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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Yes but if we are being pedantic no. Of course the language does still greatly lean into the null terminated string concept. You get a null terminated char array but the length is actually available since arrays (as long as they haven'
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
I definitely agree that a PCI-E card is preferable. Hell even if you have it in CPU, you probably want it sat on the PCI-E bus anyways so it can P2P DMA with other hardware. Also (not disagreeing but I'm curious), last time I checked F
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
I'd argue that's a pretty essential skill in the modern world. Reading and writing are arguably the two of the most important skills we can learn since from them you can eventually do anything else. Paperwork specifically is also
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Unless I misinterpreted this, the article said that while it normally takes around 2 years, in this case they were able to cut the time down to less than a year (from deciding to make it to it being issued out to everyone).
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
This is a relic of the cold war. Most of AT&T's telecom buildings were designed to be able to withstand just about everything except a direct nuclear strike. While services were impacted, none of the actual infrastructure was reall
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
It sounds like you are talking about an unrolled linked list[1]. I'd argue in most cases that while they are better than linked lists in just about every way (except data objects larger than the cache line), in most cases there is a be
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
I don't use `reflog` often but I've found that 9/10 times you make a serious mistake in git, it ends up being the go to solution. As for `bisect`, it's magic. It is used to binary search git commits back to X point in t
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Don't forget `rebase -i`, `reflog`, and `bisect`. Rebasing is always a good skill to know for when someone inevitably commits binary files or secrets to a repo and you have to do a bit of surgery to fix it. Bisect of course isn't
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
This reminds me of my time at Virginia Tech (recent grad here). Those of us on upper quad never locked our doors. This had apparently been a thing on upper quad all the way back to the start of the university and that only changed when we m
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
This is something where there is value in having a generator to do the password creation. That way the use only needs to remember the phrase rather than also come up with it.
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
So you'd assume this but older members of my family regular seem to not understand this. Either they just assume that their phone number is their "account" or in some cases make no distinction between the app and their accoun
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
While they are technically different, they are very similar and much of the "art" is the same between them. Good subtitles and CCs both have to be structured carefully so that they do not negatively impact the delivery of lines in
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
This unfortunately isn't really quite entirely true any more. There are a number of depreciations in C++17 and up that prevent older C++ code from working out of the box. Keep in mind that these are largely relatively useless or now re
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Yes, I think that would be a valid way to bypass the protection. With physical access you can bypass just about any protection given enough money and time. In a data centre context, the damage you can do is rapidly minimised by rapidly incr
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
While reaching out directly to the company is definitely a strong way to express disagreement, I almost guarantee that someone from AMD PR will be reading through comments on tech community posts like these. Expressing discontent in an open
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Was curious so I looked it up. Turns out property is really expensive so it isn't quite as conglomerated as you would think. Because of this, there are about 100-ish large mall conglomerates. Of these, the top 4 combined take as much &
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
What specifically does linux compromise that prevents its use in automotive control? Obviously specific components should be implemented using PLCs, FPGAs, or baremetal/FreeRTOS based microcontrollers but for an overall control system
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
I think that is the point they are making though. PV is still harmful to the environment in its current form but it isn't as bad as Coal is in its current form. Both can be clean and zero-impact however in practice neither are. PV is s
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
The argument they are making is one that you will see a lot in these types of discussions. As renewable energy becomes cheaper and easier to add to individual houses, the supply of cheap energy combined with the decrease in energy demand fr
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
To be fair, this area will have the exact same problem that regions with radiation problems have. Nature will reclaim the area but it won't be "healthy" nature. The animals will have increased health problems due to toxins (o
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Counterargument that you should focus on letting the compiler help you which is just a redirected way of "helping" the compiler. Types are a really good example of where you want to help the compiler. Type signatures let you defin
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
It's sad if that is the case because OpenJ9 is such a good alternative to Hotspot IMO.
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
If you use KeepassXC or another password manager of some kind, they are able to tell you which username/password combinations have been compromised.
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
How has decimated changed in meaning? Decimated comes from the Roman military punishment "Decimation" where for some military unit being punished, 10% of their ranks were to executed by their colleagues. The most literal meaning o
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
The big thing is that pirates would most likely not pay for the thing they are pirating if it was not available legally. This isn't by any means universal but take video games for example. Developers have long since abandoned the conce
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
You can do this but rebasing plays havoc on a lot of git integrations. Every time you insert a commit into an earlier spot, it changes the hash of every commit after it which has the potential to cause all kinds of problems for systems assu
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
As somebody who is just wrapping up university, got the coronavirus, and know other young and middle-aged people who got the coronavirus, the virus can both be super mild and super aggressive from one person to the next. I was mostly physic
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
NDAs and Patent issues are number one in this. It's the same reason AMD can't open source their platform security processor and why it took so long for AMD to start being able to contribute to open source Linux drivers. Going thro
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
Not OP but have at least a bit of cursory experience. Masonry stoves get warm but when properly built they aren't insanely hot outside of the inside, the stove tops, and the chimney. Most of the excess heat after finishing cooking will
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by jacoblambda 6y ago
The third-hand description that I've found best describing the single engine burn is that it is comparable to driving fast on a gravel road. It's bumpy as hell of a ride due to all the vibration from the engine placement but other

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