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by bregma 4mo ago
I don't burn softwood because hardwood is a much better fuel as a primary heat source, especially when you live in a mixed forest. Sugar maple, red oak, birch, and beech. Beech is the best: straight grain, good density, but less common
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by bregma 4mo ago
The political right is obsessed with minimizing Type II error. They feel it's better to miss good research results than to have the wrong people performing the research or chasing the wrong ideas to start with (a false negative) and th
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by bregma 4mo ago
Well, there is legislation before Committee to mandate open APIs that any accredited institution can use. As a consumer you will not be eligible, but you will be allowed to pay some third-party to pull your data from your bank and save it i
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by bregma 4mo ago
It's not at all difficult if you have gained the basic survival skill of cooking. I mean, take a couple egg yolks in a double boiler, add the juice of a lemon, whisk until it's thick then add butter. 10 minutes and you can use a b
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by bregma 4mo ago
Not only is it an ELF binary, but it is ironically a static ELF binary.
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by bregma 4mo ago
On QNX the process spawning is done by sending a message to the userspace process manager, which creates a new process table entry and queues up its initial thread. When its initial thread gets a timeslice its entry point may be the dynamic
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by bregma 4mo ago
There's what's legal, and then there's what the border guard with a hemorrhoid flareup decides to do on the spot. One pain in the butt can cause you a lifetime of pain in the butt even if it wasn't the intent of any legi
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by bregma 4mo ago
Birth control was illegal in the USA until the late 1960s (other than condoms, which is what sailors used with prostitutes). It takes a while for changes to propagate through society. Also, consumer credit was illegal until the same time pe
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by bregma 4mo ago
Neither Rust nor Zig are appropriate at this time for certified functional safety. Given the definition of the languages is "it does what one particular implementation of its compiler, runtime, and standard library does at this time&qu
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by bregma 4mo ago
So C++ is "wrong" because it doesn't work like something that came along 40 years later and you used first? The problem does not appear to be in C++.
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by bregma 4mo ago
There are two kinds of programming languages: the kind everyone complains about and the kind nobody uses.
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by bregma 4mo ago
Python3 is what, 15 years old?
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by bregma 4mo ago
C++ has std::sort() and std::stable_sort(). You should write what you mean, and you should know and understand your tools. Blaming the tool for your ignorance marks you as significantly less than an artisan.
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by bregma 4mo ago
I work maintaining the toolchain and language runtimes for a commercial safety-certified embedded operating system. I am deeply familiar with C and C++ because I live it and breathe it every day and have done so for over 40 years. Most of o
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by bregma 4mo ago
ISO/IEC 14882 contains many uses of the word "deprecation", including all the sections of Appendix D that explicitly lists all of the deprecated and removed features of the language and library.
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by bregma 4mo ago
It was a new feature. Over 30 years ago now. Template metaprogramming was even featured in the ARM.
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by bregma 4mo ago
It's a matter of latency vs. throughput.
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by bregma 4mo ago
I don't know about the typical HN contributor but I personally lack the cash to but all the stocks in the S&P. There are 503 stocks tracked in the S&P 500 index. It would cost about 2.8 million USD to buy 100 shares (one board
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by bregma 4mo ago
Drones are haploids so probably nothing. I suspect you'd need the full chromosome set to get the full developmental effect of the royal treatment. Given that when a hive goes queenless the workers start laying eggs including in the roy
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by bregma 4mo ago
When you get down to it, there is no better way to display text than to use a text display. No amount of cartoons or colourful bouncy animation of pictures on the screen can replace simply displaying text when what you need to do is display
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by bregma 4mo ago
A thrombus is a blood clot in a distal blood vessel. When it becomes dislodged it becomes known as an embolism which, if it settles in a pulmonary or coronary artery, can rapidly become fatal. The chances of this happening are greatly incre
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by bregma 4mo ago
I have 3 weeks left, but outside of work I've already been divorced from anything technological invented this century. I've been living in a log cabin in the woods for over a quarter century. This essay does hit home. 21 days left
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by bregma 4mo ago
> I reckon most folks have made a git oopsie and needed to re-clone a repo at least once in their career. And I recon this is the default workflow for most people most of the time.
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by bregma 4mo ago
When I worked at a Linux distro I worked with one device maker who told me in confidence that 90% of their revenue came from Linux-based shops and they only needed a one-person support team. They had a 20 person support team for the remaini
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by bregma 5mo ago
It's because crowing about Rust is like sending dick pics. I suspect it's the same part of the brain responsible with the same neural pathways stimulated.
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by bregma 5mo ago
If one woman can produce a baby on 9 months, why can't you get 9 women pregnant and produce a baby in one month?
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by bregma 5mo ago
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy You've probably been churning out possibly malformed code for years. Now you're becoming aware of your shortcomings. This is u
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by bregma 5mo ago
A segfault is considered safe if you're talking about functional safety because it results in a return to a defined safe state (RTDSS). If a segfault leads to some other state you do not deem "safe", such as a single program
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by bregma 5mo ago
I dunno. The single major qualification of being from money has not always made for the best research results.
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by bregma 5mo ago
I disagree. There is nothing in the digitally sampled and modelled world comparable to plugging your guitar into a hot over-driven tube amp and showing the feedback who's the boss. Pure analog transistors don't give that luscious

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