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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Sorry, habits. I have the same problem with AI/IA.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I believe it did not escalate to a major conflict because UE carefully avoided it. Ukraine, in my profane view, was clearly a casus belli for UE, as this country, IIRC, was seriously considering joining the UE and UE members were not obje
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
You can push it to the extreme and have two persons on each and every coding task. That's pair programming [1], which is said to be less productive, although it is argued you trade productivity for quality and other benefits. [1] http
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
If we didn't complain about Java applets, we still would have Java applets. If we didn't complain about Flash, we still would have Flash applets. Yesterday there was however people that were saying, "that's how it is, de
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
The "modern web" does not want to work without JS. It definitely could work without JS for the most part.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
That's risk aversion, and that's why this domain is so unhealthy.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
If all you have is Git everything looks like a commit.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Like this ? const char* strings[]={"ab","cd", "ef", "gh", ....}; char result[1024*1024*1024*1024]; size_t sz=0; for(int i=0; i<sizeof(strings); i++) { size_t len=strlen(string
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Be careful with jokes on HN.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
If my memory serves, IEEE FP is accurate for those real numbers that are also integers (at least on some range). JS users are safe as long as they stay within the integer algebra (ie they don't use division, mainly, or perhaps round up
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> then you can hire a bunch of fresh developers who will work a lot of extra and free hours for you because they are young We don't have the same definition of "productive". Extra free hours is not "productive",
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> Text always work Windows vs Linux end-of-line markers often screws-up things. UTF often screws-up things. Tab-vs-space sometimes screws-up things. Text is related to Postel's principle, which is often questioned because it leads t
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
On (2): implicit type promotions with unsigned and signed types can make it no-so-easy in C. FWIW, I always test with bytes with the sign bit on (on two's complement architectures, never worked with others) when I do stuff like that. O
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yes they are, and yes some users want both at the same time. Users are complicated.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> will actually be a more anti-social move than not. Anti-social is the whole point. Because, precisely, society has been hijacked by consumerism. It's nothing new, it started with the industrial revolution. Now that (almost) everyo
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I've been wanting to put it online for a long time to show how I do it for cases like this, but I need to strip it first of semi-confidential stuff because I hack it a lot to do work-related things. And it also need some documentation
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Technically I should still have a floppy and its backup, but the old laptop I used to make it is dead. It's kind of difficult to find floppy drives these days, and the whole thing is so old that the floppies might be no more readable.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I have done something along the lines of TFA a long time ago, a system that could boot from a floppy and recompile itself from source (never did anything useful with it), but today I daily use a Forth dialect written in C that is designed t
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> it has one downside in the inability afaik to do static analysis of forth programs I believe it is possible with annotations, at least for basic checks, and assuming you don't go too crazy (e.g. returning a variable number of resu
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
It depends on the implementation. With Indirect Threaded Code (ITC), "functions" are represented more or less as a list of other functions or primitives to call. But there are also classic bytecode-based Forth implementations, sub
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Maybe it's just me but it took a long time before I found another "big" API as horrible as BSD sockets is. Well, some APIs are not meant to be used directly, but hidden behind a class or more application-specific functions.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
This is perhaps related to the topic of an article that was posted here a few weeks ago, which was about CVE databases adopting some sort of charter because of a trend to use CVE reporting as a way to stuff one's resume.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
It is sad to see that sibling answers are somewhat avoiding the question. I concur, "exploits" in MMORPG are about abusing unintended consequences in the design of the world, not in the design of the program. Like spawn locations
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
... And "640K is enough for everyone". I believe they are all instances of induced demand [1]: If you allocate a large pool of a given resource, you tend to use it more liberally, and in the end the consumption rate is about the s
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I am not quite sure what you are getting at. Yes, this is the french ideal (and it's not so special, really), and yes, we are not here yet wrt to discrimination, be it for race, gender or sexuality. This is what the majority of the fre
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
France. No government agency can mention or ask about ethnicity - in particular, our national statistics agency, the INSEE. Private organizations can, but this is not often seen. I think its an heritage from WWII, in particular the "ye
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
And so does Forth [1] ;-) I suspect the fact that Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, started his career at the SAO [2] and worked at NRAO later. The other one is the extreme compactness of the runtime, and his chip designs that got "r
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> The Bureau has become aware of discussions on social media platforms suggesting that certain radio services regulated by the Commission may be an alternative to social media platforms [...] Amateur and Personal Radio Services, however,
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
If they do store persistent documentation in emails, the problem lies somewhere between the chair and the keyboard. Actually, forced deletion - if users are aware of it of course - is likely to sanitize everyone's practice. Email ain&#
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
I somewhat disagree with the way he connects simplicity and cleverness. I once had to explain the behavior of a particular subsystem. It was governed by a bunch of simple rules, but their combination created a complex behavior. This was sim

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