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by weland 11y ago
The QWidgets API seemed to work just fine the last time I touched it. I'm not unhappy. I see no reason for a fork. And I've never used QML, QtQuick and all that. I played with them a little, saw absolutely no point in it, and neve
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by weland 11y ago
Oh. Crap. Joke's on me.
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by weland 11y ago
How about: * Free, but with ads. * Paid, without ads No paywall, no annoying ads, and I still pay my share if I want to keep away from the ads. What about ads like Facebook's sponsored content? Non-flashy, clearly marked as advertisi
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by weland 11y ago
THANK YOU! I'm in the Go camp myself (largely because I speak Unix and with Pike being involved it was inevitable) but I've read a lot on Rust and have been procrastinating learning it for about two years now. It's a very int
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by weland 11y ago
> Pointers are only real if you ignore MMUs Which is true on architectures without MMUs, which probably account for about 90% of the computing devices in use. Okay, maybe 85% since tablets and smartphones became important. And is also ob
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by weland 11y ago
> The systems programmer has written drivers for buggy devices whose firmware was implemented by a drunken child or a sober goldfish This accurately describes my experience lately. I knew those goldfish weren't to be trusted. Edit
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by weland 11y ago
Or, you know, keep visiting the site until they switch to making money in a way that is not annoying. And it's not just the sounds and the graphics and the non-obvious placement and framing. It's the bloody tracking as well. If
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by weland 11y ago
I do believe such a protocol could be devised (after all, you can broadcast IP packets), but those are trivial to block through wires. It's hard not to think that volunteers' mesh networks are a better choice here.
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by weland 11y ago
If you go from having your own ring 0 (as a guest in a hypervisor) to messing around with everyone's ring 0, it's very much a privilege escalation.
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by weland 11y ago
Right. My browser didn't play nice with MathML, so I missed about the part where x = 1 (i.e. I couldn't see the "1" :) ) My objection was that a tangent line , as opposed to a segment, has infinite length. I can draw
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by weland 11y ago
> To visualize derivatives, we can draw a right triangle whose hypoteneuse [sic] is tangent to a function. If the triangle's width is , then its height is the derivative." is the most confusing and unintuitive way to visualize
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by weland 11y ago
I don't think I ever rebuilt the entire kernel when writing Linux drivers. I dimly recall one instance when I was dabbling with/hooking through the network stack and had to do it for some reason, but I don't recall the reason
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by weland 11y ago
I haven't written Windows drivers, so I cannot talk about your other points -- but you're not quite right on this one: > Windows doesn't require rebuilding the kernel to get device support for some vendor's hardware.
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by weland 11y ago
That's exactly what privacy means. When I'm dancing naked in my house, I don't care if the guy holding the IR camera across the road is a government employee or a company's employee. All I care is that he has a camera. I
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by weland 11y ago
I'd be curious to see just how long it will take Altera to adopt such a fine process for FPGA cells though. Edit: ha! Apparently, "One reason why Altera is attractive to Intel is that Altera is already using Intel's fab to cr
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by weland 11y ago
This is certainly very true, and the pessimistic tone of the cat-v article is, to some degree, unwarranted, but it's also worth pointing out the unanticipated problems real life brought. In practice, this is something that happens le
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by weland 11y ago
Then watch the world burn at the CPU level :).
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by weland 11y ago
Except algebra said that about algebraic functions and operators. I know a CS major who insisted in pointing out the same thing. He was extremely surprised when dragons hatched from his eggs instead of the chickens he expected. It was a rea
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by weland 11y ago
> Today... if we have Dropbox/GoogleMaps/Sudoku/etc, with millions of users as reality, what does "web" in "web app" really mean? The "http+html" has become a universal transport mechanism (wi
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by weland 11y ago
By the time electronic computers became widespread, very few non-electronic computers remained -- and few of them were human. The term was easy to repurpose. But the World Wide Web is very much here and very present. > To the layman, b
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by weland 11y ago
Yes, but whatever that is should not be called "web", just like we call "cars"... "cars", not "carriages", though they may look like it. "The web" is defined by a set of traits (hyperlinks e
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by weland 11y ago
> Instead, I'm pointing out that the world out there without permission from any savvy HN readers has moved on. The world has not moved on. Part of the world has dug itself into a technological hole. Most of the people who work in i
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by weland 11y ago
> The car works best as a transportation device. This is only true if you constrain the "car" to mean the Henry Ford, transport-centric engine-and-chassis. The "car" also means the whole transportation stack: pavement
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by weland 11y ago
Using your palms to press the ctrl keys is only seriously possible on some curved keyboards. Everyone else, who prefers to touch keys with their fingers, like they were meant to, is going to do the sensible stuff and put the more freque
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by weland 11y ago
The original context in which Dijkstra wrote that was very different; he was primarily referring to old versions of Fortran and BASIC, where gotos where more or less the only (or the predominant) form of branching. In other words, somethi
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by weland 11y ago
You're welcome :).
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by weland 11y ago
I have to nitpick because that's a very frequent misconception as well: electrons, in fact, move very slowly in metals and semiconductors (a few cm/s at best). It's the electromagnetic waves that move so fast (depending on th
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by weland 11y ago
Except that, if you run out of money three kilometers away from it, you can still walk to your home.
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by weland 11y ago
If you cannot physically donate them, perhaps you can offer remote access: hook them through a serial line to a computer that other people can ssh into. You'll need a small contraption to be able to reset the device remotely. If you ha
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by weland 11y ago
https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/nmosFet.py , https://github.com/gregjames/Sim2600/blob/master/circuitSimu... It looks like they're only working

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