sai_c

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by sai_c 3y ago
No, I actually have a bunch of older Macs I keep running for certain experiments.
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by sai_c 3y ago
Whoa, thanks for the heads-up. I've been reading news about Zig from time to time, and planned giving it an honest try at 1.0 (whenever that may be) but it seems I'm out of luck. Do you, by chance, know the reasoning behind this s
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by sai_c 3y ago
If I were a Rust user, I'd be really afraid of what will happen to Rust when Microsoft gets hold of it in any way. Just look at what happened to C++ after it got popular because of Windows/Visual C++ and the strong ties between Mi
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by sai_c 3y ago
Sounds like there is money to be made, no?
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by sai_c 3y ago
I can't help it, but reading Dom McLaughlin's testimony (scroll down to the examples) "...let's just say I'm not the most photogenic person..." makes me want to instantly go out and hunt down every picture of m
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by sai_c 4y ago
I love vim. It's a fantastic OS. Unfortunately it lacks a good editor.
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by sai_c 4y ago
Does anyone know what "Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices." exactly means? In Germany I could imagine it to be "You're fired. Go to the Arbeitsagentur and find a new job". Of course
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by sai_c 4y ago
The premise of a space craft traveling the long distance from earth to Mars and then crashing because of a unit mismatch is very amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
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by sai_c 4y ago
There is only one point around the whole Oumuamua topic for me, that makes me a bit sad. Extraterrestrial or not is not it, but that we had no means to just fly there (with or without humans) and checkout what it is. Even worse, it seems no
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by sai_c 4y ago
This has nothing to do with C, and everything with its intended problem domain. You can get into pointer and memory errors in C++, Rust and Ada. All of them low-level system languages. Sure, those errors might be harder to produce, but not
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by sai_c 4y ago
Not to be nitpicking, but there is a free(), and it is called "Unchecked deallocation". See https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05aarm... .
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by sai_c 4y ago
As someone who started his own company fifteen years ago I can relate. Being german, the process itself was not that much of a hassle. But the financial aspect of having to pay for so many things i do not need or want (IHK membership, Genos
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by sai_c 4y ago
From the front page: "Your program will also boot on bare metal too. In other words, you've written a normal textbook C program, and thanks to Cosmopolitan's low-level linker magic, you've effectively created your own op
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by sai_c 4y ago
Have an upvote for making my day :-).
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by sai_c 4y ago
Made my day :-).
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by sai_c 4y ago
I hope i did not understand you wrong, but what I meant was the following. We create electric energy from source X. The electric energy is mutated to heat, or mechanical energy or what not (computers produce heat, electric cars mutate it in
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by sai_c 4y ago
Could someone please enlighten a physics noob? As i understand it, nuclear fusion could (as soon as really achieved, i.e. there exist commercial plants) provide more energy than we are currently producing by all other methods. And if we can
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by sai_c 4y ago
I'm honestly curios, so please bear with me. All the HN threads about recruiting mention this. I get the argument, and yes, there seems to be no better way than to test the candidate (no matter if it is a take home test, online, or ons
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by sai_c 4y ago
> This person should already have enough of a reputation to get a job at many companies, if their work is public enough. But then why do people with that kind of reputation still (at certain companies) have to jump through these hoops?
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by sai_c 4y ago
That's why you don't use it on small microcontrollers (8/16 bit). And if you absolutely have to, use it once on startup to implement a dynamic memory pool.
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by sai_c 4y ago
If you ask an embedded developer (as in bare metal, no OS), who is also into electronics, instant gratification and especially instant feedback, is what actually makes you choose this path of interest in the first place. It's a matter
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by sai_c 4y ago
"2. Society stopped valuing education as much. While once educators traded lower pay for the prestige of being a professor they can’t really say it is a worthy trade anymore as a vocal minority do not value education at all." I ca
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by sai_c 4y ago
Simple. Not to fall for marketing slogans and false promises, and not to rely too much on the results of technology. If you know (at least basically) how the sausage is made, you will know it does not work without meat.
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by sai_c 4y ago
Thank you very much for answering, although it is a very personal thing to ask about. I guess I should get an official opinion. Nevertheless, diagnosed or not, virtualizing people seems like it could work for me, although it seems to take a
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by sai_c 4y ago
Have an upvote from me and thank you so much for this comment. This describes perfectly my own state of mind. I've noticed having problems communicating my thoughts about my code in meetings, but simply could not point a finger at the
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by sai_c 5y ago
How many people live in poverty, sickness and war in this day and age despite all scientific progress. Also, how many have no hope for the better ever, despite scientific progress. How many of those people will get the vaccine you mentioned
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by sai_c 5y ago
I said "mere mortals " in my initial post. Scientists are not mere mortals. Me, the little not-scientist is ;-).
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by sai_c 5y ago
Same question as to another poster. What if we are, by definition, not smart enough to ever understand those new physics. If we humans simply aren't that smart?
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by sai_c 5y ago
Okay i see. But how would it change your life? How long would you be excited?
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by sai_c 5y ago
Anti-intellectual? Oh come on. I didn't talk about things we don't understand at first, but about never ever. Simply because we might not be capable of that. You seem to think we humans are so smart, that we can understand everyth

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