It also made me appreciate how good we're having it with current disk drives because I used a 15 yo HDD to backup my 128gb nvme ssd, so I can transfer to the new disk.
Booting on this piece of shit took 5 minutes and it was running at max reading speed while idle.
Man, it took me a whole hour to mentally do basic (pointer) arithmetic...
I couldn't for the life of me figure out the free space condition. A page later there is the definition of a function that gives you the length of a str variable then it hit me:
Storage allocation uses a Stack. allocp points to the first element of allocbuf, which is last object inserted. In effect, free space is ALLOCSIZE - (allocp - allocbuff) HENCE the fit condition.
To free pointer p, the condition is to be in allocp
@Tfmonkey I won't tell where I'm getting this but there are companies making moves on Ocean Energy mainly because most customers that are small islands that rely heavily on fossil fuels and want to attain energy autonomy as much as possible. They dont have the means to get their own sustainable energy sources so a crisis would greatly hinder them.
Just on the Ganzirri site, there is a potential Annual Energy Production (AEP) of 150GWh and a Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of 0.10€/kWh