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by theamk 1y ago
That Z80 code is not the equivalent of the modern code though, is it? for example your modern code mentions 64KB lookup table.. no way you can port this to Z80 which has 64KB of address space total, shared for input, output, cache and code.
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by theamk 1y ago
If you want to be unambiguously understood, especially in international context, it seems it's better to avoid words beyond "million" altogether. "million of millions of dollars" or "ten to the twelfth dollars&
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by theamk 1y ago
Many meetings I've been on only require my attention for a small part. So I've been doing my work and listening in background; once they start talking about part I care about I stop my work and start to actually participate.
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by theamk 1y ago
In this context, I don't see an incentive for meeting organizer to create an agenda. They don't care at all about op's opinion about X.
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by theamk 1y ago
I'd tell them directly.. "You were invited to the meeting on 2025-MM-DD to discuss this, but you did not show up, nor did you follow up with organizers later. Sorry, you've missed your opportunity to comment" Seems direc
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by theamk 1y ago
Lua is pretty popular in the embedded devices I've been working on.. of course it's stdlib is tiny compared to python's though.
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by theamk 1y ago
For the record, "python-without-extra-dependencies" is a thing and a very nice one too. I always prefer it over awk. Highly recommend to everyone - plenty of "batteries" included, like json parser, basic http client and
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by theamk 1y ago
this is about Zellij, which seems like a brand-new terminal multiplexer in Rust.
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by theamk 1y ago
Does this disagreement cause any problems though? If you care about sub-second differences, you likely run your own time infra (like Google Spanner), and your systems are so complex already that the time server is just a trivial blip. If yo
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by theamk 1y ago
The "most common intuition" is that if you have a timestamp X, and you add 3600 seconds, you get a same time but in next hour (unless there are timezone shenanigans). But that's not true for TAI - it's entirely possible
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by theamk 1y ago
So, how does this work concretely? Is there a HTML snippet/button that each site must embed? If so, it'll be gamed/frauded like crazy, kinda like with ads today. Except unlike ads, there is no incentive to keep fraud away, so
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by theamk 1y ago
Agreed, but amazingly high number of people (ab)use the local time notation for things which don't need it, like timestamps of various events (login time, order time, etc..) It's worth repeating over and over: "Only use local
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by theamk 1y ago
You've had me agreeing until TAI64 reference... Why would you optimize your software for super-rare case (super high precision time intervals) at the expense of making a very common case (timestamp -> calendar time) harder? Unless y
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by theamk 1y ago
so, how does one get to be a "content creator" and how much money to the pay? If it's going to be per-view, who is going to be fighting ad^H^H view fraud, and what would be their incentive to do so? If this this going to be f
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by theamk 1y ago
> Suppose I've got a motor, a motor driver, and an Arduino. How does ROS work with that? It does not, ROS is for much bigger systems, usually Linux-based. Some things it can give you: - IPC for multiple independent processes. So if
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by theamk 1y ago
It's humor, a robotiscist joking about their field. If you are interested in robotics, you'll find it funny. If not, you will be confused.
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by theamk 1y ago
of course not > Most of the exposed datasets are a compilation of information from stealer malware, credential-stuffing sets, and repackaged leaks it's from malware that is installed on users' machines, stealing passwords as th
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by theamk 1y ago
If the problem is path between registrar and CA, then deploying the fix to clients seems like an absolute overkill. Just create a secure path from CA to registrar. RDAP-based or DoH-based, or something from scratch, does not really matter.
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by theamk 1y ago
> the most serious human-made risks include a bio-attack pandemic, a global exchange of thermonuclear bombs, the emergence of an artificial superintelligence that’s unfriendly to humans, and the spectre of nanotechnology-enabled weapons
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by theamk 1y ago
Needs (2018)
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by theamk 1y ago
So, basically the classical annoying phone screen but for you coworkers? What's next - "press 1 for a question about FOO, press 2 for.." and level 1 AI support bots?
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by theamk 1y ago
Looks like there is a glaring omission: on Linux, the best way to sandbox program is via systemd service file, which is only a few lines of ini file, no matter what your source code is written as. This is especially bad for the second part
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by theamk 1y ago
No, it's not a problem with POSIX, and not even problem with Android (it can pass the number just fine). It's a design decision of Whatsapp, because they want your full address book so that they can build a social graph and sell y
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by theamk 1y ago
No. 800 watts (vs megawatts for HVDC). 5 miles vs thousands of miles. 20% efficiency optical to electrical - so electrical vs electrical is much worse - vs 90%+. This is so much worse in every aspect it's not really compareable.
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by theamk 1y ago
publicly-owned as in pre-Uber taxicab system? Government-enforced monopoly, completely stagnant, and no incentives to make users' experience better? That's not utopia.
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by theamk 1y ago
You won't get hit, yes. But if this starts happening too much, I wonder if in the future, vehicles will start reporting jaywalking to police automatically, complete with video evidence and automated face id?
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by theamk 1y ago
When I moved from country where I had to use public transit to a country where I could drive, my happiness (re transportation) increased by a large amount. I am not sure how this relates to the whole "public transit vs cars" argum
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by theamk 1y ago
Are there any alternatives? Both Uber and Lyft and over decade old, and until Waymo came, there were no real alternatives to them.
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by theamk 1y ago
they kinda too, they will charge you $50/$100 if you make the car dirty https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/14248697?hl=en
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by theamk 1y ago
I don't think "cheap" was the main factor, at least for me and my friends. Predictable pricing, predictable arrival, automated booking, and an ability to complain to someone was significantly more important. (From what I&#x27

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