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by _kst_ 11y ago
The "Special Offer for GitHub Users!" link is giving me a 504 error (took too long to complete). https://www.yubico.com/github-special-offer/
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by _kst_ 11y ago
"pdfunite" is part of the "poppler-utils" package on Debian-based systems. (But older versions of poppler-utils don't include pdfunite, so the "gs" solution might still be useful.)
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by _kst_ 11y ago
"As an aside, how does Ghostscript handle if the original pages aren't letter?" I have no idea. Most of the PDFs I deal with happen to be letter. I found that command a few years ago and haven't bothered to investigate f
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by _kst_ 11y ago
"The handbook consists of four five-inch-thick binders containing printed and photocopied pages. These binders are replicated and distributed across numerous regional and local offices. The handbook also exists as online PDFs, where ea
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Yes, that's why member functions tend to have unique prefixes.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
My paper copy of K&R1 (1978) does not mention void, nor does it mention standard headers other than stdio.h. The linked document may be a later draft (and it's almost certainly a copyright violation). Prior to C99, reaching the clo
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by _kst_ 11y ago
There are at least three major flaws in the 7-line C program, even ignoring character set issues. (main returns int, argv[1] can be null, and strncpy doesn't always null-terminate the target). If you're going to compare languages,
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by _kst_ 11y ago
No, it merely assumes one byte per character. For example, it would work correctly in Latin-1 or EBCDIC. In any case, the problem statement (though it's a bit vague) requires building a truncated string, not just printing it.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
The advice about storing pointers in integers: http://cpphints.com/hints/7 is poor. It points out that converting a pointer value to "unsigned long" so you can perform arithmetic on it is a bad idea -- which
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by _kst_ 11y ago
The server has to compare the signature of the sound recorded by your computer to the signature of the sound recorded by your phone. The sounds will not be identical, so the signature comparison has to be able to detect whether two sound re
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by _kst_ 11y ago
> This is more a problem of C's strings being naked pointers to chars. A C string is a sequence of characters, not a pointer. C strings are manipulated using `char*` pointers.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
An earlier version of the BCPL manual, from 1967, can be found here: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/bcpl.html via the late Dennis Ritchie's home page.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
You can report it to Stack Exchange: http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/200178/167210 I just reported this one.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
We've had blurry images of Pluto because of its tiny angular size. The fact that its closer than some of the things Hubble has taken better pictures of is not relevant. For example, here's a Hubble photo of Mars: https:/&#x2
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Not really. The problem isn't that Pluto is too close (Hubble has taken excellent pictures of Mars), it's that Pluto is tiny , specifically in angular size.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
uint32_t is promoted to a signed 64-bit value only if int is 64 bits. Even on 64-bit systems, int is typically 32 bits. Does TBAA mean type-based alias analysis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_analysis#Type-based_a
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by _kst_ 11y ago
No, the name resolves to a local address, so you're seeing the default page for the machine your browser is running on.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
> There's a movement of people who call themselves "Social Justice Warriors" (SJWs). No, there isn't. "SJW" is an insult used by their opponents. (Some of them might choose to adopt it, but most as far as I
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by _kst_ 11y ago
What? Are you comparing feminism to misogyny and racism?
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Hmm. The article says the script gives the protagonist's name as "Luke Starkiller" (and I've heard of that name before), but the photograph of a script page says "Oh ... the uniform. I've come to rescue you. I&
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Using a GPL-licensed compiler doesn't mean you have to release the source code that you compile with it. (I am not a lawyer; do not rely on my advice without thoroughly verifying it.)
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Lying and answering truthfully are not the only options.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Perl 5.22 adds a new kind of word boundary, spelled "\b{wb}" as opposed to plain "\b", that recognizes that apostrophes can occur in the middle of words.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Yes, it would be nice if the web page mentioned that it's only for Mac OS X other than in the fine print at the bottom of the page.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
I would think that "cmp" or "cmp -s" would be better, particularly if the files might be binary.
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Perhaps that's part of the game?
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by _kst_ 11y ago
Establishing sustainable colonies off Earth would put some of our metaphorical eggs in another basket, and make it more likely that our species could survive a major catastrophe. It's something we should be able to do in the next few d
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by _kst_ 11y ago
> the author's hate for implicit make-rules My reading was that the author just didn't know about implicit make rules. Shaw's book apparently suggests using "make" to compile and link a simple C program. The au
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by _kst_ 11y ago
> Does he think languages with built in String types have some magical optimization juice that make string operations fast? How long does it take to instantiate a new String object, run it's copy constructor, blah blah. No, I don&#x
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by _kst_ 11y ago
dest[0] = '\0'; strncat(dest, src, size);

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