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by zik 7y ago
When I was a child I read picture story books which taught me that this was the purpose of police - to help citizens. They showed old ladies being helped across the road by humble bobbies and exhorted me to seek the nearest policeman if I e
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by zik 7y ago
That's not been my experience of Go. Complexity is contagious - if your language is complex your code tends to be complex. Go's language design intentionally avoids complexity and Go code is some of the most readable code I'v
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by zik 7y ago
> Maybe SW and HW shouldn't mix All of us who work in embedded software would disagree!
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by zik 7y ago
Weird. I would have thought that it would be copyright by default under the Berne copyright convention of 1886. Ah, after further research I see that the US only joined the convention in 1988.
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by zik 7y ago
And countries.
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by zik 7y ago
It'd fit in an STM32 microcontroller's 64K RAM comfortably, with room to spare for some actual programs. That's actually a pretty useful application. Except I think it targets x86 rather than ARM.
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by zik 7y ago
There are at least four Go compilers: the original one from google, GCC go, gollvm and GopherJS.
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by zik 7y ago
Those guys actually are regulated. The axe falling on them was inevitable, it's just taken a long time.
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by zik 7y ago
My point was that these notations exist for a purpose and are popular. They do and they are. Why would tablature be so popular on guitar if standard musical was overwhelmingly better? Tablature is intuitive, expressive and concise when used
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by zik 7y ago
It's interesting how staunchly people will defend "standard Western musical notation" but I agree with you - from a design point of view it looks like notation originally designed to match a piano keyboard which has then had
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by zik 7y ago
You say it doesn't work but it's been used in a variety of ways such as singing video games (eg. SingStar) and music trackers [1], and it works just fine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
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by zik 7y ago
No, because most of a rocket's propellant mass is the oxidiser. With a jet first stage you get the oxygen from the air up to the point where you run out of air.
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by zik 7y ago
Can anyone summarise?
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by zik 8y ago
That sounds like straight up shareholder fraud to me.
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by zik 8y ago
I don't think the "lot of narratives" you're talking about actually exist. I've never heard anyone from the Go camp say that they want to make the language "small even if it's inconvenient". From a la
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by zik 8y ago
Technically that was probably New Zealander Richard Pearse, not the Wright brothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse#Flights His flight was a bit... crashy. The Wrights managed a fully controlled powered f
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by zik 8y ago
And when you get to about mach 33 you might as well leave orbit.
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by zik 8y ago
It makes web sites heavier, slows site loading and discloses your tracking information to google which it then uses for commercial purposes.
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by zik 8y ago
By the time you have two children the cost of child care is often similar to or greater than after tax income. It's just not really financially viable to work at that point.
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by zik 8y ago
It's an interesting move considering that cryptocurrencies were invented by guys specifically to put control of finances back in the hands of individuals and away from companies like JP Morgan.
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by zik 8y ago
Most embedded systems which run linux use u-boot as their boot loader. There's no BIOS really, just a boot loader. https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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by zik 8y ago
That's a whole lot less dangerous than being a mechanic or a farmer.
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by zik 8y ago
The meme is in reference to this popular quote, not the other way around. The quote has been around since Philip Siekevitz published an article on this in 1957.
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by zik 8y ago
> have they been discredited as in that double-blind trials show no more than a 50/50 chance of being correct? Yes. The reading of polygraphs is very subjective and it's been found that they reflect only whether the person admi
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by zik 8y ago
You can bet this is the kind of argument the car industry is making all over though. "They're doing it quick but we're doing it right". The reality is that Silicon Valley is very very good at moving fast and building ver
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by zik 8y ago
It's worth pointing out that just getting 51% hash rate isn't enough to steal money. It's really just the entry point at which you _might_ be able to steal money. To actually steal money you need to falsify at least six block
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by zik 8y ago
It's a tiny allocator designed for tiny embedded systems. It's not intended for large desktop machines like dlmalloc() is. dlmalloc() can't run on tiny embedded systems because it has relatively high overhead. This provides a
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by zik 8y ago
It's thought to be less susceptible to tracability analysis than Monero. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04299/ [2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/338.pdf
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by zik 8y ago
It's mathematically different from Monero, and is thought to be significantly more secure. It also has some very interesting properties like allowing the blockchain to be represented in a totally different way, using only a tiny amount
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by zik 8y ago
This isn't actually "holographic" as such. Holography [1] specifically refers to creating a 3d effect by recording light diffraction and interference wavefronts. At this point though the term has become so corrupted that most

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