msgilligan

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by msgilligan 3mo ago
Java threads including Virtual Threads (JDK 21+) are preemptive.
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by msgilligan 5mo ago
But this seems like a reasonable approach for reverse-engineering, and it seems the bug they found is real.
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by msgilligan 6mo ago
I don't think comparing new Pis to used micro pcs is fair. Compare a _used_ Pi with a used micro pc. If you have any geek friends, it's probably not hard to find a used Pi for free.
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by msgilligan 10mo ago
I was in the ballpark!
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by msgilligan 10mo ago
POJO is one of my favorite acronyms. Along with POTS and COTS. POTS = Plain Old Telephony System COTS = Commercial Off-The-Shelf
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by msgilligan 11mo ago
And I think he's also acknowledging that not everybody has an application that needs these performance optimizations.
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by msgilligan 11mo ago
What are the most recent and/or highest performance of these? Update: And mainline support and lack of proprietary boot blobs are two separate criteria. I've heard that NXP offers the former but not the latter.
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by msgilligan 11mo ago
Well, a 5-year-old chip may not count as "recent" but the RK-3588 boot chain is "almost fully open-source" [1]. And it seems like it took a major amount of effort (from Collabora, others) to get it this far. I don't
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by msgilligan 1y ago
The "seated" option adds the feet and helps make it more recognizable.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
Although that date should really only apply to the `m6502.asm` file. I think for a historical archive accuracy should be important. For example when was it licensed under the MIT license, I assume fairly recently. The file date should refle
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by msgilligan 1y ago
The wikipedia definition is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share There are multiple methods of measuring multiple (related) things. What you are describing sounds more like the share of the installed base,
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by msgilligan 1y ago
Sounds depressing (i.e. ~5000 in a typical US election)
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by msgilligan 1y ago
I have diligently searched for this article online and have been unable to find it. (It might be on microfiche somewhere...) I did however, find this humorous anecdote: > A Lotus executive later joked, "The first month we shipped 62
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by msgilligan 1y ago
I've heard of companies doing things like this to "cook the books" for a quarterly report.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
There are multiple ways of calculating market share (e.g. units vs dollars or for different time periods) but assuming it is measured in dollars for a quarterly time period, how would you calculate the market share based upon my sample data
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by msgilligan 1y ago
That is how it was calculated in a published trade magazine (either Infoworld or MacWeek, I think) I'm not sure if the the analysis was done by a market research firm or the magazine.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
> The only way that makes any sense is if you subtract returns for sales made in a different period to the sales period you are considering Exactly. That's the way accounting works. They did not know in the previous quarter that the
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by msgilligan 1y ago
TIL about the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index and I wanted to test it with a weird corner-case that I remember. At one point in the late 1980's Microsoft had a GREATER than 100% market share of the Macintosh spreadsheet market. How is this
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by msgilligan 1y ago
Good point. They'd get whatever profit they make from the sale of tech to Intel, plus half of whatever benefit Intel receives.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
Well, to be fair, Intel stopped laying golden eggs years ago.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
> We need more of comparative posts The article focuses on a comparison between GUIX _system_ and NixOS. It would be interesting to see an equally thoughtful comparison that just focuses on GUIX vs. NIX as package managers used on anothe
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by msgilligan 1y ago
See my comment under the "There are two equals buttons?" parent.
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by msgilligan 1y ago
The key layout on the calculator (DA or desk accessory) exactly matches the numeric keypad of the Lisa keyboard, but the big '=' key is labelled 'Enter' on the physical keypad. You could use the keypad to use the calcula
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by msgilligan 1y ago
Well, he did fund this: https://www.thetech.org/education/
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by msgilligan 1y ago
With the latest EA release (EA 24) of JDK 25 [1], you no longer need the `--enable-preview`. You can also simplify the println to: void main() { IO.println("Hello, World!"); } JEP 445 has been followed by JEP 512 w
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by msgilligan 1y ago
I simplified the first example to: void main() { CompletableFuture<String> future = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(this::asyncMethod); future.thenAccept(result -> IO.println(result)); IO.println("Prints fi
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by msgilligan 1y ago
The article is paywalled, but the headline word "fraud" doesn't match the first few paragraphs of the article. "Regulation by enforcement" has been a real thing and a bad thing. You can't expect people to obey
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by msgilligan 2y ago
> Thus Kotlin will always be a guest language If you a writing libraries for the JVM, Java is preferred to Kotlin because it does not drag along a standard library dependency. To be fair there is Kotlin Multiplatform where this is not th
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by msgilligan 2y ago
> I'm inappropriately smug to have been proven right now, several decades later. I think you were proven right at least a decade ago. As you said, this is just the final whimper.
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by msgilligan 2y ago
I think a fork with a mission to aggressively rewrite the kernel into Rust would be a great experiment. Lessons learned could be applied to the more mainstream C/Rust kernel(s). Has anyone done that?

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