Ah, of course. Interesting.
Unless that site collects personal information, it's fine isn't it? This isn't about where stuff is hosted, it's about privacy.
Yeah, there were two busses, and the bigger ones were certainly rather impressive. I built a PDP-11/23 out of spare bits gifted from a university physics department in the late 80s, and it was awesome, but nothing like…
Is it only me that would have expected curl_getenv() to have an assert that it's argument isn't NULL? I know this doesn't stop runtime problems in release builds, but i'd have thought this sort of simple precondition…
I think the history of this is that these operations were common with assembly programmers, so when C came along, these were included in the language to allow these developers to feel they weren't leaving lots of…
I'm interested in the implications for the open source movement, specifically about security concerns. Anyone know is there has been a study about how well Claude Code works on closed source (but decompiled) source?
On the subject of the weights and measures to check that a pint is a pint, I remember the father of a friend of mine at university who was responsible for the weights and measures for Staffordshire. I think he was the…
The older Tektronix TDS540 series did this, but at much lower rates as was common in those days though. Internally there are differential feeds from the very beautiful hybrid ceramic input boards to 4 DACs, with some…
I failed to find this on my skim, my bad :( Interesting that it's mandated as native - i'm really not sure the logic behind this (i've worked in the embedded world where such stuff is not only normal, but the only…
Just out of interest, why aren't they cross compiling RISC-V? I thought that was common practice when targeting lower performing hardware. It seems odd to me that the build cycle on the target hardware is a metric that…
Nobody misses the terrible optical mouse with the blue metal mouse mat though! You are right, the keyboards were great.
The way I read it, the prefix to the > indicates which file descriptor to redirect, and there is just a default that means no indicated file descriptor means stdout. So, >foo is the same as 1>foo If you want to get…
Except it has a taste. I think finding something with just the colour and no taste would be a better example of this.
Most of the effort when writing a compiler is handling incorrect code, and reporting sensible error messages. Compiling known good code is a great start though.
Just out of interest, what's the current 'state of the art' for a chip that is hardened to survive launch and any length of time in orbit?
This has reminded me that in System 7, the code for the window was a system resource (resource forks contained all sorts of code, icons, text dictionaries etc). Anyhow, if you dropped an updated window resource into…
The problem with articles like this is that they read a little like justifying a decision that has already been made. I've a feeling that if it was written in C++/Rust/Go/whatever, it would also be possible to justify…
I'm interested in why SSDs would struggle with condensation. What aspect of the design is prone to issues? I routinely repair old computer boards, replace leaky capacitors, that sort of thing, and have cleaned boards…
I think that's an over-simplification. There was pressure on the language to ensure that data structures were compatible with C structs, so avoiding the vtable with simple classes was a win for moving data between these…
I don't see the weight reduction being very significant. If we take a Tesla model 3, I believe it weighs 1611kg, and the motor shows up at 80kg if you google it (no idea if this is correct). This YASA motor by…
There's the C2PA standard which has picked up momentum recently to I guess help resolve some of the issues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news... I believe various cameras support this, e.g.…
Ok, i'll turn the sarcasm detector up a notch :)
The UK has 1/5th of the population of the US, and 12x the population of Minnesota. The last school shooting was the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, which led to gun law changes, removing rights to have handguns and various…
I think the point is that the API doesn't specify that the returned integers are positive, or are monotonically increasing, then it's fine for the service to return any unique integer. If a client application makes an…
Back in the 80s, as the home computer revolution got going, computers were typically wired up to small, cheap, portable TVs as a display device. These TVs used shadow masks, and the computer video output was typically…
Ah, of course. Interesting.
Unless that site collects personal information, it's fine isn't it? This isn't about where stuff is hosted, it's about privacy.
Yeah, there were two busses, and the bigger ones were certainly rather impressive. I built a PDP-11/23 out of spare bits gifted from a university physics department in the late 80s, and it was awesome, but nothing like…
Is it only me that would have expected curl_getenv() to have an assert that it's argument isn't NULL? I know this doesn't stop runtime problems in release builds, but i'd have thought this sort of simple precondition…
I think the history of this is that these operations were common with assembly programmers, so when C came along, these were included in the language to allow these developers to feel they weren't leaving lots of…
I'm interested in the implications for the open source movement, specifically about security concerns. Anyone know is there has been a study about how well Claude Code works on closed source (but decompiled) source?
On the subject of the weights and measures to check that a pint is a pint, I remember the father of a friend of mine at university who was responsible for the weights and measures for Staffordshire. I think he was the…
The older Tektronix TDS540 series did this, but at much lower rates as was common in those days though. Internally there are differential feeds from the very beautiful hybrid ceramic input boards to 4 DACs, with some…
I failed to find this on my skim, my bad :( Interesting that it's mandated as native - i'm really not sure the logic behind this (i've worked in the embedded world where such stuff is not only normal, but the only…
Just out of interest, why aren't they cross compiling RISC-V? I thought that was common practice when targeting lower performing hardware. It seems odd to me that the build cycle on the target hardware is a metric that…
Nobody misses the terrible optical mouse with the blue metal mouse mat though! You are right, the keyboards were great.
The way I read it, the prefix to the > indicates which file descriptor to redirect, and there is just a default that means no indicated file descriptor means stdout. So, >foo is the same as 1>foo If you want to get…
Except it has a taste. I think finding something with just the colour and no taste would be a better example of this.
Most of the effort when writing a compiler is handling incorrect code, and reporting sensible error messages. Compiling known good code is a great start though.
Just out of interest, what's the current 'state of the art' for a chip that is hardened to survive launch and any length of time in orbit?
This has reminded me that in System 7, the code for the window was a system resource (resource forks contained all sorts of code, icons, text dictionaries etc). Anyhow, if you dropped an updated window resource into…
The problem with articles like this is that they read a little like justifying a decision that has already been made. I've a feeling that if it was written in C++/Rust/Go/whatever, it would also be possible to justify…
I'm interested in why SSDs would struggle with condensation. What aspect of the design is prone to issues? I routinely repair old computer boards, replace leaky capacitors, that sort of thing, and have cleaned boards…
I think that's an over-simplification. There was pressure on the language to ensure that data structures were compatible with C structs, so avoiding the vtable with simple classes was a win for moving data between these…
I don't see the weight reduction being very significant. If we take a Tesla model 3, I believe it weighs 1611kg, and the motor shows up at 80kg if you google it (no idea if this is correct). This YASA motor by…
There's the C2PA standard which has picked up momentum recently to I guess help resolve some of the issues. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news... I believe various cameras support this, e.g.…
Ok, i'll turn the sarcasm detector up a notch :)
The UK has 1/5th of the population of the US, and 12x the population of Minnesota. The last school shooting was the Dunblane Massacre in 1996, which led to gun law changes, removing rights to have handguns and various…
I think the point is that the API doesn't specify that the returned integers are positive, or are monotonically increasing, then it's fine for the service to return any unique integer. If a client application makes an…
Back in the 80s, as the home computer revolution got going, computers were typically wired up to small, cheap, portable TVs as a display device. These TVs used shadow masks, and the computer video output was typically…