SAI_Peregrinus

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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
StackOverflow: "There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots. Closing as duplicate of <unrelated question>."
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
It's especially funny that it affects Linux so much. Most file systems allow everything except `/` and NULL in file names. Early AT&T UNIX even allowed NULLs! POSIX shells use the IFS variable to perform field splitting, and i
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
POSIX "Fully portable filenames" allow all characters except 0x2F (/) and 0x00 (NULL). That means file names can include line feeds, backspaces, EOF, etc. "This is `a perfectly vali'd.\010! file name\377, despite th
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I do not.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I have Dysgraphia[1]. I don't think in words, without conscious effort to translate my thoughts into words. I don't have an inner monologue unless I'm trying to think of how to put my thoughts into words (or otherwise thinkin
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
It's -u. You can also prevent this by never using $VAR, and instead always using ${VAR:?} to exit with error if VAR is unset (or use one of the other options to provide a default).
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
That's why I always use :? with rm in bash scripts. eg rm -rf "${STEAMROOT:?}/"* Will exit with error instead of running rm if STEAMROOT is unset. Even if used inside a conditional.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
The arrow keys work. As does Firefox reader mode. But my mouse wheel scrolls by sixteen lines!
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Same, though not from Walmart. Toaster ovens are vastly more useful to me than plain toasters.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I use Yubikeys for everything that allows them. Haven't had any problems.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Exactly. I've been troubleshooting updating some libraries on an embedded system recently, and running a lot of `/lib/ld-linux.so --list "$(which <executable>)"` on various things to figure out what `-rpath`s
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Yes, they are. All the New-World Vultures (Cathartidae) are in the order Accipitriformes[1]. [1] Chesser, R. T., R. C. Banks, F. K. Barker, C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, A. W. Kratter, I. J. Lovette, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen Jr., J. D. Rising
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I'd say it's not just learning multiple languages that is valuable, but learning languages with different paradigms. If you learn 5 different object-oriented languages, you'll mostly get exposed to different OOP concepts. If
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Yep, and often that lever had two positions, so you yank it partway for a LF, and the rest of the way for a CR. But the really early manual typewriters didn't have this. Typewriters are old , the first commercial one was invented in 1
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
I'd like my eyes on the outside of my skull, thanks.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
The most common use of setjmp/longjmp I've seen (in embedded development) is to have coroutines in C. The original use AFAIK was usually to implement exceptions of some variety. Neither use is that common these days.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
> using SHA-1 as a non-secure hash, That I actually partly disagree with. There are much, MUCH better performing (faster, less memory use, etc) hashes than SHA1 if you don't need security. If you don't need security, and you
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Should've used setjmp/longjmp to do the same thing. Make it even harder to reason about.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
This is also where Windows CRLF for a new line comes from. CR is Carriage Return, which on a typewriter you could do by moving the carriage back to the start of the line. Often there was a lever for this. LF is Line Feed, accomplished by tu
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
This is on the Windows version. Windows 2000 is when the OS changed to UTF-16 by default. Before that Windows NT was UCS-2, IIRC only the DOS-based Windows versions were Windows-1252 internally, starting from Windows 1.0. So while ł wasn&#x
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
They even make planters built to be bollards. EG https://www.tymetal.com/crash/crash-bollards/security-plante... or https://www.grainger.com/category/security/access-barriers-a...
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Disallowing anonymity clearly creates wonderful environments where no radicalization happens, and everyone is polite. It certainly helps to prevent social divisiveness. Just look at Facebook! /s, hopefully obviously.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Considerate or Accepting both work in English.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
That's not a systemd thing, that's a distro thing. The default path is where it gets put if it's part of the base system, if it's installed from a package or if the distro makers decide to change it (because maintainers
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
> How is this company still in business? Security isn't a feature checkbox purchasing departments can easily verify. They just trust the vendor. Purchasing doesn't know the difference between a MAC, a signature, a checksum, or
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Probably a bit of both. The market settles on a version that's "good enough" and it gets patched until it's "good". But Windows 8 was around for quite a while, and never got to be particularly good. 10 became g
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
They still do, but it usually only happens a few times per year.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
For my day-to-day job, I've visited SO under a dozen times in the last few years. Too much of what I deal with is some proprietary vendor SDK or chip where the data sheet is only released under NDA for SO to be of much use. I'm an
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Which page within the 145 (chapter 6)? The section on scopes of identifiers (6.2.1, pgs 35-36) is entirely in the context of the C language.
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by SAI_Peregrinus 5y ago
Or less extreme things. Do the soldiers notice when their GPS shows them as half a mile away from where they need to be. In a slowly changing offset.

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