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by nrclark 6y ago
I've used autotools on a ton of my projects, and I like it a lot. I can't speak to any of the problems you had. The one thing I'll say about Autotools is that the learning curve is pretty steep, and it took a fair amount of e
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I wrote a lot of TCL code in 2015-2017, and it was better than I thought going into it. TCL has first-class lists and maps, and they're not string-based under the hood at all. It's true that TCL was "all string all the time&q
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Site is hugged for me, so I can't check to see if the author addresses this. I've been wondering - wouldn't UBI tend towards an inflationary spiral? I'm sympathetic to the goals of UBI. But without price controls, what w
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by nrclark 6y ago
For the record, runit's code is in really bad shape. It uses deprecated APIs, and also hasn't been updated from K&R C. There are a number of type warnings on 64-bit systems. The build system cannot be used for cross-compilatio
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Doesn’t work on iOS :(
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Why is it immoral for the government to provide that stuff? What makes private industry better in any way?
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I think it's great that the authors are working on this. RAII is one of the best things about C++, and I'm excited for similar functionality in C. GCC's __cleanup__ is a poor substitute for a fully-baked addition to the lang
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What will this mean for Fedora? Doesn’t Fedora already occupy the niche of “Redhat-unstable”?
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by nrclark 6y ago
I'd say say there's some truth to it, but maybe in an accidental way. Shell scripts have been part of UNIX since day 1. A lot of early UNIX commands were implemented as scripts, and shell was always intended to be one of the main
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I could see that being true if we didn't have this two-party gridlock. In a world where D votes against R because "red team bad" and R votes against D because "blue team bad", it feels like we're watching our e
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by nrclark 6y ago
I'm referring to the Trump-ordered assassination of Qasem Soleimani. He was Iran's equivalent of the Secretary of Defense, and also a folk-hero to Iranians. Soleimani was assassinated by US drone strike in January 2020. Iran respo
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He tried with Iran. They declined the invitation, lucky for us all.
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Fwiw, the Gettysburg address would have been pretty bad as prose. It was written to be delivered as a speech. A speaker can control inflection and intonation, which add their own meaning and interact with the actual word choices. Written wo
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by nrclark 6y ago
Are those different than American spelling bees?
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Agreed that we need voting reform in the US, badly. It's also unlikely to ever happen, because the only ones with the power to do it are the ones that would be displaced.
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by nrclark 6y ago
That sounds like it's an issue if one is copying from an untrusted server, for sure. Maybe not an issue if you trust the machine you're copying to/from.
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by nrclark 6y ago
Scp works fine, I use it all the time. It's less complicated than sftp, and works basically just like the regular 'cp' command. It also doesn't require an sftp server to be present on the remote machine. I'm not 100
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by nrclark 6y ago
The instructions in this article should work, but they're more complicated than necessary maybe. If you don't have scp, you can usually just do something like this: ssh user@host cat remote_file > local_file to copy the
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by nrclark 6y ago
In addition to other's comments, C11 also gives you: - static_assert, for ensuring things at compile-time without ugly macros. - atomics, for use in multi-threaded systems.
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A generic "build credit" term could be better, maybe - with some details about what one credit gets you. Maybe one build-credit is normalized to "One minute on an 'n1-standard-1' with 4GB of RAM and 40GB of storage.
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I've never really understood "minutes" as a unit of build work. What kind of server are we talking about? What CPU? How much RAM? How fast is the storage access? Is my instance virtualized? And if so, do I have dedicated reso
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by nrclark 6y ago
You can run it in a subshell pretty easily, like this: $ (cd tmp && find . -maxdepth 1 -type f)
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Advent of Computing did a great podcast about Coherent recently. For anybody who's interested, I'd recommend checking it out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coherent-is-not-unix/i...
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by nrclark 6y ago
I bought a Rav-4 in 2018. When I was price-shopping, I included Costco Auto in my search. They weren't the cheapest (although they were very low-hassle), but they were close to the best price I could get from a nearby dealer. In the en
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For the Rustaceans in the thread, I've been wondering - What's the current state of affairs of Rust for non-x86_64 targets? I know it's in flux, and that documentation isn't always up to date. What architectures can rust
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During my 20s, I routinely gave up drinking for Lent. My friends were all drinkers though, and going our for drinks was very much part of our routine. What worked for me was just to get my own drinks at the bar, and always order non-alcohol
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Agreed 100%, for anybody who has to use a Linux CLI with any regularity. You don't need to be a vi/vim wizard, but you should at least be able to use it a little bit. Vi is the one editor that's guaranteed to be available bas
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Our government is by-and-large unwilling to enforce what our current president can and can't do. It really doesn't matter what the laws are if nobody enforces them. The current president has built a surprisingly large federal poli
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> If you have an atomic step that produces multiple targets, it confuses make, and encoding the fact properly in the Makefile is really not straightforward. Make does have a lot of warts, but this isn’t one of them any more. Grouped ta
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In most states, the legal definition of assault doesn't even require physical contact. Trying to shove a police officer and miss? Assault. Stepping on their shoe while being arrested? Battery, and also probably assault. Spitting on a p

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