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by lqet 6y ago
Is a car thermometer really placed inside the car? I would've expected it to be placed under the back of the car.
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by lqet 6y ago
A comment on your blog post. You are writing: > In C89, undefined behavior is interpreted as, “The C standard doesn’t have requirements for the behavior, so you must define what the behavior is in your implementation, and there are a few
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by lqet 6y ago
I think this is why there are parantheses around current->uid = 0. gcc has the option -Wparentheses, which gives a warning if you write something like this: if (a = b) doSomething; But there is no warning if you write it like this
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by lqet 6y ago
AFAIK only external and static variables are default initialized in C. For all other variables, the default value is undefined, so 0 is as good a choice as any other here.
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by lqet 6y ago
The audio comments made by soldiers throughout the film are also actual comments from veterans, taken from old BBC interviews. The film is a masterpiece.
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by lqet 6y ago
I suspect this is why: > Ever wished you could save a video from the Internet? Search no more, Downie is what you're looking for. Easily download videos from thousands of different sites.
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by lqet 6y ago
I have been using a Brother HL-2130 laser printer which cost less then 100 EUR for nearly 10 years now. Every 1-2 years, I buy a cheap toner (under 20 EUR) online. By far the most reliable printer I have ever owned.
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by lqet 6y ago
> But there is at least one key feature of speech that is harder to dismiss: it takes very little effort. Attempts to measure the caloric expenditures involved in speech report that they are essentially negligible. This is both because t
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by lqet 6y ago
> Imagine if the hackers timed the intrusion during github outage, and twitter's employees can't deploy a fix for the exploit fast enough because github was down! Is Twitter really using GitHub internally (even self-hosted)?
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by lqet 6y ago
But you don't bring kids into this world. You bring them into the world of the future, even if this future is only 9 months away.
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by lqet 6y ago
> I wouldn't want to put children in this world. I don't think the future world is a nice place to grow up in, even the current world isn't. I have posted the following a few years ago: > My ancestors thought it was oka
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by lqet 6y ago
That "kotiert" may be literally translated into "excrementized" or "fecesized" certainly doesn't help in making it more popular.
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by lqet 6y ago
> Octopus reproductive organs mature due to the hormonal influence of the optic gland but result in the inactivation of their digestive glands, typically causing the octopus to die from starvation. Experimental removal of both optic glan
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by lqet 6y ago
> I don't think many people will really enjoy it. Well, it has 7.9 points on IMDB based on over 13,000 votes, so there definitely seem to be some who like it!
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by lqet 6y ago
The quickest way to become a massively ridiculed cliché tourist in any European town is to take one of those Segway tours. My god I would never set foot on one of them, it's just so embarrassing. https://cdn.getyourguide.com
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by lqet 6y ago
Well, living there could be understood as having "skin in the game".
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by lqet 6y ago
Yes, and now it is considered healthy for the Swiss to drink masses of beer ("in Maßen" vs. "in Massen") and if you have to pay a fine, you apparently have to pay in buses ("Buße" vs. "Busse"). I coul
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by lqet 6y ago
And the original implementation of Docker was only 1,146 LOC [0] [0] https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/a27b4b8cb8e838d03a99b6d2...
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by lqet 6y ago
Tangential: what is up with this inflationary expectation that everything should be "fun" and "exciting" and "thrilling"? I feel like western society as a whole is thinking more and more in terms of a six year
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by lqet 6y ago
If you have your own server and need a Github-like webinterface, gogs [0] and Gitea [1] (a fork of gogs) are stable and very easy to set up. I have been running gogs for a few years now. For me it contains the perfect subset of Github featu
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by lqet 6y ago
Isn't this extremely ambiguous in many cases because there are no clear definitions? For example, I could've placed a bet that there will be a pandemic in 2020, but when it actually happened, couldn't the bookie have used som
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by lqet 6y ago
Oh my god :(
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by lqet 6y ago
Ha, I remember the Windows 3.11 File Manager [0], it was always anoying when you accidentally clicked on the drive A: icon and the explorer would hang for a few seconds as the drive spun up and checked whether a disk was inserted. [0] http
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by lqet 6y ago
I always wondered whether a good way to describe Aphantasia to people who don't have it is to ask them to "imagine" an odor. Most people can recognize specific oders effortlessly and remember them for decades (example: you sm
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by lqet 6y ago
Then again, the netcode of the original HL1 engine was extremely good for its time.
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by lqet 6y ago
I would actually love to see an old browser (e.g. IE 6) purely implemented in JavaScript to run inside a browser, without using the browser's DOM rendering capabilities (the web page should be rendered by the JS code on a <canvas&gt
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by lqet 6y ago
Yup, I posted the original comment to quickly, the airflow indeed also pushes the brass disk forward, thus rotating the fan! An extremely clever solution that seems to be very easy and cheap to manufacture.
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by lqet 6y ago
My grandparents had a completely open fan from the 60ies (although with plastic blades). You could stuck your fingers into it and it would just stop - it hurt a little, but no damage.
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by lqet 6y ago
> A sheet brass disk in front of the fan was acted upon by the air from the fan causing the fan to oscillate back and forth Is this an accurate description? Here is such a fan in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm
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by lqet 6y ago
Here is the article, in case anyone is interested: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xy3Gbf... > There is no current evidence of his present existence, but to deny that he existed in his Grecian heyda

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