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by o11c 1y ago
Related, today I learned that modern Android self-sabotages by refuses to reconnect to wifi if location is disabled.
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by o11c 1y ago
The only time I've ever had shell startup time be significant is when loading fancy shell rc stuff (oh-my-zsh is the most infamous but there are many others) Unfortunately I've hit some obscure bug with exactly when `HISTFILES
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by o11c 1y ago
Like all rules, you can break adverb if you can afford it in your strangeness budget. If you actually have rhythm (which depends highly on context) you can probably afford it. See also the rule that "editing any sentence, in any di
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by o11c 1y ago
Something about this website makes scrolling lag even with Javascript disabled. Firefox 128 on Linux. Very interesting topic though.
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by o11c 1y ago
`pom(6)` from `bsdgames` might already be installed on your system to do this. Source comments indicate it was originally based on prior versions of the same book but updated to the Third Edition in 1998. For "implement simple task in
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by o11c 1y ago
But the definition of "country", "at war", and "military facility" depend entirely on whether your audience perceives that you're winning or not.
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by o11c 1y ago
There is an important distinction between "one address space" and "one set of memory permissions". The former is usually a good idea (for debuggability if nothing else!) if you don't need to support `fork`; the latt
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by o11c 1y ago
A lot of this really seems dishonest. "no dynamic linking" (by implementing dynamic linking) "no zombies" (as long as your programs aren't buggy) I fail to see any meaningful distinction from what we have today. If
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by o11c 1y ago
And don't forget "Those of us whose salary depends on selling snake oil will never admit that snake oil is a scam."
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by o11c 1y ago
And even fuller context: for the rich to enter is "hard" (with comparisons), but someone who is not like a child "shall not enter" (no exceptions). (previous chapter in Matthew, earlier in the same chapter in Mark/L
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by o11c 1y ago
Huh, Github fails quite badly at dealing with submodules from other forges.
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by o11c 1y ago
Only businesses have rights and thus may need to give permission. Individuals are considered common property. Laws are useless when you live in a country that doesn't care about enforcing them.
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by o11c 1y ago
The reason this particular UB doesn't need mindspace for C programmers is because it's not even meaningful to do anything with the parts of the buffer beyond the written length. Most other UBs related to datums that you think
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by o11c 1y ago
A related annoyance is when people expect words in other languages to have exactly one clear (if not necessarily narrow) meaning (or spelling, pronunciation, etc.), even though English doesn't. Other languages, especially languages tha
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by o11c 1y ago
The problem is that no such language exists. There are many languages that provide one particular feature that C doesn't provide, but they do this at the cost of excluding numerous other features that C widely relies on.
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by o11c 1y ago
I've seen something similar, but it depended on whether plain `char` is signed or unsigned, which is highly platform-dependent.
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by o11c 1y ago
The terminology around this is really confusing, unfortunately. Sometimes a distinction is made between "TTY" (teletype, traditionally separate hardware, now built into the kernel, accessed by ctrl-alt-f1, at /dev/tty1 e
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by o11c 1y ago
The underlying problem is that there are several different things, and many of them currently don't have APIs: * the known-constant page size that must be passed so you won't get failure from `mmap(MAP_FIXED)`, `mprotect`, etc. (e
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by o11c 1y ago
And a fairly common refrain I've heard was "I can't afford another semester of college because all my financial aid only applies to tuition." It was always a huge relief to a student if they managed to get a scholarship
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by o11c 1y ago
I mean things like: compilers don't support the pragmas, and if the compiler can "see" constants they are often evaluated with the wrong rounding mode. I'm far from an expert but I've seen enough to know it's w
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by o11c 1y ago
LLMs are notoriously bad at dealing with pronouns, because it's not correct to blindly copy them like other nouns, and instead they highly depend on the context.
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by o11c 1y ago
I too have been thinking a lot about a minimum viable improvement over C. This requires actually being able to incrementally port your code across: * "No implicit type conversions" is trivial, and hardly worth mentioning. Trapping
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by o11c 1y ago
The one thing that theoretically would be advantageous about a volley is that it's impossible for a target to block/dodge all of them. FTA (though focusing on how useful shields and armor are): > arrows at range move slowly eno
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by o11c 1y ago
That subproblem is fundamentally unfixable unless you're willing to allow incompatible objects to be passed around, which is a really bad idea . If your code does: o = foo_v1.get_obj() foo_v2.use_obj(o) then this is almost al
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by o11c 1y ago
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by o11c 1y ago
That's what everybody uses `venv` for. Or `virtualenv` if you're stuck on old Python. But as a rule, `<=` dependencies mean there's either a disastrous fault with the library, or else the caller is blatantly passing all th
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by o11c 1y ago
Fortunately, XSLT is used by far too many high-importance websites (e.g. official government legal sites) for removing it to be a real threat.
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by o11c 1y ago
First-party link: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB01375I... And the definitions reference: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/pe/htm/pe.43.htm N
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by o11c 1y ago
The problem with water travel in New Zealand is that weather often closes ports. But it is true that NZ lacks the scale that many existing rail systems rely on, and also lacks high-speed roads (a good rule of thumb for driving anywhere in
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by o11c 1y ago
The problem with railroad is exactly the other side of this: that you can't trivially and automatically detach a single car at any point. I know businesses that literally have an old railroad branch line right up to their door, but the

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