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by stncls 6y ago
There is a standard protocol for USB webcams. It is called "USB video device class" and usually referred to as UVC or UVCvideo in the Linux kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class Unfortu
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by stncls 6y ago
Many refactoring tools need the AST (and more) from a frontend to do type-aware refactoring, among other things. If we have, for example, struct a { int x; } sa; struct b { float x; } sb; and we want to rename sa.x into sa.y, then
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by stncls 6y ago
Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345428 (and also here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25345866 )
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by stncls 6y ago
tl;dr Extreme tech argues that, because x86 typically has SMT and M1 does not, single-threaded benchmarks are "flawed" (they can't take advantage of SMT). Nonsense. The most prominently advertised benchmarks are generally the
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by stncls 6y ago
The submitter is actually the channel author [1]. All submission are of the form "Professor does incredible thing" [2]. You're clearly good at CS. You don't need to do that, please stop. [1] https://hn.algolia
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by stncls 6y ago
While the actual videos seem to be ok, the title here is very misleading. 1. As far as I can tell, the author is a professor in the sense "he's good at teaching", but not as in "college/university professor".
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by stncls 6y ago
"Smart" is vague, but in any case I'm not sure it's possible. For sure I can't. Here's my anecdata with a very narrow but pragmatic definition of "smart". When I did academic research, there was no c
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by stncls 6y ago
> Is this a practical concern? > That seems like such a strong calling convention change I think you are spot on here. The OP's concern may be due to things like this: > For example, let’s take a C Standard function that uses