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by glandium 4y ago
Trusting trust all the way down: How do you trust your assembler to output the exact machine code corresponding to the source? How do you trust whatever program you might use to do the validation? Ok, let's skip the assembler and write
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by glandium 4y ago
IME, ninja doesn't solve that issue. At least not in the versions I've used.
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by glandium 4y ago
Would you rather your build failed during configure or 10 minutes into the build, where parallelism will make the compile still print tons of things after the error message?
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by glandium 5y ago
> You know Norwegians own most salmon farming in Chile, don't you? I must say, I didn't even know Chile "produced" salmon until I found that graph, so nothing would surprise me. However, wikipedia pointed me to https
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by glandium 5y ago
Interestingly (ironically?), Norway is not even close to the biggest provider of Salmon in Japan: https://www.maruha-nichiro.co.jp/salmon/data/images/index_ph... (pink in US, yellow is Canada, between yellow
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by glandium 5y ago
You can do surprising lots with the M1 macbook air (including building Firefox faster than many intel-based laptops), and it doesn't even have openings for airflow.
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by glandium 5y ago
女子力 encompasses more than looks, and is applied to males too.
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by glandium 5y ago
> Everyday hunger seems to be a habit. Once you are used to eating at a certain hour, you will feel hungry as it approaches Mmmm I'm curious what happens wrt hunger if you eat at random times of the day, never the same.
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by glandium 5y ago
I'd add that writing on a computer is also not writing, for some languages. E.g. with Japanese IMEs, writing is an exercise of knowing how a word is pronounced and being able to visually distinguish homophones. Having not practiced wri
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by glandium 5y ago
Similar answer to the question "why is salmon pink/orange?".
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by glandium 5y ago
> The day Ukraine was invaded was the day world war 3 started. In 2014 or in 2022?
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by glandium 5y ago
Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.
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by glandium 5y ago
I remember seeing a documentary, I'd say something like 20 years ago, about a kid (I think) who was shot in the head, survived, had close to half of his brain gone, and his brain had figured ways to make it all work after a while, rear
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by glandium 5y ago
IIRC, it's up to the application whether they handle /arg and -arg forms. They might just as well not support the latter.
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by glandium 5y ago
My "favorite" one of those is Mercurial's error when you use a subcommand that you need to enable an extension for. Not only does it know the subcommand is valid, it also tells you which extension to enable. If it's gone
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by glandium 5y ago
In Japan, there are taxi-like services that will drive your own car. 2 persons come in a taxi, one of them drives you in your car, and the other follows with the taxi (and picks back the first person once destination is reached).
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by glandium 5y ago
I found this from a quick Google about suicide attempts in Canada: > For every suicide death, there are an estimated 20-25 attempts. So when you say "if they want to, they can do it", the fact is that most people who do, in fac
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by glandium 5y ago
Isspace takes an int (signed) and its documentation says: The behavior is undefined if the value of ch is not representable as unsigned char and is not equal to EOF. IOW, you invoked undefined behavior. That's one of the proble
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by glandium 5y ago
That replacement of Him with Them in a (presumably base64) sha512 is priceless.
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by glandium 5y ago
Have you seen people play Tetris the Grand Master 3 past level 999?
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by glandium 5y ago
Amazing story. This makes me wonder how many people unknowingly hold world records-breaking personal best. Edit: holy f%ck, the record is 4988 lines, now. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-line...
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by glandium 5y ago
What I learned a while ago is that it's pronounced like gwen, but with the tongue deeper in the mouth for the g.
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by glandium 5y ago
To me, it sounded like 発射 (hassha) in Japanese. I guess that's how you'd write 발사 in Hanja.
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by glandium 5y ago
This has a strong 80s TV series vibe.
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by glandium 5y ago
Windows happily applies updates during the night on laptops even when the lid is closed. Then the next day, you open the lid and bam, nothing of what you left open the previous day is there anymore!
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by glandium 5y ago
Surprisingly, while my Intel-based MBP does that (and can remain sleeping unplugged for several months), my M1-based one doesn't (after a few weeks, there's barely any battery left).
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by glandium 5y ago
I don't think there's anything grammatically wrong with "speak good English". The difference to me is language register.
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by glandium 5y ago
What was going on in Turkey last month? https://stats.kiwix.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=ind...
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by glandium 5y ago
The more I read about the American healthcare system the less it makes sense.
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by glandium 5y ago
Honestly, I think the West has significantly more to lose from sanctions on China similar to those currently in place for Russia, than China. And China knows it.

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