std_throwaway

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by std_throwaway 10y ago
> I have not seen a display or beamer that will accept DisplayPort input. Does such a thing even exist? Highend displays with display port definitively exist. I'm not sure about beamers, though.
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
I think it depends on the use case. In embedded systems bits consume energy and therefore increase cost. The battery of a satellite is much more expensive than a Chinese coal power plant. Yes, "size_t" should be just about right f
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
But you start with a constant cost of 8 bits. For 255 characters you lose 9.4 bits which is bigger than the cost of an 8 bit size field. For 65535 characters you lose 378 bits which is much bigger than the cost of a 16 bit size field. On th
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
Zero terminated strings make a lot of sense when programming 8 bit microcontrollers: 1) No protection exists there. 2) Abstraction costs too much. 3) Store it in Flash. 4) Be happy your characters may even use the 8th bit.
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
Then why are they investigating foreign products?
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
At first it seemed strange that a Node.js-replacement needs a full IP stack including DHCP. As far as I understood this, they are building a whole operating system to be run in a VM like QEMU which then acts like a Node.js-instance - except
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by std_throwaway 11y ago
Usually yes. There is even a little PCB between the mainboard and the chip to get enough area for the thousands of pins. But this is not the case if they stack the flash chips with the controller chips. Then only a few external pins are nee
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
People are already carrying their personal mobile surveillance devices everywhere they go.
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
Bank money is also just a sequence of ones and zeroes when it is stored on the computers. "Stealing" happens when the ownership of the money gets transferred to a third party without consent of the lawful owner. This is what happe
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
Your example shows that simple statistical tests aren't always that simple. Especially when talking about small effects. What you really want are confidence intervals which show what would be a significant change. You can calculate tha
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
Ebay works like this (and to a much lesser extent Amazon). Yet we still go to ebay to discover products and many people buy them on site.
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
I'm wondering how this relates to LLVM or JAVA bytecode.
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by std_throwaway 12y ago
In that case you don't want to sleep. You want to wait until a condition (new data) or a timeout (100ms) occurs. The reasoning is that you don't know how much data will arrive in the next 100ms and if you sleep either a buffer cou