Joker_vD

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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> I suspect many people don't even know they are uncountable. Well, most English speakers may not know the term, but they can feel the concept just fine. > In French we can have both: le logiciel as some uncountable mass, or un&#
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> MWI proponents have always argued decoherence leads to the entire world being put into superposition as decoherence just spreads entanglement to the environment. Well, duh . It's not like classic objects actually exist, or the cl
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Huh. Why is this emergency pool not statically allocated? Is it possible to tune the size of this pool on libc++ startup somehow? Because otherwise it absolutely should've been statically allocated.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
The use of these hook functions is not safe in multithreaded programs, and they are now deprecated. From glibc 2.24 onwards, the __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the API, and from glibc 2.34 onward
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Yeah, the commercial firms invented them all on their own just to keep tracking customers and oversharing whatever data they gather with random third parties while still getting to complain about stupid laws that require them to do so [0].
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> Microstamping requirements for guns Eh, sounds kinda reasonable. Ammo already has unique serial numbers embedded in the butt of every cartridge (in some countries, not sure about the US), and guns do leave somewhat unique marks on the
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
The quote is indeed about the law being a nose of wax, to borrow an old English phrase, and how with sympathetic enough courts almost any decision could be upheld. But it's nothing new, precisely the same crime can yield drastically di
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> $system_stack_size Does such thing even exist? And non-64 bit platforms the address space is small enough that with several threads of execution you may just be unable to grow your stack even up to $system_stack_size because it'd
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
No, it doesn't turn into this. Those two bytes of leftovers plus a flag are kept inside the stream generator that transforms bytes into code points, every time you pull it those two bytes are used as an initial accumulator in the fold
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
No, you'll just need to (potentially) keep the last 1-2 bytes of the previous chunk after each iteration. Come on, restartable UTF-8 APIs has been around for more than 30 years.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> Obviously I'm gonna be biased, but I'm pretty sure my version is also objectively superior: > - I can easily make mine from theirs That... doesn't make it superior? On the contrary, theirs can't be easily made ou
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
And fringe economical leanings, too. Just look at the GNU project: the firmware in printers is still of subpar quality, and GNU didn't really help to change that... and why on Earth would it, anyway?
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> It's fine for a project to have moral/ideological leanings As long as they align with the correct (i.e. yours) values, of course. When they adopt the wrong values, it's not fine.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
"Operating System Principles" (1973) by Per Brinch Hansen. A full microkernel OS (remake of RC-4000 from 1967) written in a concurrent dialect of Pascal, that also manages to make do without hardware protection support.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
A technology is a set of methods and tools for achieving the desired results (generally in a reliable and reproducible way). Or, in a broader sense of the word, it's the idea of applying scientific knowledge to solving practical proble
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> For every tech hype that has failed, there is another that's changed the world. Well, no, the ratio is most definitely not 1-to-1.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> I have always disliked the := as assignment operator convention. In these declarative languages, assignment is done frequently. > I also don't mind the -> for C pointers Mmm. These two opinions should be contradictory if hel
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Do you use it mostly as "labeled breaks" or to throw the values out of closures?
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> it takes time that could be allocated elsewhere And not scoring means that the security triage teams everywhere have to spend their time to assess the severity on their own, and in doing so, they mostly duplicate each other's work
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
As TFA states, it's a tad too reductive in practice.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> Greg’s argument is a hard truth: “Usage is different for each user.” He cannot score a vulnerability because he doesn’t know if you’re running a cloud-native microservice or a legacy industrial controller. What about having several u
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> And considering the massive efficiency of lighter-than-air transport What efficiency? You still need to orient it and propel it in the desired direction, unless you don't mind to simply float around on the wind (in which case, yes
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> There will always be a strong belief in artificially changing market behaviour by simply throwing money at it and hoping it sticks. Well, it can be made to work, you know. Late (in the XX century) industrialization stories are like tha
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Well, you don't. Everything you do has a carbon footprint, you know, haven't you heard? Everything.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
I am fairly certain they teach the gist of all of that in even in school-level textbooks on biology/geography.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Cargo trolleybuses? An interesting idea.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
> Many filesystems cannot represent empty directories. Like which ones? And how does mkdir(1) work on such filesystems?
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Why did Git decide to have no means to track fully empty directories? Like, I understand that e.g. doing "git rm *" inside a directory should probably delete this directory from the repository as well (although "git rm -r dir
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
The disadvantage is that a "goto fail" can easily happen with this approach. And it actually had happened in the wild.
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by Joker_vD 8mo ago
Well, unless you're on Windows :D Even on Windows XP Home Edition I could open a million file handles with no problems. Seriously, why is default ulimit on file descriptors on Linux measly 1024?

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