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by dfawcus 10mo ago
yet if one does that, and has suitable warnings turned on, GCC will complain: array2.c: In function ‘main’: array2.c:25:17: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘arr_fn2’ from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
depending upon how one has structured the code, a less painful way to write the same is: typedef char array[5]; void do_something(array *a) { enum { a_Size = sizeof *a }; memset(*a, 'x', a_Size); }
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
They're not gone yet. They have to pass legislation to achieve the scrapping. So we still have the ability to make our views known. Write to MPs in the first instance. Basically, they need to be informed that this is a bright red li
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
Well even at the GE, his party was less popular than the previous offer by Corbyn. Labour only really got in because of the collapse of the Tory vote. 2019 GE Votes Labour: 10,269,051 22% R 32% T Tory: 13,966,454 29% R 44
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
Their initial statement the day of (or after) the action at the RAF base was something like: "disabled aircraft using paint and crowbars" Which even if they didn't use crowbars, then would seem to require the turbines
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
Good for you. However many of us don't believe he has actually changed in his views since his days editing, and writing articles for Socialist Alternatives.
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
One of the problems with Palestine Action is the violent protests they have previously engaged in. There is a trial in progress at the moment relating to an attack on Elbit Systems where one of the "protestors" seemed to attack a
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
Look up our current PMs history.
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by dfawcus 10mo ago
There are two of more things driving the cumulative protest legislation push. The test will come when the first use it, and we find out which they want to use it against. 1. We have had various highly disruptive repeated "climate"
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
Because of the nature of the treaties forming the EU, and the structures it generates. It is basically a regulatory union, constructed so as to transpose power to the center, then hold it there. It can't allow the people to have too mu
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
OK - assuming you're referring to 'char ptr[static 15]' as the 'static trick', then yeah - other compilers do not complain. However the other form 'char (*arr)[15]' has always been available, and is compla
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
Then don't allow it to decay: void arr_fn(char (*arr)[15]) { enum { len = sizeof *arr }; printf("len of array: %d\n", len); printf("Got: %.*s\n", len, *arr); } void sptr_fn(char ptr[sta
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I had a small programming task a while ago, and decided to try doing it algol68 (using the algol68 genie interpreter) simply because I'd had some exposure to the language many years ago at Uni. It was an AWK like task, but I decided up
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
There is one at Seaton Sluice, now (almost?) completely buried by sand. https://www.flickr.com/photos/36891793@N08/8033301173/
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I did notice one oddity with RCS on Apple, namely that initially it could not be enabled if the device was in Lockdown Mode. In one of the recent updates, 18.x for some lowish value of x, that was fixed, and so my iPhone now has RCS enabled
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I find it sadly amusing that the proposed "compromise text" document is marked as "(Text with EEA relevance)" - i.e. they want to push it on the EEA states.
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
These things are rather pointless, as one could always use a standalone encryption app, and copy&paste text to and from a non encrypted chat app. i.e. how one originally made use of PGP. The difficulty which PGP had of key exchange cou
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I've a Citizen solar power watch from around '98 or '99. It still runs, although the cell seems to have aged, and now needs longer in the sun to charge. In the winter when not being worn, I have to leave it on a window ledge
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I wonder if some of the Apple provided Clang annotations for bounds checking can be combined with Fil-C? That then may allow for some of the uses to be statically optimised away, i.e. by annotating pointers upon which arithmetic is not allo
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
Now that suggests an idea: Objective-Fil-C !
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
I was not referring to the well known 4 letter words used to describe parts of the anatomy. They merely get used for emphasis. Under fight / violence / battle conditions, the active vocabulary is Germanic, and not lacking in exp
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
English only has sex, not gender. He, She, It. The commonly cited example of referring to ships as 'she' is simply an affectation, grammatically a ship is an it. Or can you provide another example I may have overlooked?
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by dfawcus 11mo ago
Nah - there are two vocabularies, the 'posh' Norman French one, and the common western Germanic one. (There is also an admixture of Norse influence, so the combination of Old English (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians) with Old Nor
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by dfawcus 1y ago
The increase in use of wind, being intermittent and non-dispatchable means there has to be 1-for-1 back up wind generation. That is gas. We also have periods in the winter (so solar of little to no use), where we can have a week or two of
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by dfawcus 1y ago
The interconnectors between UK and the continent are HVDC. As such they are essentially massive switching-mode PSUs, and there is no possibility of having a synchronised connection, as the AC has to be synthesised, following the local spinn
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by dfawcus 1y ago
That does seem to miss the fact that by then there was not a 'Viking king of Northumbria'. The Danelaw did not fully extend in to Northumbria. My recall of history is that Northumbria had more or less split back in to Deira and Be
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by dfawcus 1y ago
For 10p, 5p and 2.5p quantities, that wouldn't be an issue as following decimalisation, those simply reused the Florin, Shilling and Sixpence coins. Also yielding: 0.5p = 1.2d 1p = 2.4d 2p = 4.8d 3p = 7.2d 4p = 9.6d
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by dfawcus 1y ago
Maybe because one is working on a legacy C program, and for various reasons adding C++ to said program is too risky or expensive?
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by dfawcus 1y ago
Yeah - there was a massive filtering of the students between the 1st year entry, and the second year at my Uni. Largely down to people unable to handle the (not terribly) complex maths at that stage. I knew a number of folks in the first ye
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by dfawcus 1y ago
Also doesn't this disprove his default methods claim, or have I misunderstood? package defmeth type I interface { foo(); } type defs struct { } func (s *defs) foo() { } var _ I = (*defs)(nil); type usage

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