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by xorblurb 11y ago
IIRC correctly PAE was used anyway on the editions of windows limited to 4G. And legacy drivers are always managed by putting their dma buffers in safe zones. This was purely a limitation for market segmentation.
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by xorblurb 11y ago
The author seems to not know enough about what he is talking about. For ex. he claims that the performance of passing a struct Vec { double x, y, z; } by value would be very poor, which is trivially not true, and he uselessly wrote some con
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by xorblurb 11y ago
It's probably not very easy to compare. For example I work in France and I keep approx $36k after all taxes (but still not taking VAT into account, which is 20% on most products). This salary costs around $78k for the company I work fo
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by xorblurb 11y ago
There might be a pb in English with the term "sleeping with", given that it completely implies not its literal meaning. Because of that, it seems that it's quite difficult to describe sleeping with someone without having sex
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by xorblurb 12y ago
You cannot reduce psychiatry to Freud.
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by xorblurb 13y ago
$13000 "brut" in Shanghai is approx $20000 PPP according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative_... Income of $5000 would be approx $7700 PPP. Not exactly extremely wealthy by develope
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by xorblurb 13y ago
In a car max lateral acceleration is typically 0.3g for safety and 0.2g for comfort I think (and usually road design are even more conservatory). I think 0.5g lateral is way to high, especially if you can't look at the outside. People
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by xorblurb 13y ago
noops are removed by the scheduler. Depending on what is happening precisely, this might not help.
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by xorblurb 13y ago
> they have nothing to lose the trading fees ?
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by xorblurb 13y ago
The problem is that with the current tech anybody should be able to live a simple yet good life with her basic needs fulfilled. The requirement that all people work and the poverty of most of those who don't (for any reason) and even o
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by xorblurb 13y ago
This isn't related to robotics, tech, etc. This is related to precariousness. Robotics, technology should make everybody work less and live in a better world. Capitalism won't make this happen.
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by xorblurb 13y ago
Ok I did not know that, thanks !
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by xorblurb 13y ago
Leaving aside the crazy hypothesis coming from nowhere about sound transmission, what can probably be done is hiding a persistent malware in a microcontroler connected to the smbus. Very hard to detect, most (all?) modern motherboards alrea
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by xorblurb 13y ago
Your sentence "The protocol just needs to send each bit twice (or any multiple of two) at 20KHz." nearly makes no sense. You should learn about modulation, sampling, aliasing, and so over. If you want to stay ultrasonic you will n
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by xorblurb 13y ago
> Anyone can design the software that controls a car. That's probably OK since web apps are non-critical systems. Wat?
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by xorblurb 13y ago
This French law existed before. The EU directive probably comes from the preexisting French law.
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by xorblurb 13y ago
Removing files removes a crucial feature: interoperability. This yield to programs that are ephemeral and not very suitable for production. Removing files is in no way a plus. You could achieve better results in all aspects by providing a c