Joker_vD

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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> stopping the Queen and others from enacting restrictive and harmful policy Like regulating the production, sales, and use of opiates. Or tightly restricting the abortions. Or forcing people to wear seatbelts while driving (and two year
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Well, then I just prompt Claude and get SIMD without having to learn it /s
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
The 4th, 5th, 7th do have such provisions. And despite the 1th amendment prohibiting the Congress from "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", both war-time censorship and prohibition of pacifist/anti-war propag
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
No, glibc isn't backwards compatible; I've had instances when the loader would refuse to load the executable because the installed glibc is too new for it.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> Fixed point numbers to the rescue! > a diagram that shows that dividing 0x7F (127) by 243 and then multiplying by 256 results in 0x86 (134) > Tada! How... how does that help with anything? > Now digits can be easily e
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
No, not really. The macaroni are formed by squeezing the dough through the openings, while the cartridge cases are made by stretching small metallic disks into cylindrical shape (and then stamping the bottom to make it flat and have a prope
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> that sandboxing should be a first-class integral part of every harness, Essentially, what you want is that the people who produce harnesses like OpenCode to also implement proper sandboxing and security. Why... why do you believe they&
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Yes, it does.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
So is a pasta factory. Today it rolls and forms macaroni, tomorrow it makes bullets. Have you ever wondered why rigatoni are so wide? That's why.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
The universality of "I want the rule of law!.. unless I dislike the laws, of course" stance is truly depressing. I swear, were it not for rather strict ground-level prohibitions in the constitutions, we'd all went back to all
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
I don't know if you've ever read any Bill/Declaration of Rights, but they all have "this right shall not be violated unless the law allows it" provisions. Many of them even have "oh, and requiring state licen
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Do you not realize that this argument applies equally well both against pro-choice and against pro-lifers? It does, therefore it is entirely invalid and irrelevant. Yes, those people with "false beliefs". Ah, if only we could fo
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> Every language has to decide if the calling convention is part of the function signature or not Well, of course it is. If you get the calling convention wrong, then you can't actually reliably call the function. I've seen thi
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Eh, both are about the same? With the source-level API changes, you can patch the source code or, you know, just keep using the already existing binaries, or keep using the old compilers. But if you break ABI, you can't keep using thos
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> I always find this line of thought interesting. Because it implies the manufacturer has all the power. But they don't. The consumer does. There is difference between the political power and the economical power. The economical pow
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
And hey, almost a million blacksmiths displaced is a huge block of voters that any elected politician would be glad to capture! Although I struggle to recall any of the examples of something like this happening in the real-world history.
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Depends on the overarching economical policies. During the British rule, the Indian textile weavers went out of manufacturing business and had to switch to sustenance farming, and then perish during one of the many famines. And the Parliame
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> i've also been reading the c89 rationale document, and the source code for the 7th edition unix c compiler. > the original c compiler was a single-pass compiler. No it was not. It was a two-pass compiler. > that was a necess
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
But think of the jobs! There used to be a million people involved in horseshoe-making, now there is only a thousand, and the rest of that million now has to do something else! And since there is literally nothing else for them to do, they&#
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
How did the police in XIX and XX century even managed to investigate the crimes without having access to the records of criminals' communications, and with way worse forensics available? No, seriously, how? One of the things they did
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
A talk like this, but broader and including all kinds of human communications/interactions in general (including AFK/off-line interactions), will still be needed to happen between a girl and the girl's parents in the foreseea
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Uh, the platforms? Have you tried to use two different emoji fonts on a web page? Or a text editor?
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
...which treats it differently from non-empty buffers :) But frankly, having a 1-byte buffer, pointer to which can serve as a sentinel value à la NULL (but dereferenceable!), and which you can pass to free() without it being deallocated is
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
I am suggesting that the whole keyboard can lock during the time the physical ball rotates; the comptometers and pinwheel arithmometers of the yore had this functionality: while the mechanism was performing the addition of the number just e
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
Well, yeah. You can do this, you can take pub fn simple_func(fetch: fn(String) -> String) -> List(Int) { let keys = ["a", " b"] list.map(keys, fn(key) { let key = string.uppercase(
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> Usually this would be done via an interpreter, so I'm not sure that it really requires unsafe either. Well, I personally have written a const-expression evaluator that actually reuses the rest of the compiler: it compiles the expr
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
if (scanf("%9lu",&len) < 1) barf(); /* >999999999 bytes is bad */ if (getchar() != ':') barf(); buf = malloc(len + 1); /* malloc(0) is not portable */ if (!buf) bar
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
We've got a coin here! Let's ask a frequentist and a bayesian what they think about the probability that flipping it would make it land heads up? Frequentist: How would I know? I haven't seen it flipped once, nor do I know ho
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
The original immigrants/colonists were Puritans and their approach to the governing and liberties, well, it can be arguably called proto-totalitarian. Remember, those were the same kind of people that managed, of all things, to push th
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by Joker_vD 3mo ago
> maybe codesize don't matter? Well, instruction cache still has limited size, and you still need to get your code into it. Paging in 512 KiB from the disk is faster than paging in 1 MiB from the disk. > like pre-decoding in Icac

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