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by weland 13y ago
In theory, something similar can be developed for any operating system IMHO, OpenBSD or otherwise. What varies is the amount of technical difficulty involved.
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by weland 13y ago
No, this is very much Linux-only.
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by weland 13y ago
This advice is far better than it sounds: > “Find better people,” he replied. I began feeling very much like the author describes in my late high school years. I was nothing like the unpopular guy stereotype though. Yes, between my passi
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by weland 13y ago
This is precisely what I do on my laptop. I regularly have to access the web over rather poor connections like public hotspots or not-quite-so-glorious Internet connections, and web fonts make this quite messy. I really like typography (c
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by weland 13y ago
It's quite widely used for technical publishing in general, not necessarily in academia. Typeset equations in many high-profile publishing packages are still somewhere between abysmal and horrible, so there's still some incentive
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by weland 13y ago
> I'd love to know which speaker manufacturers you approve of I have no idea how things go in the laptop market, so I can't say there's one I approve of in particular. The fact that the ones on the laptops are crap can, ho
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by weland 13y ago
What helped for me: * Play with circuits all day * Learn to grok math. No, really. Learn to understand the physical meaning behind what you write. Time integral of some signal? Oh, yes! It's energy = ability of that thing to do work.
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by weland 13y ago
> Can we observe a gene? This implies that unless you can physically see it, then it's not observation. Trivial examples, such as the fact that you can tell that a door was open in a room because it's far colder than it shoul
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by weland 13y ago
This is a well-known debate which, IMO, stems from people making word mean what they want them to mean, at various moments, so that they can put up an argument. Empiricist thought means that I do not have faith in, say, Ohm's law.
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by weland 13y ago
Yes! Had it not been for the incredible amount of time I spent unsupervised on the Internet, I wouldn't be as good a programmer as I am today. Did I watch porn before I was of legal age? Yep, and I'm in a happy relationship with n
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by weland 13y ago
Cheap shit. Seriously, cheap shit. There are several ways to solve this, all of which boil down to "use more chips" or "use better speakers", thus increasing the price of already incredibly shitty speakers. Source: I&#x2
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by weland 13y ago
> It's perfectly acceptable to not understand the low level details of seriously used systems. Yes, that's what my colleagues thought a few months ago, too, when they churned up a web UI for an embedded device. My teamwork was,
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by weland 13y ago
> Really, the only way an experienced developer is going to end up flipping burgers or flying a manager's desk is because they have lost the desire to learn - ie fallen out of love with programming in general. I believe few people w
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by weland 13y ago
Whoa! You aren't bashing any of them and the explanation is 100% correct! WHAT HAS THE INTERNETS COME TO? Congratulations on a very well-written summary!
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by weland 13y ago
> How many of them would ever see a PC running Linux again? How many of the will end up making decisions on the assumption that there is nothing else that runs on a computer except for Windows?
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by weland 13y ago
Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry!
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by weland 13y ago
> Is everyone really cool with the premier organizer of information being so easily bribed(through a fucking API) to essentially lie to it's users. I'm not, and it's part of why I'm willing to put up with the occasion
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by weland 13y ago
There are CPUs that have been stalled by RAWs and appeared in the last 10 years, and they are here to stay. That being said, I think the downvotes are unfair on your post. The author of the post is writing about CPUs that are indeed unlikel
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by weland 13y ago
Unfortunately, that's useless if you need to store passwords for anything other than web use, if you need to automate the entering of passwords and so on.
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by weland 13y ago
Neither are most of the computers used for scientific computing in this world. 99% of the high-performance computing market is anything but Windows.
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by weland 13y ago
But it's not the only charge carrier. To put things in better context, classical electromagnetism actually predates knowledge about the structure of atoms. The charges in its model are very much hypothetical particles, and that'
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by weland 13y ago
> I understand that Linux has been a lesser priority for both companies, which is understandable. It's not going to make them the truckloads of money that the rest of their market segments will. Actually, they are both theoreticall
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by weland 13y ago
> Without them, you'll be paying a membership fee to every site you visit regularly. I, for one, would be happy to. I'd honestly pay a monthly fee to watch Youtube. I don't use it only for cat videos, I also use it to find
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by weland 13y ago
> The point is that whatever system enables the math to work is irrelevant to what ever uses theories will have for this math. Additional explanation from someone who (also?) used to do research, with papers and all: we actually used obj
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by weland 13y ago
In terms of performance? None, assuming a well-written compiler. Depending on dialect you run into other issues though, such as the array size being part of the type signature, which is definitely not nice. The lack of adequate tooling and
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by weland 13y ago
> 1) array bounds checking (which can be used for safe hardware access instead of peek/poke) How? Peek/poke at the wrong address will generate an error in any case, and any MMU-less platform worth using will have the memory-map
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by weland 13y ago
> Which, of course, you can accomplish in C by wrapping your UART buffer handling code in functions that do bounds checking. Of course, and you pay other hefty prices in Pascal or Basic for getting this sort of stuff "out of the box
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by weland 13y ago
> Is there no meaningful way to push back against Facebook for demanding this permission? I think "not using the app" is the most meaningful way, really. Alternatively, spoof its private data hose and flood Facebook with garbag
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by weland 13y ago
> I'm curious, why do you say "safer"? These are languages for microcontroller programming. The things you do there are bound to be "unsafe", like peeking and poking memory for memory mapped i/o and disablin
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by weland 13y ago
However, they are far more wanting on the tooling side.

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