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UTF-Ebcdic(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ainar-g 6y ago|0 comments
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by ainar-g 6y ago
IMO, HackerNews has a few frills, mechanics-wise. Like the fact that you can't downvote direct responses to your comments. Or how you can't downvote at all until you get the right amount of karma. I also consider the lack of no
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by ainar-g 6y ago
One person's obtuseness is other person's simplicity :-) . In all of my personal and some of my work projects I used nothing but portable features in Shell, Make, Sed, etc. Checking with multiple implementations where possible.
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by ainar-g 6y ago
Note that this article (like many, many others) assumes GNU Make. POSIX Make has neither .ONESHELL nor local macros. Neither do most built-in Make implementations in other OSes, like OpenBSD's bmake.
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by ainar-g 6y ago
One way to reason about what could have been done better from the beginning is looking at stuff that is marked as [deprecated] in the standard library. E.g. how the "try!()" macro was deprecated in favour of the "?" ope
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by ainar-g 6y ago
Grand congratulations to the team! Inkscape is an invaluable tool, especially for amateur vexillologists like me.
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by ainar-g 6y ago
I think dang's comments on the previous thread explain it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23022631
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by ainar-g 6y ago
If you mean the US, then he'd either need a consitutional amendment first or for the US to invade South Africa. Which are, considering that we live in the stupidest timeline, not impossible courses of events.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
> ignores files matching .gitignore Maybe it's just me, but that sounds like a bad default. I can definitely imagine people being confused by that.
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Go Developer Survey 2019 Results(blog.golang.org)
171 points by ainar-g 7y ago|122 comments
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Important quotes: > You are (probably) an adult. You can and should wisely decide just how much risk you are willing to take. Do or don't try this at home. You do not want to try this at work. > As the above charts show: The ef
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by ainar-g 7y ago
XDTML 2.0 you mean? XDTML 1.0 is merely a serialisation of DTML. With XDTML 2.0 in place, the real fun can start!
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Same here. Ubuntu 18.04.4 + Firefox 74.0.1. THREE.WebGLRenderer: Error creating WebGL context.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
I haven't proposed to ban exec entirely. I've proposed to ban exec uses that just sends data into a shell.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Honest question. Why not just completely outlaw code like: exec("/bin/sh", "-c", "..."); And its friends? It feels like it does way more harm than it does good.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
There are a couple of articles in Russian on Habr[1][2]. At a glance, it seems like the language was closer to a form of mathematical notation than it was to what we now consider a programming language. [1] https://habr.com&#x2F
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by ainar-g 7y ago
> It was vaporware all along! I don't think “vapourware” means what you think it means. To elaborate, the comparison with an alternative universe is silly, since there are actually papers that people can read and there is actually c
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by ainar-g 7y ago
IIRC, they got rid of all this in Plan 9. /bin was where binaries go. /usr was for user data. There were also /proc, /net, and probably /tmp?
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by ainar-g 7y ago
If this[1] article is to be believed, STL can also perform poorly in a debug build. [1] https://zeux.io/2019/01/17/is-c-fast/
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Pretty similar situation in Russia, №3 in the list. And there is also the fact that larger cities, like Moscow and SPB, have a deficit of beds, while smaller towns have a surplus. Most hospitals were planned and built in the USSR, and a la
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by ainar-g 7y ago
The Wiki article[1] on ESR has some bits. Including: > Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp. > Police who react to a rand
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Sum types?
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by ainar-g 7y ago
They forgot "IS NOT DISTINCT FROM", which is, IMHO, the best god damn operator ever invented. It works like "=", but adequately responds to NULL: postgres=# SELECT 1 IS NOT DISTINCT FROM 1; ?column? ----------
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by ainar-g 7y ago
I wonder if RISC-V will be able to keep its simplicity for a long time. ARM began as a small instruction set as well, and now we have instructions like the FJCVTZS (Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Ze
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by ainar-g 7y ago
It's honestly very disappointing that there is still no non-JS replacement for in-browser XSLT. And in-browser XSLT wasn't that good to begin with.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Yes. At least in Python 2. "<>" was an alternative spelling of "!=".
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by ainar-g 7y ago
We already did that. It was called Plan 9 From Bell Labs [1]. And while it gave us UTF-8, procfs, 9P, etc, it failed to become a popular OS. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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by ainar-g 7y ago
I love this series! Does anybody know, if anyone ever made a version that outputs AMD64 assembly instead of 68000? Or some kind of gentle introduction to a reduced version of the AMD64 instruction set, so that I could do it myself? The i
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Focus is a commodity. Sometimes, people just need rituals. I think, people are slowly starting to realise this.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
If you've liked this video, you may also enjoy Alec's series on LaserDisc [1] (no, it's not about CD) and RCA's Capacitance Electronic Disc or CED [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jw

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