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Greg Utas wrote: Covid hasn't interfered with my plans
Greg Utas wrote: lockdown has wrecked tennis and fitness training for the next month
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My tennis pro, fitness trainer, and I would all carry on despite COVID, but control freaks have wrecked that.
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What holiday plans?
Most Israelis celebrate the Jewish new year, which falls in September or October of the civil calendar. Some celebrate the civil new year, mostly those of Soviet extraction ("Novi God"). It isn't an official holiday here.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm retired. We don't get holidays.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I intend to spend this holiday weekend putting my side-by-side (Teryx4) back together. Decided to remove and replace/upgrade all of the suspension components, and add much larger tires. What a task...
I recently started book seven of The Wheel of Time (A Crown of Swords) which I intend to read on as well. A very nice high fantasy series spanning 14 books. Worth a read if fantasy is your thing.
I'll probably finish up Horizon Zero Dawn on PC too. Been slowly working on 100% completion on it and the expansion. One of my top ten favorite games of all time.
Finally, put in some work on a Xamarin app I've been working with this last year. So much left to do.
Oh, and some Mario Kart on the Switch with the kids.
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Monolith appears in Woodstock cornfield... and disappears a couple of days later.
(Daily Freeman, 28th December, 2020)
Someone had a lot of fun with this one...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Alas:
Quote: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons
We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU blah blah blah blaaaaaaaaah
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Google "Hide my a$$" ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm kind of a genius with these new Forum Reactions.
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Well, it works for me in Israel.
TL;DR version: Someone placed a wooden replica of the 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith in a field over Christmas, disappearing it on Sunday.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Well, it works for me in Israel. That's another way to say: "Well... it works fine in my computer"
I had a better concept of you Daniel
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I could have suggested using a VPN, but I didn't really think that a funny news article is worth wasting that much time & effort. Perhaps I was mistaken...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Same here, but from tomorrow ...
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Quote: This is tomorrow's callin'
Wishin` you were here Have a happy new year!
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RickZeeland wrote: Have a happy new year! You too. Let's all hope that it is an improvement on 2020.
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In looking at this JPL/Nasa code, it makes references to doing this and that for "performance".
In some cases, their loop variable is an int; in others a short; in others a long.
Given a choice which is best?
Probably an int, unless you "need" a long.
Ironic that for the sake of "storage" (2 bytes), they've sacrificed performance.
asp.net - Why should I use int instead of a byte or short in C# - Stack Overflow
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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what does the compiler turn those into and what's the CPU word size?
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You mean it might be code that assumes a particular multi-platform optimizing compiler?
And only if the index has no other function than to "iterate"?
And refactoring is not an option?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I mean: where does the code in question run? And what does the compiler generate, and how does that mesh with the target CPU?
If it's hardware that's going to space, it's probably not running on a common commercial CPU, so you can't make assumptions about word size and what a 'short' is, etc..
[I don't actually know which code you're talking about]
Gerry Schmitz wrote: And refactoring is not an option?
if it's commented as being there for performance reasons, you can probably assume it was profiled and tested for performance.
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You make a lot of assumptions.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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WTF.
if you don't know anything about the hardware that runs it, you can't make assumptions about the software.
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It can run on anything with a C compiler. I could put it on my phone / watch.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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maybe it can run on anything with a C compiler ... as long as it was deliberately written to work on any OS with any CRT implementation, using no system-specific libraries, and making no assumptions about the underlying hardware.
the C spec only specifies minimum sizes for short, int and long. int and short must be at least 16 bits. long must be at least 32 bits.
so what any of those types means in terms of storage and CPU handling (aka performance) depends on the compiler and the target architecture.
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They've built a Python shell for it. Does that help or confuse?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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No, your assessment that they're making an invalid tradeoff is the assumption. JPL writes real-time code for memory limited systems that cannot fail. Their use case is far different from almost everyone else.
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