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by mitxela 28d ago
The main function in the blog post returns at the end of all control paths. Firstly because main has an implicit "return 0" at the end and secondly because no control paths end. It doesn't jump to unreachable because it lacks
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by mitxela 28d ago
Yes you want more users not less. This is business 101. Even business 000. Customers good.
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That's a different axis from spaghettiness.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Start with synchronous function calls instead of JSON. Microsoft knows how to do that - they invented COM and OLE. Function calls enable whatever data sharing is necessary to maintain a coherent view. Imagine trying to do OLE with JSON - ju
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by mitxela 28d ago
Using a JSON TCP connection for what on Windows would be direct function calls (COM) or in Eclipse would be direct function calls between Java modules always felt a bit gross.
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by mitxela 28d ago
You joke but cloudflare tunnels got a new vibewritten slopsite today and made the top of HN
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by mitxela 28d ago
so "agents.txt"?
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by mitxela 28d ago
Linux is basically impossible to support. Valve pulled it off by shipping a complete copy of Ubuntu 12.02 with Steam.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Pretty typical capitalist moves.
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Given a choice between Trump and Clinton, or Trump and Harris, the best choice is extremely obvious. A sack of pet rocks would do better than either Clinton or Harris. That doesn't mean Trump would do better than them.
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by mitxela 28d ago
There would only be one pong... for five years after the invention of pong. Then it would be free-for-all.
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by mitxela 28d ago
FWIW, GrapheneOS is the only usable phone OS that is legal and Cellebrite can't hack. That's why law enforcement are so horny to ban it.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Obviously? That's why we all grow up addicted to tiktok now, when we didn't 30 years ago.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Uninitialized variables were already UB to read, because some architectures have trap representations, even for integers. Every register on Itanium has one.
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by mitxela 28d ago
IIRC a lot of it was benchmark gaming between GCC and LLVM.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Reimplementing Windows was a huge task. If the windows source code was available, why wouldn't you begin with a copy-paste?
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by mitxela 28d ago
It doesn't matter if a human or AI did it, because a human translation doesn't remove copyright either.
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by mitxela 28d ago
Do you propose forcing 27 groups to become the same just so it's easier to sell them things? Isn't that the same as the foreign invasion change of culture you guys are always worried about?
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by mitxela 28d ago
Better archive them all before that!
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I am holding my finger on the nuclear bomb button and I say if you don't murder everyone except me and you, I will press the button and it will murder everyone including me and you. So what's the "correct" moral stance?
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by mitxela 28d ago
But you are causing your customers to lose data
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by mitxela 28d ago
Why shouldn't they do that
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by mitxela 28d ago
It took me a few months after the event to get the meanings of Power Cycles.
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Learning anything biologically changes your brain.
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ReactOS was also a good idea.
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All FOSS consumer operating systems suck. We only tolerate them because they are FOSS.
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Google is just one symptom of late stage capitalism.
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Because it still allows installing apps with some hoops, and iOS doesn't allow it at all.
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Why would China allow the domestic sale of a device that could run GrapheneOS?
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It's the OS every drug dealer uses and the government can't break it. In privacy circles you can't get better marketing than that.

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