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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…

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 …

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 mess…

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 lo…

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…

There are plenty of embedded chips which only provide RMII. No RGMII or alternatives.

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 genera…

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 c…

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 thou…

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 …

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 …

Likely. Whenever I see that it usually means it itself created the test failures but won't admit to it!

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'…

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…

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 ta…

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…

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 d…

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, inclu…

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 t…

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 applicati…

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 relea…

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 bit…

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 …

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 form…

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…