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by weland 11y ago
> Even now, companies have a difficult choice when switching to 16nm - is it worth the cost and effort? The alternative is to spread processing power over multiple cores and have programmers write code that takes advantage of that. We ha
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by weland 11y ago
> does not even have linked lists Conses are different in newlisp, but it certainly does have linked lists: > In newLISP, there are no dotted pairs. Instead, each newLISP cell contains one object and a pointer to another object if th
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by weland 11y ago
It's very much a Lisp dialect in the sense of McCarthy's Lisp. There is some life beyond Common Lisp :).
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by weland 11y ago
It has an added, important advantage: it allows you to examine program flow without interrupting it. Sometimes that's outright essential (e.g. you're debugging ISRs and breakpoints screw up everything; you can't printf from a
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by weland 11y ago
I haven't lived in the times of Al Capone, but I have lived in a country where Al Capone-like stuff was still happening at the time, and I can confirm this. Local organized crime leaders had no more disdain for law than most policemen,
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by weland 11y ago
I speak English very well. I have spoken it in professional environments for so long that, in a regular conversation, even accent barely reveals that I'm a non-native speaker anymore. However , my own native language is part of my cul
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by weland 11y ago
I have... mixed feelings about Arch :-). It certainly doesn't appease me in any way; I don't use Gentoo because I like speed or especially DIY. I've done a lot of DIY crap on my Linux machines in the 90s and 00s. I don&#x27
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by weland 11y ago
Someone had to say it :-).
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by weland 11y ago
I have no idea what to recommend anymore. Most of my colleagues, myself included, have either moved from Linux to BSD or OS X land (depending on preferences) or just stopped being too involved. Helping people learn about software in general
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by weland 11y ago
> Redhat are betting their particular farm on systemd in RHEL7 It's basically their product, so... > and Debian (hence recent Ubuntu releases building to the 16.04 LTS) has adopted the suite. I think Ubuntu adopting systemd has l
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by weland 11y ago
> even ending up being mocked on Linux Unplugged and hitting /r/linux as the project was still a skeleton. To be entirely fair, I think there are few communities that can claim the honour of being worse and more amateurish than
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by weland 11y ago
Arguably, at least NATO countries should shoulder some of those consequences as well. ISIS didn't just spring out of the ground.
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by weland 11y ago
The associated problem is the blown-up featuritis required to somehow make up for the price. I would be extremely happy to shed out 70$ for a way to turn off the lights when I forget them (cynically, I'd say especially if it lasts
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by weland 11y ago
What, for a bulletin board? Kids nowadays...
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by weland 11y ago
Outrageous that they'd bring European solidarity into this. /s
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by weland 11y ago
You're generally not even allowed to discuss your salary with your colleagues after (if) you're hired by one of those potential employers. If it's confidential after that, it should be confidential before, too.
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by weland 11y ago
Unless I'm reading your example incorrectly, it's pretty easy to catch those if, in foo_destroy, you ensure that you don't try to free a null pointer. > It's just a minimal example. I know -- but it tends to be confu
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by weland 11y ago
Why are you freeing b in foo? It's confusing if you're mallocing in one scope and freeing it in another one (foo is especially confusing, besides being a disaster ready to happen). But if you write bar() like this: void ba
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by weland 11y ago
> Besides driver problems As long as you stay away from perpetually-beta distributions that I shall not name, driver problems are really a non-issue. I haven't had a malfunctioning peripheral under Linux in a very long time now (yea
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by weland 11y ago
This has been solved for ages. Containers can help in some particular scenarios, but they're neither the only, nor the perfect solution, by far.
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by weland 11y ago
This may be true for games, but it's less of a problem in general. If you don't want to release the sources and have it handled downstream, you can always statically-compile everything and call it a day. Most commercial vendors te
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by weland 11y ago
I have no love for the direction in which Linux desktop seems to be heading today, but engineering concerns aside, it's been working fine for a long time.
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by weland 11y ago
I like to think that I would. Primarily because I tend to seek to spend and invest money in a way that does not require me to make compromises in terms of humanity. Granted, I've never invested money in anything of Amazon's level,
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by weland 11y ago
This . It's easy to shift the blame to faceless Amazon and pretend "the company" is at fault. It's not. The people who are running the company (and I'm not referring strictly to top management here) are the ones wi
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by weland 11y ago
Some of the unevenness is for occasionally non-obvious, but valid reasons. It's done in RoHS, too, for instance: lead is banned out of solder, but still allowed for some equipment, such as radiation shields for imaging machines. The re
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by weland 11y ago
> Sure, carefully reviewing all the reports would be ideal, but it also means you'll need many employees to do that. And I don't really see why Oracle should be responsible for educating customers about basic security practices
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by weland 11y ago
Every programmer (myself included) who has had to discard bullshit reports about vulnerabilities agrees with the main idea -- that these things should be treated carefully, many of them are false positives and they may be borderline illeg
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by weland 11y ago
Heaven forbid. The unaware, uninformed user is the bread and butter that the Internet businesses survive on. Tech-savvy users are bad bad bad. Protected, gullible users is what keeps the engines running.
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by weland 11y ago
Personal, but fun anecdote: my girlfriend works in marketing and kept away from ad blockers for a long time, partly due to professional sympathy, partly simply because she wanted to see the ads, since she has a professional interest in th
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by weland 11y ago
> From this point of view, testing will show an absence of bugs - not categorically all bugs, but all bugs I care about. You are assuming that all the possibly disastrous bugs are bugs you care about. In reality, it's far more lik

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