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What happens when you tear NiMH open? (2017)(youtube.com)
1 points by thesnide 4y ago|0 comments
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by thesnide 4y ago
It seems there's a difference between theory and practice. https://www.businessinsider.com/too-many-pilots-cant-handle-... Now, I'm not an expert into pilots statistics, so my example might be off, but I do see a
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by thesnide 4y ago
Wondering if the big influx of C derived CVE are old or new code. If it is new code, I'm also wondering about the brain damage that those safe languages causes. Yes, it is better to have memory safe languages. But it encourages sloppin
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Isometric Tiles Math (2013)(clintbellanger.net)
55 points by thesnide 4y ago|2 comments
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by thesnide 4y ago
I cannot care less about "embarrassment" when I publish code. Code is code. Everyone has its own style. Every project has its own constraints. I guess you didn't write bad code on purpose. You wrote it because it was the best
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by thesnide 4y ago
Nice. Spoiler ahead: But I'd use faketime in userspace to avoid messing up the system ;)
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by thesnide 4y ago
I learned ASM on hp48 which has a very explicit syntax A=A&C A; ?A=0 A; GOYES bit_is_not_set Then MOV style syntax felt weird..
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Tech salaries are risk premiums (2020)(phildini.dev)
1 points by thesnide 4y ago|1 comments
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by thesnide 4y ago
We'll soon see if that prediction will become true given the current trend of layoffs.
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by thesnide 4y ago
how does that impact MCU which are an ARM core plus peripherals inside the same die?
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by thesnide 4y ago
Such generated code is my very definition of "hell is paved of best intentions". As in the end, you'll spend more time fighting with the tool to generate the code you want than writing it yourself. That, and bloat.
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by thesnide 4y ago
Printing & Bluetooth. It works mostly, until it fails without hints and is a mess to fix
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Twitter Backend Clone(github.com)
1 points by thesnide 4y ago|0 comments
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by thesnide 4y ago
I admit I chuckled when I saw an headline from Issue #4, Winter 1996. --- use Lovecraft qw(cthulhu); ---
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15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice(phys.org)
4 points by thesnide 5y ago|0 comments
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by thesnide 5y ago
I think it all boils down to ask the "why" instead of the "what". And the answer to those questions is a good signal to classify "seniors" from "experts". Seniors explain, experts know.
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by thesnide 5y ago
While I fully understand and support the underlying idea, I can't stop thinking that the biggest advantage to the Uno and the RPI aren't their hardware efficiency. It's more their ecosystem efficiency. So the form factor is v
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by thesnide 5y ago
Yep. My office one does that. I first it was a joke, but it actually is indeed a brilliant scheme to avoid misclicks. And as you seldom unselect, it's Huffman coding for the win ;-)
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by thesnide 5y ago
Confirms that the brain is incredibly plastic. It can learn to compensate for a missing tool, arm, eye, ... And after a while it feels just natural.
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by thesnide 5y ago
Isn't that the same philosophy behind varnish?
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by thesnide 5y ago
Using a local cache might indeed improve for following queries. But I managed to be able to "stream" results. When it didn't involve any GROUP BY, of course. I guess that would spawn a nice side project, to rewrite it in a la
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by thesnide 5y ago
The implementation part is actually irrelevant. The nice part is that it is CLI, like jq(1). I did something similar a long time ago with DBD::CSV but lost the code. So I'm glad the idea resurfaced.
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Ask HN: What are mainstream smartphones with LTS?
1 points by thesnide 5y ago|0 comments
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by thesnide 5y ago
That comment is spectaculary equally insightful, humorous and sad.
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by thesnide 5y ago
Don't worry, we'll have Y2038 soon enough, as by then everyone will think that 128bits is the norm and forget that 32bit wasn't that big. When old ZIP and FAT will break, embedded systems^H^H IoT will also.
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by thesnide 5y ago
Regardless of the hardware, it just tells one lesson : everything can fail, do have a full backup strategy.
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by thesnide 5y ago
This is HN, and no-one yet mentionned the "Boimler Effect" ?
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by thesnide 5y ago
You should have a look at rrdcached. It basically is a writeback cache, with batching I/O. We took special care not to flush the cache too much, so the improvements are very noticeable. Yet, it works only with on-demand graphing, of co
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by thesnide 6y ago
Makes sense, as the website was redone in 2016-2017, but only live this week ;-)
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by thesnide 6y ago
Well, in the upcoming version of Munin, I move away from the static site, as it is very wasteful IMHO. But, I agree that for a couple of servers, the security it procures might overtake the performance boost. Let's add it again: https

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