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There are no technical reasons. The issue is that the kernel and glibc are not one coherent whole because they were always developed by two unrelated groups. glibc wasn't even designed for Linux, but for the GNU kernel. The end result
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On all other platforms, they're an implementation detail behind the system libraries. Yes and this is by design, out of necessity, taught by experience. Commercial customers back in the day paid lots and lots of money, so solutions h
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This is exactly why BSD and illumos based operating systems ship libc, the kernel and userland (/usr) as one coherent whole. Perhaps now, reading the LWN article, people who are comfortable with GNU/Linux will start to realize it&
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Yes, but that's the original and correct one, true to its English language roots. It's what people here do a lot as opposed to system engineering.
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Not a chance. There was no fiddling, and the end result was crystal clear: disable copy protection and release the cracked version before any of the other groups do. For lots of commercial copy protections, the steps or concepts to disable
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"No mention of the TURBO 250 loader that dominated my childhood." I'll mention it: Turbo 250D by Mr. Z of TRIAD! (The "D" version implemented <-D or DSAVE, which could save a large file back to a floppy disk from
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And what a glorious, joyous life it was! I'm proud of having been a software pirate. It was a great time, especially if one was a computer enthusiast like I was. 1987 on a Commodore64. If you were into computers, probably the only othe
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Hacking is putting something together quickly, just enough so that it barely works. Bypassing, disabling, removing a copy protection or extracting the data from a protected medium is cracking, the metaphor being that the protection cracked
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It can't do it with Helium, which was used to test whether it is operational. Still doesn't make searching for nuclear alternatives legitimate or warranted.
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There is no need for better nuclear power; the stellarator works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
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I have car. When infotainment, firmware have delay between press keys. If press too fast twice in a row, infotainment lose second event because firmware too slow. Please help.
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"We had made the product so easy to use and so important, that we had out-engineered ourselves." Yeah, so "easy" that we had to debug and extend microdhcp code to properly support PXE booting and add option 150 because y
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In all my decades of working with computers, redhat was by far the worst company with the most incompetent staff that I've encountered. redhat's "engineers" preferred to spend time arguing with their customers rather the
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What difference does it make how one calls it if I have to program the same way I'd have to program if I were using object oriented paradigm? Or even worse, if I'm forced to debug and understand code written in object-oriented sty
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No, functional programming is a paradigm. An algorithm is a language independent, abstract description of solving a specific task, like for instance searching or sorting.
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Functional of course.
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I would. That's the whole point: in object-oriented programming, everything revolves around the state machine, whereas in functional programming, every function is idempotent and the state machine irrelevant. Lisp is a good example of
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"Functional and OO aren't mutually exclusive." They must by definition be. I disagree vehemently with your statement. If you were correct, then there would be absolutely no point to programming "functionally", it wo
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"Even in many functional languages, you typically want some OO" No, never, because it makes the state machine incredibly hard to follow and an absolute nightmare to debug. From experience.
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lorry.pickup(&rustfest_envelope); lorry.done(); looks like methods on an object ("lorry") to me. Is it something else?
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From that writeup, it seems like one is forced to program Rust in an object oriented manner. Is it possible to program it in a functional manner like Lisp, or a procedural manner like BASIC or assembler?
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No, this guy doesn't know anything but Windows.
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They shouldn't, but they do because understanding a little bit of mathematics is at a premium these days and it's very much in vogue to crap all over computer science majors even though we had the same kind of mathematics curricul
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I was once accused by a Windows C++ programmer who just couldn't grok UNIX to be a "string cutter", but honestly, there is nothing so viscerally information technology as extract-transform-load. The irony of his accusation wa
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"At my company we engineers are required to come up with a design doc and share with the whole org for feedback then a design meeting that takes place every week." Wow, true system engineering! Your company sounds like a good plac
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I see this every day in my job. He so nailed the problems. Data scientists must be made responsible and accountable end-to-end for their solutions. And they must be grilled on operational deployability and maintanability before, during and
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I disagree about being passive-aggressive because I don't think that I was, nor was that my intent. In a world where a subtle, gentle way of saying "please do your homework before stating something like 'we are left with a fe
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Neither Gandalf nor the Balrog could really be killed, in spite of Gandalf implying it, because they are both Maiar, the powers of the world, and their existence is bound to that of Arda. To kill them, Arda would have to be destroyed. Same
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"I was referring to morals in context of the written universe, not in ours. JY characters regularly confront situations where they are forced to question their own personal code. ... ... ... JY does not offer a moral lesson here, he si
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"We leave LOTR feeling for the most part satisfied by the story." I leave LotR feeling terrible pain, loss, and sadness: the main protagonists are forced into exile to another world (planet), Valinor; they can never come back; the

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