jomar

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by jomar 5y ago
I have decided no such thing, and in fact my point is that in this case my own opinion is pretty much immaterial. But it is important for people like you and me to be aware of the concept and issue in general.
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by jomar 5y ago
I don't know, and you don't know either. The grandparent post was wondering what the issue is, and my post described what IMHO is the main potential issue. You have your opinion on to what degree this might be a problematic instan
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by jomar 5y ago
It's not about politeness. And it's not a cultural issue that's particular to the US. It appears that the author of the Hiawatha web server is not from the US either (Wikipedia suggests he is Dutch), so you might ask what lin
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by jomar 5y ago
Some current vendor versions of awk have astonishingly short line length limitations. See e.g. (especially the latter): https://github.com/samtools/samtools/pull/1165 https://github.com/samtoo
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by jomar 6y ago
There's a very simple trick: for an overview reading, it doesn't matter what those words mean . Just skip over them: From the Egyptian some-class-of numerals used in almost all the some-kind-of tasks of the Egyptian state, etc. (
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by jomar 6y ago
For the same reason as in other languages (e.g., Perl, bash) with (effectively, in Perl's case) an explicit end-if keyword: so that you don't need a whole bunch of #endifs at the end of your conditional, one for each #if or #else
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by jomar 6y ago
I expect the first few years of this being used will almost exclusively consist of people replacing instances of it with `#elif defined FOO` for use with older compilers or in code (e.g. headers) that also needs to be compilable with a C++
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by jomar 6y ago
memmove() isn't on the list, so presumably the recommendation is to replace uses of memcpy() with memmove() due to its well-defined behaviour when source and destination overlap. (Or with the Annex K variants -- memcpy_s(), memmove_s()
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by jomar 6y ago
I have no idea whether they still use this reduced character set. But whether or not they do, this could still affect the protocol or stylebook, for the usual sorts of reasons when legacy systems are involved: * News wires are large old dis
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by jomar 6y ago
Because they use(d) a reduced character set that included parentheses but not brackets. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#ITA_2_and_US-TTY There was a time before ASCII, you know...
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by jomar 6y ago
The natural representation of intervals for doing arithmetic on is 0-based half-open. Half-open because of the slicing properties, as noted in your posting and the grandparent posting. 0-based because of the simplification for converting be
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by jomar 6y ago
It's just gone live in the last day or so. The designer talked about it here a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/pifafu/status/1265773172520914944 Personally I don't see much reason for this to be imple
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by jomar 6y ago
I dislike large swathes of the new repository view, and I also especially dislike the circular profile images. Fortunately it's easy to use a little custom CSS to revert them to square images, at least for now: https://gist.
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by jomar 6y ago
The point of the article is to teach people about the original meaning, to encourage them to care, and to point out that by paying .io domain fees you are directly supporting this ongoing human rights disaster. This is a time when BLM prote
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by jomar 6y ago
Comprehensively debunked here: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1272007583222513664
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by jomar 7y ago
It looks like Kernighan's Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_language
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by jomar 7y ago
Compared to the previous technique of creating a new separate local clone for unrelated simultaneous work on a project, it's also glorious when it comes time to clean up and delete no-longer-needed extra working directories. After `mak
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by jomar 7y ago
> running an always-active webserver It's one thing to run a webserver while your software is running. It's quite another to leave it installed and running even after the user has uninstalled your application. And to actively
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by jomar 8y ago
Probably an over-summary but basically correct: the X series optimised portability and only had a trackpoint, while the T series optimised fully-featuredness and had both trackpoint and trackpad. I still fire up my T61 from time to time --
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by jomar 8y ago
I think the implication is that Vodafone later doxxed mywacaday's work persona and retaliated. Classy.
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by jomar 8y ago
One core part of CRAM originated with that article; more has come later. I'm involved in BAM and CRAM -- it feels like a collaboration to me! These formats are a collaboration between bioinformaticians at a number of research institu
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by jomar 8y ago
> Note that the key competitors to the patented MPEG technology is coming from "benevolent monopolies" like Google. That may be true in the abstract or in the case of MPEG's multimedia technologies. It is not true in this
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by jomar 8y ago
> when the author has a competing format (CRAM) It's more that CRAM is an incumbent format, developed by (different members of) the same genomics community that made the preceding BAM format in the same space. Both BAM and CRAM have
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by jomar 9y ago
A "ssh://..." URL can result in a "ssh" command line with a hostname that begins with a dash "-", which would cause the "ssh" command to instead (mis)treat it as an option. It's a sha
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by jomar 9y ago
Keep filing those bugs. The authors of at least some BAM/etc parsers are listening: e.g. https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20aut...
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by jomar 9y ago
Because there are crop diseases endemic in one part of the country that aren't present in another. Try searching for "Nevada California fruit" if that's closer to home.
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by jomar 10y ago
You would think the turnaround point would be a natural place for the race organisers to put a timing mat. They would capture an extra split time and be able to automatically identify runners succumbing to this temptation.
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by jomar 10y ago
That's an error message from GNU Make. I'm not sure what version of GNU Make you're using, because GNU Make has emitted the following since 1998: Makefile:2: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?).
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by jomar 11y ago
strncpy()'s NUL-padding behaviour is the right thing for its niche, which is copying to fixed-length buffers such as the 14-character filenames in ancient filesystem directory entries. See http://stackoverflow.com/a&#x
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by jomar 11y ago
In GCC 4.9 EBX register is reserved for global offset table (GOT) address [...] In GCC 5.0 EBX is returned to an allocation making all 7 registers available. But there's no explanation of why we don't need a GOT any more. Possib

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