spatulon

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by spatulon 10y ago
The idea being presented is obviously nonsense. I don't mention their mental health as an attempt to discredit their idea; the idea itself is not credible enough to be worth arguing about. It's not the idea that made me question t
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by spatulon 10y ago
Does it seem to anyone else that the person behind these billboards is likely to have mental health issues? I worry that this sort of media attention will have a spectacularly negative effect on them.
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by spatulon 10y ago
Chrome did this when it originally shipped, by rendering each tab in its own Windows desktop (in the same way that the lock screen is a separate desktop). For some reason they removed that functionality, and dialogs are now modal across all
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by spatulon 10y ago
Given that your first link redirects to https://itunesconnect.apple.com/itc/static/login?view=1&path... ...it looks like they're still using WebObjects.
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by spatulon 11y ago
I work in the industry, but have no knowledge of those particular Bosch/VW projects. Yes the Tier-1 supplier is responsible for building the final software image that runs on their ECU, and for some smaller OEMs the Tier-1 will write a
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by spatulon 11y ago
This is missing dfranke's "How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)" which was the top submission in 2009. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
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Security Software Certification(blog.cmpxchg8b.com)
2 points by spatulon 11y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 11y ago
Turning off line wrapping and syntax highlighting before loading a large file seems to help enormously in Vim.
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by spatulon 11y ago
Alex Payne: https://al3x.net/2010/09/15/last-thing-about-twitter.html "Some time ago, I circulated a document internally with a straightforward thesis: Twitter needs to decentralize or it will die. &quot
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by spatulon 11y ago
We're not just talking about one computer here -- it's not unusual for a modern car to have ~70 ECUs. Of course, many of those will be quite small, simple devices.
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by spatulon 11y ago
It's common for a larger OEM like VW to write large parts of the application software themselves and send it back to the Tier-1 ECU supplier only as object files. (The industry is competitive, worried about IP protection, and anything
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by spatulon 11y ago
OK, those are pretty bad.
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by spatulon 11y ago
For what it's worth, @steveklabnik's apology was pretty good. I definitely wouldn't describe it as "an insincere non-apology" - he acknowledged the effect he had on the other person, and actually said the words &quo
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by spatulon 11y ago
Yes, the PS1's 2MB of RAM are pretty generous compared to some embedded platforms. A typical engine controller ECU in a car might have 256KB of RAM (and maybe 2-4MB of flash).
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by spatulon 12y ago
https://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/549430032616017921 Also https://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/549431554879938560 : "(The correct formats are "yyyy" and "%Y".
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Best Core Changes of 2014(dolphin-emu.org)
3 points by spatulon 12y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 12y ago
My favourite analogy is that a successful business is like a machine that takes money and then, one hour later, spits out 1.2 times whatever amount you put in. You could start by feeding the machine $1, waiting an hour, then feeding the $1.
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by spatulon 12y ago
I recently negotiated a significant raise with my boss. Some of the main points I made to him were: 1) That I'm the de facto lead engineer on a product that's making €X million per year while also strategically important for the c
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by spatulon 12y ago
This is a technique I first came across in the code for lcc, as described in David R. Hanson's book "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation". https://sites.google.com/site/lccretargetablecom
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by spatulon 12y ago
Chromium uses an LLVM-based tool to automatically convert ffmpeg's C99 source code into MSVC-compatible C89: https://github.com/rbultje/c99-to-c89 http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium&#x
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by spatulon 12y ago
Under Debug→Exceptions, you can configure the debugger to break when certain exceptions are thrown (off by default) or when they are simply unhandled (on by default). You probably want to check the 'Thrown' check box for CLR excep
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by spatulon 13y ago
Most PPC chips have been bi-endian for a long time but, as far as I know, everyone treated it as a big-endian processor. For example, it's big-endian all the way in the automotive industry, where PPC is incredibly popular. Where has th
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What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing(kalzumeus.com)
362 points by spatulon 13y ago|113 comments
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Why I no longer contribute to Stack Overflow(michael.richter.name)
243 points by spatulon 13y ago|236 comments
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by spatulon 13y ago
They are typically connected, but (kind of) sandboxed. A small ECU acts as a bridge between the infotainment system and the CAN bus.
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by spatulon 13y ago
"MM" is the accepted suffix in the financial world, where each M stands for "mille", or thousand.
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by spatulon 13y ago
I've also noticed that people on the internet usually react to a woman's claim of assault or rape with skepticism and disbelief. Even in this thread, there seems to be a lot of empathy for the alleged attacker -- whose story we ha
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by spatulon 13y ago
One of those reminded me of the following legend that gets passed around here at work. A codebase had been maintained by a single person, who then left the company. When the other engineers took over responsibility for the project, they dis
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by spatulon 13y ago
I'm British and I couldn't name any cities in Illinois other than Chicago and Springfield. (For some reason I know all the state capitals). However, the UK is five times the size of Illinois.
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by spatulon 13y ago
I work in automotive software, and PowerPC CPUs (albeit from Freescale and STMicroelectronics, not IBM) are more popular than ever. It's a very common choice for powertrain ECUs.

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