maffydub

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by maffydub 2mo ago
Interesting that you see the definitive Amiga as being the A1200 - the definitive one for me was definitely the A500/A500+ - it was definitely way more popular! BTW, I don't think the software in this repository is compatible with
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by maffydub 2mo ago
It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.
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by maffydub 2y ago
Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls! A few years back, I built TeleDoom ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU ) for the TADHack hackathon ( http://tadhack.com/ ). Th
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by maffydub 2y ago
I think the Technic Lego kits that I grew up with (that were more about how things worked rather than looking exactly like the thing) have been rebranded as "Lego Education": https://education.lego.com/en-gb&#x2F
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by maffydub 3y ago
I have to confess I'm not really up to speed on the situation but, from the article... > However, last month the watchdog said a revised deal that included selling cloud gaming rights outside Europe to Activision Blizzard’s French r
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by maffydub 3y ago
If the case was subject to reporting restrictions (which seems quite possible given what he says), it might be illegal for him to tell us the names.
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by maffydub 3y ago
In the actual example, I don't think the engineers were trying to patent something obvious - it's just not unusual for engineers to casually throw around the word "obvious" for things that are not, and it's unwise t
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by maffydub 3y ago
Working a 4 day week isn't mentioned in the article - maybe the position you were approached for was special? ...but I would not be at all surprised if the requirement to be in the office was prorated too. In other words, if you work 5
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by maffydub 3y ago
In previous employment (as a software engineer), I've been told to do this too - mainly around inventions we were trying to patent. The reason is slightly less nefarious than you might think - for example, someone might casually say th
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by maffydub 3y ago
Thanks, both! This was used in a static build that decrypted and checksummed its binary before execution, which ruled out naive implementations of the attacks above. I agree there are ways round these too, but I believe it was just intende
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by maffydub 3y ago
I've seen this used preemptively - have the process ptrace itself on startup (and then do nothing with it) to make it impossible (or at least far-from-trivial) for other interested parties to ptrace it.
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by maffydub 3y ago
Have you tried floki ( https://github.com/Metaswitch/floki ) - this is what we use to solve this problem.
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by maffydub 3y ago
Here's the course list for Cambridge for 2019-2020: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1920/cst/ Yes, there are courses on Java and C/C++ (and also LATEX, MATLAB and Prolog!), but these are a few out
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by maffydub 3y ago
Thanks! I agree with your reading that changing the default username and password and re-exporting would count as modification. However, it seems there are plenty of Ubuntu .deb mirrors out there... and there are even instructions at http
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by maffydub 3y ago
Do you have any other references on this? It seems that it all hinges on what a "modified version" of Ubuntu is. Is redistributing their packages outside of a full disk image a modified version?
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by maffydub 3y ago
Interesting thought! I think the problem is that it's hard to parallelize this effectively across a network with Internet-scale latency - individual matrix multiplications parallelize very well, but there would need to be coordination
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by maffydub 3y ago
Agreed. We compost fruit and vegetable waste in our garden, but it is scary how much other food waste (as well as meat and fish bones goes in our "blue bin" for external composting. Entocycle ( https://entocycle.com&#x2
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by maffydub 3y ago
I live in London and am married with 2 kids, working in tech. Personally , I'm not seeing too much difference. * Energy prices are higher, and this has had a knock-on effect, but I see it more on childcare (e.g. nursery) than food.
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by maffydub 4y ago
I think we're conflating Kubernetes with containers here. I definitely agree that databases don't benefit from running under containers - they are pet-like (and so don't benefit from fast spin up or massive horizontal scaling
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by maffydub 4y ago
Yes, I use 1p Mobile too - moved from Three after they abandoned their 123 plan. Have used it for about 10 months and been very happy with it! (Like the parent, no links with them, and very light user.)
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by maffydub 4y ago
I don't seem to be able to post on his blog (400 Bad Request), so posting here instead... Interestingly, it looks like Rust (and C via clang) both generate something like the following as their one-at-a-time main loop: .LBB5_14: addl
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by maffydub 4y ago
Even if they're swapped, the maths doesn't work out - the ratio of squares is 1:42 while the ratio of latencies is 1:1500.
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by maffydub 4y ago
Agreed. I didn't want to spoil at the time, but yesterday you would have been unlucky with both these word choices!
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by maffydub 4y ago
...unless any of those letters appear in the answer - then you're locked into including them in subsequent guesses! Even worse if your guess had them in the right location!
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by maffydub 4y ago
Is it possible they use io_uring for networking?
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by maffydub 4y ago
My grandmother died about 8 years ago. One of the things I took when helping clear out her house was a white plastic chopping board - it was probably pretty cheap to buy, but I just hadn't got one at the time. I still use it almost e
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by maffydub 4y ago
I believe that Redis supports CRDTs ( https://redis.com/blog/diving-into-crdts/ ) for its active/active geo-replication, and they're supposed to be pretty fast. ...but it's important to note that CRDT
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by maffydub 4y ago
Slightly pedantic, but I think you'll actually find that all of these are CRDTs. If you read "Conflict-free Replicated Data Types: An Overview" ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.10254.pdf ), it refers to bot
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by maffydub 5y ago
> if we start digging into the core and allowing energy to escape faster, we would effectively speed it up, right? I don't think we're even digging through the crust - there'd still be the mantle (~100x thicker) before we
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by maffydub 5y ago
Interesting - thanks! Yes, I can see how, if the British citizen is on minimum wage (or unemployed) and the spouse is either unemployed or living abroad, that would make it difficult.

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