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by Someone 7mo ago
What’s wrong with #define var auto #define function void ? ;-) It follows tradition ( https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd... ) Also, some compilers will accept 'foto
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Carpet bombing. You don’t get to bury things in the sand, much less unbury them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Củ_Chi_tunnels#U.S._campaigns_... : “Operation Crimp began on January 7, 1966, with B-52 bombers dropp
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by Someone 7mo ago
> they may optionally be located right next to the string's actual data, but only for very small, locally-allocated, short-lived strings Only for small strings. Locally allocated and short-lived aren’t required for short string opti
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by Someone 7mo ago
> I too feel that storing the array's length glued to the array's data is not that good of an idea, it should be stored next to the pointer to the array aka in the array view. That’s not cache-friendly, though. I think the shor
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by Someone 7mo ago
: Stupidly, yes, with carpet bombing. Practically, no, that would be horrible. Could that work? It didn’t end well in Vietnam, which is about a fifth of the land area, and, in 1970, half the current population of Iran. Also, they’ll pack a
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by Someone 7mo ago
> I could argue that Apollo had a 1 in 20 chance of killing a crew. NASA computed the chance of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth” as less than 1 in 20. I would think a lot more than 1 in 20 of those failures w
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by Someone 7mo ago
> the concept of a "function" was undefined but generally understood to be something like what we'd call today an "expression" in a programming language. So, for example, "x^2 + 1" was widely agreed to
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by Someone 7mo ago
I’m not talking of BetterDisplay. I’m talking about Apple’s UI. Scroll down the content of the “Displays” pane, and you find a row of buttons “Advanced…”, “Night Shift…” and “?”
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by Someone 7mo ago
> app review is taking significantly longer, with some people being stuck in review for 3+ days, and some reporting even a week of waiting for review A whole week? Maybe, developers should stop pushing those incredibly frequent updates w
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by Someone 7mo ago
And in hours, minutes and seconds. Yes, those are near universal (I guess there may still be a few tribes in the Amazon or Indonesia that don’t use them), but still are cultural. Also, having each hour have the same duration is cultural. Th
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by Someone 7mo ago
> This aligns with our findings. The M4/M5 DCP firmware implements a conservative framebuffer pre-allocation strategy that: > Caps the HiDPI backing store to approximately 1.75x the native resolution (6720x3780 for 3840x2160 nati
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by Someone 7mo ago
> 68k was much harder to optimize than x86 Harder to optimize or because of its orthogonal instruction set easier to write code for?
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by Someone 7mo ago
> A stealth plane or heavy bomber can do things a drone cannot, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle : “An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as an aeria
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by Someone 7mo ago
Could be because that one is warmer because you sat on it.
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by Someone 7mo ago
FTA: “Multiple passes needed (initial translation, review feedback, iteration) → ~150M input tokens total Output roughly equal to input → ~150M output tokens Claude Opus API pricing: $15/M input, $75/M output (as of early 2026) Es
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Is it the most profitable place for investment dollars? Probably not, but it's effectively risk-free One could even say it is risk-negative. It decreases the risk one runs of future oil price hikes. If you buy solar cells, you buy
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by Someone 7mo ago
> The jewel cases absolutely were more fragile than the cardboard CD cases more easily break catastrophically but I think that, for most kinds of impacts, CD cases are less easily damaged than vinyl sleeves. Water damages them less easil
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by Someone 7mo ago
> A more interesting question would be how well the C++ interoperability works They’re using it in their work on FoundationDB. Looks good, but has limitations. Swift can call C++ and vice versa, Swift classes can inherit from C++ and vic
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by Someone 7mo ago
> I think CDs were a step backwards, not because the sound quality was off but because the boxes were smaller and fragile Smaller, yes, but fragile? Certainly not more fragile than Vinyl.
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by Someone 7mo ago
I guess they’re thinking God ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=God ) will read their message and do something about it.
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by Someone 7mo ago
> The original maintainers are gone, and users will have to rely on someone else to pick up the work, That’s a risk that no license, open source or not, can protect against. Priorities may change, causing maintainers to stop maintaining,
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by Someone 7mo ago
Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybolos , at least some of these used a windlass to rearm. That may explain part of the speed difference over one using a separate lever or one that’s rearmed purely by hand. Thes
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by Someone 7mo ago
> The TCP URG bit came out of this kind of problem. It triggers a SIGURG signal on UNIX which interrupts the process. Oracle works this way. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6093 : “it is strongly recom
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by Someone 7mo ago
> These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. […] Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste. Are you saying using 1GB of data a day on a smartphone is normal for smartphone users? I have a 10GB plan not because I n
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by Someone 7mo ago
> and is the result even that surprising? Not as far as I can tell from skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_permutation_statistics .
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by Someone 7mo ago
In this model, conflicts do not exist, so there are no conflict markers (the UI may show markers, but they get generated from what they call “the weave”) Because of that, I think it is worse than “but it is not valid syntax”; it’s “but it m
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by Someone 7mo ago
> I don’t think I’ve seen a cookie banner pop up with a “please reconsider” on refusal … ever, actually. Neat? On the subject of cookie banners, https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ says “To comply with the regulations governi
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by Someone 7mo ago
In some cases, common sense of developers can do that, too.
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by Someone 7mo ago
FTA: “When the policy floor was raised, Apple’s engineers didn’t quit; they innovated” “Apple always knew how to build a repairable laptop; they simply lacked the business reason to apply that knowledge.” So, which is it? Time will tell, bu
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Just pick Python and move fast, kids. It doesn’t matter how fast your software is if nobody uses it. The reason nobody uses your software could be that it is too slow. As an example, if you write a video encoder or decoder, using pure

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