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    What was your greatest achievement in coding?

    me: "What did HW vendor say?" Other Engineer(OE): "That we should fix that in SW." me: "I see, so we shall submit a bug report to the supplier of the BSP, yes?" OE: "Yes... why are you grinning?" me: "Because that is the same company. And there is no ****ing way to do that in SW."
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    Solved Stuck installing wine on 15.0-RELEASE

    Not necessarily. FreeBSD15 will not support 386 as the system it runs on. It does not mean you can't run 32 bit software on the system that works on 64 bit.
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    a fun thing you learn about reading NTSB airline crash reports...

    My dad used to bring home the detailed behind-the-scenes crash reports for me to read. You have no idea how often I asked "Who the everglowing F! greenlit this $EXPLETIVE??"
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    What was your greatest achievement in coding?

    Ouch, I just got mugged down memory lane. Having to tell the vendor of some $$$HW that they messed up something really creative so their own test codes worked but they did not see that every second cache line would malfunction (write back problems). You see that when you use more address space...
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    What was your greatest achievement in coding?

    The longer I worked in automotive software, the more I liked riding my bike and walking places.
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    ... and still ugly as sin ...
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    What was your greatest achievement in coding?

    Comming up with misaligned return address traps so a profiler would pick up the right return point. On the 68k, code needs to be at even locations. So, when you profile your code, you patch all the function entries but can not patch all the exit places to stop the clock for that frame. Here...
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    Internet TV

    obligatory xkcd
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    Internet TV

    Interesting. I remember people throwing their TV out of the window when we lost in soccer... So, what's worse?
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    Internet TV

    I use to say "cooking is caring". IMHO any place that has no food to speak of has a cultural problem.
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    drhowarddrfine When you only test local sales, you get only a small slice of what is available. Tarifing and taxing the rest has an impact here. And yes, it bites you more than you may think. I almost crashed into the guard rails when I saw that, laughing. That place is on my work commute...
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    Internet TV

    Also from me, this is a nugget!
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    That is a bonus in disguise. The parking garages need to make sure they only have X tons of weight per floor area, so they needed to reduce the number of parking spots - makeing the parking spots wider in the process.
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    Is that the same type of consumer reports that only see the world as the US and nothing else? Because over here, this "SUV" can not be #1 because it is bloody banned by every safety code from being on the road. Also, there are some very interesting stickers that Tesla owners place on their cars...
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    Mind you, that was after we first were among the pioneers of green energy and that fell then to the conservatives and the lobbyists. Wind and Solar got "Altmeierd", and the Chinese saw that the things were working and picked up the ball. The same with magnetic trains. We build the test range...
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    C++ Looking for a functioning IDE for C++

    I can't really agree to that. Indexing, for example the complete RTEMS code base, takes not that long to start with. KDevelop knows what a makefile is and offers the build targets to be made in the IDE, also the project gets imported from a raw directory. The indexer can take some time, but it...
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    drhowarddrfine Ah, ok. That is the loophole. They have brought the workers to construct the factory, they are not regular factory workers. For the background: Orban currently on the naughty list of many a state leaders of the EU, and I very much doubt he would risk giving them a legal excuse...
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    I remember an episode of top gear where Clarkson took a Corvette around the track and after the first round things started to rattle and fall off.
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    A rant about bying online difference different countries.

    Source? That could invite a serious stomping of your fourth point of contact from Brussels, and that is among the last things the powers that be want to have right now.
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    Inside mission control

    I'd imagine the structural size of elements in there is so wide that radiation does not matter much. Like we say, "mechanics milled from a massive block" They have. Once they had a sonic resonance wave moving around the chamber and when it aligned with the edge - Well, an engine test place is...
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