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by creshal 2y ago
> What if the objects are non-NULL, but invalid (not actually allocated)? Still UB, since they're restricted pointers that must be valid to begin with.
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by creshal 2y ago
And for a long time, it was legal to have fun constructs like "so the mine entrance goes horizontal for a bit until the main shaft starts right under the local orphanage", so sinkholes can be all sorts of fun.
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by creshal 2y ago
GTK stands for "Gnome first every other user literally does not matter break them hard, break them often, make them give up ToolKit" these days, and has for quite a while.
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by creshal 2y ago
German manufacturers also seem to struggle the most with the whole "the cheaper your products are, the more customers can afford them" concept.
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by creshal 2y ago
The literal version of this is used by sanlock et al. to implement cluster-wide locks. But the whole "pretending to be block devices" overhead makes it not exactly ideal for anything else. Drop the "pretending to be block dev
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by creshal 2y ago
The new code was written by a different department, so I'm a little hazy on the details, but I doubt it. It's a 25 years old line of business app, and it's in violation of every guideline, rule and law it touches, and only al
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by creshal 2y ago
Java 8, as in "extended support until 2030 because too many companies would rather pay for that than upgrade"
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by creshal 2y ago
We just finished upgrading all our Java 1.2 code to Java 17, the Java 6 projects are next :) I doubt we'll get around to the Java 8 stuff before 2030.
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by creshal 2y ago
"Of course Reiser's wife would go missing, have you seen how often things end up missing in his file systems?" used to be funny for a moment.
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by creshal 2y ago
ReiserFS hasn't been the best solution in a long, long while. Even before the murder case it was often more trouble than it was worth.
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by creshal 2y ago
It's also roughly 20% for another company selling sanctioned products? Hmmmmmmm. Yes. Very normal, nothing to see here.
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by creshal 2y ago
Nintendo is the perfect counter example for the supposed "universality" of USB-C: - The Switch insists on an obscure non-mandatory voltage that many early USB-PD power supplies did not support (and good luck teaching the differenc
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by creshal 2y ago
> Just buy trusted brands like Anker, Monoprice, Cables Direct, etc. for slightly more than the cheapest on Amazon. That category includes cables that can - do one of the many quick charging standards (or multiple), but data only at 2.0
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by creshal 2y ago
Try buying an USB-C cable in a random brick and mortar store, or on Amazon. Between "fully thunderbolt 4 certified" cables that do everything, reliable, and "you get two wires for basic 5W charging" cables that reliably
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by creshal 2y ago
> Or is an ISA more than just a different 'language'? It tends to be more like going from C89 to Haskell. You're not just switching the keywords around, but also fundamental architectural concepts. There's still some
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by creshal 2y ago
Yeah, Android has an immense churn of very low quality APIs with spotty support outside JVM languages and worse documentation. Combine that with the fact that Android users are magnitudes less willing to fund apps (either by buying them or
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by creshal 2y ago
Yeah, everywhere I worked there's usually two clusters of postgres databases - whatever made it past the postgres 10 hump is on the most recent version and keeps getting migrated - whatever is still on 9.x is scheduled to remain that w
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by creshal 2y ago
SQLite works well with 2k DAUs on a single node, even with Django's not particularly efficient ORM. You just have to be careful about what you really need to write to DB and what's okay to either not save at all, or just throw int
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by creshal 2y ago
Wordpress is immolating itself a lot these days, what gives? Is investor money running out?
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by creshal 2y ago
Spring Boot, Django, Rails, Laravel, ASP, ... it's not unreasonable to expect Rust to have an equivalent to something that most popular languages have.
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by creshal 2y ago
I really wish Nim's documentation was more accessible, but once you wrap your head around its peculiarities, it's a joy to work with.
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by creshal 2y ago
Really, I'm not sure what the point of your posts is. You don't like change, great for you? > arch, nix, docker, flatpak, snaps etc Lumping all of these into the same category doesn't even make sense, other from a "th
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by creshal 2y ago
Yes, 1980s/early 90s tooling is mostly similar in the amount of effort it put into optimizations that are simply irrelevant today. And it still works, if you're a fat lazy enterprise that can afford much, much more horrible ineffi
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by creshal 2y ago
Yeah, Debian is very, very unergonomic for package maintainers. I get that it's historically groen, but it has historically grown into an abomination that scares off people. Arch packaging is a breeze in comparison. You indeed only nee
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by creshal 2y ago
Doesn't really adress the basic problem, most old phones (and many new phones) don't have the sort of macro autofocus you'd need to keep a video recording at a high enough fidelity to keep track of millimetre-sized objects. L
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by creshal 2y ago
I don't think a GoPro can focus close enough to take detailed enough pictures of tiny components like these.
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by creshal 2y ago
Mozilla-the-company really has no justification for its continued existence, but Mozilla-the-open-source-project is still rather neat. It's a shame the former completely captured the latter.
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by creshal 2y ago
And they're all flooded with low effort trash and useless. The only remaining reliable source - now that many newspapers are axing the remaining staff in favour of LLMs - is pre-2020 print cookbooks. Anything online or printed later mu
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by creshal 2y ago
That's why search engines rated them highly, and why a million spam sites cropped up that paid writers $1/essay to pretend to be Aunt May, and why today every recipe website has a gigantic useless fake essay in front of their copy
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by creshal 2y ago
Another common use case is "I wonder where all my family went after $War"; some families are still trying to figure out where their parents' families ended up at after WW2, or if they survived at all.

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