rleigh

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by rleigh 2mo ago
As I said, no individual has the capacity to fix this. When it comes to compatibility, different companies and groups make different tradeoffs. Last week, I had to use a (brand new) datalogger. It came with a CD, and instructions for inst
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by rleigh 2mo ago
I've been developing open source software since the late '90s. I was a Debian developer for nearly 15 years. I stopped actively participating in this stuff about 10 years ago. I'm involved in a few libraries and that'
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by rleigh 2mo ago
I got downgraded for the first time today. Because I was using a library with the characters "bio" in it. The classifier is strict beyond reason. It got the name from a commit message in the git history (wasn't even in my
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by rleigh 4mo ago
The enclosure is the real added value, hardware-wise; and the H2D has even better environmental control (active heating and cooling of chamber). While the open-source part of me loves the more open nature of Prusa, the commercial-minded par
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by rleigh 5mo ago
Let me just throw in: ETL State Chart and Hierarchial FSM https://www.etlcpp.com/state_chart.html and https://www.etlcpp.com/hfsm.html Quantum Leaps https://www.state-machine.com I've used
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by rleigh 5mo ago
There are plenty of embedded chips which only provide RMII. No RGMII or alternatives.
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by rleigh 5mo ago
To truly fix this would require revisiting of some very old fundamentals. The C0 control set (ASCII 0x00 to 0x1F) contains all sorts of esoteric functions, most of which are generally unused, and only a few of which are useful and could be
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by rleigh 5mo ago
This is broadly correct, but not entirely. Terminals have historically had additional capabilities, be that ringing a bell (BEL) or outputting to a line printer. There are escape codes dedicated to doing file/tape access and running
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by rleigh 5mo ago
True, I missed that. I suppose with symlinks you have the reverse problem: you can point to deleted filenames and then have broken links. The cycle detection is still an issue though--it has indeterminate complexity and the graph can be m
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by rleigh 5mo ago
Historically, it made deletion rather difficult with some problematic edge-cases. You could unlink a directory and create an orphan cycle that would never be deleted. Combine that with race conditions on a multi-user systems, plus the ind
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by rleigh 6mo ago
When they used to have to fit the whole thing onto six floppy discs, it had to be constrained in size and scope. Today there are no constraints and it really shows. I think having hard constraints, be it storage, memory, cpu, update distr
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by rleigh 6mo ago
Likely. Whenever I see that it usually means it itself created the test failures but won't admit to it!
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by rleigh 6mo ago
Just for a bit of balance, another book I bought was the ZYNQ book and companion materials. It's made by a university in collaboration with Xilinx. They don't hide that because it's niche and low volume, they used a print-o
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by rleigh 6mo ago
It's not just Amazon. I bought a copy of an ARM assembly book from a proper bookseller (Blackwells) which was a proper hardback for a high price--something like £80, and I received a print-on-demand mess with a hardcover. The print w
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by rleigh 8mo ago
If it loads at all. The last two days, the start menu refuses to launch it when you click on it. The lack of quality in Windows is simply astonishing. And the new start menu and taskbar are terrible. Quite how a company can transform a p
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by rleigh 8mo ago
I started on the cheapest £15/mo "Pro" plan and it was great for home use when I'd do a bit of coding in the evenings only, but it wasn't really that usable with Opus--you can burn through your session allowance in
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by rleigh 8mo ago
I've found it to be terrible when you allow it to be creative. Constrain it, and it does much better. Have you tried the planning mode? Ask it to review the codebase and identify defects, but don't let it make any changes until
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by rleigh 1y ago
It's the other way around. It's the GPL which is incompatible with the CDDL (and many other licences). The CDDL is actually very permissive. You can combine it with anything, including proprietary licences.
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by rleigh 1y ago
Yes, this is a prime example of completely gratuitous breakage. The change adds zero value. It's a deliberate API break. And it could have been made a non-breaking change all for the sake of a single one-line macro or inline function
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by rleigh 1y ago
Recently it's got really bad though. The taskbar is badly broken. * If you use auto-hide, it won't show when some applications are open. Edge in particular is bad. * Some applications simply don't show on the taskbar at all
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by rleigh 1y ago
And also in QtXmlPatterns (now also retired). Just for the record, Xalan-C is even less maintained than libxslt. It had no releases for over a decade, and I made a final 1.12 release in 2020 adding CMake support, since the existing builds
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by rleigh 1y ago
It's more than generous. You can run it with much less resource utilisation than this. It only needs a few tens of kilobytes of flash (and you can cut it right back if you drop bits you don't need in the library code). 32 KiB i
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by rleigh 1y ago
The main source of complexity isn't the .deb format, but the tooling and infrastructure around the format. It's mired in overcomplexity, and it's very much still in a '90s mindset of building locally with multiple lay
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by rleigh 2y ago
Honestly, I found that one of the most user-hostile workflows they implemented to date. It's really obnoxious. The number of times I've wanted to save in their native XCF file format is... zero. But I always want to save in a st
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by rleigh 2y ago
It really depends upon the target market. That's fine for hobbyists. But I use the Bambu X1 for small-scale prototyping in a company, and it has to be usable out of the box. We can't justify an entire week of labour for each pr
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by rleigh 2y ago
sbuild is at least 25 years old, it might be nearer to 30 at this point. I did a lot of cleanup of it during the mid-2000s, including adding the schroot support to it which is being removed here, and that included abstracting virtualisatio
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by rleigh 2y ago
Good to see schroot is being replaced in sbuild, given that it's nearly 20 years old and no longer a cutting-edge solution to the problem of creating build environments. Can't believe time flies that fast since I wrote it in 2005
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by rleigh 2y ago
And Siemens SolidEdge is totally free for hobbyist use.
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by rleigh 2y ago
It's because these tools are used to deliver high quality physical products on time and on budget with no scope or interest in messing around with software defects. These tools are treated like physical tools. It's worth paying
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by rleigh 2y ago
They are both part of the United Kingdom (which is the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland). Great Britain the name of the island both are located upon. England and Scotland will always be a part of Britain, because that's a

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