Sir_Cmpwn

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1. 2311.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   Yeah, but how many of them are involved in compiler development? I think this is in poor taste. I can't imagine that they're not trying to capitalize on flex's fame.
2. 2312.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   I guess it's simpler in principle than in practice. I still think from a usability and day-to-day standpoint C is very simple once you grok it.
3. 2313.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   But they fill a different niche. C is about being close to the hardware and using minimal abstractions.
4. 2314.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   This link first loaded the page, then unloaded it and put me in a queue! I was told how many people were ahead of me and an estimate on when I would get to read the page, complete with elevator music. Why would anyone even make that?
5. 2315.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   I'm not talking about pre-ANSI C. Compare C89 to those languages and, in my opinion, C comes out on top.
6. 2316.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   The main difference is that operating systems are complicated and programming languages (are supposed to be) simple. The biggest strength of C is its simplicity - there's not much that can go wrong with such a small feature set. I find
7. 2317.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   I think we've regressed in many ways, to be honest.
8. 2318.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   I disagree. I think C is extremely well designed, but there are unfixable shortcomings to this design. Choosing it is a tradeoff.
9. 2319.▲
   by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

   I think this is a flawed mindset for a number of reasons. First, I'd rather appeal to every user than most users. That one user I didn't have to appeal to is going to be a much more faithful and grateful user than the "normal
10. 2320.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Agreed 100%. Definitely going to be trotting this article out next time I see someone blindly arguing for rewriting xyz in Rust. I particularly like the mention of portability. No other language comes even remotely close to the portabilit
11. 2321.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I don't necessarily disagree with you, just with the way you present your point.
12. 2322.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    "I must be right because anyone who disagrees with me is ignorant or insane"
13. 2323.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=phil-opp.com Just about every page of this tutorial has frontpaged on HN. I guess people really, really, really want more kernels written in Rust!
14. 2324.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Why would you reward a website for using dark patterns like autoplaying video ads, popups, 14 bloody GiB of data pushing ads and tracking and bullshit into your browser?
15. 2325.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    The stock ROM is full of garbage. This is true of any phone. For a while I kept an image of my phone with the stock ROM in case I needed to restore it, which I had stripped down of most of the crap by rooting it and removing a bunch of stuf
16. 2326.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 running LineageOS. It has a replacable battery and I have replacements (and have replaced it once so far). I will be keeping it until it breaks, because it's more than fast enough to do everything I demand fr
17. 2327.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I started using TweetDeck because it remained untouched by Twitter's awful changes like promoted tweets, rearranging my timeline... I hope they keep their changes to TweetDeck to a minimum.
18. 2328.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    It's probably an afternoon project to get that functionality. Since it's just a git repo, that much is easily shared. GPG supports encrypting messages for multiple recepients. Since pass is simple and open source it should be quit
19. 2329.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I can't help you with #4, but I've been a pass user for a long time: https://www.passwordstore.org/ It encrypts your passwords with your GPG key and stores them in a git repository. You can of course easily extend
20. 2330.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Kana (hiragana and katakana): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1632090287 Kanji: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1862058740
21. 2331.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    The Witcher 3 is making great progress on Wine, along with a lot of DX11 titles in general. You won't get every game, but you will get more than enough to keep you occupied with great games. It's no different than all the games yo
22. 2332.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    If you're interested in learning to read Japanese, you should give it a shot. It's intimidating but pretty do-able. Set yourself up with flash cards (I suggest AnkiDroid) and you can be pretty good at reading hiragana and katakana
23. 2333.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    The relevant kernel changes are shipping in 4.11, though. Bluetooth seems to be working according to the latest messages. What's this about a custom bootloader? The other fixes so far as I can tell are pretty easily applied in <20 m
24. 2334.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    You're just picking nits here.
25. 2335.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    How do you figure that as weasely? You could easily argue that posting a link to a 150+ page forum thread with a dozen serious issues in the OP is misleading when today only one minor issue is outstanding.
26. 2336.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    ASUS is the exception, not the norm, and dealbreaker bugs are generally only found in recent models. My point is that for nearly everyone, switching to Linux is easy, and people who generalize the whole platform as broken are spreading FU
27. 2337.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Even docx hardly ever guarantees that. Use PDF if you really want that. Most Word documents are written to be read, not to be rendered the same way everywhere.
28. 2338.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I don't even game very much and I still have a lot of big titles on Steam+Linux - Rocket League, Alien: Isolation, Bioshock Infinite, Civ 5, a ton of Valve games, Torchlight II, PAYDAY 2, Saints Row, SOMA, FTL, Kerbal Space Program, Me
29. 2339.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    I will concede that ASUS laptops tend to take a year or two to sort out. But they do get sorted out - as far as I can tell most of the issues mentioned in that thread are also solved in that thread. Did you read any of it?
30. 2340.▲
    by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago

    Debian isn't really a hands-off distro. It works OOTB on i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, etc. It's trivial to get working on Debian, though: https://wiki.debian.org/mtp