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by zh3 5y ago
OP > "where it's too critical to outsource support"
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by zh3 5y ago
Wait until it automagically fails. It may be great for less-skilled people, but for anyone running anything where it's too critical to outsource support it's then necessary to have a systemd expert inhouse (and such a person has p
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by zh3 5y ago
It seems weird now, but natural at time. Point a register at the data following the call, rely on the caller advancing over the argument and jumping back to the (presumed) code after the data. The stack isn't involved at all... Edit: f
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by zh3 5y ago
I remember seeing Lightnings at the Farnborough air show, many years ago - the standard trick was a low pass along the runway just in the front of the crowds (on full afterburner), and at the end go absolutely vertical until out of sight. T
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by zh3 5y ago
More or less how Fortran works on PDP-11's.
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by zh3 5y ago
Back in '78 or so, my first computer was a hand-assembled Nascom I (2MHz Z80)[0] with 1kb of RAM. No assemblers, no disk drives, not even a cassette tape. Just a keyboard and a simple ROM that let you load hex values in memory. The low
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by zh3 5y ago
A lot of the early 'voice recognition' did this; the audio went real-time to far-away countries where a human would press the appropriate buttons. Makes me wonder what those humans are now doing for a living.
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by zh3 5y ago
Yes, we're going through the process now. It's really difficult and appears to me to be deliberately obfuscated - the "opt out" on the NHS website is not the one you want, instead you want the form which you have to se
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by zh3 7y ago
Back in the days before radio, peple searched for life on the moon by using telescopes to look for signal fires.
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by zh3 7y ago
There's a simple proof of this; an optimally compressed signal will have all symbols occuring with equal frequency (otherwise you'd be able to compress it more). So yes, an optimally compressed signal is indistinguishable from noi
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by zh3 7y ago
The drill and digger (for fossil fuel). "Important" is perhaps a loaded word in this case.
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by zh3 7y ago
It's more aout getting rid of what slows you down (bloatware/fat distros) than it is about linux (the kernel) itself. Who else finds that animations/smooth scrolling just breaks the flow/gets in the way?
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by zh3 7y ago
Company A treats its customers with respect, lets them maximise the return on their investment by giving them all the details and helping them keep the instrument going as long as possible. Company B releases a product that works pretty muc