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by zik 3y ago
I have a friend who worked at Microsoft... if his opinion is anything to go by that's very far from true.
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by zik 3y ago
^H used to be a common idiom back in the usenet news days
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by zik 3y ago
Tyre particulate pollution has been a big deal in environmental circles for some time, but it seems to be only recently that it's had a lot of media attention. Is this good news that it's finally gaining some attention or bad news
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by zik 3y ago
Originally there was Multix. Then Unix was named as a reference to it. And now Multiplix is named as a reference to Unix. We've come full circle, just about.
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by zik 3y ago
> there are a number of optimizations that can be made for Fortran that can't be made for C-like languages That used to be true a long time ago but since the restrict keyword was introduced in C99 it's not really true any more.
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by zik 3y ago
> Go’s GC is undeniably less advanced than OpenJDK’s Java relies very heavily on its GC and tends to generate a lot more short lived objects which need collection than Go. Go's approach to memory management learns from this and focu
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by zik 3y ago
It's a huge area and it's very, very flat. Australia's geologically very inactive so any visible crater was gone many millions of years ago. An image would just look like this: https://earth.google.com/web&#x2
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by zik 3y ago
That's the really disturbing part of all this. As a user you can take reasonable steps to ensure that you're not vulnerable - switch your bluetooth off but your device straight up lies to you saying it's off while it's l
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by zik 3y ago
This implies that around 1.3% of the UK working population are out of action due to covid, and a lot more than that must be struggling but still able to work.
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by zik 3y ago
I was so excited to see a minicomputer on a card. And then... this. So disappointing.
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by zik 3y ago
> is not exactly like private That seems like a straw man to me. He never said it was exactly equivalent - he said it provided encapsulation and isolation. 'private' is another language's mechanism which does that but they
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by zik 3y ago
You can get up-rated caliper brakes with very good stopping power, and in fact that's what comes on my Gazelle ebike as standard.
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by zik 3y ago
I always wonder why Australians would frequent a place like this. I imagine it's like African American rappers listening to Vanilla Ice - amusing at best and insulting at worst.
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by zik 3y ago
The thing is though that I _do_ pay for it. I'm a long time paying subscriber to reddit and I think I should be able to use the Reddit Sync app like I have for years. But that's not an option that's on the table. I should say
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by zik 3y ago
That's amazing and wonderful. The only guys who use a vote are anarchists.
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by zik 3y ago
I'm also uncomfortable with it. There's nothing inherently wrong with philanthropy but what I'm seeing is a very successful business with an enormous and very expensive campus. MrBeast himself is very rich. So what I'm s
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by zik 4y ago
> It's not memory safe Modern C++ has made big inroads into removing memory safety issues though. Memory safety bugs are relatively uncommon in modern C++ compared to pre C++11 times. You could argue that C++ is still "unsafe b
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by zik 4y ago
> The main reason I buy Apple laptops is the physical reliability... My impression is that they've had several years of poor quality and bad design decisions with their laptops. Some models were banned from flights due to battery fi
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by zik 4y ago
You might want to check your sources on that. Everything you said is wrong.
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by zik 4y ago
This is a common scam - company rents you a property they don't own or have any right to. When you show up you're told that there's a problem of some sort and you're told you can use another of their properties. In despe
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by zik 4y ago
There is another advantage - price. Since there's no ARM licensing to pay for it's possible to make cheaper devices. This creates some new possibilities particularly at the lower end of the market.
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by zik 4y ago
They're possibly the most tortured backronyms I've ever seen. All to sound like James Bond's "shaken, not stirred" quote. It's a bit lame, really.
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by zik 4y ago
Probably not by any measurable amount
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by zik 4y ago
It's an open architecture designed for extensibility. So if you're wanting to make an AI processor for instance it's much easier to add an AI extension to RISC-V than it is to ARM. And you don't have to pay ARM license f
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by zik 4y ago
When you have companies like Espressif who do huge volumes using RISC-V, yes. It's definitely a rival. https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c3
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by zik 4y ago
"I'm stuck at the office. Can you pick up little Johnny?" "Sorry no, I don't have a car seat. And I can't get it from you today because it's with you at the office."
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by zik 4y ago
He said magnesium, not titanium.
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by zik 4y ago
PoW as used in bitcoin and ethereum is a bit different. It's designed to reduce the communication needed between nodes. Each block is published with a hash which is based on all the previous blocks plus its own data. All participants a
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by zik 4y ago
I'm willing to bet it's conjecture. Someone probably said "We need to hide . and .." and then realised "hey, if we need to hide these things we'll probably need to hide other things as well - how about we just
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by zik 4y ago
The valgrind suite is a very effective answer to these needs and it's used by most C programmers. Helgrind for data races. Memcheck for memory ownership. Not to mention sophisticated tools for cache profiling, call graph analysis and h

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