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1. 151.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   Could you elaborate on the “serial bus” bit?
2. 152.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   If you can figure out installing a C compiler, surely you can figure out installing make?
3. 153.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   > C takes me more time to feel productive. I have to write code, then unit test, then property tests, then run valgrind, check ubsan is on. Make more tests. Do property testing, then fuzz testing. So … make && make check ?
4. 154.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   Best of luck -- hope to see it available here soon!
5. 155.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   I’m in Australia and everything is 240V (well, I think technically it’s 230V now) here. Any timeline yet for international distribution?
6. 156.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   It'd be useful if you could list an example or two?
7. 157.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   The US signed the treaty promising defence support to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine handing over their nukes. Where is that now?
8. 158.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   Same in Australia.
9. 159.▲
   by __d 2y ago

   My son and I tried a couple of things. Scratch and its "block coding" ilk are one path. The good bit is that writing simple game-like things is easy: the UI stuff is very accessible. The bad bits are that the ceiling is very low:
10. 160.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    And the consulting companies provide lucratively paid, post-politics jobs to those who cut the public service payroll.
11. 161.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    Unless I’m mistaking things, there’s still multiple roadblocks? Just because some people have invited you in doesn’t mean everyone is welcoming.
12. 162.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    gcc vs. egcs, emacs vs xemacs, bsd vs bsd, bsd vs att, etc, etc, etc. FOSS evolves past its chokepoints by forking. So, a credible group of Rustaceans and their backers need to come up with a plan to do it. It doesn't have to be anta
13. 163.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    My “static site generator” is m4 and make. People over complicate things.
14. 164.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    Funny. I was recently doing some JavaScript programming, which I haven't done for a while. My search results were full of usual slop, with reams of overly verbose context and restatements of the question finally (sometimes) leading to
15. 165.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I'm tired of people so convinced they're right that they're ready to shoot all the people who disagree with them. There's a good reason we set things up so that no one individual has absolute control. We've tried t
16. 166.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    Perhaps they prefer to imagine that their political enemies are never able to achieve power again? Same imaginative effort, but much more satisfying.
17. 167.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    As with many such things, the letter of the law doesn't anticipate a determined effort to undermine it. Could the USAID agency could continue to exist, on paper, with a single staff member?
18. 168.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I think that's a stretch? Public protest is non-violent, but a solid step up from writing letters.
19. 169.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    So, they've learned nothing about the risks of tying their identity to a platform controlled by a third party.
20. 170.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I use -F (--onefile). It's certainly not fast to start, but in my case, it's not a quick one-and-done type thing, so I don't mind too much
21. 171.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I have Qt, but not numpy or pandas. My executable is 40MB (still big).
22. 172.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I use PyInstaller to distribute a Qt5-based GUI app, and some associated CLI tools. It's fairly easy to configure, and works out fine.
23. 173.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    Clearly I’ve hit on a sensitive topic. I’ll leave it here.
24. 174.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I’m not disputing that human produced creative works have, at their best, qualities that computer generated works don’t, and maybe can’t. I am however interested in the claim of plagiarism and how what generative AI does is different to wha
25. 175.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I’m interested in the plagiarism perspective. I feel like LLMs are not too dissimilar to humans. We listen to a lifetime of music, read text, watch videos, etc. and when we come to create something all of that influences what we produce. Li
26. 176.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I don’t blog. I do write for myself though. I used to think I would blog but I came to realize that it takes a certain personality to believe that others want to read what you think, and ultimately that’s not me. Which is freeing: I can jus
27. 177.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    SSH access appears to be rejecting my key too.
28. 178.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    I think it’s clear that today’s “desktop Linux” distributions are not what you want. That’s ok. Your criticisms come from the point of view of a usage that is poorly supported. Android is perhaps the closest to what you seem to want, alth
29. 179.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    String literals are one place where the compiler implements the null-termination, so it is built-in in that sense. As per the OP’s example, a wrapper macro like their STR can work around this.
30. 180.▲
    by __d 2y ago

    Libre software has interesting scaling. Where it exists in a small community of other developers, most of whom have a similar mindset, it works fine. And for very popular projects, there’s enough users for whom it makes economic sense to ha