josefx

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by josefx 2y ago
> The "well written" remark is relevant. So using casts that hid implicit int declarations for years is "well written"? > Many style guides will consider implicit void conversions not well written C. I could not
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> For example, every example in Kernighan & Ritchie: "The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)" is also a C++ program. " That is rather dated, they do things like explicitly cast the void* pointer returned by malloc, b
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Only if your entire API doesn't contain any C++.
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The Ariane 6 is mainly for larger payloads. Europe was still using Vega and Vega-C for satellites .
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And if you look how that mess started out you had cross site scripting on the frontend because html allowed you to inject more javascript from everywhere and SQL injection on the backend because you had to translate your input from one lang
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Aren't R4L and Asahi Linux separate projects?
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Who quit?
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> And if no Rust developer has time or interest in those eight weeks? What if Linus decided to go on a two month long vacation in the middle of the merge window? > I don‘t claim that it can never work (or it cannot work in the common
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A fun weekend playing mostly older games once or twice a year.
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Afaik Linus tried Github in the past, but had several significant complaints about it hiding information, messing with basic git operations, generating bad commit messages, etc. . So it is not as if they wouldn't use something better,
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Google book search was declared fair use and copyright holders ended up having to explicitly request removal of their works. Apparently he would have gotten away with downloading the JSTOR database if he made it clear that he intended to on
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They will just write up a new deal, which will be legal until it is declared illegal by a court after half a decade of litigation. Rinse, repeat. This has been going on for ages already.
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So you are blaming a two year old LTS for not supporting your brand new hardware and didn't even try the current release? I had many issues with Ubuntu but laptops being unable to provide even basic functionality without custom drivers
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> they’re amoral and are designed to maximize profits Isn't that a contradiction? Morality is fundamentally a sense of "right and wrong". If they reward anything that maximizes short term profit and punish anything that w
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How is the cross platform UI situation on C#? Anything official?
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> GCJ could do that Was it actually any good? My only experience with it was Debian using it as default Java interpreter, which meant that any attempt to execute Java without first removing it resulted in untold amounts of suffering.
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What body shape would creatures living at six times the gravity even have? Would they be able to jump? Would they have a skeleton as we know it? I would almost go looking at deep sea creatures that have to deal with extreme pressures on ear
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> drifting away from RHEL compatibility Any source for that claim? I am testing software on Rocky and never got complaints from users that run it on RHEL.
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We can call it V to signify another step backwards and make it the default, people can just use the terminal until the first implementation crops up.
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If there is no difference then how does the official reference implementation of Wayland, that nearly everyone uses daily, handle it? /s
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by josefx 2y ago
What timeframe are you looking at? Dune II was more or less considered the game that established the modern RTS format. C&C is mostly a refinement on the same gameplay loop (down to the spice/tiberium/ore harvesters). What I r
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> because the nifty "frameworks" Malicious software exists, does that mean we should remove all threading primitives from the standard?
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C could provide functions to lock/unlock a mutex and require that any attempt to access the environment has to be done holding the mutex. This would still leave the correctness in the hands of the user, but at least it would provide a
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Welcome to the C standard library, the application of mutable global state to literally everything in it has to be the most consistent and predictable feature of the language standard.
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They pretty much told everyone that a proper integration for OpenSSL would take years. The server API seems to be in an early review state and slowly progressing. https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/featur
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Ah, the QUIC drama. When everyone adopted quic before the protocol was even fully specified.
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> There is the principle attributed to Houdini Houdini died from a rather trivial stunt he performed many times before. A hit to the abdomen before he could flex his muscles most likely ruptured his appendix. Keaton died of lung cancer w
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What I find funny is that they picked tree models that have branches down to the floor. So any tree next to a road blocks at least one lane when its branches should be several feet in the air.
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> pay $$ to extend it, increasing exponentially each time Doesn't work with DRM protected media. Version 1 will be pulled from circulation shortly before the time runs out, version 2 will be slightly altered and qualify for a brand
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Irrelevant for charging.

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