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by wott 9y ago
Ah! Same thought at the same time :-)
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by wott 9y ago
In the document: Net loss of last quarter: $400M Net loss since beginning of the year (6 months): $800M (Because the article gives absolute figures for the revenue, but for the losses it only gives the loss per action, which doesn't ta
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by wott 9y ago
We should consider ourselves lucky they used grams at all and not their fancy units.
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by wott 9y ago
> C doesn't "let you do what you mean", it has no knowledge of special registers, interrupts, timers, DMA, etc. Special registers are just slots at specific memory addresses. As far as the rest is concerned, not a single l
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by wott 9y ago
Unless your graphic designer provides you with vector graphics embedding a vector for each pixel of the rasterised image of the original vector graphic. Sigh...
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by wott 9y ago
Yes, I came to realise that when it comes (among other subjects) to 'tech' criticism, it easier to have an open discussion with various points of view on HN than on my generic national subreddit. That takes the biscuit! I just wis
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by wott 9y ago
> confidential hardware design details It used to be called 'documentation"...
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by wott 9y ago
> And its adoption was largely driven by decisions by large distributions, rather than organic growth. Yes, that's not stated enough. According to systemd proponents, systemd was demanded. Truth is I've never witnessed or hea
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by wott 9y ago
I never know what is going to happen when I click somewhere. The only thing I know is that it is not going to be what I expect. So I dare not click anywhere...
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by wott 9y ago
And yet you believe that this is even remotely normal: > my rent alone is $24,000.
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by wott 9y ago
In a few decades, we will add cryptocurrencies adepts and their many mining cults to this list.
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by wott 9y ago
I only know Booking (never used it personally, but my relatives do; well... did, I think they stopped for ethical reasons: the 'middlemen' thing), I've never heard of any of the others and I have no idea about what they provi
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by wott 9y ago
That's a reference to < http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox> ? Possibly. But I use other languages, and I sometimes use a few of those other features in those languages, but I don't miss them at all when I come ba
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by wott 9y ago
For me, it goes like this: 1. What the heck is this thing everybody keeps talking about, with an impressive fancy name? It must a major step forward, after all this time, I should finally have a look at it. and then 2.a. Oh, it's just
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by wott 9y ago
> It's a way for them to get the MIPS architecture out in the open. Most computer architecture courses of the last 25 years have already been based on MIPS (or any MIPS-like or -light adapted version for the course). That's bec
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by wott 9y ago
> Imagine you live in a country where there's no where else to go for miles around, and you're young, and you want to see the world. And you end up seeing crappy suburbs from a crappy suburban train 3 hours a day, 15 hours a we
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by wott 9y ago
I see no problem in anyone willing to toy with whatever he likes. I have a problem when huge efforts are invested by huge teams on huge projects which clearly have no purpose . I mean, if you have a lot of energy to use and give, and yo
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by wott 9y ago
I was hired to design embedded electronics in my last job. Came a project. I would have designed it with one microcontroller in the 50-120 MHz range, or two of those to make it easy to deal with all interfaces, and called it a day (on the e
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by wott 9y ago
Well, after 20 years, USB (another specification which aims at making a hundred kinds of different coffees, like about every specification designed in the last 20 years) kind of works nowadays, so there might be a bit of hope. Hmmm wait, ex
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by wott 9y ago
You can but you won't as long as it is possible to bypass the trick, because you are inevitably attracted (not to say addicted) to the online web content and interactions and you'll quickly switch back to it.
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by wott 9y ago
In 15 years of studies, I have never ever heard anyone complaining about his own handwriting. Even with a handwriting that can be very bad for others, one can always reread 99.9% of what one has written, because it is one's own handwri
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by wott 9y ago
2016 was an outlier, because many reactors had be stopped in the beginning of winter (because of another Areva fuckery).
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by wott 9y ago
That is not incompatible.
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by wott 9y ago
Franco, Hitler and... De Gaulle lumped together. All right, mate...
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by wott 9y ago
> systemd is pretty big (376,726 LOC according to Open Hub) which makes it even harder to rewrite That's about twice as much as the Linux kernel when I started using a Linux distribution, I believe...
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by wott 9y ago
Both constructs are now allowed in French. The singular follows more the grammar rule, the plural conveys more the meaning and is often a little bit more natural, so it got allowed.
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by wott 9y ago
> JuliaBox is the number one choice for universities teaching Julia since students can get started with Julia in seconds with no installation required. I don't understand. Julia is not stable at all yet. Who would want to teach it
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by wott 9y ago
Well, when a company has various activities, the direction/management decides that a company must focus on a single activity ("focus on a single trade and be expert in it, delegate the rest" is then their motto). Then when a
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by wott 9y ago
> Cassette lifespan is entirely dependent on maintenance, but if you abuse your bike you will find the derailleur starts 'jumping' on shifts after 400-600 miles or so. For me, this is every 3 or 4 months. Uh? What? :-) I&#x27
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by wott 9y ago
I read it that way, but then, that would mean there is no school within 20 km, so an empty space where schools around are separated by 40 km. I think there are very few possible spaces like that in Netherlands, or in most Western Europe. Or

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