sam_bristow

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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Anyone unfortunate enough to need a FIPS certified kernel is still stuck on Ubuntu 20.04 with no sign of progress on newer options in sight.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
That's purely an artifact of their release cadence though, right? The next Fedora relase in a few weeks will have the latest kernels etc.
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How to hire smarter than the market – a toy model (2020)(erikbern.com)
3 points by sam_bristow 2y ago|0 comments
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I prefer the skateboarding half-pipe theory. We keep going back and forth, and people do some crazy tricks at each end.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I believe the EU said they can't limit third-party security access to write kernel drivers unless they put the same restictions on Microsoft Defender. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-points-finger-at-the-e...
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Counterpoint: don't. The problem with the kind of dirty work the article suggests is that, often, it's invisible. The benefits of solving a lot of these problems are just far enough removed the work that you will work your arse of
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I would imagine any study like that would also be just packed with confounding factors.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
The usual pairing is research and _development_ isn't it.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
One thing I'm really happy about at my current company is that when a sales person from a vendor (not Crowdstrike) tried that our CEO absolutely ripped them a new one and basically banned that company from being a vendor for a decade.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Does the "everything comes with Windows out of the box" still apply for the servers and workstations where I imagine the vast majority of these high-end GPUs are going these days?
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Some places make remote meetings work really well for themselves. You can get automated transcripts, easy sharing of stuff like slide decks, low barriers to pulling in people if you realise they have something to add, etc etc. But if your c
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I always point people who are thinking of doing freelancing at this classic video from Mike Monteiro: Fuck you, pay me (2012). https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U?si=a6qzrzrLOjv8T-LK
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
A modern car is a great example of abstraction. There's a lot of functionality and complexity hidden behind a very simple interface.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
You might be interested in this project I came across a few months ago. This person is trying to build a S1000D style system based on Asciidoc. https://github.com/lopsotronic/Ascii1000D
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Out of curiosity, why the archive link? The Guardian doesn't have a paywall and is unlikely to crumble under HN traffic.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Most of _my_ negativity towards Eclipse is all the shit-tier tools built on top by embedded software vendors.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
For those who missed the earlier article this is refering to, I think it's this one: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
A "Carmack Complete" system as I've started calling them.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Does gitk have an equivalent of `git log --first-parent`?
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
This is my preferred branching model. Most forges seem to call it "semi-linear history". If you have a lot of people working on the repo you'll probably want a merge queue to handle landing PRs but that's pretty straight
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Related: "What Modern NVMe Storage Can Do, and How to Exploit it"[1] by Gabriel Haas and Viktor Leis. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.14778/3598581.3598584
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Of Rats and Ratchets(matklad.github.io)
1 points by sam_bristow 2y ago|0 comments
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Making my first embedded Linux system(popovicu.com)
164 points by sam_bristow 2y ago|12 comments
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
This is an odd little board. It has 2 RISC-V cores (different clock rates) an ARM core (A53) and an 8051 MCU core. With the low price it could be interesting as a platform in an educational setting perhaps.
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Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords(arstechnica.com)
121 points by sam_bristow 2y ago|92 comments
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I've had a print copy of this document on my shelf for a couple of years. I use it as a reference about a dozen times per year. The NASA Software Engineering Handbook [1] is also full of interesting stuff. Unfortunately it's all i
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
One point from the author that i wholeheartedly agree with is: "Simplicity is a property of systems, not components. Systems include people and processes." How you achieve that simpicity is at the heart of what I consider 'so
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
That only really applies if the company shorting the stock is lying . Otherwise it's the market working exactly as it is intended.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I think it's a bit early to call it a success. The rules came in to effect less than a month ago. That's ~18 school days.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Some of the complexity comes from the fact that in earlier versions it was reasonably expensive to add new subcommands. As a result more functionality got added to existing subcommands like git checkout. This made the UX more confusing. In

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