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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Can confirm. After going remote, my average work day went from ~6 hours to just 2 hours within a year.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
When I worked at a bank, the DEI initiatives were limited to documenting in my yearly review how many rainbow cakes I ate each year and counting my participation in various celebrations. But I think I was also a beneficiary of DEI, because
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Cudos to Zortech C
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Those were not conceptual passes, but actual standalone programs executed in that order, to compile a C program. Each program operated within 64KB RAM, shared with the OS and all the drivers.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
If it were so, there would be no one to ask that question.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
CPP C0 C1 C2 AS LD And an optional AR
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Entropy is always increasing in a closed system, but locally it can decrease, if energy is supplied from the outside. Us evolving on Earth comes at the expense of increased entropy of the Sun.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
That's not a summary. That's a number of quotes demonstrating Mr. Kernighan's judgements about PL virtues that didn't stand the test of time.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
That definitely was a big deal in the 80s when I used it. You could compile a program in seconds, all in memory, while a C program needed 5 passes, each pass writing and reading from quite slow hard disks of the time.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Some of his grievances: Lack of external static storage class, the pinnacle of C programming. Lack of oh so powerful C strings, terminating in zero (hopefully). "There is no way to override the type mechanism when necessary, nothing an
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Computers are definitely better than wives :)
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
I am partially bedridden ... so far mackbook air remoting to my desktop PC looks like the best solution - it's light, sturdy, stays cool, has decent resolution and excellent battery life. The only thing I don't like is non-standar
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Do you wear both VR and regular glasses? I'm not sure the VR set can accommodate cylinder and astigmatism of my prescription lenses.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
When they say stock market returns 7% on average, it's >7% for the insiders/manipulators and <7% for the regular Joe.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
That's the other way around - customers don't give a crap about longevity and maintenance, and two craps about landfills and environment.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Doesn't need to move production to Vietnam. Needs to move finished product to Vietnam and replace "Made in China" sticker with "Made in Vietnam" one. As to the poor part, after Xi is done with dumping treasuries, an
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
C was specifically designed to map 1:1 onto PDP-11 assembly. For example, the '++' operator was created solely to represent auto-increment instructions like TST (R0)+.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Related; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617352 North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
The feeling of configuring my new shiny laptop is pretty similar to the feeling of learning to use my first logarithmic ruler. But it all started with my granny's abacus.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
I just ignore all reviews with more than 2 stars.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
The author needs to build furniture to pay for their food and stay. What Four Seasons.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Visited UK recently, wandered around south-east counties. Didn't feel like a poor country. In poor countries, things are cheap. In UK, things are expensive, so people have money.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
>>People want their factories back. Did you ever work at a factory? I did. I would most certainly prefer to collect a pension and play video games (which I do now in retirement). Anyone would.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Software is easily pirated. It is official policy in Russia now to pirate the software used by enterprises (like SAP, Autocad etc), to own the western libs.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
And the reason given is: "it brings complexity very few developers understand" Someone tell this guy about GPUs ...
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Solution for AI Scrapers?
1 points by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago|0 comments
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
That could be shortened to names.ForEach(name=>Console.WriteLine($"Hello, {name}! Enjoy your C#"));
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
oops ... should have googled it before submitting
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
I understand there were several leaks, one in 2022 due to a bug, and the new leak of Jan 2025, probably by a disgruntled employee.
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by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
I was banned from Twitter some 15 years ago, guess my email is up there.

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