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by canucker2016 4mo ago
In the USA, women initiate divorce proceedings ~70% of the time. see https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220511-why-women-file...
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The Slate Truck's price may have leaked, starts at $24,950(arstechnica.com)
4 points by canucker2016 4mo ago|2 comments
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
It's more likely that one dev wrote the draw-cell code. Another dev who's fixing a bug, realizes if they call a certain function either directly or indirectly, their particular bug gets fixed. Oh, and as a side effect, the cell ge
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
And Android 11+ has been doing similar userspace stack-init thing - https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
I was looking through the compiler docs about memory allocation and I found the section about the debug version of the CRT which could fill the allocated memory with a non-zero canary value to help detect uninitialized memory (assuming you
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
It's not impossible - in Ontario, it required a law. Resale ticket prices capped at original ticket face value. see https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-ticket-resale-cap-e...
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
I'm not disputing your point. I'm explaining why the infinite loop actually occurs for those who haven't encountered the problem. The problem would happen for an array whose beginning element starts at offset 0 for a particul
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
None of my college CS courses used programming languages that featured FAR pointers. The above example would cause an infinite loop on Win16's seg:off far memory model, but compiling on Win32 would not cause an infinite loop. Problem i
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
You just had to live with the constraints. It biased your selection of data structures and algorithms. Max 64KB array size meant pointers to allocated structs and linked lists were much more popular back then versus 1 large array of structs
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
But like real-mode Windows, the Macintosh OS was designed with small amounts of RAM. 32K limits pop up in various APIs. Handle memory allocation. Not as much of a strait jacket as Windows segmented-memory programming, but compared to Unix,
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
University students are predominantly female in Israel as in North America, so female education isn't a differentiator for fertility rate. I recall reading an article about the culture of Israel is friendlier towards families/youn
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
It looks like a regional phenomenon - countries near to Israel have a similar fertility rate. see (Middle East fertility rates) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... and (OECD fertility rates)
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The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"(arstechnica.com)
2 points by canucker2016 4mo ago|0 comments
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by canucker2016 4mo ago
But there's no autofocus support from the camera, so there's a lot more work to get/keep things in focus.
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Roku OS's home screen now features a large, permanent ad(arstechnica.com)
7 points by canucker2016 5mo ago|1 comments
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Driving Porsche's most powerful car–and no, it's not a 911(arstechnica.com)
2 points by canucker2016 5mo ago|0 comments
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
FTA: When she scanned with her app in front of the manager, a whole new set of prices came up. “Where are these prices coming from? So now I’ve got new prices. Different price in the back, different price at the register, brand new pric
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
Other Walmart-related dynamic/surge pricing links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41963865 [2y ago, 22 comments] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454967 [2mos ago, 0 comments]
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Walmart shopper found $3 shoes, then paid 6 times the price at checkout(nypost.com)
5 points by canucker2016 5mo ago|3 comments
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
Windows NT Networking configuration, which may have been removed in the post Win2K versions - see https://web.archive.org/web/20030218034509/http://www.resear... and https://news.ycombinator.c
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
from https://www.cincinnati.com/story/tvandmediablog/2014/06/06/w... [Hugh] Wilson recalled that Dr. Johnny Fever "would always say, 'More music and less Nessman.' And he (Les) ne
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
Clearer, upscaled version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1cJdH6ffg
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
He'll be looking over his back/front/sides at anyone who approaches him with a long umbrella and closely examine any drink served to him for the rest of his life. Plus he should plan on living on the ground floor of any buil
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
I would have thought that getting rid of private (or semi-private) offices, the largest, most conspicuous "free popsicle", would have been the death knell for the old Microsoft - the beancounters are running the asylum now. see h
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Dmitry Senin - I escaped Vladimir Putin in the belly of a dead cow(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by canucker2016 5mo ago|3 comments
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
filesystem api was introduced in C++17
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
There's also PVS-Studio. They also scan open source projects - see https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/inspections/ It's hard to convince managers to spend money on static analysis tools (or any developm
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
I think it'll be a war of who has the better LLMs-as-security-scanner. Ideally, you'd do a comprehensive all-source-code scan, (and the LLM-scanner finds everything during those scans), and fix all the reported defects. Afterwards
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
The cheap, low-hanging "fruit" lint rules have been added to today's C/C++ compilers. But these rules can be fragile, depending on what level the static analysis scan occurs - source-code-level-textual pattern matching o
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by canucker2016 5mo ago
Coverity scans several open source projects for free. see https://scan.coverity.com/faq and https://scan.coverity.com/projects see https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux for the linu

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