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by buserror 3y ago
Pretty much so. Mind you I did a lot (too much) in my 20's and 30's, both amazingly good, and amazingly bad, which means going out at in my little off-the-city town is boring as hell anyway. I'm much more excited about able t
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by buserror 3y ago
I do that a lot these days. I went to bed around 8:30pm, woke at 4am... It's 6:50 now and I've done a lot of work! It's nice, quiet, I just really crack on. I'm waiting for 8am, then feed + walk the dogs, then I'll
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by buserror 3y ago
Actually I use the same hardware setup (ADB->USB) and the same keyboard, just with a different adapter, so I'd be happy with any patch to QMK. That makes at least 2 of us ;-)
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by buserror 3y ago
well you can always while (1) {} -- run the program, and control-C when you hear the CPU fan :-)
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by buserror 3y ago
It doesn't requires a space, you could modify the lexer to recognize '..' as a prefix and solve that problem, it's just a choice they made to refuse that it could be implemented by just having one character forward loo
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by buserror 3y ago
That has clearly prevented dozens of other languages to support that feature... because no parser would be able to tell you that range isn't valid at compile time?
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by buserror 3y ago
Problem is, that approach forces the committee to roll in stuff from the C++ spec -- stuff that would have been shot in flame if you had hinted about that sort of things as a proposal C extension.. For example the [[keywords]] that had wa
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by buserror 3y ago
Case ranges are in gcc for a million years. And also nested functions. I used nested functions a lot but, it was never ported to clang which makes it a bit of a problem for portability, also, nowadays the linker complains about having to
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by buserror 3y ago
I've been using '.bash_history per directory' method for quite a while. Mostly changed 'cd' to see if I'm in /home or /opt and switch the HISTORY_PATH.. then tail -5 the bash_history that is (likely)
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by buserror 3y ago
I do the same, not because I don't know the priorities, but because in my 35+ years career, I've seen so many times when cut+paste of partial expression leads to disaster just because it wasn't grouped properly with parenthes
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by buserror 3y ago
She is no longer on twitter, she's @nanoraptor on masto -- sorry can't give you the whole handle as masto seems to make it rather difficult to list one's own list of following!
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by buserror 3y ago
I wrote my own pet Apple IIe emulator for linux fairly recently [0]. It works fairly well, even if it doesn't try to emulate an exact cycle accurate 'pixel' video modes, instead, it 'cheats' and do it line by line
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by buserror 3y ago
Pfew it wasn't just me then :-)
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by buserror 3y ago
I'll start caring about c standards above gnu99 as soon as they add case range values to switch statements, like case A ... B: -- which I've only been using for what, 35 years now? All that time, I really wondered what the flip th
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by buserror 3y ago
My BMW X5 just was driven back to me yesterday after nearly 3 weeks away for 1) a puncture and 2) a recall of some sort. 3 weeks because they decided run flats would save them money, and also got rid of the garages courtesy car fleet, als
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by buserror 3y ago
Heh, I am a EU immigrant to the UK, been with my wife 30 years, and both my in-laws were rabbid brexiters of course.... Until I told them they were voting for literally preventing their daughter and me the life we've been living. Their
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by buserror 3y ago
Yes, mostly because they were ALSO under the assumption that the promise of deregulation was such a great thing. The manipulation wasn't entirely one sided on the plebs, it was a concerted effort, and not just ONE international interes
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by buserror 3y ago
This was a massive infowar against the whole country. There are tons of gullible people to 'convince' using their own prejudice, and there were quite a few people who saw it as a quick rise to power -- most of these people did ver
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by buserror 3y ago
What sort of reply is this? Does it address the fact they sell a product and you aren't getting what you paid for?
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by buserror 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38578872 -- 4 hours ago.
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by buserror 3y ago
No you don't really, google around and you'll see that whatever you use, unless it's a google stick (not even sure either), you won't get HD. Seems the DRM for displays has been cracked a while back and everyone has just
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by buserror 3y ago
It is just not even just deleting shows, they do whatever they like. For example, if you buy a "HD" show on youtube, you are actually getting 480p, because something something DRM will prevents you from playing that HD version you
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by buserror 3y ago
Last time I checked, their new server are way more than the typical 35 euros mark, which is what I pay at the minute for ~3TB RAID1 quad core with 16GB ram... The current gen of server auction seems already to be quite a nice upgrade to my
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by buserror 3y ago
I hope this is not going to be a massive hit for them financially -- I like Hetzner. On the flip side they might have some cheap 'server auction' on the block soon, I've been pondering a cross/upgrade for a little while
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by buserror 3y ago
THIS is the lightest way to have continuous make, without wasting cycles and hammering the file system. inotifywait is a pretty standard tool that does exactly what's needed. watch : while true; do \ clear; $(MAKE) -j all tests;
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by buserror 3y ago
I don't understand, with gcc -MM (to generate .d files), -include to include them, and VPATH for source file discovery, a typical small project makefile is about 1/2 page and requires very little maintenance. More complicated proj
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by buserror 3y ago
I love geany for loose file edits, but I don't use as an IDE. For one thing (perhaps this has changed in the 2.0?) no "proper" split window support; there was a patch implementing it a few years back, but it was refused on re
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by buserror 3y ago
paywalled
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by buserror 3y ago
The only times I had to do that I.... converted the whole heap of C++ to C and used that instead. You rarely see libraries using all the most complex constructs of C++, and quite frankly, if they do, I'd rather stay clear of that pile
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by buserror 3y ago
I "abuse" unions and anonymous unions all the time, it's very practical, and make the 'user' code a lot clearer as you can access the small 'namespace' as convenient. Here for example I can access it as na

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