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by aji 10y ago
My team recently started boxing both integer and string IDs in a service of ours and, though the transition was a little painful, it has paid off immensely in both readability and safety. These kinds of tips aren't just pedantic progra
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by aji 10y ago
Decent article but it's missing a lot of the things I expected to see, given the introduction. This seems really focused on the things I'd consider most analogous to "physiological" and "safety" needs. Writing
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by aji 11y ago
Exactly. Arizona State University recently covered a bunch of walkways and parking lots with solar panels to both shade the lots while soaking up that delicious Arizona sun, which seems both effective and obvious. Putting it on the ground i
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by aji 11y ago
I do something similar, but instead of 8 groups of 2 I have 4 groups of 4: 00xx 01xx 10xx and 11xx. I also have some freebie groups that I just know, like 0001 0011 0111 1111, the powers of two, 5 and 6 from working with chmod, etc. A B D E
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by aji 11y ago
'dup' is a bad example from C, in my opinion. ('dup' and 'dupe' are both short forms of 'duplicate' anyway.) What about 'strncpy' versus 'strlcpy'? Or 'vsnprintf'? '
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by aji 11y ago
The NES EverDrive is probably a good bet: http://shop.krikzz.com/EverDrive-N8-NES-EDN8NES.htm
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by aji 11y ago
The key distinction to note is the one between specifications and implementations. As a small example, consider Brainfuck. The Brainfuck specification (if such a thing exists) has no upper bound on the number of memory cells, but practical
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by aji 11y ago
I'd say the interpreter is interpreting a non-Turing complete subset of the bignum language. That said, what is and isn't "Turing complete" is hardly relevant for practical purposes. C has obviously been very useful as a
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by aji 11y ago
Absolutely breathtaking. It's like standing on an enormous mountain.
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by aji 11y ago
In that same vein, what's the point of the term "interpreter"? Isn't an interpreter just compiling source code into an in-memory representation, and then executing that? I'd argue that terms like "interpreter&q
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by aji 11y ago
Judging posts based on titling patterns considered harmful
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by aji 11y ago
The hack is cool, but the post's title could use a lot of work. The article doesn't really talk about how git push over SSH works, and strace isn't even mentioned outside of the first paragraph.
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by aji 11y ago
This is really dang cool. I started a similar project[0] but have tabled it for now, since I'm not sold on the usefulness of making C easier to use this way. The way I see it, there are two ways to use a library like this that are wort
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by aji 11y ago
This article is so charming! I get the same feeling reading this as I do watching a puppy waddle around.
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by aji 11y ago
I like this! "If you're the best jazz player in the band, find a new band"
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by aji 11y ago
I'll admit that there's a lot of gaps in my knowledge of how RobustIRC works, I tried to make that clear in the post. I was just enumerating the obvious problems with using strong consistency with IRC, RobustIRC being the most pro
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by aji 11y ago
>This design will also scale to running across multiple servers, and in general to any kind of computer, business or industry problem. If I understand what you're getting at, you're saying that locking is the solution to all co
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RobustIRC is a regression(medium.com)
8 points by aji 11y ago|0 comments
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by aji 11y ago
That's a pretty funny parody of BBC Test Card F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Card_F
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by aji 11y ago
To be fair, `ag shotgun` would take less than a minute to run and skim the output of. If nothing obvious turns up, you try other things.
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by aji 11y ago
Is this about the IA-32 debugger? There's a Phrack article that describes something similar: http://phrack.org/issues/65/8.html
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by aji 12y ago
While IRC is certainly in use at companies and by the public, it's in a pretty steep decline, especially in the last decade and a half. The only people who avidly use it in their free time anymore tend to be tinkerers and tech types. (
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by aji 12y ago
I've only been on IRC for 4 years and I can't imagine life without it. For me, it's become one of those constants I can rely on that's just always there wherever I go.