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by thePunisher 6y ago
The obvious solution would be to borrow the HeavyThing instead of having it dropped inside the function.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The very first Dragon that went up to ISS had life support enabled. When it landed Musk himself said that had there been astronauts on board they would've had a nice ride. Even though that was 8 years ago (!) I can still remember it cl
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by thePunisher 6y ago
But Boeing is forever crooning: "Yeah, but we put a man on the Moon." So NASA will lick their boots anytime and pay them whatever they want. Off course, if Boeing messes up again, the carpet will be pulled from under their feet.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Congrats SpaceX! A job well done. I assumed this launch would be uneventful since SpaceX has been flying numerous missions to the ISS, and this one merely has people on it but is basically business-as-usual for them.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Apparently not enough as Huawei seems pretty nervous about it. If your competition is using 7nm and 5nm parts and you're stuck in the past with 14nm your market share will erode very quickly, especially in the smartphone business. Mind
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by thePunisher 6y ago
If this is really the case, SpaceX should take a step back and fix its quality control problems. I mean, the aerospace industry has been using X-ray inspection for decades to check weld quality. Why isn't SpaceX doing this?
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by thePunisher 6y ago
It has been known for DECADES that Oracle is outrageously expensive compared to the competition. But the unwillingness of larger companies to go with open-source databases which have no multi-billion dollar company behind them has kept Orac
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The fact is Microsoft didn't copy anything except the idea, and you don't need attribution for that. Winget was rewritten entirely from scratch and there was no open-source involved. I'm not even sure if the author's ide
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The problem seems to me that management doesn't appreciate the need for competent (and therefore expensive) software engineers in critical projects like defense, aviation and space. The whole idea of trying to save a few bucks on somet
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I'm somewhat surprised this loophole is allowed to exist at all. More likely companies involved in this trade will be put on a blacklist as well.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Those stocks will run out eventually. Huawei is probably betting on the sanctions being resolved through negotiations and the Chinese government making concessions on trade. However, I wouldn't count on this happening since the U.S. kn
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I hope they learn something from it, because they seem to be blowing things up at a prodigious rate. I wonder how many more explosions we'll have to witness before Starship flies.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I keep noticing that more and more aviation and space missions fail because of software problems. It seems to me that the new generation of engineers are generally less competent or companies see software as an afterthought which can be out
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The prior art is so obvious that it wouldn't create any fear, merely a mild distraction at best.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
We are all slaves to the whim of companies. Sure I could've continued using Delphi beyond the late '90's but that would've meant that I wouldn't have been able to hold a job as a developer in the '00's whe
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I've been using it for years, and what attracts me is the native UI widgets instead of the self-drawn widgets in Qt and GTK. This also makes customizing the widgets much harder (if possible at all). There are also some self-drawn widge
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by thePunisher 6y ago
That would be very difficult since there would be prior art.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Exactly that: you open-sourced it so it's your donation to the world. Don't be sour if someone copies your idea or makes a ton of money from it. And what would be the benefit if Microsoft gave you credit for it? Most likely their
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Sounds more like snake-oil to me.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The only takeaway for me is that most developers these days don't understand the difference between systems programming languages and general purpose application languages either. We need an AOT compiled general purpose application lan
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by thePunisher 6y ago
With a $85 price tag I think it's moving away from its original premise of bringing cheap computing to the masses and especially students and tinkerers. Aside from that, I never liked the intimate relationship between Broadcomm and the
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Nice. The only drawback I see is that it's written in C.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I was thinking of using this as a starting point: https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=htmlrenderer
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by thePunisher 6y ago
You won't be able to run an A/C off 500W, most use 2000W or more.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I couldn't read the article but I wholeheartedly agree anyway. In fact, we NEED this language more than ever, since C/C++ is eating the world with its memory unsafety.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Like I said, those were extensions made by compiler vendors, and not part of the original language. Borland enabled adding Assembler to almost every language for which they made a compiler.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I use the free wxFormBuilder designer, which works great.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I've been thinking about writing a new webbrowser with very limited functionality which could be used on secure networks, such as Tor. It would only support a limited subset of HTTP and HTML / CSS and HTML Video. No Javascript &#x
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I don't understand the rationale behind this. Why would a commercial company dupe itself into restricting the licensing of its product?
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by thePunisher 6y ago
But those would be logic errors, not memory management errors. If someone is stupid enough to pass user input directly to a shell or database then yes, they will get compromised. But these comprise only 30% of all security errors as the res

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