fonheponho

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by fonheponho 7d ago
(Whether Hungarian qualifies as Finno-Ugric is up for debate, but Hungarian most definitely has determinate and indeterminate articles.)
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by fonheponho 7d ago
My guess: Czech. :) Native English speakers living for a decade or more in the Czech Republic (and picking up Czech in the process) may experience "retroactive article confusion", they may start to drop articles while speaking the
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by fonheponho 4mo ago
> The elegance of the fork() + exec() model is that every kind of configuration can be done after the fork using all the usual APIs. Unfortunately, the opposite is true, when the parent process is multi-threaded. In the child process, on
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by fonheponho 6mo ago
I have no love lost for Wayland, but this: > Make easy things easy. Make hard things doable. is generally unachievable. Instead, pick one: - easy things easy, hard things impossible - easy things tedious, hard things possible (Unless yo
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by fonheponho 6mo ago
> It does not matter which is the relationship between the sizes of such types, there will always be values of the operand that cannot be represented in the result. It's not that bad actually; not "always". The only nontri
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by fonheponho 6mo ago
Everybody seems to be missing the forest for the trees on this. There is absolutely no "sign extension" in the C standard (go ahead, search it). "Sign extension" is a feature of some assembly instructions on some archite
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by fonheponho 7mo ago
One of the most fascinating and moving writings I've read in my life.
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by fonheponho 7mo ago
Exactly; I can't understand this obsession with header-only C "libraries".