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dandy72 wrote: But imagine the amount of goodwill they'd get if only a group of people were assigned the menial task of fixing known issues.
You're preaching to the choir ...
I've been on a few projects where similar decisions were made ... didn't understand it then, don't understand it now.
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I used the predecessor of Visual Studio, 16-bit Visual C++ 1.0 with MFC 2.0, back in 93. Before that it was MS C/C++ ver 7, and Turbo Pascal. IMHO, VC++ 6.0 which came later was such an excellent IDE to live and work in. These days, working in VS2017, having gone thru all those versions, I miss some things. VS2008 is still a fav, the way the child windows work is much more productive than later versions. Yes, I'm old.
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I remember using Turbo Pascal rev 1.0 on an Osborne "luggable." What a joy that everything fit on the double-density upgraded 180K (I think it was) floppy! Even better that I could open the floppy drive & remove the disk so that any bugs (yes, there were a few....) in the switch-the-memory-bank-to-access-some-hardware code had issues.
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Turbo Pascal was such a pleasure. Now I use C# and thank Anders Hejlsberg for both. Kinda funny I started my coding career and will be ending it with two of his inventions.
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After having fought Eclipse and Android Dev Studio, I keep returning to VS. Even the free community version is better than almost every other IDE on the market.
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I started with a Apple /// and basic not sure I had a IDE
Moved to Microsoft and obtained a copy of Visual Basic 6 Professional new in the box
for $50.00 all I knew was that was a great price
So when support went away for VB 6 I wanted to write for Windows with JavaFX
Only two IDE's were NetBeans and Eclipse. Had two computers so Eclipse on one and NetBeans
on the other.
Learning curve with Eclipse was steep compared to NetBeans
JavaFX was abandoned by a company I despise Oracle
Moved on to Visual Studio 2019 what a joy other than all the junk it puts in my Temp folder it has YES been a joy to use. Multiple platform support FREE
on my OLD OS Windows 7 64bit
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I agree 100%. I have used the MS development IDE since they introduced it in Visual Basic in 1991, then forward into Visual Studio for .NET around 2000.
The main thing VS needs is a visual designer functionally on par with the existing one for WinForms (which dates back to VB in the 90s and updated well over the years) to bring that same rapid application development (i.e. drag and drop UI building) to MAUI, WinUI3, and Blazor. Components like "Hot Reload" don't even come close to improving the productivity and quality of the UI like a visual designer does.
Without visual designers, just how "Visual" is Visual Studio?
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Halp! (not really)
I have a very similar problem.
I have two separate processors in one die. They can share memory. The memory isn't all in one flat region, but rather, it is partitioned out into memory with different properties, like tightly coupled memory geared for instructions or geared for data (ARM is modified harvard architecture)
It's like this
Region Start address End address Size Free Used Usage (%)
BOARD_FLASH 0x30000000 0x31000000 16777216 16446388 330828 1.97%
SRAM_DTC_cm7 0x20000000 0x20040000 262144 253132 9012 3.44%
SRAM_ITC_cm7 0x0 0x40000 262144 262096 48 0.02%
SRAM_OC1 0x20240000 0x202c0000 524288 276328 247960 47.29%
SRAM_OC2 0x202c0000 0x20340000 524288 524288 0 0.00%
SRAM_OC_ECC1 0x20340000 0x20350000 65536 65536 0 0.00%
SRAM_OC_ECC2 0x20350000 0x20360000 65536 65536 0 0.00%
BOARD_SDRAM 0x80000000 0x83000000 50331648 50331648 0 0.00%
NCACHE_REGION 0x83000000 0x84000000 16777216 16777216 0 0.00%
The trick is there are two sets of these, one for each core, and the program code, heap, and stack cannot interfere with memory from the other core. Other than that it is possible to share memory and I plan to in order to enable communication between cores.
So it's a lot like laying out partition tables, but interleaving two sets of tables together with certain overlapping and non-overlapping sections. Also certain sections have to be at certain locations in order to facilitate the ROM actually running the code.
For a certain type of mind this is easy. For me, not so much.
I don't actually need help. I'll figure it out, but maybe some of you have felt similar pain.
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All the time. GParted live USB stick saves the day every time.
>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I wish I had a snappy tool like that. All I've got is NXP's Eclipse based MCUxpresso IDE, and its tables are little better than a CSV editor. In fact, that's pretty much what it is.
I was thinking about making some kind of calculator in C# but the effort probably won't pay for itself for quite some time.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I was thinking about making some kind of calculator in C#
Seems like you could create something 'good enough' using [insert spreadsheet app of choice here; default = Excel].
Software Zen: delete this;
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True. That wasn't even on my radar. 
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This comment was based on hard-won experience.
Once upon a time I spent a couple days writing an app to compute some values and the math wouldn't come out the way I thought it should. I fired up Excel to test the calculations and in less than an hour I had verified them plus calculated the values I needed  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Researchers demonstrate 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity[^]
Yes, you heard that right: petabit - 100+ terabyte CDs. High density, low power, long life.
And this is a prototype - so expect production to be closer to petabyte if it ever gets there. 
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This is a remarkable achievement, but the big issues here are access speed, reliability, retention period, and cost. For example, we already know how to encode data in much higher densities as DNA bases (2bits/base), but the access speed and cost make this impractical as a data storage method.
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'd rather petacat.
I'd lose my files in something so vast.
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You can pet mine if you want - just don't rub his tummy. 
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You sound like you're saying 640 terabytes is enough for anyone. 
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heh.
maybe one day it won't be. But right now, to fill that would mean a sea of files I'd never be able to navigate in one lifetime.
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A few decades ago one of my old friends was evaluating a new storage technology for all the x-ray images and a couple dozen other digital high-resolution image formats. Essentially it consisted of the 'foil' of CD-ROMs, but on a flexible substrate, cut to tape half an inch wide, and wound up on a reel, 3600 feet per reel.
The capacity was enormous - this university hospital, among the bigger ones in Norway, estimated that they could store all their images on a single tape reel a year - maybe two, if the future brought other kinds of imaging equipment. They estimated that all of Western Europe might need maybe a hundred reels a year. Maybe a few hundred reels.
This is the reason why they rejected the technology: The capacity was too high. No manufacturer will keep up a production of a few hundred rolls of tape a year - maybe a thousand, for the entire world. A million? Probably not. Ten million? Maybe. But a few hundred: No, absolutely no.
They were right: The technology never made it past the demo stage.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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It's estimated that ignoring physical data (books, papers, ...) we as a planet currently store over 60 zettabytes (1 billion terabytes), and that 90% of that data was created in the last two years. And apparently, the volume of data in the world doubles in size every two years.
Back in 2008, Google alone was processing 20 petabytes a day. Throw in Farcebok, tiktok, twatter, and the cloud and gawd know how much is processed today.
The important thing to remember is that data expands to fill available space (plus 10%)
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OriginalGriff wrote: data expands to fill available space (plus 10%)
Dark Data! The next bleeding edge field of study!
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jeron1 wrote: Dark Data
Latest theory: Dark Matter is made of the diskettes spewed all over the Universe by AOL Intergalactic.
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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>64
It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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And if we distill the data to valuable information, we probably require less than 1 petabyte of storage per annum. The rest is Tik-Tik videos, Cat videos, repetitive films (all with the same theme), junk data, and assorted babble.
What a waste of hardware. 
(OTOH, selling the hardware enables my employer, Western Digital, to keep me employed, so it's not all loss...)
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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