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by weland 12y ago
CURRENT has meant MAYCRASH in BSD for... 25 years now? I don't know how suggestive it is to someone who doesn't use FreeBSD, but if you as much as download and install it, there's no way you don't stumble into at least o
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by weland 12y ago
Do you know of a non-broken way to build ports with many dependencies? This has always been my biggest annoyance and one of the things that constantly made me pick the cough other BSD. Whenever something that I need isn't in the pack
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by weland 12y ago
I think VLC also does recording, but I'm certainly in no position to comment on it. I'm not familiar with their codebase and I don't want to lie :). I don't know what PulseAudio considers "very low latency" and
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by weland 12y ago
> Is raw audio output necessary? Why does not pulseaudio work? I don't know if this applies to VLC, too, but raw audio output (or something that isn't PulseAudio) is necessary wherever low (or at least constant) latency is requ
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by weland 12y ago
Except memes travel more or less instantaneously now, whereas back then, the only way culture and civilization elements traveled was along with people.
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by weland 12y ago
I have no idea. I think I read it a long time ago, but I'm sure I was in university back then so it may have been in the library or something.
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by weland 12y ago
It could be named "A rather unfortunate architectural decision that can make browsers write keys in plaintext without users explicitly enabling it" but that would be a little verbose. A malicious program can add a SSLKEYLOGFILE en
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by weland 12y ago
That's... basically not even wrong. Lisp implementations that run well on, and take advantage of, architectures with caches, branch prediction and complex memory hierarchies are well-known, and have been well-known for, literally, deca
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by weland 12y ago
Oh, fair enough. I'm not familiar with how railguns work. I paid a quick visit to Wikipedia and the current is supposed to go through the armature of the projectile, so breakdown of the air inside the shaft is detrimental.
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by weland 12y ago
It's worth noting though that part of Go's toolchain is based on that in Plan 9, which was well-funded at one point.
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by weland 12y ago
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the breakdown voltage of whatever is in there (I'm guessing air...) would be exceeded, thus ionizing it, either.
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by weland 12y ago
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so I am cynically going to presume a bunch of folks think you're nitpicking on the words, but you're not. The derivation is correct, but it
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by weland 12y ago
I tried to remember my username and password here for a good ten minutes so that I can congratulate you. This is amazing!
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by weland 12y ago
Sadly, there's more in an FPGA than "just" a dumb lookup table for implementing logic functions. There's not much more reason to trust an FPGA than an Intel CPU.
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by weland 12y ago
Post-1999 life is amazing, isn't it?
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by weland 12y ago
So was Kildall. It's ironic because U. Washington ignored its own alumni and failed to recognize his contribution;. things typically go the other way 'round -- universities encourage their students and highlight their alumnis&#x27
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by weland 12y ago
It's rather unfortunate that this comes so late. Gary Kildall received far less recognition than he was due during his lifetime, and a story -- by all appearances, unfounded -- regarding his sloppy handling of the IBM deal was pushed,
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by weland 12y ago
Lack of package management drove me away, too, but now I don't find it so much of a hassle because I have developed an active distaste for programs that bring a ton of dependencies. There are legitimate cases (e.g. Calibre -- has many
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by weland 12y ago
I think it still has them, but I can pretend not to care about them because I don't have to set them up, which I would have had to do on Gentoo. You literally just install Slackware and it works. It can skip the "modern" desk
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by weland 12y ago
Slackware is the first Linux distro that I used. I recently (last year or so) I got back to it, because all the crap Debian was pouring over upstream got harder and harder to use, and with all the udev and llvm and consolethis and policytha
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by weland 12y ago
I'm halfway across the globe so I can't quite put my code where my mouth (well, fingers) is, but this is awesome! I hope you manage to make something great! If anyone needs any help with writing low-level software for a project he
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by weland 12y ago
> As software continues to improve That's a fairly big assumption.
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by weland 12y ago
There are good examples to see in well-written device drivers. I don't have specific code at hand, but there are bits and pieces that stuck to me. For example, there was this driver that could do pattern-matching on button presses, wri
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by weland 12y ago
Firmware is a subtle body,with elements from both worlds ("hardware" and "software"), and a computing system is harmonious when "software" and "hardware" do not step over each others' abstraction
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by weland 12y ago
Sorry for the late reply, I just saw your message. I don't have a toy OS (not enough spare time), but I did work on one as part of my job. I don't know of any documents, but the way you'd generally want to do it is wrap har
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by weland 12y ago
Basically what userbinator said. I had to deal with them before, so if you can, stay away from cheap Chinese boards or hackable routers. When you're just learning, it's not worth it, the dollars you save will be more than made up
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by weland 12y ago
> Actually I'd say the x86/PC is probably one of the best-documented and most stable platforms out there to learn on at the moment, precisely because it has been around for so long. Unfortunately, that also means there's a
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by weland 12y ago
I don't have the Raspberry Pi, mainly because, since I develop embedded software for a living, I have an endless supply of development boards I can hack on at work and am free to take home (during those evenings when I am not so fuckin
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by weland 12y ago
They're not exactly "super-branded" racks of "PC"s the way we tend to think about them, a bunch of white/beige boxes. They are server-grade computers, with all that comes there (special interconnect features, E
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by weland 12y ago
Pretty sure everything in top500 is using infiniband by now. I was briefly involved with the supercomputing world about four years ago. "Should we use Infiniband?" was no longer considered a non-rhetorical question even then.

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