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by avar 4y ago
The standard itself has a better example (well, older versions). In C99 it's: printf("Eh???/n"); Which is the same as: printf("Eh?\n"); I.e. the "??/" supplies the "\"
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by avar 4y ago
Not new in C23, but I still think it's a glaring hole in the standard that there's still no standard way to ask the compiler which (if any) of "J.5 Common extensions" is supported. For the C version you have __STDC_VERSI
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by avar 4y ago
"Extended integer types may be wider than intmax_t". I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but it was introduced in C99, which says (in 7.8.1.5): "[intmax_t] designates a signed integer type capable of representi
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by avar 4y ago
> What would you have us do? Revoke their voting rights? This is easy to say as a non-South African, but the results of your elections seem to be highly regional[1], especially around Cape Town v.s. the rest of the country. If
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by avar 4y ago
You can't deduce that people don't care about the "woke" aspect because some movies are still popular, Disney could have made other movies that weren't "woke", that may or may not have been more popular.
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by avar 4y ago
This is going to sound like nitpicking, but no, and the distinction is what makes it a good example of ADHD. "Yak shaving" (at least as I've always heard it used) isn't applicable here. It would be if she came home and h
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by avar 4y ago
This short scene from Malcolm in the Middle is the best explanation I've found of ADHD as an adult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0 He tries to turn on the light, the bulb is dead, unscrews it, then as he&#
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by avar 4y ago
> [...] repairs that don't get done because > it's hard to organize some stupid paperwork[...] That German homeowners didn't scramble to fix an elevator at extra collective expense says less about their bu
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by avar 4y ago
A meta-comment: The entire tone of this press release is so weird, e.g.: "There’s also significant talk about how the company will use OSM data. It’s clear TomTom is treading cautiously and respectfully here.". That's somethi
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by avar 4y ago
> [...] had no dollar value attached to it. It was literally unbuyable. $44 billion seem to be the going rate.
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by avar 4y ago
Not to mention the advances in machine learning and integrated systems to piece the picture together. Now you probably won't need to follow the breadcrumb trail of some protestor trying to evade surveillance through the methods you des
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by avar 4y ago
Even if you could get that to work someone would take a cellphone to the secret meeting and share a geotagged selfie, people just can't help themselves. Hello secret police! Or, they'd somehow manage to control themselves, but wou
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by avar 4y ago
Couldn't the pivoting of wing mounted weapons stations be driven by the airflow over the mounted weapon, rather than mechanically?
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by avar 4y ago
HP-UX is still being actively developed.
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by avar 4y ago
The government is massively subsidizing private car ownership with zoning, minimum parking requirements etc. It should be a personal choice, but until someone using a road needs to pay a toll that's high enough to outbid other uses of
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by avar 4y ago
If your nightmare scenario is that credit markets are going to offer you your arbitrary asking price for your house I'd like to live in your nightmares :)
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by avar 4y ago
You're just focusing on the downside without considering the upside. Maybe you want to go see a movie you've been dying to see tomorrow, and you've got your $100 tickets in hand. But there's someone else in the same situ
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by avar 4y ago
Right now we don't live in a world where such a bidding system exists, because it's a rather obscure (but interesting) idea. Even if people were widely aware of the details the political will to implement it probably doesn't
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by avar 4y ago
I think you and others in this thread are missing that the proposed mandatory bidding price is a multiple of the "real" value. So yeah, don't like your new neighbors who just bought a $500k home next to you, you can give th
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by avar 4y ago
You're assuming that emotional value cleanly maps to current real estate ownership. What if you'd like to re-purchase a house your family lost in the last recession, but which your family had been living in for generations? The st
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by avar 4y ago
People have spent more than 5 minutes thinking about it. There's a 2018 book called Radical Markets[1] that explores alternative models for various entranced economic systems, such as property ownership, voting etc. There's a free
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by avar 4y ago
Because power users tired of slow userspace will want their kernel to be slow too?
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by avar 4y ago
> And after the game he was unable to explain his own ideas, proposed ideas that were simply losing, referenced games that did not exist, and was generally (relative to the class of player here) clueless Aside from Niemann's case, h
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by avar 4y ago
There's no reason to suppose that an intelligent alien race would find it convenient to count things in base that matches the number of "fingers" they have, if they even have such a thing. Whales aren't far from being in
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by avar 4y ago
Most people storing time-series are also doing that outside of TimescaleDB. So the relevant question isn't what a typical PostgreSQL user is doing, but whether someone wanting to optimize their storage should look at a PostgreSQL exten
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by avar 4y ago
You don't even need to find examples outside of America. The Amish have also been in America longer than Italians as a prominent immigrant group. They haven't "integrated" as a function of time in the sense that's b
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by avar 4y ago
> it'd be the waste between rectangles. It's certainly not being wasted, you can e.g. break it up and use it as material for an OSB, sell it as sawdust etc.
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by avar 4y ago
Undervalued option for a hand blender: A power drill with a blender attachment, it'll easily beat any store bought immersion blender when it comes to reliability. Of course you might end up wishing for crappy plastic gears over somethi
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by avar 4y ago
I was mainly commenting on the parts of your post that dealt with government disfunction, corruption etc. Framing the murder rate as suffering "due to poverty" in the context of South Africa doesn't pass the sniff test. Indon
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by avar 4y ago
(I've been to South Africa once, for two weeks this summer) The author notes that it's "obviously bad" that inequality is so high in South Africa. I may be inadvertently challenging some orthodoxy here but why is that? T

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