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Why Aren't More Users More Happy with Our VMs? [pdf](soft-dev.org)
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by tbirdz 10y ago
SQLite has a lot of tests. You can read about their testing strategy here: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Interesting idea, but I think you are missing out on the category of happiness that is not related to other people. You can be happy just from your own internal thoughts, actions, accomplishments, without involving other people. I don'
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by tbirdz 10y ago
If I understand the article correctly, it's saying that Free Software developers would better be advancing free software ideals by developing applications for the Google Chromebook platform. I say Google chromebook, not "The Web&q
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Thanks for giving some specific examples of risc-v emulators. I was curious if using an fpga or emulator based solution (assuming it could fit in a rack enclosure) would be acceptable for the Fedora team, or if they wanted actual bare-metal
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Is having physical RISC-V hardware required, or would using an fpga-based risc-v cpu or a risc-v emulator be acceptable?
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Thanks so much for providing a written transcript of the audio. I can't tell you how often I've come across some interesting looking podcast, but haven't had my headphones, or the time to listen to it. I find I have much bett
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I second this. The STM32 discovery series boards are really great for messing around with!
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I think it's both. People like the hardware, but most of them get it primarily because it runs OS X. But, Apple makes most of it's money off hardware margins. Apple bundles their OS very tightly to their hardware, so it's not
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Sounds interesting. Would you mind sharing the names of those books?
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Just to clarify my previous statement. I didn't mean to imply that zlib or MIT require you to distribute your source. I meant that if you are distributing your source code (for reasons other than any requirement from zlib or MIT licens
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Those licenses are very wordy, but not as dense. For example, about a third of the GPLv2 is the preamble that explains the FSF's "four freedoms" of free software philosophy and the ending section after the legal terms that ex
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Small correction, but a CLA is a contributor licensing agreement, not a copyright assignment. The contributor still owns the copyright to their code, they've just explicitly allowed the project to license their code under the terms of
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Indeed, for works where I don't care about attribution for binary users I use the zlib license [0] which says "This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution." You'd still have to include the not
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Does anyone know if this will be part of an ongoing series, covering many open source licenses?
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Is there any way to disable this, or set it manually at least? I'm concerned there may be a situation where the license is detected incorrectly, and then Github brands your repository as being under a certain license, when it really is
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Sorry Pieter, and it's right in the url too! Can't believe I made that mistake.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
gcc has a -Og option that performs all optimizations that don't interfere with debugging, so I'd guess that emacs..-Og is built using gcc's -Og option and emacs..-O2 is built using gcc with the -O2 option.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Hentjens' "Social Architecture" book goes into the same topic in more detail, and is freely available here: https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Thanks Pieter! I've been interested in that optimistic merging idea of yours for a while now, but I've never had the courage to pull the trigger on it anywhere myself. I had a few questions about it though. The process seems to wo
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I'm not sure where you are getting the 300MB figure from. ((64-16)/8)x10^8/2^20 gives me 572.2MB of wasted space. What's even more interesting is looking at the percentage of wasted space. (((64-16)/8)x10^8/2^2
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by tbirdz 10y ago
A 48-bit size_t like I suggested could address up to 256TB of RAM. All modern x86_64 cpus are limited to 48-bits of address space, you're not losing any portability here. Also consider my strlen example. Say you compute strlen by itera
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by tbirdz 10y ago
I completely agree with you when it comes to function return types. For data structure fields, especially structs used many, many times like in very large arrays, I'd say it's sometimes worth using fixed size types to get better c
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by tbirdz 10y ago
C's normal integer types work the closer to the way you want. When you say you're returning an int, you're not really specifying the exact size at all. For those who don't know, C's char, short, int and long data ty
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by tbirdz 10y ago
>Making new acquaintances is useless if nobody from your 30km radius is on the network or if it is hard to meet people inside this radius. Friendships decay really fast with distance, especially when there is no real strong bond. I disag
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by tbirdz 10y ago
On the positive side, if you don't know anyone on the network, then it's a great opportunity to make some new friends!
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Just click "hide" then.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
What? No you couldn't. The site html is 11092 bytes, so you'd need to have 1,387 unused 64-bit registers to host the site.
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Interestingly the inventor of Forth agrees with you about the loops. [0] There was DO LOOP there was FOR NEXT and there was BEGIN UNTIL DO LOOP was from FORTRAN, FOR NEXT was from BASIC, BEGIN UNTIL was from ALGOL. What one do we pick
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by tbirdz 10y ago
Programming a Problem Oriented Language is freely available here: http://www.forth.org/POL.pdf I'd also recommend looking at Thinking Forth if you want to get some more insight into Forth's philosophy, and really

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