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541.
by xxpor 4y ago
Ah interrupts, of course. /me goes back to his polling-only application :) (we have an interrupt, but it's "the watchdog fired and you're about to die anyway", so not exactly complex to handle...)
542.
by xxpor 4y ago
of COURSE there's a Raymond Chen blog post about this :D
543.
by xxpor 4y ago
Is there an SMP version of the 386? You may need locks on a non-SMP system (since you can still have concurrency), but without parallelism you don't need atomics... right?
544.
by xxpor 4y ago
Scrum master is a full time job?
545.
by xxpor 4y ago
In the Seattle area, Town & Country markets are nice, but expensive. PCC may work for some folks, but they don't carry some fairly basic things like... Coke. (also crazy expensive).
546.
by xxpor 4y ago
>We also don’t want ships operated with the oversight of nations like Liberia in our coastal waters. What are you talking about? There's tons of those already, they just can't go between 2 US ports directly.
547.
by xxpor 4y ago
ASML is (now) a company everyone has heard of, but like GP hinted at with their Zeiss comment, their supply chain is crazy deep as well. Getting everything scaled up across companies and countries is far from trivial.
548.
by xxpor 4y ago
Oh this looks really nice! /me adds a new project to the backlog...
549.
by xxpor 4y ago
I use Arch docs all the time, even for non-Arch distros. What really makes the wiki stand out is its focus on practical problems with examples, more than man-pages style docs. Is there anything similar for FreeBSD? I know the man pages are
550.
by xxpor 4y ago
This is one of those cases of if you're going to raise a stink about it, the community probably doesn't want to deal with you regardless.
551.
by xxpor 4y ago
Being on call doesn't mean you're responding to arbitrary stuff at all hours of the day, just emergencies.
552.
by xxpor 4y ago
>That is for the state, and local municipalities to decide - not congress. Congress can attach strings, just like they do to tons of other things. >Policing is best done at the local level. The police force needs to be local, and beho
553.
by xxpor 4y ago
Not directly, but there's lots of federal funding that ends up in police budgets.
554.
by xxpor 4y ago
>Instead, for the last (at least) 40 years, the parking scheme has been a way for NYPD officers to get paid. They'd sell their placards to tenants in the buildings on my street, effectively providing guaranteed on-street parking to
555.
by xxpor 4y ago
I've sent plenty of pictures over DCC in my day. OBS lets me stream whatever to wherever at unlimited quality without paying. The point is most of what Discord provides is low value for the resources it demands.
556.
by xxpor 4y ago
Because weechat uses <18 megs?
557.
by xxpor 4y ago
They don't provide DNS64/NAT64?
558.
by xxpor 4y ago
Like most things in the US, it varies wildly by location. In Seattle, there's a 0.50% real estate excise tax that the seller pays (theoretically it doesn't matter if the seller or buyer pays it, but practically speaking it's
559.
by xxpor 4y ago
When you have that much cash on hand, is it really?
560.
by xxpor 4y ago
I would argue not trusting MS is even sillier. Like it or not, they run most desktops around the world. Even if you only run the purest NetBSD at home, nearly everything someone knows about you will touch Windows at some point. In terms of
561.
by xxpor 4y ago
I read it on Saturday, and it hadn't mentioned it then: https://web.archive.org/web/20220924090459/https://www.nytim... Looks like they realized they got caught and updated it. TBH, I could 100% bel
562.
by xxpor 4y ago
NYTimes runs social experiments on users for years: https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-rearchitected-mobile-a-b-tes...
563.
by xxpor 4y ago
Maybe I'm interpreting this comment incorrectly but I'm begging people to realize if they're a normal person and they have the NSA at the top of their threat model they're bad at internalizing relative risk.
564.
by xxpor 4y ago
where it gets really goofy is the US gov work doesn't have copyright itself, so wouldn't any work done by them be PD, regardless of the underlying license?
565.
by xxpor 4y ago
A Raymond Chen post about the function pointer craziness: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150731-00/?p=90...
566.
by xxpor 4y ago
What are the barriers to moving to LiFePO4 for these large scale facilities? My understanding of them is that they're much harder to ignite, even when there's a charging fault. I'm not sure if there's a big energy or pow
567.
by xxpor 4y ago
No, the US is the outlier with the 30 year fixed rates. Canada not only has variable rate mortgages, but instead of the rate just adjusting, they essentially have 5 year mortgages, with a balloon payment at the end. If you can't roll i
568.
by xxpor 4y ago
100K USD? That's wild. If you look at the GDP per capita ratios, that's like a dev in the US making $3.3 million
569.
by xxpor 4y ago
There's another reason why (mathematically related) to use a power of 2 as well: it makes the modulo a simple and fast mask, instead of a slow division.
570.
by xxpor 4y ago
Everything here is focused on cryptography, but there's other common issues that can fall into this trap too. For example, naive implementations of a hash function for a basic array + linked list hash table. If you generate a hash, and

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