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by apaprocki 3y ago
Interesting thought experiment… does the right to remain silent prevent a USB device from being placed on your head?
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by apaprocki 3y ago
Highly recommend apps like TurboScan. They automatically rectify the image and save in high contrast black & white (unless you want grey scale or color). Syncs with iCloud, etc. I used to use a dual-sided scanner for everything but have
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by apaprocki 3y ago
It also appears in ways that you don’t expect. PeopleSoft is COBOL and they have like 25k+ customers. As we write, Oracle is trying to sell more COBOL into the enterprise in 2023 :)
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by apaprocki 3y ago
You're correct -- Just 11.3. I've only ever used Solaris on SPARC hardware, so that colors my view.
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by apaprocki 3y ago
Since GCC 13 made the first page, it’s worth pointing out that 13 marks *-solaris2.11.3 obsolete and the backend will be removed entirely in 14. In order to get it in 13, you need to build GCC with --enable-obsolete. It’s always hard to jud
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by apaprocki 3y ago
My credit union (it’s actually very worth it, so I’m not switching) has no branch within multiple states from me. A domestic wire requires phone calls and fax, can’t be done entirely online. It’s certainly more doable with a behemoth like C
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by apaprocki 3y ago
If you’ve ever tried to practically use multiple banking institutions in the US, especially through the 80s-90s, you’d immediately relate to only using a single account regardless of what the statistical hazards are. It’s 2023 and my insti
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by apaprocki 3y ago
Yes, 300hp on paper. I owned a Z NA 2+2 that I converted to a TT, maybe ~600hp. The RX7, 300ZX, Supra generation were all fun and great competition, but that was probably also the order in terms of reliability. The rotary engine is super tu
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Brings me back to the early 90s, when my kid self would hex-edit Dr. Sbaitso's binary so it would reply with witty or insulting things because I wanted the computer to argue with my 6yo sister.
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Remote Work Is Costing Manhattan More Than $12B a Year(bloomberg.com)
3 points by apaprocki 4y ago|1 comments
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Per what I read, the F-22 was operating at 58,000 ft and shot the balloon that was at the time at 65,000 ft. A missile was used because it had to elevate ~7,000 ft to hit the target. The balloon fell in 47 ft of water, 6 mi from the coast.
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by apaprocki 4y ago
> imagine an indefatigable, perpetually nice adversary out to screw you over. That's already the case on a lot of calls. In particular, the systems that are configured to not hand you over to a human no matter what unless the system
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Battery life, keychain, PIN numbers from iMessage, integration between desktop/mobile, it's not supported by ads/Google...
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Yes. I have used every way to consume the web since text-only was preferred in early lynx days and finding gopher resources was the norm. NSCA Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, all IE versions, Firefox, Chrome when it first appeared. I want nothi
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by apaprocki 4y ago
I've found when talking to Apple-ecosystem users that they aren't even aware of how well Apple Music works. I'm aware there's certain integrations that might not be possible, or a random family member being on Android th
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Except we’ve had stdint.h since C99 (23 years now), so we’ve had a byte type for a long time now. Are you saying C99 historically took too long, or that you don’t get what you need from C99?
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Well, there used to be. The early QIC drives that hooked up to a FDC connector like the 3.5" were pretty ubiquitous in the prosumer world. They eventually transitioned to better tapes/standards, but all worked well and even Window
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by apaprocki 4y ago
To play devil's advocate here, what usually suffers the most in integration-only testing is testing error handling. In some codebases it's extremely important to test all the error handling paths because they are not extremely exc
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by apaprocki 4y ago
No, because it's not actually possible without extra information. The codepoints in Unicode are the same if the languages use the same character (Han unification). With no extra information, if a string is only comprised of unified cod
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by apaprocki 4y ago
It seems like optimization cases where this makes sense are generally of the sort where `noreturn` can't be used because it is conditional. That makes sense to me (although, could this have covered most use cases by making `noreturn` s
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by apaprocki 4y ago
The literal example in the Clang documentation is not about optimization: > For example, without the __builtin_unreachable in the example below, the compiler assumes that the inline asm can fall through and prints a “function declared ‘n
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by apaprocki 4y ago
The point of this is that you can control that behavior at the compiler level using different flags instead of changing the code itself (via preprocessor defines).
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by apaprocki 4y ago
One thing people are missing is that you may need to use this to satisfy conditions that the compiler might encounter to emit a warning (or error if equivalent of -Werror is enabled). If you have strict warnings on, but no way to tell the c
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by apaprocki 4y ago
I view it more as a platform-independent building block to be used by library authors. For instance, here's our suite of byte order macros that this will not simply replace: https://bloomberg.github.io/bde-resources&#x2
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Don’t get many opportunities in 2022 to tell the global Internet reading HN to go listen to Burning Fight and No Spiritual Surrender! What was your band?
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by apaprocki 4y ago
It’s on GitHub: https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode
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by apaprocki 4y ago
It's funny how much time I (and probably a number of others) spend undoing this decision and making things all refer to one copy of the data. There's usually also one per programming language/runtime, so the list only grows a
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by apaprocki 4y ago
… and shipping them daily :)
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by apaprocki 4y ago
Itanium function pointers worked like that, so it could have been the new normal if IA64 wasn’t so crazy on the whole.
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by apaprocki 4y ago
For my qualifying emergency I called the duty officer, explained the situation, selected a 9am appointment, spent not even 10 minutes in the passport office and was told to come back to pick it up at 2pm. Walked in and was handed an envelop

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