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by omoikane 2y ago
The original title was The Development of the C Language or, Five Little Languages and How They Grew
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by omoikane 2y ago
More likely a phishing attempt, or TechCrunch got trolled.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I think it's describing a particular lexer or preprocessor bug that GCC never had, so "a + = 1" should have been a syntax error in C89 as well. Someone mirrored GCC 0.9 (1987), the relevant bits start here: https:/&#x2
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by omoikane 2y ago
It would be a syntax error in C++. <source>:3:11: error: expected primary-expression before '=' token 3 | a + = 1; | ^
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by omoikane 2y ago
The title should simply say "Yandex".
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by omoikane 2y ago
Well if it's just the comments, I think a lot of people just don't read those. In fact, it's a fair bit of effort just to read the descriptions with the YouTube app on some devices (e.g. smart TVs), and it's really not
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by omoikane 2y ago
This reminds me of Microsith, which had a support form where you can ask it questions, but the response was always "format and reinstall". https://web.archive.org/web/20050206190826/http://micro
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by omoikane 2y ago
Configuration files should be treated like code and follow the same gradual rollout practices. See also: https://sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/ Which starts with "a majority of incidents are trigger
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by omoikane 2y ago
Windows might be partly responsible for handling corrupted files poorly. According to this other post, the offending file was filled with NULs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41009740 Such a file will not have the ri
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by omoikane 2y ago
I have observed a file filled NULs that was caused by a power loss in the middle of a write -- my UPS alerted me that utility power is gone, I tried to shutdown cleanly, but the battery died before a clean shutdown completed. This was NTFS
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by omoikane 2y ago
This one is surprisingly fun, but I wish there is an option to choose a different map projection: https://canidigtochina.com/
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by omoikane 2y ago
It now redirects to a new page that names CrowdStrike specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
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by omoikane 2y ago
Windows has a "sticky keys" accessibility feature that is enabled by pressing "shift" many times. I believe it's intended for people who have a hard time holding multiple keys at the same time. It's something
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by omoikane 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616 - The floppy disk music scene (2024-02-28)
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by omoikane 2y ago
Looks like you can find this page by going to https://www.irs.gov/prior-year-forms-and-instructions Then sort by "revision date". 1864 seemed to be an outlier among that list, everything else is 1913 or later.
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by omoikane 2y ago
This is probably not the same paper, but it's by the same author on this topic: https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-3909633/v1_cov... "Sunlight-powered hovering of an ultra-light micro aerial v
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by omoikane 2y ago
Github launched with the tag line "social code hosting" in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20081216011059/https://github.co... Which changed to "social coding" later: https:/&
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by omoikane 2y ago
"X%" here likely means "single digit number of percentage points", as opposed to something like "XX%".
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by omoikane 2y ago
There had been code execution exploits tied to escape sequences, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428032 - Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution (2024-05-21)
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by omoikane 2y ago
I also record every package I open, but actually Amazon never asked for proof when I file a claim. Maybe it's because I only filed so few claims, or maybe a generous return/refund policy helps Amazon cover up any reputation damag
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by omoikane 2y ago
Alternatively, maybe New York Times should spread the job among 4 people so that each individual only needs to eat one rich meal per week.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> I've been wanting a language with that feature GNU MP's C++ interface makes this mostly transparent, expressions like "x = y * z" just work due to operator overloading. The only time you need to know that the under
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by omoikane 2y ago
Related, an analog car naviation system by Honda from the 80s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38135979 - The Car Navigation System / 1981 https://global.honda/en/heritage/episodes/1
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by omoikane 2y ago
I might charitably and optimistically interpret the transfer to Squarespace as one of many short-sighted decisions that Google made that's unique to 2023 , the period where Google had its greatest internal turmoil shortly after the la
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by omoikane 2y ago
I didn't even know that setting was there until I saw this post. Seems pretty sneaky to have a thing like that enabled by default. In comparison, when Chrome pushed out ad privacy setting update[1], there was a popup that asked users
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by omoikane 2y ago
I find it amusing that a .org site (temp-mail.org) has ads all over it while a .com site (temporarymail.com) does not, given that .org was mostly used by non-profits while .com is intended for commercial use.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> AT&T is one of more than 150 companies that are believed to have had data stolen from poorly secured Snowflake accounts Is there a list of the other affected companies somewhere? One news site says there are 165 organizations affec
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by omoikane 2y ago
Looks like lsb was the one who submitted the article, and this comment appears to be submitted at the same time (based on same timestamp and consecutive id in the URL), possibly to encourage people to read the article in case if the title s
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by omoikane 2y ago
Seems like people submit stuff from Threads about once every few weeks, but they just don't get much attention. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=threads.net Unlike twitter where we see a lot more submissions, and
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by omoikane 2y ago
Maybe these bounties are intentionally set to be roughly comparable to annual salaries. A very high bounty might encourage developers to plant backdoors instead, a la cobra effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervers

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