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by blenderob 2y ago
It is issues like this due to which I gave up on C++. There are so many ways to do something and every way is freaking wrong! An acceptable solution is given at the end of the article: > If you use the International Components for Unicod
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by blenderob 2y ago
If there has been over-enthusiastic use of reader macros, I think we will have to admit that the over-enthusiastic developer is no longer writing Common Lisp code. Those reader macros have morphed the language into a new bespoke language. S
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by blenderob 2y ago
Wow! What a delightful exchange this is! Curiosity asked and answered in 12 minutes! I literally got goosebumps on my arms as I read your comment and reached the last part where you say "this works!"
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> Abusing the trust of your customers is an absolute no-no in my book. How do people on the Internet come to such random conclusions when there is no way you could have known the full terms of the contract between the author and their cl
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by blenderob 2y ago
I am not worried about the scenario where the executable format changes breaks old binaries. That is never going to happen. No OS worth its name is going to do that. I am worried about the scenario where the executable format changes just e
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> Is there a catch? I am only speaking for myself here. While cosmo and ape do seem very clever, I do not need this type of clever stuff in my work if the ordinary stuff already works fine. Like for example if I can already cross-compile
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by blenderob 2y ago
Are there any alternatives to the official bridge that someone who is a user of both Libera and Matrix can run for themselves to bridge the channels they operate?
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by blenderob 2y ago
> A state machine cannot reconstruct the past. It can only move forward. Payments Engineers must avoid state machines. I don't follow. Of course a state machine cannot reconstruct the past. But you can keep a little auditing framewo
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by blenderob 2y ago
I appreciate the author sharing technical details about how they build their blog. I do. However I'd like ask the HN community here to share some examples of really simple blogs? Those that do not take building Rube Goldberg machines t
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> there are some that are as productive as Python, yet execute much faster I'd like some recommendations for this from the community. As productive as Python but faster execution is the kind of sweet spot I want to explore and learn
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by blenderob 2y ago
Anyone else worried how backward this sounds? I mean this is like totally giving up on the dismal state of website UXes these days and gladly accepting that website navigation and experience should remain utterly confusing for humans but ma
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by blenderob 2y ago
> is being able to run busybox part of that specification? It's the other way round. This is like asking if running RHEL is part of the specification? Obviously not. But RHEL provides an environment that is quite close to the specif
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aliases are not inherited by subprocesses unfortunately! so the alias solution would not work when a shell script launches other shell scripts. It wouldn't work in a wide range of other scenarios too like Makefiles, bespoke build tools
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What about compiled binaries that for one reason or another is doing an execve() on "/usr/bin/cmp" or some such thing? Do you propose changing every script and every binary on earth that expects Busybox to be a POSI
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> is `busybox whoami` instead of `whoami` so much more effort? It's not the "more effort" that is the deal breaker here. It is a matter of compliance with specs and user expectations. What you're suggesting would make
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by blenderob 2y ago
> argv[0] is a relic of the past Busybox says hello. Seriously though, how is this on the front page? Both the premise and conclusions contradict the reality of how argv[0] is used with symbolic links and hard links.