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   by jwilk 3y ago

   $ units -t 'coulombconst * (2 TiB * atomiccharge/bit / cm) ** 2' 714.00592 kg m / s^2 Not quite meganewtons, but still a lot.
2. 422.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   Or the submitter posted wrong link? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854475
3. 423.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   The submission in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35838504 (> 90 comments)
4. 424.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   Discussed on HN back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26558348 (146 comments)
5. 425.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   GCC 1.21 (released in May 1988) had -mrtd for m68k, but it didn't support i386 yet: https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases/gcc-1/gcc-1.21.tar....
6. 426.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   1111…1111 is −1. 1000…0000 is the minimum.
7. 427.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   Color support was added only in 2015: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git...
8. 428.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   How come?
9. 429.▲
   by jwilk 3y ago

   https://academic.oup.com/ehjdh/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/eh... (linked in the References section)
10. 430.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    > The Unicode input alphabet is up to 4096 symbols. Huh? How did you come up with this number?
11. 431.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    https://archive.is/fM06z
12. 432.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    It's indeed not implemented yet: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105863
13. 433.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    > C++11 standardized a similar feature under the name decltype, so sadly we wound up with two names for a nearly identical feature. If you wonder why: https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/
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    Namespaces for the Python Package Index(lwn.net)

    3 points by jwilk 3y ago|2 comments
15. 435.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    Looks like they don't: $ openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect neverssl.com:443 CONNECTED(00000003) 140453876520616:error:1409442E:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert protocol version:s3_pkt.c:1315:SSL alert number 70 14045387
16. 436.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    https://archive.is/cTrvC
17. 437.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    It degrades to CO₂.
18. 438.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    > travelling overseas wasn't practical before transatlantic air travel began in 1939 And there was only one British coronation since then: Elizabeth II in 1952. Calling it "a centuries-long tradition" is a bit of a stret
19. 439.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_9 > On 3 February 1966, the Luna 9 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to achieve a survivable landing on a celestial body.
20. 440.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social
21. 441.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    Previously: • 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340644 (3 comments) • 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=821322 (9 comments) • 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178
22. 442.▲
    by jwilk 3y ago

    You may want to give my Mastodon CLI a try: https://github.com/jwilk/zygolophodon
23. 443.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
24. 444.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    Related from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611425 "PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function" (>180 comments)
25. 445.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807559
26. 446.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    You may like this: https://jwilk.github.io/chemiscripts/
27. 447.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet_MS_ampersand.sv... is a great example.
28. 448.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557848
29. 449.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    TFA counted only normal numbers and zero. The commenters counted also subnormals.
30. 450.▲
    by jwilk 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35548681 has a subscriber link.