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by billpg 3y ago
No
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by billpg 3y ago
... but please don't.
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by billpg 3y ago
Someone attacked a NATO member state?
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by billpg 3y ago
How many Rasperry Pis have the equivalent processing power to an original Cray-1? (I would not be at all surprised if a single RPi were as powerful as twenty Cray-1s.)
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by billpg 3y ago
There's a parallel universe where the designer of make decided that lines starting with any whitespace indicated the commands to run, instead of requiring actual tab characters.
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by billpg 3y ago
I miss makefiles. I had a side-project that included a program that converted a text file into a C# file and I wanted that integrated into the build process so when I hit F5, the system would - if needed - invoke the code-gen program and th
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by billpg 3y ago
Above roadways is fine. The bad idea is making the road surface out of solar panels that vehicles drive on top of.
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by billpg 4y ago
Sorry. I can't hear you over all the panic screaming.
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by billpg 4y ago
Exactly how terrified should I be at this news? Really super terrified, right?
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by billpg 4y ago
SPF et al are not anti-spam but anti-impersonation.
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by billpg 4y ago
"Hey, giant rectangle here just passing through." "Another giant rectangle. I'm also going to make the rest of the screen darker. Hope that's okay." "Look, I know you were part way through reading somethin
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by billpg 4y ago
We live in a world of spam filters. Email is not a reliable delivery system. "I didn't see it" is always plausible when dealing with emails.
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by billpg 4y ago
But what will I right-click-save-as now?
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Ask HN: Do you have access to a Rainbow Table please?
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by billpg 4y ago
You had the perils of writing C for GEOS? Having to lock a block of memory before using it and then unlocking it when you've done. Looking back, my big regret was not trying harder to get C++ working. Having the compiler automatically
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by billpg 4y ago
Hiya! I worked there in '97, first year at Bury St Edmunds.
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by billpg 4y ago
"Precated"?
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by billpg 4y ago
There's a cell/mobile service over here that's advertised as "Unlimited Social Media". So customers get limited data but "Social Media" data is unlimited. Exactly what they define as "Social Media&quo
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by billpg 4y ago
Yes. Tell me all about this magical VPN service. I'll be listening while I look for the jump-ten-seconds button.
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by billpg 4y ago
Accessing a 32 bit word was a simple read op. Accessing an 8 bit byte from a pointer, the compiler would insert assembly code into the generated object code. The "normal" part of the pointer would be read, loading four characters
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by billpg 4y ago
Depends on how helpful the compiler is. This particular compiler had an option to switch off adding in bit shifting code when reading characters and instead set CHAR_BIT to 32, meaning strings would have each character taking up 32 bits of
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by billpg 4y ago
I forget the details (long time ago) but char* and int* pointers had a different internal structure. The assembly generated by the compiler when code accessed a char* pointer was optimized for accessing single bytes and was very different t
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by billpg 4y ago
This was three or four jobs ago, but I remember reviewing someone's C code and they kept different collections of char* and int* pointers where they could have used a single collection of void* and the handler code would have been a lo
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by billpg 4y ago
Fair enough. Nonetheless, the 16 oz = 1 lb system is prevalent. I had never heard of "Troy" units until I read your response.
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by billpg 4y ago
I would have a lot more respect for those units if it were consistent around 12. You mentioned the yard but that's equal to 3ft. What's the name of the 12 ft unit? Why isn't the mile equal to 12×12×12×12 ft? Why isn't an
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by billpg 4y ago
Ed Davey, Tom Hunt, Rupa Huq, Ben Lake, Ian Levy, Alan Mak, Lia Nici, Naz Shah. I daresay "A Mak" or "R Huq" would work too.
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by billpg 4y ago
If we're going to have major time reform, can we start the daily cycle at dawn? 1am on Tuesday is known as "Monday Night".
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by billpg 4y ago
I wonder which side Greenland, Iceland and the Falkland Islands would pick.
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by billpg 4y ago
POP3 is still popular for server-to-server bulk transport. I wrote the service to act as a simple listener where anyone can attach their own handlers to provide access to messages. My thinking it would act as a front-end proxy so someone co
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by billpg 4y ago
I posted this link on my lunch time, and watched as it disappeared off the "new" page with no points or discussion. I only just checked this morning to see if there was any activity and was surprised to see it had been given point

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