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1. 721.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   I'm not sure why general and special relativity are called like that. Special relativity is about movement and how that causes length contractions, time dilations and a change of mass of the moving object. General relativity is about h
2. 722.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   While some architectures have some special instructions/registers for handling stacks I still wouldn't say it's built into CPUs. The direction in which a stack grows depends on the architecture. Some programming languages don
3. 723.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   Exactly. But that they said FTL is a violation of general relativity made be doubt the article. General relativity does not disallow FTL, special relativity does. But that is about my extends of knowledge about these things.
4. 724.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   Ah, also FreeBSD, Solaris and probably many other Unix (like) operating systems have Python pre-installed.
5. 725.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   My experience with bash: Once you do something a bit more complex where bashisms would be handy any shell is so slow and complicated to use that you're better of with Python, even if all your system provides is Python 2.4. And Python i
6. 726.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   Maybe the homebrew libs (libogc) support OpenGL? I doubt that you can use to original Nintendo SDK to write homebrew.
7. 727.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   Which brings it back again to my initial comment: "I don't understand why functions like gets and sprintf weren't removed from the standard and headers a long time ago." And by a long time I mean before 1989 (certainly b
8. 728.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   I don't understand why functions like gets and sprintf weren't removed from the standard and headers a long time ago. It can't be for legacy reasons, because removing them from the headers has no effect on binaries and when y
9. 729.▲
   by panzi 13y ago

   Hmm, so a function similar to fread, but reading from another buffer instead of a file.
10. 730.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Then I'll just use a C-style cast. :P
11. 731.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Android (Google) did not rebrand the kernel, they just don't mention it.
12. 732.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Indeed.
13. 733.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Did they make the switch to Qt 5 before the release or will the first version ship with Qt 4?
14. 734.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Agreed with most of it except: "because their string API is correct" Apparently they have a bug in their UTF-7 parser that can lead to invalid unicode strings. Don't know if it's already fixed.
15. 735.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    One unicode character at a time or one unicode codepoint at a time? (see character composition)
16. 736.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    While JavaScript (in browsers) has no way to normalize precomposed/decomposed strings, it has standard methods to correctly compare them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe.
17. 737.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Wait, I just realized Audacious CAN play psf and spc (forgot about that). The only thing I'm missing is (mini)usf (Nintendo 64 music). Although the Winamp plugins are much more feature rich: more metadata, (live!) disabling and enablin
18. 738.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    What do you mean by "gets directly interpreted"? Interpreting the AST? Writing a bytecode interpreter is pretty easy and can run much faster than a tree interpreter, especially when you use gcc extensions (taking addresses from la
19. 739.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Winamp is a great music player. It is still the best for some file formats. Via it's plugins it can play more exotic audio file formats than any other player. Some players support s3m and it, but play only half of some files: Winamp pl
20. 740.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Firefox 25 (Linux): "[22:21:01.082] TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.createOffer. @ http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1"
21. 741.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    It's this easy to clone a credit card? Why is anyone using credit cards? I feel confirmed in not having one.
22. 742.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    > I never thought of bytecode as its own class with its own identity before. What do you mean? How did you think of it before?
23. 743.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    I think the question is the reverse: not what program implements the VM but which programs run on it and what are they doing? at least that is what I'm asking.
24. 744.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    If I would have seen this one or two hours ago it could have spared me hate on irc://irc.freenode.net/bash
25. 745.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    I once generated this: http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Prime-Numbers-102507767 Each red pixel represents a prime number. The source download link is currently broken. I'll fix that in a minute (if I can find the s
26. 746.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Why would you want to do that?
27. 747.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    > a working Python -> C translator Including generator functions? That would be impressive. Well, one could solve it by putting all locals into an heap allocated object and use the "switch over the whole function body"-trick
28. 748.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    So what? Everyone in a family has a bike (even the kids), but there are usually one one or two cars. Also bikes are cheaper and usually have a shorter lifetime. If cars would outsell bikes, THAT would be a headline.
29. 749.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    What do you mean by "raw information"? Can you publish a detailed protocol specification?
30. 750.▲
    by panzi 13y ago

    Not a library but I think mercurial currently still only works with Python 2.