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by chasil 1y ago
The times that I have used "gcc -S" on my code, I have never seen the additional registers used. I understand that r8-r15 require a REX prefix, which is hostile to code density. I've never done it with -O2. Maybe that would s
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by chasil 1y ago
I use another app from F-Droid called Skytube for occasional downloads. I like it. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/free.rm.skytub
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by chasil 1y ago
This is the statement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Commandment
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by chasil 1y ago
I believe that all people are apertures to the divine, and bear that signature. I believe that each and every one can show us something, not that we must demand it, but in that moment that it reveals itself, we should understand. Perhaps I
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by chasil 1y ago
I don't mean talk show hosts. I'm taken aback by a president who recommends bleach as an antiviral. I'm taken aback by a member of congress who married her brother as part of her visa process. It just gets worse. How are we l
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by chasil 1y ago
There is no lack of bad behavior on either side of the aisle, for sure. Is this warranted? I don't know.
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by chasil 1y ago
He does appear to have a strong bias in past statements, although I don't know how rigorous this analysis is. "A separate study from the organization claimed that 92 percent of the jokes Kimmel made on his show since January 2023
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by chasil 1y ago
Venus does not have a molten core, and there is no magnetic field protecting the atmosphere from the solar winds. This is not likely the sole reason, but it must be a factor. Mercury does have a magnetic field, Mars does not.
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by chasil 1y ago
I want root reliably. Every version of Lineage offers rooted debugging, even without Magisk. I know that root can be obtained in iOS, but Apple really prefers that users be restrained from this capability.
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by chasil 1y ago
Choose phones supported by LineageOS where the bootloader can be unlocked, and you can easily outlast iOS.
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by chasil 1y ago
And I'll get back to my original point. When Debian demoted bash and migrated to the Almquist shell, there was great anguish from Ubuntu users of all tiers (Adobe was notable, IIRC). That anguish was due to a decade that predated POSIX
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by chasil 1y ago
I still run some rhel5, and there were quite a few standard options that were not implemented by GNU. Looking now is good, but looking in the past is also illuminating. I generally trust busybox to give me both a uniform and compliant userl
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by chasil 1y ago
I realize that, but I'm illustrating that POSIX.2 required a retrofit to bash, and probably required similar adjustments to the rest of userland, including coreutils.
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by chasil 1y ago
Nope nope nope. You can see this in a script by defining: alias p=printf Then try to use it with bash. If bash is running as #!/bin/sh, then it will work, because bash is forced into POSIX mode. However, if the script is ru
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by chasil 1y ago
There is some subtlety that you are missing here. Outside of coreutils, let's consider bash and ksh88. The two have differing behavior in several areas (coprocesses, alias handling, final pipeline fork, etc.), but this divergence in be
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by chasil 1y ago
SQLite has specific naming advice: "For most SQL code, your safest bet is to never use any English language word as the name of a user-defined object... "SQLite adds new keywords from time to time when it takes on new features. So
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by chasil 1y ago
I have an Ultrasparc workstation that I will need to unload soon, big and purple, vaguely near Chicago. Craigslist is a last resort.
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by chasil 1y ago
I am within a year of retirement, and you think I should care?
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by chasil 1y ago
Computers were girls. "Just before the digital age emerged, computers were humans, sitting at tables and doing math laboriously by hand. Yet they powered everything from astronomy to war and the race into space. And for a time, a lar
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by chasil 1y ago
Oh, my sweet summer child, my first classroom exposure was CP/M.
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by chasil 1y ago
Did I misinterpret the experts' assertion of imposibility? "I had this crazy idea that I’m going to build a database engine that does not have a server, that talks directly to disk, and ignores the data types, and if you asked any
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by chasil 1y ago
Apps that run on the Kindle Fire can't use Google Mobile Services, and the Amazon appstore is missing many well-known titles. The Play Store is mostly absent from China, and I really don't know how that ecosystem works. Was there
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by chasil 1y ago
"Why should people believe what you say about /^.*$/?" That regex derived from the tweet seems apt.
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by chasil 1y ago
Copper has the same effect. Brass tableware would be the least expensive material for this purpose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect
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by chasil 1y ago
Very true. However, a significant fraction of the current installed base would not upgrade, requiring new feature development for both versions. The test harness would also need implementations for both versions. Then the DO-178B status wou
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by chasil 1y ago
Dr. Hipp has said several times that nobody expected a weakly-typed database to achieve the pervasiveness that is observed with SQLite. At the same time, strict tables address some of the concern of those coming from conventional databases.
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by chasil 1y ago
The format itself is a U.S. federal standard, and cannot be changed. That has advantages and drawbacks. https://www.sqlite.org/locrsf.html
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by chasil 1y ago
Digital Equipment Corporation sold a SQL database known as Rdb that could also run as a single file. It was the first database to introduce a cost-based optimizer, and ran under both VMS and Digital UNIX. Oracle bought it, and VMS version
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by chasil 1y ago
I thought that this was in Masters of the Air , but I was wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Air
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by chasil 1y ago
Interesting quotes from the article: "There has not been a significant improvement in the minimum attenuation—a measure of the loss of optical power per kilometer traveled—of optical fibers in around 40 years... "The new design ma

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