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by veltas 2y ago
And yet Android's calculator is quite bad. Despite being able to correctly calculate stuff that 99.99% of the population don't care about, it lacks many scientific operations that a good chunk of accountants, engineers and coders
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by veltas 2y ago
Yes, and a lot of people feel that way, but that's 'booting', or 'bootstrap'. A program like that is what I might call a bootable application. It's just not what an OS is. "Operating System" has qu
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by veltas 2y ago
Got to agree, not to knock OP for sharing this because this is a fun hobby project, but to most people this doesn't meet even loose definitions of OS. I'd say this is a bootable environment or something. To be an OS it would have
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by veltas 2y ago
Capitalism started Moore's law.
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by veltas 2y ago
WebAssembly isn't a programming language, it's an ISA or a bytecode VM. They've defined it in a very over-engineered way, with different representations all the way through. It has created issues for people working on assem
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by veltas 2y ago
> You can understand the WASM spec in your sleep if you’ve ever worked through a type-system paper from the last two decades Is there a lot of crossover between those people and people who work with assemblers or code generation? There&
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by veltas 2y ago
> actually quite readable, although some of the language can be a bit intimidating if you're not used to reading programming language papers You're more generous than me, I think it's rubbish. Would have been easier to rea
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by veltas 2y ago
The difference between protocols and these social media giants is like the difference between C and Excel.
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by veltas 2y ago
And this is probably because Canon corporate won't justify a budget for developing this software unless they expect separate revenue for it, even though it's clearly just value-add to the (already very expensive) hardware.
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by veltas 2y ago
Yes
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by veltas 2y ago
Thanks for complaining about McDonald's self service, which is truly dreadful and just gets worse (no I don't have the app, why would I want something you people made on my own phone, stop asking!). Another "they don't
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by veltas 2y ago
That's the case where I live, there's only a few surgeries I'm allowed to register at and they all have this problem. I think there is some manipulation of statistics the surgeries do to prevent more being created, and to hi
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by veltas 2y ago
I don't understand how they're safer, because locally they've installed a few and they're already dying, and dying by strobing on and off at about 1Hz, which makes it quite hard to drive through. They're so bright
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by veltas 2y ago
It sounds like this is an old CPU(?), so no need to worry about the future here. > I didn't find any references mentioning that timer clock affects read time of TMR_CVWR. Reading the register might be related to the timer's int
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by veltas 2y ago
> This is a workaround for a hardware bug of a certain CPU. What about different variants, revisions, and speeds of this CPU?
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by veltas 2y ago
There's a great comment on a breakcore video that says something like "remember that decade between 1999 and 2000". Maybe that decade is yet to happen.
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by veltas 2y ago
It doesn't feel like reading 4 times is necessarily a portable solution, if there will be more versions at different speeds and different I/O architectures; or how this will work under more load, and whether the original change wa
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by veltas 2y ago
That's not sane at all, because then you can't send e.g. Japanese arguments to tools that support wide chars or have UTF-8 codepage in their manifest. And then there's yet another difference between Python versions to trip y
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by veltas 2y ago
Also the font isn't incredibly easy to read on Windows. I'm assuming Georgia was selected? Which has been on Windows for years but renders so badly it looks like the font color isn't black, even though I think it is black?
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by veltas 2y ago
The bit that feels dishonest is they share a brand, and publicly present themselves as a charity, and actually it's for personal gain. Sure they dotted their i's, but it seems like the key difference between the RPI foundation an
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by veltas 2y ago
Can someone explain to me why they're even allowed to do this? I thought they were a charity.
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by veltas 2y ago
Smart enough to make the proposition, but not smart enough to disprove it. Middling intelligence might be the greatest threat to society.
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by veltas 2y ago
This article recommends .eu domains. There is a caveat to this, in the unlikely event your state leaves the EU you will be forced off, this happened to many UK entities after Brexit, they were forced to stop using their .eu domains.
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by veltas 2y ago
This is a normal practice for applications, and allows you to pre-compile that header for performance. I don't think it's a bad enough practice to warrant complaining, but it's good for people to know the advantages or disad
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by veltas 2y ago
>Coca-Cola has used the new generation of codes in parts of Latin America for refillable bottles, with the QR code allowing the counting of refills so that a requirement of 25 before recycling can be enforced. More tracking!
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QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'(theguardian.com)
20 points by veltas 2y ago|56 comments
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by veltas 2y ago
I appreciate Yossi's plain honesty in this article, and it's a fun and interesting read; I've read it before. I can relate to, but not endorse, designing a CPU and dialect for an interesting language you've never properl
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by veltas 2y ago
A number of these old 3D screensavers are identical to examples in the old OpenGL red book, the version that's now available for free online. I wonder if they were just copied from the book?
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by veltas 2y ago
I absolutely agree, a dead 1920's German nationalist movement is exactly why we shouldn't allow free speech online.
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by veltas 2y ago
I also found it extremely helpful that the author virtue signalled to agree with me, so I know whether I am supposed to like it or not.

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