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by alcover 6y ago
Gas station isn't someone. It's an endpoint, as the bar in my story. If the gas station cashier takes from the register to get a bier, you're right. If not, my thesis still holds I think.
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by alcover 6y ago
ATMs might already be recording serial numbers I've been wondering about this forever. Say John gets bills from the ATM then pays dealer Dylan for weed. Dylan then buys a beer at a bar. If Dylan gets convicted, and banks collab
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by alcover 6y ago
They're an abomination. Especially the 'sauce' they put in it, which will decrement your life expectancy by a full month.
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by alcover 6y ago
But the rare canonical jambon-beurre sandwich, made of quality fresh baguette, normandy salted butter and good ham is really really good.
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by alcover 6y ago
If the arm was in another room, he could feel around with it This uncanny sentence is giving me dystopian vertigo. I picture a mob of derelicts home-invading a 130 years-old tech boomer, fighting his remote-controlled spare limbs from roo
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by alcover 6y ago
Thank you. Your population links are fascinating. Going [1]->[2]->[3] shows that the real boom after all is the cohort born around 1960.
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by alcover 6y ago
I know. I meant the echoing wavefront seems 10y late : 1935+65 = 2000
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by alcover 6y ago
> population over the age of 65 has grown around 33% in the last 10 years Which strikingly echoes GP's "birth rate went from 19/1000 to 27/1000 between 1935 and 1946" . But 10 years too late ? I'm confused
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by alcover 6y ago
For those wondering, I found some tools : Asciio(Linux), Monodraw(Mac), asciiflow.com(Web)
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by alcover 6y ago
That is great ASCII viz ! Did you do it purely by hand ? I often need to but give up...
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by alcover 6y ago
That was pedantic indeed, sorry. My main concern really is the over-cleaning of surfaces. Those products are nasty.
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by alcover 6y ago
> as long as we're not sure, keep doing it There are diminishing returns in this caution principle, while the harm caused by the deluge of disinfection products on the environment and ourselves certainly adds-up. You can never be 10
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by alcover 6y ago
Naive question: How can we compare those brains beyond clues from cranial capacity and maybe supposed diet ?
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by alcover 6y ago
Interesting, thank you. > I wouldn't encourage betting I won't indulge much. It's just sometimes you feel you have a real clue. > their growing pains What do you mean ?
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Ask HN: Where do you place bets?
3 points by alcover 6y ago|2 comments
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by alcover 6y ago
You are right, I changed it to malloc. This 'long way' thing is definitly not super useful..
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by alcover 6y ago
Thank you > marginal convenience(...) you won't get type warnings The aliasing of char* permits the user to directly use all his string-read tools. I'm not super convinced myself it's the right design choice though but i
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by alcover 6y ago
Why wouldn't you store capacity ? In your API the user has to put in a var and pass it around, like in bare C.
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by alcover 6y ago
> in-band signalling as C's standard strings Neat analogy ! > reference count ... copies ... only then is StringB copied You're right I should - and will - use this. But note it won't cover cases where the user modifies
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Show HN: Stricks – managed C strings library(github.com)
15 points by alcover 6y ago|14 comments
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by alcover 6y ago
Dear HN, I fell in love with C, but strings stand between us. So I made this lib. It's certainly more experimental than 'industrial strength', but I learned a great deal and intend to make it a solid useful tool. In the mean
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by alcover 6y ago
I believe Bukowski made such a novel. Don't know the title.
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by alcover 6y ago
> increasing the complexity of whatever it's doing. I wonder if this is possible at all without external input. I'm an ignorant in Complexity Theory though.
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by alcover 6y ago
Very interesting. I guess the dream of a perfect low+high level language will never die. You seem to imply that it's fundamentally impossible ?
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by alcover 6y ago
I refuse to get auto-debited. This thing is obscene : you let a company debit any sum at will from your bank account.
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by alcover 6y ago
>> Most sites don't work as well >Citation definitely needed. Cite me. Impossible to pay my elec bill w/o chrome on my country's biggest energy provider. Silent errors on many sites. FF-esr on Debian
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by alcover 6y ago
That is some serious ellipse ! Made my morning. Care to tell us more ?
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by alcover 6y ago
GPLv3 with a commercial exception Thx. Do you mean GPL + my custom addendum ? How do you write it if you're not versed in `legalese` jargon ?
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by alcover 6y ago
but how you monetize a library? Oh that's a burning question for me. I'm finishing a C lib that - if all goes well - will be very useful. I worked hard on it and now I don't know how to license it. I'm okay with
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by alcover 6y ago
My worthless opinion is only based on what knowledgable devs say : it's hard for sure, and feature/paradigms-creeped. But not specialized, even less than C since it contains C.

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