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by dexen 8y ago
I've looked at the guide[1] to writing Brainfuck interpreter, and the Zig language indeed looks very practical. In particular the test "..." {} block is neat, and the love for stack backtraces makes me feel at home. Def
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by dexen 8y ago
>I've resigned over unrealistic expectations from leadership about deadlines, (...) This sets great example. Thank you.
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by dexen 8y ago
Worth refreshing this serious, if tongue-in-cheek paper: Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~bender/pub/JoS07-procrastinate.pdf ``We are writing this sentence two days before the d
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by dexen 8y ago
You jest, but it's worth referencing the "Why explore space?"[1] letter. Penned back during the Space Race, as a response to a nun concerned with apparently wasteful spending, contrasted to poverty suffered by the people she
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by dexen 8y ago
You are partially wrong. OpenSSH, and the SSH standard in general, support "multiplexing SSH connections", where several remote shell sessions share single TCP connection. This is unaffected, as there's only one TCP layer in
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by dexen 8y ago
A subsequent section on Wikipedia (link [1] in GP) tells us the following: >All US states also have laws regarding receipt of stolen property; however, there usually is no minimum dollar amount in many jurisdictions, and, of course, the
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by dexen 8y ago
Possession of stolen goods [1] is a crime USA-wide, and in many other countries. The rationale behind is ability to prosecute fences [2] - people who act as intermediaries and a layer of security between thieves and end-users, providing t
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by dexen 8y ago
Can't speak about security aspects, but: If you ever use SSH to tunnel/forward TCP traffic, you should be aware of certain performance issues [1], due to TCP's re-transmit mis-behaving (stacking) in a TCP-in-TCP scenario. Exp
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by dexen 8y ago
They are following in the footsteps of the movie industry, which also provides worse experience to the paying customer. Pay for movie theater ticket, get served 30+ minutes of ads. (edit) Pay for DVD, get unskippable "antipiracy ads&q
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The media became incensed that Zuckerberg, till-then held as a paragon of progressivism, (indirectly) provided the same service to Trump that he did to Obama during the two previous election cycles. Suddenly the supposed idealist turned out
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by dexen 8y ago
The kenc [1] compiler subsequent to K&R C had much more constrained macro system exactly for those reasons. Thanks to advances in optimization and improved machine speed, it was reasonable to skip preprocessor-level const operations. T
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by dexen 8y ago
And then there's the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, with 230ft (~70m) wingspan. The last major piston-engind heavy bomber, design was started in 1941, put in service in 1949, and retired in 1959. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by dexen 8y ago
MySQL Embedded[1] is a thing; used by some KDE apps. IIRC, it insists on using multiple files rather than a single file like SQLite does, but otherwise is a pretty much a turn-key component. No such luck with PostgreSQL so far. [1] https:&
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by dexen 9y ago
Duff's device, as emitted by GCC[0], is a bit on the verbose side but still quite neat. In particular the single-instruction computed goto that uses a look-up table made up of 8 quad-words, filled in by the linker. Note the '.sect
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by dexen 9y ago
Alternatively it could be argued that increasing temperatures and abundance of food favored smaller animals (including our very low-tech ancestors), which pushed the proverbial mammoths out of their ecological niche and into the oblivion.
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by dexen 9y ago
To what extent the bone marrow donor databases are subject to the same risk of police fishing expeditions ? Do they hold full DNA profile, or just the fragments relevant to immunocompatibility?
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by dexen 9y ago
I don't support eugenics. The sarcastic idea presented in GP gave me a good chuckle nonetheless. In similar vein: plan on having the morally handicapped as the admins of the project... that'll not only make it viable, but also w
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by dexen 9y ago
Nothing's wrong with the good old PHP. In fact, it reminds me of my 2012 comment[0]. The website[1] proclaiming PHP as "most likely to be a fad" is, of course, long gone by now[2], while PHP thrives. -- the old comment -- Par
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With significantly less environmental oversight and regulations. The pollution could perhaps end up crossing over to western countries at higher levels than any domestic, well-regulated, production would emit.
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by dexen 9y ago
A happy Xperia X + Sailfish OS user here (v 2.1.4.14). I believe the points below apply well before 2.1.4. My only gripe is old browser engine; for now I end up opening some apps via Android Firefox (59), with decent performance. >tether
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by dexen 9y ago
Nonsense. Terrorists do use the air to convey voice; air is their primary communication medium for propagating their terrible ideas, and arranging their despicable plans. If we denied them access to air, to stop their voice communication, i
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by dexen 9y ago
In similar vein: express your inner rage while terminating offending processes. https://github.com/robotlolita/fuck-you
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by dexen 9y ago
The situation is ironic, but there's an even higher level of irony in relation to cancer. In some contexts, NOT detecting cancer gives statistically better life quality and/or expectancy. According to current statistics, testing m
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“Lixie”, an LED Alternative to the Nixie Tube(hackaday.io)
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I was surprised by the number of false positives reported here, went ahead and tested on several Twitter accounts of my friends, both professional and personal. 9 out of 25 tested were classified as 'bot' with probability > 0.6
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There is a third way: have the CPU JIT the code to a very different architecture according to completely programmable firmware, just like Transmeta did. I don't know whether the Transmeta CPUs are vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown, bu
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User from Poland here. It's quite the opposite. Facebook here is very "trigger happy" about removing posts that have even slight nationalistic flavor or cast just a shed of bad light on any minority - and most of middle easte
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>The other, plantlife, is absolutely affected. Astute observation, but the problem is easily fixable. Plants use particular wavelengths of light (IIRC mostly from the visual spectrum) for photosynthesis. If the proposed spacecrafts were
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Obligatory xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/224/
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by dexen 10y ago
Previously: "Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast" (2007) https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html The paper deals with "Thompson NFA" approach to regex, with low computational

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