eternal_july

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   by eternal_july 9y ago

   Well, an obvious question to ask is if you are honestly prepared that it is your or your relatives' lives, that are lost in the name of progress / long term gain? Perhaps, it is easier to speak of things like "short term life
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   by eternal_july 10y ago

   "There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there _is_ a certain amount."
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   by eternal_july 10y ago

   To reinforce the sibling comment's point: A very common pattern is when a const variable resides in non-writable memory (happens all the time in embedded), - if you attempt to write to it, you trigger a fault. So if you cast away const
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   by eternal_july 10y ago

   > I'm sure we all know what happens when your ISR quietly does a new while some other part of your code is holding one of the locks deep in malloc. Yeah, what happens is that such code does not pass code review :) In 99.99% of cases
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   by eternal_july 11y ago

   Of course everything doesn't have to be a file (it is only that way on Unices). On Linux everything is a filesystem!
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   by eternal_july 11y ago

   I was semi-hoping, that "résumé validation" would validate it against things like expected buzzword frequency, HR stopwords and so on. The important things, you know.