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by nine_k 5mo ago
Tony Hoare himself called NULL a mistake. But the problem is not in the ability to set a pointer to a null value, of course. The problem is that all pointers are nullable, and there's no way to statically enforce their being non-null.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Structured procrastination [1, 2] was invented full 30 yeas ago, and works very well, given some skill. [1]: https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-procrastinate-and-s... [2]: https://pennyzenker360.com&#x
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by nine_k 5mo ago
When I need to write something, and I have a computer, and something is inconvenient, I can quickly (well, within minutes, maybe 30 of them) alter it to my liking, and return to writing. When I only have a pen and paper (which I used extens
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Depending on your location, and preparation. My home office room (which also doubled as a workshop and light storage room) used to be 10' x 12', and I was able to sit with my back towards a wall, and my desk facing space. And it w
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I know a person with a very good taste; his apartment is even emptier and cleaner than this. He's actually good at his job. Some people just find it actually comfortable. I'm not one of them, but these are real people, not posers.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Being a software engineer usually gives you enough money to afford a nice desk if you care about it.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
But (i32 length, byte[] data) is as complex as (byte[] data, '\0'), its two-parts anyway. Of course it allows potentially for very long strings at the cost of just a single byte spent as a terminator. Beside the rarity of such a
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Aren't these MCUs predominantly ARM-based, with some RISC-V thrown in? I see no contradiction in the desire to support x64 (because it would be ridiculous not to), ARM, and likely RISC-V, but not the venerable but now-fringe architectu
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by nine_k 5mo ago
And the content. A number of smart design decisions, and analysis of what was wrong with the previous versions. Also, it's a great illustration of the benefits of layered, modular design that Linux sports: it allows to mix and match pa
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by nine_k 5mo ago
It's furniture when standing, and luggage when walking.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Try running plain sh / ash interactively without readline, and notice how much pain it is. But I agree that having multiple windows, etc is a whole new step; it's just a limited GUI accessible easily via SSH. Could involve sixel g
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by nine_k 5mo ago
There's no docs or implementation, but I'd say that `.` in Forth is a generic way to print something, and `emit` may do more work, like HTML escaping.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
React (and the unidirectional FRP approach in general) is the only known sane way to describe complex GUIs. It's the same approach that powers spreadsheet calculations. Most websites are not complex GUIs though, and do not need React
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Not necessarily so. I can see how a bid to predict how thing will be in 1 year in AI-based coding is likely a losing one. So the idea is to extract the maximum value now, and turn it into profits that would buy you whatever is adequate for
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by nine_k 5mo ago
A REPL like bash already is not a pure text stream, since readline is used. Zsh, even less so.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Indeed, for a VM, high uptime makes little sense, because a reboot takes a few seconds, and an upgrade requires no downtime, just switching the DNS to a new instance. For a physical machine which you can't easily copy, it's a diff
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Why would you want to exchange private messages with anonymous counterparties? - You participate in a secret cabal, and don't want participants' identities be visible to each other. - You're a journalist, and want to give you
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I don't think there's actually a lot more trust; rather it's possibly fewer checks and balances.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I would say that in a source code tree that represents old commits I'd like none of the files to be executable. (It would miss some commits that only change the executable bit though.)
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by nine_k 5mo ago
I like the moniker "elfing" applied to this form of sarcasm, as an opposite of "trolling".
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Does this mean that I can connect to an NFS server saying my UID=0 and get local root?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Won't the SMB implementation be sufficient to mount git commits as folders?
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by nine_k 5mo ago
As usual, it's a question of balance. In a country where people trust the government enough, or at least trust the system of checks and balances that must keep the government at bay, the idea of the benefits provided by proper use of t
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Maybe it's the point. Maybe the idea is to make it obviously not pass, frame the entire idea as unreasonable, and thus prevent the topic from being discussed again for long enough. Deliberately throw the unwanted baby with the proverbi
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by nine_k 5mo ago
> is more and more becoming a commercialization platform FTFY: "couple of decades since has become". The vibes of passion-driven 1990s started to be overwhelmed by the din of money right when the Internet has become a major c
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by nine_k 5mo ago
If your site is all about disseminating information (like Wikipedia), then Google would provide a free mirror of sorts. If your site is about your product, Google won't be able to serve the sign-up page from AI; the traffic would come
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Can a big and rich company be fined for some minor technicality? Maybe! If the cost of the attempt is lower than the amount of the possible fine, why not try and find out? This may sound cynical, but this also one of the driving forces that
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Any idea what would work comparably well instead? There were many experiments; none seemed to be successful, unless you consider the current semi-capitalist China a social success.
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The post-colonial time obviously, when much of the "Global South" has become independent states, thus peers, not colonies.
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by nine_k 5mo ago
Such videos are essentially dreams: how it feels that the planks should move, not what equations of rigid body physics would compute. And the feeling is realistic (even if overly dramatic in the end). If "stylistic transfer" wor

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