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by xioxox 3y ago
I like xvfb-run which runs GUI X11 applications in a headless mode.
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by xioxox 3y ago
As a Fortran user, it's pretty awful for string handling. It's fine for numerics. However, there's a lack of libraries for non-numeric stuff (e.g. data structures). The free compilers are buggy, too.
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by xioxox 3y ago
The PWM frequency is typically much higher for LCDs than OLEDs, if it is used, and much less likely to be a problem.
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by xioxox 3y ago
A better example is HMRC, the tax authority, in the UK. They won't tell you if your tax avoidance scheme is legal or not, but they will fine you or take you to court if they later decide it is not.
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by xioxox 3y ago
Wasn't this rule made up by someone in the 18th century because he thought it sounded better [1]? Therefore, it's not even more correct to say fewer rather than less. The only reason to care about it is to stop people trying to co
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by xioxox 3y ago
They are the filters used in the observation. Telescopes use filters to select a range of light wavelength/frequency to be observed. See http://svo2.cab.inta-csic.es/svo/theory/fps3/index.php?id=JW... to
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by xioxox 3y ago
Yes. My FritzBox also has built-in Wireguard.
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by xioxox 3y ago
I'm not forced to take vacations in Germany by my employer (large research institution). They roll over for a year, but then expire.
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by xioxox 3y ago
I've encountered multiple compiler bugs in gfortran. The code wasn't very complex either - just a set of nested data structures.
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by xioxox 3y ago
See the ELF rpath, which can be set by the linker. This can be modified after using patchelf.
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by xioxox 4y ago
It certainly was much colder at my public sector employer in Germany. My hands turned blue in my office and I had to wear fingerless gloves some of the time.
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by xioxox 4y ago
There are things called Government Savings Banks. The UK has National Savings and Investments (NS&I [1]), which allows individuals to save money with unlimited protection (though I think their accounts typically allow maximum amounts of
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by xioxox 4y ago
There are also freepost addresses, where you can write "Freepost CompanyName" with no postage. I've found one on google which is just "Freepost OAL".
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by xioxox 4y ago
It works really well if you avoid threads, and I've found it pretty easy to avoid them in my code.
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by xioxox 4y ago
Just in case someone is interested, I've written a simple fork-based module for processing jobs for Python: https://github.com/jeremysanders/forkqueue This has the advantage of allowing work done inside a nested f
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by xioxox 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest you were claiming it was discovered by you. It was more on giving some background and a different name for it.
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by xioxox 4y ago
This byte reordering trick has also been done elsewhere. For example, the HDF5 file format supports a "shuffle" filter which reorders the bytes.
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by xioxox 4y ago
I believe you can set the power limit in the BIOS, so you can get most of the performance without so much heat.
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by xioxox 4y ago
Are there any idle power measurements in that article? For 95%+ of the time my home computer isn't doing a lot (text editing, simple browsing, playing radio or music).
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by xioxox 4y ago
The 6502-based BBC Micro had this in the 80s as the Tube. This could run a Z80 and other processors. The interface was initially used in the development of the Arm processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_(BBC_Micr
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by xioxox 4y ago
You can read the report about the infamous Oracle-produced CAPSA financial system which had terrible problems twenty years ago at the University of Cambridge: https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2001-02/weekly&#x
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by xioxox 4y ago
A nice journey back to starting programming for me. On my PCW Amstrad computer, I wanted something a bit faster than the Mallard BASIC and Logo that came with it. I tried some Pascal compiler that only compiled to slow interpreted P-code.
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by xioxox 4y ago
What do you mean by risky here? DKB is owned by the Bayerische Landesbank (mostly owned by the state of Bavaria). Their online security measures seem at least as good as my Sparkasse account, too. I use a physical TAN machine to authenticat
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by xioxox 4y ago
Motorola produce virtually no software updates. You'll typically only get security updates for two years after the phone is started to be sold.
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by xioxox 4y ago
Your app is also great to help get to sleep. I find if my thoughts are too active when I'm trying to sleep, then having some soothing sound like rain to focus on is a great help. It also has a stop timer so it won't go on all nigh
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by xioxox 4y ago
There were other Modula-2 compilers for CP/M. I used Hisoft FTL Modula-2 quite a bit on my Amstrad PCW to get a speedup from Mallard Basic.
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by xioxox 4y ago
I've read lots of Irish people currently complaining about the housing situation there. Perhaps it's not as bad as Berlin, though of course it depends on one's wages. However, I live in Munich where prices for buying accommod
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by xioxox 4y ago
I think the existing support more like "function overloading" in C++ - you make some subroutine/function name which calls the appropriate subroutine/function with the correct argument types. Unfortunately the existing su
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by xioxox 4y ago
I certainly like instant coffee and prefer it over many other types I have tried. It took a few tries to find a good one, however. Perhaps it's because I mostly like coffee quite milky, which might cover over any quality issues. Develo
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by xioxox 4y ago
ps can also get a prize with its incompatible mixture of BSD (non-hyphenated) and UNIX (hyphenated) options. The letters chosen appear pretty random, too.

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