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by zik 11y ago
Very nice. This is the kind of philosophy I was thinking about when I wrote it.
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by zik 11y ago
I don't think anyone's tried that. It sounds like a pretty cool idea though.
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by zik 11y ago
Unfortuately not - it uses a few C tricks which its implementation doesn't support. You could probably make it self-hosting with a little effort but I can't even imagine how slow the interpreter-within-an-interpreter would be!
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by zik 11y ago
You make a good point. To some extent this reflects that PicoC wasn't originally a library at all. It was a standalone interpreter that I later converted to library form. The other factor is that the code as it stands is designed to be
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by zik 11y ago
Hi, author here. When I started writing PicoC it was mostly because I was thinking about how small AppleSoft BASIC was back in the day and I was curious how small you could make a C implementation. I also had in mind to use it for robotics&
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by zik 11y ago
I call it "pico-see".
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by zik 11y ago
This would be considered "harmful interference" in my country and our communications authority would take a dim view of it. Amazingly they have way more power than the police in these matters - if they detect harmful interference
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by zik 12y ago
Wow. That sounds like an incredibly toxic workplace environment.
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by zik 12y ago
This is admirable work in the pursuit of evil.
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by zik 12y ago
> an increase of 10db SPL is perceived to be approximately twice as loud From http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/2004-About-dB/ So it's really 2^6 = 64x as loud, perceptually.
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by zik 12y ago
The lidar that google uses provides a huge amount more information. Add that to the detailed maps that the google vehicle uses and it's pretty clear that these vehicles aren't really trying to do the same thing. Google's tryi
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by zik 12y ago
I certain hope she helps to "blunt the patent troll problem" as suggested in the article. The patent system seems desperately sick right now.
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by zik 12y ago
Because information theory says it's impossible.
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by zik 12y ago
> the complexity is simply shifted from the language onto the programmer. That's not my experience with Go at all - it provides less resistance to getting code written than any other language I can think of offhand.
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by zik 12y ago
I think that's mostly just a British thing.
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by zik 12y ago
If you're trying to convert a large legacy code base to async I/O you're up for a huge amount of work anyway.
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by zik 12y ago
Wouldn't this scheme be entirely susceptible to an emulation-based attack? You'd need an emulator which could do the split TLB trick but it doesn't sound particularly hard.
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by zik 12y ago
Just not actually funny.
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by zik 12y ago
I used to use IntelliJ with the Go plugin but I've recently switched to LiteIDE and I find it a significant improvement.
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by zik 12y ago
The more sensible criterion would be "What computer was first referred to as a PC?". That's answered here: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2010/03/17/who-coined-the-term-...
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by zik 12y ago
The Berne copyright convention states that all content is copyright by default - so no, there's no need to include a copyright claim on anything if all you want to do is make sure you're covered.
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by zik 12y ago
> ...the bullet/round comes down with the same speed and momentum as when it was first fired... This would only be true if air resistance wasn't a thing. Physics is against you on this one.
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by zik 12y ago
Wouldn't it be more efficient to recycle them into new batteries that work well instead? Lithium batteries are relatively easy to recycle.
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by zik 12y ago
It's simplistic to say that the problem was "solved decades ago". Every existing attempt at Byzantine fault tolerance is limited in one way or another - if you're looking for a solution it's really a matter of choos
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by zik 12y ago
Go has the fastest build/run cycle I've seen. You can usually compile compile to a binary and run it quicker than it takes a python runtime to start up. It's totally viable to use Go as a scripting language while compiling to
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by zik 12y ago
Maybe people should be required to wear a helmet in their car too? A UK study on the effects of cycle helmets found that if pedestrians and motorists wore helmets it would save 12 times more lives than if cyclists wore them. http:/&#x
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by zik 12y ago
There have been no attempts at replicating the experiment yet, however the study is generally regarded as valid by the scientific community [1]. One study examined the same source data a different way and came up with different conclusions
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by zik 12y ago
Thanks for your work on the android app. I've just tried it and it seems great so far.
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by zik 12y ago
It's a real interpreter. It runs directly from the source code - it doesn't even store a parse tree or bytecode. Memory allocation and alignment is done in the standard C ways. It's designed as a scripting variant of C so it
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by zik 12y ago
> ...who in their right mind would bother interpreting it? Um... me? https://code.google.com/p/picoc/

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