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by zik 2y ago
I feel like your experience was quite different to mine. I used TCP/IP in the late 80s at university and doing commercial contract work. I remember OSI existing but at the places I worked it was treated as less common.
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by zik 2y ago
TCP/IP was developed in the 1970s and adopted as the protocol standard for ARPANET (the predecessor to the Internet) in 1983.
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by zik 2y ago
While it's still debated, it seems likely that the BPAs in plastic will be classified as mildly carcinogenic at some point. It's probably not a big concern to be touching your phone case but maybe more so if it's millions of
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by zik 2y ago
The submarines are almost certainly useless. We won't get them for decades. We're not even allowed to service the nuclear reactors when we do get them. And the technology is already an old one and will likely already be superceded
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by zik 2y ago
It sounds to me like there are some people who don't follow the style, rather than there not being a consistent style.
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by zik 2y ago
Your bet would be wrong - they stopped allowing that a little while back. It's annoying.
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by zik 2y ago
There was a plan to make a line to South East Asia and sell power to them but I'm not sure where it's at.
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by zik 2y ago
It's amazing how one person identifies a case where he copied a symphony and then within hours people have found several other cases.
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by zik 2y ago
I don't think VLIW is incompatible with virtualisation. The amount of CPU state you need to load and save on context switches is a little higher than other architectures so it has a minor effect on the efficiency of virtualisation. But
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by zik 2y ago
> I heard Crowdstrike is "best-in-market" A friend of mine who used to work for Crowdstrike tells me they're a hot mess internally and it's amazing they haven't had worse problems than this already.
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by zik 2y ago
The CV1800B in the Milk-V Duo looks very cool - but it's not an MCU. According to the product page it actually even has an auxiliary MCU in it, in addition to its two high-performance processors.
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by zik 2y ago
You're half right - people who compiled it from source could theoretically get those releases, but no, it wasn't released in any distros. So in practice since no linux distro released it, no-one relying on linux distros was expose
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by zik 2y ago
Businesses would be crazy to continue with Crowdstrike after this. It's going to cause billions in losses to a huge number of companies. If I was a risk assessment officer at a large company I'd be speed dialling every alternative
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by zik 2y ago
But no damage actually ended up happening with the xz utils exploit. It didn't even get released because someone picked it up pre-release. Every system gets attacked, but I think your point shows that even with state-level attacks Linu
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by zik 2y ago
RISC-V has specs to suit everything from microcontrollers through high performance multi-core server level machines. It's not realistic or a good idea to use identical features for such different applications. For example a microcontro
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by zik 2y ago
> Do people really dual boot a lot in 2024? Yes. I work on Linux and play most games on Windows. Playing games on a VM is... pretty terrible.
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by zik 2y ago
In biochem results aren't "success" or "fail", they're more like "probably success" and "either fail or experimental error". And in research the vast majority of results are in the latter ca
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by zik 2y ago
VisiCalc - the first spreadsheet - was entirely text based and people found it useful enough that it exploded in popularity and was very successful on the Apple ][ until the advent of the IBM PC when Lotus 1-2-3 came and ate its lunch. Lotu
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by zik 2y ago
The ESP32 modules are available with or without the antenna built in, and the chips have an on-chip ethernet MAC peripheral, display support via on-chip LCD, I2C, or SPI peripherals, and camera via the on-chip CAM peripheral. Not all versio
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by zik 2y ago
They licensed the ARM ISA from ARM.
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by zik 2y ago
It's such an obvious hit piece by a competitor where many of the arguments boil down to essentially "they did it differently to us and hence they're wrong".
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by zik 2y ago
Redcap [1], CAT-M1 [2] and NB-IoT [3] are 5G IOT technologies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR#NR-Light_/_RedCap [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE-M [3] https://en.wiki
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by zik 2y ago
This has been done quite a few times before, but the resulting languages are not C. Also saying that's "the main problem with C" seems to miss the mark. As a C programmer I wouldn't call this the crux of any particular p
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by zik 2y ago
Most people don't really understand what it is or how completely it destroys your computer's security mechanisms.
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by zik 2y ago
I think you're missing the point here. Lots of people bought Helldivers 2 and happen to live in countries like Estonia where it'll no longer be possible to play the game because PS doesn't operate there. Even more people don&
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by zik 2y ago
This article's just about the technical writing of the manual. It's nothing to do with the ISA itself.
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by zik 2y ago
Sure. I use the ESP32 (rather than the older ESP8266 mentioned here) and I program in C and the ESP API [1]. The provided software has a lot of features and is pretty nice to work with. There's also a vscode plugin which makes configur
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by zik 2y ago
I note that they demonstrated the "tank turns" on a wet road. That seems like a good idea since on dry asphalt those tyres would be screeching as they're dragged sideways across the tarmac in those turns.
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by zik 2y ago
And all it took was to make it viable. I wonder how quickly other cities would change to preferring bike use if only the infrastructure to use bikes safely existed?
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by zik 2y ago
It's still pretty interesting though if you're into CPU architecture. It's an interesting little slice of history.

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