SloopJon

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by SloopJon 6y ago
Here's how Eiffel Software describes the licensing for EiffelStudio: > If you wish to earn a commercial benefit from your application and not release its source code, you must purchase the number of licenses you need for your develo
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> Sadly it never got a big name sponsor to push it. Has Eiffel had a high-quality open source implementation? My recollection is that Eiffel Studio's software is proprietary and expensive.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Although I too have lost my muscle memory, not having used Windows as my primary O/S in a while, one thing I miss is the ability to traverse through menus with a series of keystrokes; e.g., Alt-F, then p to print, as opposed to Ctrl-P.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The first few articles I could find on this topic neglected to identify the senators co-sponsoring the bill. Here's a list from boston.cbslocal.com: * Roy Blunt (R-MO) * Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) * James Lankford (R-OK) * Ed Markey (D-M
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Even with scroll bars always visible, as they are on my system (Firefox on macOS 10.15), I can't see that there's a horizontal scrollbar until I go down several pages. If I change from "Always" to "When scrolling&qu
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I don't like the hidden scroll bars either, so I've set "Show scroll bars" to "Always". If I understand correctly, Simon wants his web site to display a scroll bar on a system that isn't so configured. I
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The posted link took me straight to Tim's tweet, so I didn't realize at first that he was replying to @isostandards: > Hello, unfortunately, the ISO Central Secretariat does not provide free copies of standards. All ISO Publica
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Licensed as zlib/png, but binaries are currently €16. It looks like the Unreal integration is being funded in part by a grant from Epic Games. Interesting to see an open source project in this traditionally high-end boutique market.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I really wanted to build a Zen 3 / RTX 30-something to replace my Ivy Bridge / GTX 1060. After months of chasing the RTX, I finally ordered a prebuilt yesterday with a 10700K / RTX 3080. Now to see if it really is "in
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by SloopJon 6y ago
It's also worth understanding whether +0.0 and -0.0 are equivalent in your environment: * Do they compare equal? * If they're convertible to boolean, do they both evaluate to false? * If you serialize/deserialize the value (e
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by SloopJon 6y ago
sprintf() warnings have gotten pretty sophisticated these days. I discovered GCC's -Wformat-overflow the other day. It complained that the buffer for a date string wasn't big enough; e.g., sprintf(buf, "%04d-%02u-%02u"
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Actually, he does discuss this in section 4b. He doesn't come out as strongly in favor of it, "The jury is still out on whether to recommend this one wholesale," although he does list what he considers some advantages. He a
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> It also states that it's more work for the compiler , stating that the template resolution seems more complex, and suggesting it's likely to bloat compile times. That's a more persuasive point (hard numbers are provided
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by SloopJon 6y ago
That's interesting. There is a policy and process (PEP 541) in place for addressing this, and it seems to have been executed swiftly and responsibly. Is this incident an argument for namespacing, or that the status quo is good enough
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Does your display have glass in front of the panel? For some reason I find myself touching the glass surface of the 5K iMac a lot, which I probably shouldn't do to a bare panel.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
One thing I haven't had much success with when trying editors like this is dealing with variable data, like Pascal-style strings or varints. Another one is a length field that is either one byte, or a NUL byte followed by two bytes, o
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I don't know about DEC-20, but on VMS, changing a file makes a copy with a new version number: $ edit foo.txt ... Ctrl-Z $ dir foo.txt;1 $ edit foo.txt ... Ctrl-Z $ dir foo.txt;1 foo.txt;2 When you delete a fil
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by SloopJon 6y ago
One of the repair challenges is access to old parts. The drain hose on our three year-old washer sprung a leak. When I called a repair man, he at first said that Samsung doesn't make that part anymore. Fortunately, he was mistaken,
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by SloopJon 6y ago
After a programmer changed PBKDF2 to use SHA512 instead of SHA-1, I asked whether it made sense to use SHA256 instead for this very reason. With SHA extensions on Intel (pretty rare, incidentally), and the cryptography extension on ARM, I
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> > These are GPUs that could have gone into a graphics card. That's an interesting take. After the discussion of the announcement earlier this week, I presumed that this was a way for NVIDIA to improve yields by rescuing bad ch
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Thank you. I love this bit at the end of a successful demonstration: > [The bank manager] raised his hand during this whole all-hands meeting and he says what about the free computers? Do we still get the new computers? I'm like
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by SloopJon 6y ago
If NVIDIA feels the need to gimp the upcoming RTX 3060, that suggests that the new CMP cards will not be attractive enough to compete on their own price/merit, or that they will be similarly supply constrained. That said, I'm cur
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by SloopJon 6y ago
What I would like is a blog post about making zsh less different than bash. I'll get to the mind-blowing tricks eventually, but for now I want the old tab completion and word stops back. Maybe I should just chsh back to bash, but the
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The Community License page has checkboxes for Alpha and Itanium. The box for "x86 (planned)" is not yet enabled: https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/ I guess I shouldn't be surprise
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by SloopJon 6y ago
The takeaway for me, which agrees with my experience, is that QuickCheck is a great way to start testing. It's pretty amazing what you can find just by checking a few properties or invariants with a hundred random inputs each. It&#x2
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> Even templates in C++ are notorious for puking near impossible to decipher errors. "Even"? I actually miss the macro-like power of templates when I'm using generics in Java and C#, but generating the longest possible er
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by SloopJon 6y ago
As for wasting your money on a 4K set vs. a full HD set, it almost isn't even a choice anymore. The "budget" 4K recommendation at RTINGS is about $500. Also, although it is mentioned in the text, keep in mind that not all co
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I looked for ZDNet's source to see where it was getting such tone-deaf and counter-productive messaging. It's from the actual release announcement discussed earlier this week! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/b
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by SloopJon 6y ago
All things being equal, I'd choose GOG over Steam, but there are some complaints about delayed updates and/or needing to register for updates on the developer's web site. Can any GOG customers comment on their experience?
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Wow, talk about a barrier to entry. Google already has Curie from North America to South America and Equiano from Portugal to South Africa. They're also working on Hopper from North America to UK and Spain: https://cloud.g

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