Joker_vD

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721.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Is turning you head left and right really worse for the neck than rigidly keeping staring straight for hours? Somehow I find it hard to believe.
722.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Yeah, projecting onto a plane instead of a... spherical dome? means that things at the border of your screen are more visible than the things at its middle which definitely not how eyes usually work. It's especially glaring when the
723.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> better facilitates... the provision of legitimate goods and services. Like what? A risque lingerie shop at balls.exposed or something? And new TLDs don't in any way facilitate "better search", you know, nor "informa
724.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
The first blade shaves clean, the seconds shaves even cleaner... the 27th blade is polishing the jawbone.
725.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> the most straightforward way is to keep around a zombie that just contains that information and ensures the only identifier available to userspace at the time continues to reference the same pid. Again, that's only really needed i
726.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> Docker’s lack of init by default If anything, it's the problem with the design of the UNIX's process management, inherited thoughtlessly, which Docker decided to not deal with on its own. Why does there have to be a whole spe
727.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
An engineering team in Microsoft decides to switch from binary format to XML to save effort in the long run; even though it'll take some effort now, they have the competency, and can afford it. They are absolutely correct! But then the
728.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
sigh Just because it was not deliberately engineered to be prohitibively expensive to support does not mean that it can not be used to deliberately obstruct interoperability. It's really not that difficult a concept: if you want othe
729.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Mmm. But how does the package registry know which signing keys to trust from you? You can't just log in and upload a signing key because that means that anyone who stole your 2FA will log in and upload their own signing key, and then s
730.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Dude, we can't get fully automated underground trains/above-ground trams yet, and those things run on bolted-down, fixed tracks (which are completely clear when we're talking about the underground).
731.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
To try and relate to the native English speakers the impression of how the usual boilerplate feels like arbitrary magical incantations to novice programmers (and non-native English speakers, I guess).
732.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Well, what is "such a high frequency"? Different allocators have different breaking points, and the musl's one is apparently very low. > application code simply should not assume any specific performance behaviour from t
733.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
"Since forever" as in, "since the start of electronic computing"; we started printing the programs out on paper almost immediately. The 132 columns comes from the IBM's ancient line printers (circa 1957); most of ot
734.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Give a try to 132 mode, maybe? It was the standard paper width for printouts since, well, forever.
735.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
It wasn't; the original C compiler had two passes, and built expression trees in the first pass which the second pass would turn into assembly (and the original as on UNIX also had two passes).
736.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
The original C compiler had no need for headers or function prototypes/forward declarations. Of course, it also was not a single-pass compiler: it had two (and a half) passes and generated assembly that would then be assembled by a two
737.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Then again, all we have is one person claiming that they witnessed it, and since Gary Kildall himself dropped the case against Microsoft and never bothered to push it, we probably will never know for certain.
738.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
I am; for a more serious take see [0]. Now, there’s something wrong with saying “whales are phylogenetically just as closely related to bass, herring, and salmon as these three are related to each other.” What’s wrong with the stateme
739.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Oh, but you should not classify living beings according to their habitat and behaviour; classification based on the degree of the phylogenetical relationship is obviously superior and the only truly reasonble one.
740.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
The worst thing is, it's also documented in the SQLite's documentation. The file format is documented, and it describes the existence of this lock-page located at 1 GiB mark. How they've managed to implement support for SQLit
741.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
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742.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Actually, there has been some research into building exceptions on the "basically, passing std::exception* into every function and checking what's inside it on every return" idea, and it was about as fast as the traditional t
743.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> No, the complexity usually isn't hidden. It's the driver's job to do that. Why not, though? We used to have e.g. glass teletypes with microprocessors (8080/8051) in them that exposed a serial bus with very neat comm
744.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> Modern hardware is just so complicated it would take a long time to completely document, and even longer to write a driver for. You know, one'd think that having a complex hardware should make writing a driver easier because the
745.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Honestly, those many duplicates of the Latin alphabet in the Unicode tick me off way more than the emojis. Serif, sans serif (also with bold, italic, and bold italic variants as well), fraktur and bold fraktur, cursive and bold cursiv
746.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> Emojis aren't text Neither are digits, or control characters, strictly speaking. We really shouldn't have been able to have CR and LF explicitly embedded in the text files.
747.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Amazing! So if I ever were to write a blog post e.g. "Why ' ' != ' '", I guess I better title it "Why '\u2744\ufe0f' != '\x20'" to avoid confusion on HN. Edit: as demonstrated by t
748.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
Is the article about HN stripping emojis (and some other Unicode code points) from the title of another HN submission?
749.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> " ".length == 36 Heh. In my code, I always (idiosyncratically, I admit) spell '\x20' as '\x20' (or even just as 0x20, if it's C), unless it's a part of a multicharacter string e.g. "Hello wo
750.
by Joker_vD 1y ago
> You can opt out You can say that you want to opt out. What Anthropic will decide to do with your declaration is a different question.

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