mansr

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by mansr 12y ago
Congratulations, you just discovered the great RISC vs CISC debate.
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by mansr 12y ago
Post is from 2009.
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by mansr 12y ago
Borland used to tout the virtues of their single-pass C/C++ compiler too, even as far back as version 2.0. Most modern C compilers have used an integrated preprocessor for quite some time, and Clang/LLVM can emit machine code dire
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by mansr 12y ago
That guy is a bit of a black sheep at KTH.
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by mansr 12y ago
I'm inclined to think that there is some threshold below which that function is constant. "Dust in eye" is definitely below this threshold.
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by mansr 12y ago
I share your views of religion. I also feel pretty much the same way if compelled to fake extroversion and attend, say, a fancy dinner reception. In the eyes of the article author, it is fine to dismiss religion while extroversion is to be
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by mansr 12y ago
There is also, as the author mentions, a correlation between religiosity and happiness. Still, "start going to church" is not on the list of things to do. I'll hazard a guess that the author is not religious and thus doesn&#x
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by mansr 12y ago
Most self-help advice boils down to the author saying "be more like me." This is no exception.
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by mansr 12y ago
My substitution works without contradictions there too.
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by mansr 12y ago
That's pretty useless as a mnemonic. "30 days hath September, August, March and December" fits the pattern equally well.
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by mansr 12y ago
It's "systemd is garbage" vs "everything else is garbage".
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by mansr 12y ago
He made a lot of people mad on the internet, enough that nobody is willing to hire him.
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by mansr 12y ago
He spent decades trolling everyone and everything on Usenet and mailing lists. He had it coming.
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by mansr 12y ago
He used to be trolling all over Usenet. There's a good chance he's made a very bad impression on just about anyone now in a position to hire him.
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by mansr 12y ago
> On the other hand, X/0 (integer division-by-zero, where X is not a floating-point value either) usually does cause an exception. That's true for x86, but not for most other architectures.
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by mansr 12y ago
> If they had chosen NaN == NaN, then the test for NaN could be simply x == NaN... There are many NaN values. Should they all compare equal to each other?
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by mansr 13y ago
Arial is a sloppy-looking knockoff of Helvetica. It's the typographical equivalent of fake designer clothes. There's nothing inherently wrong with using Verdana as a screen font.
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by mansr 13y ago
The "fo" pair looks decent, but many others leave a lot to be desired. I don't have an explanation for the differences though. Maybe Libreoffice is using a different layout engine.
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by mansr 13y ago
That's because the kerning tables in this font are woefully incomplete. The only pairs defined are "//", "Ke", "To", "We", "Ze", "Zo", "iz", "oz"
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by mansr 13y ago
I have one of those too. It's quite rare that anyone comments on it.
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by mansr 13y ago
Then all we'll need is a pair of augmented reality glasses that replace Papyrus when looking at restaurant menus.
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by mansr 13y ago
Chrome seems to ignore all kerning on all platforms. Firefox does a much better job.
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by mansr 13y ago
It's not. Usually they are much worse.
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by mansr 13y ago
All of the things you mention can be illegal without imposing pre-publication censorship as has been the case with printed material for centuries.
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by mansr 13y ago
Not all ISPs implement this.
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by mansr 13y ago
None of the filtering in the UK is legally mandated, and only the major ISPs implement it. Smaller ISPs still offer a completely unfiltered service.
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by mansr 13y ago
GCC can produce all of those warnings.
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by mansr 13y ago
In C99 there are three levels of not fully specified behaviour: 1. Undefined: anything is permitted, the standard imposes no requirement whatsoever. A typical example is what happens when a null pointer is dereferenced. 2. Unspecified: an
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by mansr 13y ago
C99 explicitly does \-splicing of lines before comment processing: //\ this is a comment /\ / this is also a comment GCC has an option (-Wcomment, enabled by -Wall) to warn about this and other likely mista
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by mansr 13y ago
The ARMv7-M architecture (which the popular Cortex-M series microcontrollers implement) allows reordering as I described. Even if a Cortex-M3 probably doesn't ever do it, nobody is making any promises. If a particular behaviour is no

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