Karellen

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by Karellen 4y ago
> on Saturday, she became waylaid after her card was declined – something which later transpired to be because she had carried out more than the permitted number of Apple Pay transactions in a single day. I thought the point of contactle
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by Karellen 4y ago
Huh. Last time I looked at the standard, I didn't see where that was mentioned. Could you point me at the relevant section, please?
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by Karellen 4y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that. The point I was making is that because (to my recollection) GNU tends to mimic SVr4, the fact that `seq` is in GNU is probably why I thought it was also available in SVr4-derived Unices. But also, I kn
904.
by Karellen 4y ago
Well, that depends on your compiler.
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by Karellen 4y ago
I think the author does want fread() to overwrite N-1 bytes, iff there are N-1 bytes to read. The objection is to overwriting N-1 bytes when only N-2 bytes were read. Which... doesn't sound completely unreasonable? On the other hand (e
906.
by Karellen 4y ago
Huh. Why did I misremember that? I knew `seq` was available on BSDs. For some reason I thought it was on SVr4-derived Unices too (and therefore figured it was either actually Posix, or ubiquitous enough to be reliable anyway), but I guess I
907.
by Karellen 4y ago
When the input is large enough, GNU `sort` writes the input in chunks to multiple temporary files, sorts the individual files, and then merges the result for output. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/279096/
908.
by Karellen 4y ago
How is that different from backslash-escaped strings in C, Java, Javascript, Python, and... uh, a whole bunch of other common languages? Which of those gives you a string with two backslashes in those other languages? Exactly the same one a
909.
by Karellen 4y ago
FWIW, if you need to use `sh` instead of `bash` for some reason, you can do the range loop with: for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo $i; done
910.
by Karellen 4y ago
> To my knowledge, [Thunderbird] still sucks less than any other free and open option, Have you tried Claws Mail? It's a plain native traditional email client, and I find it really snappy. There is even a Windows port. Not sure how
911.
by Karellen 4y ago
I remember reading on a forum many years ago where one person was rationalising performance over correctness, someone replied that if their code didn't have to be correct they could get the answer in clock 1 cycle with zero memory usag
912.
by Karellen 4y ago
Well, I just searched RFCs 1034, 1035, 1101, 1183, 1348, 1876, 1982, 1995, 1996, 2065, 2136, 2181, 2137, 2308, 2535, 2673, 2845, 3425, 3658, 4033, 4034, 4035, 4343, 4592, 5936, 5966, 6604, 7766, 8020, 8482, 8490, and 8767 for the word &quot
913.
by Karellen 4y ago
You've just been pointed at github. Which hosts git repositories. Which is used to keep track of changes to source files , not published build artifacts. For future reference, lots of other git-hosted projects also require the user to
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by Karellen 4y ago
I think it's worth highlighting that the author explicitly treats the idea of forming/joining a union with sarcasm: > Oh, yeah, we should also have a union. Sure. Let’s get on that one of these days. It seems like a how-to guid
915.
by Karellen 4y ago
* proprietary
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by Karellen 4y ago
"Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Tunnel in the Sky , 1955
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by Karellen 4y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the vast majority of C code causes signed int overflows or dereferences invalid pointers? Not sure about the C code bases you've been spending time in, but in the ones I've looked at, the overwhe
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by Karellen 4y ago
From the C standard §3.4.3: undefined behavior behavior, upon use of a nonportable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this International Standard imposes no requirements NOTE Possible undef
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by Karellen 4y ago
Absolutely.
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by Karellen 4y ago
If code dereferences a NULL pointer, the spec imposes no constraints whatsoever on what happens after that point. Yes, some compilers will make "wild and bizarre" optimisations (they are neither) based on the assumption that any
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by Karellen 4y ago
> You don't really get the same level of authoritarian in the so called capitalism or "modern democracy" Cambodia springs to mind. Pretty sure I could find a few countries in Africa that fit the bill too.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> The determined refusal of the specification to tie this abstract machine in concrete CPUs is the source of a significant amount of frustration in people who would like, for example, for there to be some semantics attached to what happe
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by Karellen 4y ago
> In communism, as in all authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, WTF? Communism is an economic model, not a leadership selection model. Communism is diametrically opposed to capitalism, not to democracy. (It always baffles me when a co
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by Karellen 4y ago
It might be worth considering GPs comment as a case of projection, rather than a claim about the world to be rebutted. After all, they are part of the "everyone" they talk about. And the "everyone else is just as bad as I am,
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by Karellen 4y ago
Pretty sure the Falcon 1 was developed and built without any DoD R&D money, and flights 4 and 5 achieved orbit. Not sure why that wouldn't count as a civilian launch?
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by Karellen 4y ago
Well, there's supposed to be a group keeping track of the alerts about anyone who is doing badly, but one of them is ignoring 90% of their alerts, another 95%, and another 100%. It's OK though, because the system is built to handl
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by Karellen 4y ago
It sounds like what you're suggesting is that, so long as you know who to blame for the problem, it doesn't really matter how bad the problem is when it hits you? Even if the company goes insolvent because of the problem, if you&#
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Flat is just the limiting case of round as the radius approaches infinity. Reminds me a lot of Asimov's "The Relativity of Wrong": > Nowadays, of course, we are taught that the flat-Earth theory is wrong ; that it is
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by Karellen 4y ago
I think an equatorial mount/platform is one of the best devices for demonstrating it. It's possible to cobble a simple one together out of pretty basic parts, or even scrap. It's just a turntable set at an angle, which you ca
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Your link indicated nothing about the exclusivity being his idea, That... is an interesting point. As I remember, that's how it was reported at the time, even though that specific article doesn't mention it. Given that is the

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