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by irdc 4y ago
Seeing as everybody's using this space to plug their favourite font, and the one I use hasn't been mentioned yet: I'm partial to Generic Mono II ( http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-75172.html & https:/&#x
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by irdc 4y ago
Yes, but on the Mac (where these bits were used) the entire system participated, whereas this is per-process and needs to be explicitly enabled.
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by irdc 4y ago
Indeed. And in cases like those, the application and any libraries it uses have to either agree on which time_t size to use, or perform the same rewriting as libc does. Getting libc on board is merely the first step. The same goes for _FILE
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by irdc 4y ago
Not if you at compile time redirect calls to e.g. time() to __time64()[1]. The musl libc does something similar[2], as do the Large File Support extensions for 64-bit filesizes[3]. 1. https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki&#
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by irdc 4y ago
Ah yes, the global conspiracy to get people to... checks notes ...occasionally use a pocket calculator. Very socialist indeed. A system merely suitable for the human scale will never enable you to reach beyond.
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by irdc 4y ago
> trade in Imperial measurements with the US The US doesn't use the Imperial system but it's own customary system. For example, the Imperial pint is about 568 mL, whereas the US customary pint is about 473 mL (liquid pint) or a
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by irdc 4y ago
Quick, how many inches are in a yard?
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by irdc 4y ago
It’s been shutdown since 2006: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3701
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by irdc 4y ago
> Incredibly, links to Mastodon instances are now flagged as a safety risk on Twitter. Isn't that considered to be anticompetitive behaviour, what with Twitter being the dominant player in the microblogging space and all?
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by irdc 4y ago
It could very well be that they cannot reliably prove those flags are unused in enough cases to optimise out their (expensive) calculation.
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by irdc 4y ago
On the other hand, letting all that water condense onto a cold surface should be easy.
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by irdc 4y ago
This depends on the fpga's resources: some have barrel shifters as hard IP.
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by irdc 4y ago
Isn't that the point? It'll be familiar to older people, thus proving how they're super to today's youth. (/s)
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by irdc 4y ago
I'm still waiting for a description of what 'woke' is that doesn't compare it to things that are widely considered[0] to be bad (or good, for that matter). Who wants to try? 0. There's such a thing as a healthy amou
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by irdc 4y ago
The problem with these materials is that they're worth something when cut up into pieces. Something that isn't true for clay.
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by irdc 4y ago
> Except no hobbyist seems to worry about such things. The hobbyists that you know or have contacted you don't seem to worry about these things. I can assure you this hobbyist takes licensing very seriously, and I'm not the onl
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by irdc 4y ago
> It means any hobbyist can play around with it Not in legal terms it doesn't. In the absence of a licence, a copyrighted work may not be distributed in any way. So you could theoretically sue those hobbyists. Just bite the bullet a
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by irdc 4y ago
So, incidentally, having symbols makes it doable to use a decompiler to retrieve something resembling source code. Just putting that thought out there.
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by irdc 4y ago
Windows 3.11 was released in 1993, are you sure you aren't misremembering?
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by irdc 4y ago
What can you offer to substantiate your claim?
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by irdc 5y ago
Note that this was a problem on the classic Mac OS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS_memory_manageme... , upper bits of pointers were used as flags) and early ARM processors ( https://en.wikipedia
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by irdc 5y ago
It worked for 9 years and 7 months, whilst being planned to operate for 3,5 years, so beyond it's expected lifetime then.
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by irdc 5y ago
They've already mentioned having more than the of amount of manoeuvring fuel (or, as we should really be calling it, delta-v) they had planned to have left at this point. Space craft have a limited life time anyway (CCD's wear out
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by irdc 5y ago
None of the resources you link specifically address psychostimulants for ADHD. Handwaving and vaguely suggesting one drug is pretty much like all others isn't going to cut it: drugs don't work that way, drugs are _specific_. The s
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by irdc 5y ago
Med student here. I'm not dismissing the idea that some people are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD, but what you're saying here is the kind of harmful nonsense that's been interfering with appropriate treatment for ADHD for ages.
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by irdc 5y ago
I'm 40 too and this is why I left the software engineering field and went into medicine. Just started interning in fact ("co-schappen", which in the Netherlands takes about 3 years, after which you can call yourself doctor bu
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by irdc 5y ago
As a Dutch person: everybody bikes here. Young people, old people (sometimes with electrical assist bikes), women, men, people with and without an immigration background. It's the money sink that is a car that's the real privilege
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by irdc 5y ago
Yep, that'll likely eventually happen... ...after a couple of years of unrest and social instability. Which as simonh pointed out ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28959591 ) is exactly what the CCP does not want. K
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by irdc 5y ago
Sure, they may very well win the battle. What I'm trying to say is that in the course of doing so they would very likely lose the war.
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by irdc 5y ago
Just how many people do you think are needed to sabotage a chip fab? I'd say about one. How many rabid PRC-haters do you think Taiwan harbours? Well, it's more than one...

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