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by enriquto 5y ago
Just use C or C++ or fortran or julia or even lua. The issue of "slow loops" is entirely self-inflicted by some languages. It's getting ridiculous to still worry about this shit in 2022. Simple loops can and should be just a
842.
by enriquto 5y ago
We live in incredible times, don't we?
843.
by enriquto 5y ago
My favourite part of this satire is the code of conduct. Straight out of a Monty Python sketch!
844.
by enriquto 5y ago
Change the \t to a ; and see it become a single line
845.
by enriquto 5y ago
The best kind of bugs!
846.
by enriquto 5y ago
Python is severe overkill here. You only need "cat" and maybe "sed" for that.
847.
by enriquto 5y ago
Indeed. The unix world would be a much happier place if the creat system call normalized the strings it receives to replace literal spaces with non-breaking spaces, and similar stuff. Regular users wouldn't notice, and it would simpl
848.
by enriquto 5y ago
I like this approach. How do you enforce your ban? Is there a mount(8) option for that? Or do you simply avoid these filenames "by hand"? What happens if you untar an archive and it contains filenames with spaces?
849.
by enriquto 5y ago
Hundreds of states in the world, but thousands of languages. How do you want to do? Most languages do not bear the name of any state.
850.
by enriquto 5y ago
> Flags for currency mostly work Do you think so? Which flag would you use for euros? Obviously not the european union flag, since there are many countries inside the EU with a different currency (like Sweden or Poland) and even countri
851.
by enriquto 5y ago
None of the major sites that deal with languages (wikipedia, google translate, deepl) ever use flags to represent languages. In the case of your website, however, I don't see why you need to specify the language of each entry. Is it a
852.
by enriquto 5y ago
> a small icon with the three flags this does not address the main problem that flags do not correspond to languages. German is spoken in more than "the three" countries, and in these countries there are more languages than Ge
853.
by enriquto 5y ago
you only need two colors: background and foreground
854.
by enriquto 5y ago
I'm surprised that they are pushing to remove /bin and keep /usr/bin. Why not the other way round? Let's keep our binaries out of /usr! (as a first step to remove /usr altogether, since it has a confusin
855.
by enriquto 5y ago
Why would I care that it's written in Rust if I can't even download the source code? I have a Rust compiler but I can't run this terminal. This is a stupid project and false advertising.
856.
by enriquto 5y ago
> I bought him a Chromebook It wasn't the school who started giving spyware to your kid. It was you.
857.
by enriquto 5y ago
> Don't roll your own numerics. This is empty advice without some context. Many of us work precisely in rolling new numerics.
858.
by enriquto 5y ago
I had a hard time understanding this message. In the context of linux distributions, it seemed to me that there were ubuntu-based and slack-based distributions for regolith. This sounds really cool because slack is bare-bones and it means
859.
by enriquto 5y ago
The GSL library is indeed great! It provides a free implementarion of all methods described in NR, and many more. The source code of GSL is somewhat readable, but I find NR still very helpful for the textual descriptions of the methods.
860.
by enriquto 5y ago
No. That would be confusing. Silent success is a basic tenet of unix and must not be relinquished.
861.
by enriquto 5y ago
Sure. There should be a gcc flag to make "long double" become quadruple precision. The thing is, my first programming language was x86 assembler and the fpu was the funniest part. Spent weeks as a teenager writing almost pure 80
862.
by enriquto 5y ago
> 0 correct digits when the output is close to 0 this is an amusing way to describe the precision of sub-normal floating point numbers
863.
by enriquto 5y ago
> the FPU, which is basically legacy you'll pry my long doubles from my cold, dead hands!
864.
by enriquto 5y ago
But isn't this code rarely called in practice? I guess on intel architectures the compiler just calls the fsin instruction of the cpu.
865.
by enriquto 5y ago
I'm an activist for software freedom and I refuse to use non-free software in my life, as a matter of principle. When I'm forced to do so it's certainly very humiliating for me. Besides, I don't work for a company, but
866.
by enriquto 5y ago
> This would save an enormous amount of space, and make things far more tidy. Why? The output pdf is typically smaller than the input that produces it. Using rendered pdfs seems simple and very natural, and at worst can use twice the t
867.
by enriquto 5y ago
Basic etiquette would be to not force co-workers to use Slack at all. And for that matter, any other proprietary network based on closed standards that do not admit connections from third-party clients. I'm forced to use Slack and Zo
868.
by enriquto 5y ago
If that is the case, then the word "limitations" is very misleading, almost dishonest marketing. It would be more honest if the regular offering was presented as a complete product, with optional commercial "extensions"
869.
by enriquto 5y ago
BLT and foodstuffs with "soft bread" or other mock breads are not sandwiches for me. A sandwich must be made with real bread like a baguette. Fake breads like hamburger buns, sliced white bread, dry toasts, tortillas and the l
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by enriquto 5y ago
This is a (quite convoluted) explanation of public key cryptography, that I already understand. My question was about certificates.

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