauty of what you can capture in true 3D volumes is on another level from conventional ph
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by rleigh 3y ago
I think the cost and complexity of reproducing work is somewhat overestimated, as is the specific expertise of individual researchers, though maybe your field is exceptional in this regard. Primary research, pioneering new techniques and eq
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by rleigh 3y ago
1. I use it on a NAS system. For years this was vanilla FreeBSD from 10 to 13. A few months back I replaced the system with TrueNAS Core which is based on FreeBSD 13, retaining the ZFS pools from the original installation. This system h
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by rleigh 3y ago
You can do a zfs send/zfs recv to send a dataset (including all snapshots) to yourself which is effectively rewriting the whole dataset, including all of its history, by duplicating it. Not hard, but it does require sufficient free spa
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by rleigh 3y ago
QNX managed it! Drivers run in separate address spaces as, does the kernel, making it very robust. It's used for safety-critical applications.
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by rleigh 3y ago
On ZFS, use a zvol as a swap partition. Easy to create, destroy, resize, have redundant copies for robustness, all of the configuration options you have for a data volume but use for swap. I've done this on both FreeBSD and Linux, nev
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by rleigh 3y ago
fff - https://github.com/meekrosoft/fff
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by rleigh 3y ago
So in Lua the "first" element has an index of 1. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. And most people who haven't already been exposed to C and related languages would find this perfectly natural. Because it&#x
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by rleigh 3y ago
Yes, it was the newsrc.eld which got corrupted. I can't remember the circumstances, but I think it was an Emacs or Gnus bug at that time. This would be over 10 years ago though.
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by rleigh 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I moved into embedded software. It's much more satisfying for me personally. But even when I worked on business software, it was nice once in a while to go out an meet the actual customers who used the stuf
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by rleigh 3y ago
I have seen this repeatedly over the years. It's frustrated me personally many times. However, just to offer a counterpoint, one thing I have seen time and time again from highly-motivated technical people is that they place the new a
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by rleigh 3y ago
I used it for years until one day it corrupted its own cache and become thoroughly unusable. Manually repairing tens of megabytes of serialised Lisp isn't fun or practical. If you live in Emacs, it's a great tool though. Sadly,
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by rleigh 3y ago
While I can understand using org-mode, why on earth would anyone use Texinfo in 2023? It's so thoroughly obsolete, and completely eclipsed by HTML. The "TeX" part is also thoroughly limited in its capabilities. It's a
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by rleigh 3y ago
Well, given that he references papers from the "corn refiner's association" immediately afterwards, I'll note that this may not be entirely unbiased. This entire industry in the US has immense political clout, and that
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by rleigh 3y ago
There's a very big difference between HFCS and sucrose. HFCS is soluble monosaccarides. Sucrose is a disaccaride which requires enzymatic cleaving to produce free fructose and glucose. The kinetics of the fructose processing are ver
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by rleigh 3y ago
However, glucose can be stored and metabolised throughout the body whilst fructose requires processing in the liver. Our bodies are not designed to have a large instantaneous "hit" of fructose. They can cope with slow release of
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by rleigh 3y ago
What was wrong with the old method of using waxed paper? Non-toxic and waterproof. They did of course eventually go soggy at the ends but it's somewhat incredible that we go for known toxic coatings instead of previously-used non-tox
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by rleigh 3y ago
This is exactly the reason I've avoided QML. Give me a 100% C++ API and I will reconsider.
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by rleigh 3y ago
Before 2.0 it was GtkObject. 2.0 just factored it out so you could use it for non-GUI code as well.
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by rleigh 3y ago
The XML isn't upgraded and there are no tools or XSLT to do it. You end up hand-editing the ui files by hand. Not fun or productive. There are good reasons why professional developers abandoned GTK+, and this is just one of them.
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by rleigh 4y ago
I think you're pretty much correct. Whether these details matter is entirely application-specific, but you can go the extra mile if your application requirements demand it. There are certainly multi-core MPUs and MCUs with a mixture o
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by rleigh 4y ago
As I mentioned in the previous reply, the CPU caches and the MMU to begin with. You're probably running your application from SDRAM and an SD card. The caches and page tables result in nondeterminism, because the timing depends upon
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by rleigh 4y ago
My profiling was on an NXP i.MX8 MPU, which is a A-profile quad core SOC very similar to an RPi. I think it was with a PREEMPT_RT kernel, but I can't guarantee that, but I was fairly shocked at the lack of consistency in I2C timing wh

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