Joker_vD

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2701.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
I've seen people claimed that, e.g. the polished granite columns common across European palaces and even some cathedrals, could not have been a) polished so well without laser technology, b) could not be moved and then erected without
2702.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
C99 draft, 6.5.6.8: Moreover, if the expression P points to the last element of an array object, the expression (P)+1 points one past the last element of the array object, and if the expression Q points one past the last elem
2703.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
A language lawyer quiz: if the definition is changed to uint16_t mem[UINT16_MAX + 1] = {0}; is it guaranteed to work on platforms where unsigned int is 16-bit wide? What about platforms where void* is 16-bit wide (hint: &mem[65
2704.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Register allocation is not that hard, especially if you don't do it via graph coloring and have more than 2 general-purpose registers available. Build SSA form, remove critical edges, spill temporaries until the number of simultaneou
2705.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Well, RF (30% of market share) did not decrease the supply, it was the demand that rose "unexpectedly". Well, why did the US not rescue the EU with additional supplies of LNG, for example? The gas terminals were built several ye
2706.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
The image of the enemy has to be self-contradictory: it has to be both scary and fearsome ― to justify the defence spending ― but also feeble and laughable ― again, yo justify the defence spending: the intended mindset is "the victory
2707.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Just like those so-called "hypersonic missiles", 3D-rendered on Mosfilm, and even poorly rendered at that!
2708.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
So I can't force other people myself, but I still am a (potential) accomplice in a completely different kind of "forcing other people" stuff because I didn't explicitly prohibited others from doing it. I... understand th
2709.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
I release all my code under MIT license. Do I still have the right to enslave other people? If yes, could you please describe the details, I'd be rather interested to learn how I can force whoever uses my code to use MIT license as wel
2710.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Something something those who give up software freedom for software's usefulness deserve neither something something.
2711.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
So, uh, how much less efficient, exactly? 5%? 10%? 90%? How is this efficiency even measured? You improve twice as slow, or the end results are twice as bad, or?..
2712.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
The video games have pretty much universally been having at least two separate volume sliders (one for music, other for SFX, optionally the third one for the dialog) for about 15? 20? years. Maybe in another 20 years the cinema industry wil
2713.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> parameters appear in the method body anyway Captured variables too appear in the method body. How do I tell those apart?
2714.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> walk through a solution instead of stating "This algorithm self-evidently works" like a jerk. After every iteration, "result" gives correct remainders for all divisors considered so far, so if the loop ends, the &qu
2715.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> find yourself greeted with a 75vh image carousel, social media links and banners, a subscribe card, a "Chat Now!" banner with a GPT bot typing, xyz.com wants to know you location, or a prompt for cookies Don't also forge
2716.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Is this CRT? Not exactly sure, but it does not run for six hours: result = 0 addend = 1 for divisor, desired_offset in [(7, 0), (13, 1), (59, 4), (31, 6), (19, 7)]: # keep trying numbers until we find the one that, wi
2717.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Can't find part 2 on the site, had to google... result = 0 addend = 1 for divisor, desired_offset in [(7, 0), (13, 1), (59, 4), (31, 6), (19, 7)]: # keep trying numbers until we find the one that, with # t
2718.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Excuse me, what? You don't need to know CRT or indeed anything about the number theory except that you can divide numbers, the solution is simply: for each ID in list: next_departure = round_up_to_next_integer(earliest_ti
2719.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> trusless certificates How exactly would it work? I mean, sure, I can verify without trusting anyone or anything that the certificate contents were, indeed, at some point of time produced by someone who had access to the private key. Bu
2720.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Well, the true price is the marginal cost of production, isn't it? So yeah, bitcoin seems to be overpriced. Unless it is a currency, of course, their supplies behave differently.
2721.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> threatened to start minting NFTs of the avatars of anti-crypto furries I presume it's the crypto equivalent of scribbling horns and mustaches on a foe's photo? Kids these days...
2722.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
> peer-to-peer technology (e.g. Bittorrent) with a distributed ledger (e.g. Bitcoin) and the social practice of sharing (e.g. Github) 2 out of 3 of those things (minus distributed ledger) has been around for about 20 years now. Y'kn
2723.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
A frequentist is shown a coin and is asked what's the probability it will land on heads. Frequentist: "How the hell should I know?" The coin is then flipped 10000 times, and it lands on heads exactly 5000 times. Frequentist:
2724.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Can we please stop with this OSI nonsense already? HTTP is a transport-level protocol today. If something uses TCP, chances are pretty good it also uses HTTP on top of that, and some sort of homegrown RPC on top of that . And the OS absolu
2725.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
I believe he refers to RFC 8187.
2726.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
More parsing and data processing = faster web. It all makes sense, really! Joking aside, some "features" in HTTP/1.1 are really questionable. Trailing headers? 1xx responses? Comments in chunked encoding? The headers that p
2727.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
Or at least a bunch of examples in the RFC itself. Don't you just love reading a long description of a convoluted data format with literally zero examples of how the full thing looks and what it is supposed to mean? Sadly, leaving the
2728.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
You know, articles like this make me wish an OS would actually have a built-in fast, reliable, fully-featured HTTP parser. I've written a couple of (very strict) HTTP parsers on my own, and this whole "request smuggling" is p
2729.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
And on Windows the default way to bundle an application is "make a separate directory for that application, put everything you need inside it" which is kinda equivalent to Linux "/opt" packages, IIRC? Anyway, that n
2730.
by Joker_vD 5y ago
If you are a Linux distribution maintainer, please understand what all of these solutions are trying to accomplish. All your hard work in building your software repository, maintaining your libraries, testing countless sy

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