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by rleigh 4y ago
It's a System On Module (SoM). It's designed to fit into a carrier board which will pass through all of the pins to the application-specific peripherals. The connector type is incidental, it's just to pass through the signa
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by rleigh 4y ago
For ZFS, we have the pool-wide transaction number, which increments with every disk write. Couldn't you use that as the "time" for the last modification to each file so long as you have a starting transaction number to compa
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by rleigh 4y ago
I ported a couple of projects. The first was a C to C++ conversion of an open-source project. Primarily for future maintainability and quality gains. This was on the smaller side, and it took a few weeks only. It had the advantage of bei
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by rleigh 4y ago
It's not necessarily the wheat itself, though residual glyphosate and other herbicides are a concern, it's more the industrial processing of it. Industrial baking is very different to traditional baking, and the proteins may be e
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by rleigh 4y ago
You (and many others) might well be using RAID1 mirrors without problems. I did as well. But the problems here are not encountered during day-to-day usage. They are bugs in the recovery codepaths following hardware failures. I suffered
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by rleigh 4y ago
Decomposition might take a "long time" from a human perspective, but from a geological perspective it's nothing at all. Fungi can break down wood chips in a very short time since the wood is easily accessible. A whole solid
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by rleigh 4y ago
Fossil fuels largely come from the Carboniferous period. The reason for this is that during this period the trees which covered the planet's surface did not decompose, and became buried in thick layers, which became coal seams. Whate
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by rleigh 4y ago
There are still major bugs in the rest of it. You can trivially corrupt a mirror. There are examples for how to reproduce it exactly in qemu with virtual drives. I caused me total dataloss on my first Btrfs filesystem at least 8 years ba
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by rleigh 4y ago
Yes. Books still have their place. I got some new ones recently, one on mathematics, one on ARM assembly, and before that some electronics books, a Lua book and a few more for Vulkan programming and another for C++ concurrency and yet ano
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by rleigh 4y ago
This is a terrible direction for one of the most well-known scientific journals. That said, despite how terrible it is, it is merely mirroring the status quo in most of our universities. It's hard to understate just how far academia h
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by rleigh 4y ago
It wasn't intended to be so, but overall I do think that taxes could be reduced significantly. I do think that taxes are used inefficiently and that individuals are better at making decisions in their own and local interests in place
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by rleigh 4y ago
Dentistry is a mess because of the funding model. It doesn't pay to be an NHS dentist, so most practices ceased to take NHS patients. If they fixed the funding model, the problem would resolve itself. The problem here was entirely s
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by rleigh 4y ago
It could be done multiple ways. You could pay into a government insurance scheme or you could pay into a private one. The main point is that the payment of the insurance premiums is decoupled from the service provision. Right now the two
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by rleigh 4y ago
Why should it be an option? Because we live in a free country, and should be free to spend our money as we see fit. Even if others don't agree with it. Why should we all be compelled by the force of law to divert a huge fraction of
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by rleigh 4y ago
Oddly, things kind of flipped around (in very broad terms). The left is where some of the well-off urban middle classes are, along with the far-left socialists. The right is where the less well off but working are, along with some non-ur
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by rleigh 4y ago
> You’ve also misrepresented the nature of private healthcare in the UK I mentioned that we don't have the right to opt out of paying for the NHS. It's not possible go entirely private. If you could opt out, you could pay tha
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by rleigh 4y ago
> how do we share out increasingly scarce resources We make people pay for them. Like we do with every other resource on the planet. Healthcare is something which should be accessible for all, and we can of course subsidise the less wel
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by rleigh 4y ago
> that's not what anyone wants The NHS has been turned into what is effectively a state religion in some quarters. It's untouchable. It can't be criticised. It's immune to meaningful improvement and reform at this
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by rleigh 4y ago
Routine investigations, operations and treatments for entire categories of disease were entirely cancelled in many hospitals. In the big one near me, most of the big equipment like CAT scanners and such were turned off and mothballed for w
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by rleigh 4y ago
It all comes down to the definition of "free". Debian has the Debian Free Software Guidelines, upon which the OSI Open Source Definition is based. If you read them, you'll see that the GFDL with invariant sections fails the
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by rleigh 4y ago
It's not about "doing a disservice", it's about obeying the licence terms. The GNU Free Documentation Licence has (optional) clauses in it ("invariant sections") which preclude making modifications to certain p
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by rleigh 4y ago
The problem with Texinfo is that it predated HTML and is now thoroughly obsolescent. There is value in being able to generate a printed book, and to have other formats. But the generated Info format is completely eclipsed by HTML. It exi
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by rleigh 4y ago
Likewise. Very sad to see it all start with such promise, and then end up where it is today. If I read your username right, you also helped me get a tutorial published in CVu on GTK+ development around 2005 (which lives on at https:&#x2F
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by rleigh 4y ago
Doubtful. Both GCC and LLVM are written in C++ so you have to build a C++ compiler irrespective of whether you actually want one! I suspect it's more that they don't like C++ and want to use C for everything. Whether that actual
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by rleigh 4y ago
Have you tried hooking up the C functionality with "sol2" and regular Lua? I have been prototyping with it the past couple of weeks, and it took just an hour to wrap all of the glm matrix and vector types, including overloaded ope
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by rleigh 4y ago
To be completely honest, I find the fact that this was raised by the committee to be really obtuse and unnecessary. The same "complaint" could be raised about #include as well. If you want to include data from a continuous stream
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by rleigh 4y ago
Yes, but it's linker-specific and non-portable. It can also come with some annoying limitations, like having to separately provide the data size of each symbol. In some cases this might be introspectable, but again comes at the expen
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by rleigh 4y ago
It's understandable, but at the same time it also feels like they are pushing away the very people who should be their core customer base. My paid subscription ends later this month and it isn't being renewed; I'm reverting t
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by rleigh 4y ago
I've been fortunate in having a scientific background which required writing a lot of essays, later on papers and a thesis. And a lot of technical and user documentation for software in my career. As the top poster mentioned, "kn
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by rleigh 4y ago
You can see exactly the same with other authors. Asimov and J. K. Rowling, to pick two obvious candidates. Compare "Foundation" with "Foundation and Earth" or "Foundation's Edge". Or "The Philosophe

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