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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely. Modern MCUs are phenomenal. More powerful than mid '90s top-end PCs. Add some external SDRAM and storage, and they have more and faster memory and storage as well. C++ is perfectly good. Better than all the nasty C mac
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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely. It makes perfect sense, and in an ideal world this would be the direction which would benefit many, if not most, projects using C and/or GLib2. Unfortunately, there are far too many people who are wedded to the philosophy
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by rleigh 6y ago
2008 was 12 years ago. How well has the Italian economy fared in the interim? It's been stagnant ever since joining the Euro, and nothing material has changed which would improve matters, and I don't see the status quo being tena
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by rleigh 6y ago
You don't need a "citation". Off the top of my head, Greece and Italy. Just read the news regularly. The Euro has devastated the economies of several countries, and the fallout has been slowly building for the last decade.
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by rleigh 6y ago
GNOME 1.2 would have. It wasn't until the arrival of Nautilus with 1.4 that the requirements jumped and the performance tanked.
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by rleigh 6y ago
You are advocating censorship of "objectionable" views. Who is to judge what is and what is not "objectionable" and what can and cannot be spoken in public? This is absolutely wrong. To do this is to revisit some of th
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by rleigh 6y ago
I still think this is horribly wrong. Having groups "approve" information means having gatekeepers who wield a lot of power. Censors. Who is to ensure that they exercise that power both fairly and accurately? It opens a huge ca
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by rleigh 6y ago
That would be a terrible idea. In times gone by, that would have prevented people spreading information about the world being a sphere and orbiting the sun. The flat earthers and proponents of the earth being the centre of the universe wou
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by rleigh 6y ago
> Any portable build system, that already requires EVERY user to have that build system installed, is DoA for being a viable portable build system. I don't understand the argument, it seems very circular. Most software packages have
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by rleigh 6y ago
This would remove one of the key selling points of CMake, the fact that it is "glue" to permit development with any build tool or IDE of choice. It's great that one person can be using Visual Studio on Windows while another u
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by rleigh 6y ago
There was some work ongoing to move to Lua internally and gradually move over to it, but it's a huge task and I've not kept up on recent progress with this. This would of course be a huge improvement, but there are many details to
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by rleigh 6y ago
The problem is that more often than not, the autotools don't work. They were the go-to tools for the portability problems of the mid-late 90s and early 2000s. Unfortunately, since then they have stagnated, and they are now stuck sol
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by rleigh 6y ago
It can happen with the autotools. The reason it hasn't been seen recently is that there has been no significant development of note for the past 15 years. Even so, it's still common for the distributed config.sub and config.guess
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by rleigh 6y ago
Autoconf requires GNU m4 at build time and POSIX sh at runtime. It also requires all the standard UNIX command-line tools you would run from the shell. Automake requires Perl at build time and Make (preferably GNU Make) at build time. A st
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by rleigh 6y ago
Is this the reason why they have deprecated shared folders in Workstation 16?
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by rleigh 6y ago
I've had some limited experience with academic writing, and overall I've not been happy with it. As a PhD student, my supervisor would want to take my writing and reword it to sound "more impressive". That was basically
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by rleigh 6y ago
I'm going to say yes. This isn't unique to Apple. Debian and other Linux distributions have also had similar discussions when considering the distribution of packages with obscene, morally repugnant or inappropriate names, as wel
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by rleigh 6y ago
And this was how papers were written historically. If you go back and read papers from well known researchers from the early 20th century, they can be a delight to read. We have gone down a road of increased formalism and a removal of any
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by rleigh 6y ago
What exactly is wrong with the typography? It was specifically designed to be legible at a distance when moving at speed, as well as under poor driving conditions. I think it does that job well, and it's one of the reasons many other
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by rleigh 6y ago
Yes. In the case of glibc, it's long past time that flaw was corrected by moving NSS modules out of process and using a pipe or socket to run queries. IIRC OpenBSD already does this. They already cause problems with pulling in their
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is just my own personal take on things; I'd definitely recommend reading up on the differences between Waterfall, Agile and the V-model (and Spiral model). Note that you'll see it said that the V-model is based upon Waterfal
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by rleigh 6y ago
Many companies have policies which prohibit this. It's not even specific to SV or the USA. I'd see it as protection of both parties. The company doesn't want any reputational damage or off-message communications. The emplo
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by rleigh 6y ago
I wasn't involved so can't personally provide details of how this was done at Sun. Most of my knowledge comes from listening to talks and reading books on ZFS. For work I'm involved in relating to safety-critical systems, we
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by rleigh 6y ago
It's nonsense. A ZFS pool is created from block devices, and ZFS doesn't care if those are whole discs or partitions. Every ZFS pool I have is composed of GPT partitions, and this is also recommended in ZFS books as good practice
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by rleigh 6y ago
> Why does btrfs have those issues compared to other filesystems? Why? There are several reasons, but if you go right back to the beginning, there's a single reason which caused all the other problems: they started coding before th
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by rleigh 6y ago
I don't think it's your fault in any way. We expect filesystems to work robustly. We do not expect them to fail after an arbitrary time interval merely by being used . Even terrible filesystems like FAT don't do that. The
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by rleigh 6y ago
I'd personally go with ZFS. There are already people in your field using ZFS to ensure the integrity of their data (based on past conversations here on HN). I've used both ZFS and Btrfs extensively. Only Btrfs has lost data and
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by rleigh 6y ago
I've experienced several different universities which used different teaching styles both as an undergraduate and an employee. In one university, absolutely everything was assessed, every bit of lab work, every tutorial, the lot. Unfo
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by rleigh 6y ago
I studied and worked in academia in the UK for around 15 years, from undergrad to postdoc and then as a scientific software developer. I'm afraid to say I have little trust in current academic standards. The number of first-class hon
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by rleigh 6y ago
Even Sinclair in the 80s had a prototype for the QL, which didn't go into production: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/31270/Sinclair%20QL%2...

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