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by josefx 10mo ago
At the application layer you would not see the reordered bytes. However on the network you have IP beneath both UDP and TCP and network hardware is normally free to slice and reorder those IP packages however it wants.
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by josefx 10mo ago
I think you could try to add the flat MSG_MORE to every send command and then do a last send without it to indirectly do a flush.
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by josefx 10mo ago
> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? Given how often issues can be traced back to open source projects barely scraping along? Yes and they are probably doing something important. Hell, if you create enough pointless b
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by josefx 10mo ago
> It's a class of problem that raster image formats basically don't have. That took way too long to be this way. Some old browsers couldn't even get the colors of PNGs correct, let alone the transparency.
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by josefx 10mo ago
> That looks like a struct offset dereference from a nil pointer, for what it's worth. The 42 is an explicit value in the example code. From what I understand the code repeatedly changes the value assigned to an interface variable f
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by josefx 10mo ago
You can blame whoever invented the word "if", as soon as you can branch based on data you can just write an interpreter that turns data into instructions, no matter the architecture.
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by josefx 11mo ago
> and another that wanted to create the platform on which Microsoft Word could be built. Apparently they failed. The web version of Word is still far from having feature parity. Of course doc is one of those everything and the kitchen si
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by josefx 11mo ago
> maintain a feature that no one can actually use; If only there was a way to detect which features a browser supports. Something maybe in the html, the css, javascript or the user agent. If only there was a way to do that, we would not
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by josefx 11mo ago
Not everyone is using their browser to mine dogecoin.
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by josefx 11mo ago
> It's a clown car format As is the destiny of any document format in wide spread use, PDF had flash, doc had ActiveX. Also this text is formatted using a mark down language fully capable of embedding entire applications.
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by josefx 11mo ago
> The problem with player hosted servers is that it was very hard to get a fair and balanced competitive match Playing against overwhelming odds has its own kind of charm. I once spend days just sabotaging the top players on some gun ga
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by josefx 11mo ago
> but without quoting which made the command hunt for the word match ending space which was regrettably, the D:\ component of the name Except the folder name did not start with a space. In an unquoted D:\Hello World, the command would m
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by josefx 11mo ago
> But then LLVM showed up and showed it is no longer imperative to have a viral license I am not sure I remember everything right, but as far as I remember Apple originally maintained a fork of gcc for its objective-c language and didn&#
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by josefx 11mo ago
I think it is more a matter of convenience. There are countless string implementations for C, some tiny projects, others part of larger frameworks like Glib. At the end of the day a C developer has to decide if they are going to pull in hal
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by josefx 11mo ago
Very good track record there, native clients, floc, manifest v2, ...
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by josefx 11mo ago
> The first requirement for safe hashtable implementations is a secret key, Some languages use different approaches. The buckets in a Java HashMap turn into a sorted tree if they grow too large. Then there are trivial solutions like addi
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by josefx 11mo ago
Sys exit does not crash. It raises a SystemExit exception, which can be caught on any layer above it. Given that python uses exceptions for trivial things like loop termination this can be considered normal flow control.
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by josefx 11mo ago
> from Java's book and maintain backwards compatibility Didn't they start breaking things between Java 8 and 9? Modules, Reflection Access, JavaEE, ... .
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by josefx 11mo ago
Sadly the article doesn't paint them as heroic: > and when the police turned up, scatter in every direction. Whoever they set out to burn alive was very likely defenseless.
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by josefx 11mo ago
Does it route the hot water back into a river? In europe several power plants get shut down each summer because the heated water from those plants would have significant impact on the local wildlife.
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by josefx 11mo ago
He hasn't even been to orbit.
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by josefx 11mo ago
I haven't looked at Googles style for c++ in a long time, but from what I remember it was actively hostile to best practices. Actively hostile to any improvement introduced by the language and actively hostile to the wider ecosystem of
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by josefx 11mo ago
Xsd lets you explicitly specify if you are dealing with one or more elements, no need to encode that information in the data itself. It also gives you access to concrete number types, so you don't have to rely on the implementation to
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by josefx 11mo ago
> The JSON spec fits on two screen pages https://www.json.org/json-en.html The beloved minimalist spec. . No way anything could be wrong with that: https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html Turns
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by josefx 11mo ago
Going by the short update on this page, no: https://kotaku.com/former-valve-employee-sues-for-3-1-millio...
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by josefx 11mo ago
> Once your work is published under Creative Commons license, it is irreversible. I am not sure how it is under Japanese law, but in some countries a creator cannot be stripped of his rights by agreeing to a license. Even without that th
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by josefx 11mo ago
> Generally speaking, orgs aren't trying to replace high-quality human translations with lower-quality machine translations. How would you handle updates to an article? Would you blindly replace all existing translations or would yo
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by josefx 11mo ago
> hile Rust is younger and has been run by a small group of volunteers for years now I thought Rust was getting financial support from Google, Microsoft and Mozilla? Or was the Rust Foundation just a convenient way for Mozilla to fire a
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by josefx 11mo ago
Were you born before or after heartbleed uncovered the sorry state of OpenSSL and the complete absence of funding it was maintained under? So to answer your question: Every single one of them, from Google with its billions, to Mozilla with
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by josefx 11mo ago
I never met an addicted person that could be reduced to a simple while(true) print("fail") loop.

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