jdougan

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by jdougan 2y ago
@msarnoff had already stipulated that the json lib is returning lengths: all the “tokens” are given as byte offsets and lengths
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by jdougan 2y ago
With the "%.*s" format you need no null at the end. It just counts out the characters: #include <stdio.h> void main() { char buff[10] = {'R', 'o', 'b', 'o', '
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by jdougan 2y ago
Is there a reason you can't do printf("%.*s", strlen, strptr); ?
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by jdougan 2y ago
I want the return of the yoga workstation. Once again Doug was ahead of his time. https://mprove.de/script/02/mucexpo/poster2.html
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by jdougan 2y ago
Nit: 1 Calorie (capital C) == 1000 calories (lowercase c) == 1 kcal. 1 kCal == 1,000,000 calories, which probably isn't what you meant.
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by jdougan 2y ago
The problem with rm is that it defaults to "you asked for it, you got it" mode and will delete things not intended without warning. If dsw (or related standard utility that defaults the other way) was there you could hand that to
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by jdougan 2y ago
I hadn't realized there was a built in "interactively delete files asking the user" command, "dsw" this far back. I wonder when and why it got dropped? > For each file in the given directory ("." if not
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by jdougan 2y ago
I wonder if something like Lotus Improv would be easier to audit.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Smalltalk
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by jdougan 2y ago
The rail bar car beats the airplane cart service anyday. I'd occasionally take the train from Vancouver, BC to Seattle when visiting a girlfriend, and I was far less messed up after I got there.
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by jdougan 2y ago
> If only the people's personalities were just as beautiful as the nature, Matthew 7:3 > Is the antique car and hot rod show still a thing in Comox? Looks like it is: https://crownisle.com/event/hot-august-ni
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by jdougan 2y ago
CITR! There be some 80s memories.
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by jdougan 2y ago
At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs. Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...
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by jdougan 2y ago
We would need to dump POSIX/WinXX and replace/upgrade them with something better, probably using an object-capabilities approach. WASI, Capsicum. etc.
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by jdougan 2y ago
I dunno. "Evil Ferret" and "Scrawny Nuisance" sound pretty good in our irony filled world.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Oh man, I has so much fun on MTS once that ridiculous fake PC-ish command line was removed. Wrote all kinds of wacky stuff using the command line macros.
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by jdougan 2y ago
You don't see a lot of honest-to-betsy aristocratic reactionaries, but Charles Haywood is definitely one. Makes Yarvin look like a dabbler.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Oh yes. MS took full advantage of the situation. MS was always better at strategic planning than DEC.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Especially since there was, apparently, MICA code copy pasted verbatim in NT. https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_i... I was wondering for years why MS continued to support DEC Alpha CPUs with NT
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by jdougan 2y ago
Michael Caine apparently is similar. I see no other reason why he would have done the (wonderful) movie "Water".
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by jdougan 2y ago
> - “People won’t get the core ideas and will use it to make things that go against the core ideas” — People who care about Bret Victor’s work will take the time to learn the ideas. People who don’t might try and make something Bret does
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by jdougan 2y ago
I have a special caching system the enables networked /dev/null AAS to reduce it's network overhead considerably.
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by jdougan 2y ago
At least the Go people were smart enough to refer to it as "golang" right from the start.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Death March by Ed Yourdon.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Pre-Web Hypermedia
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by jdougan 2y ago
In Chrome's Reader Mode, the headlines don't show.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Well, the B-1A was the Valkyrie that we had all along. The B-1B was more, "Man, I really wish we had a stealth bomber".
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by jdougan 2y ago
Do you have any idea who the poster behind "Accidentally Quadratic" is? Spounds like he/she would have some interesting stories.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Blame the vegans. (or possibly the 7th Day Adventists.)
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by jdougan 2y ago
I hope it works. I can think of far more unpleasant treatments. Let us know the results!

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