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by pif 2y ago
If you want to use RAII in C, just use the "cleanup" attribute of gcc. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attribute...
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by pif 2y ago
> EGR is a necessary [...], and removing it isn’t good for anything EGR is what killed responsiveness in internal combustion engines. I'm not advocating breaking the law, but it would be nice if people remembered what we are missing
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by pif 2y ago
The part I personally hate about these devices is how the engines became slow and sloppy, and they lost any responsiveness. Especially when you are at a low regime, cranking it up is painful.
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by pif 2y ago
> In the 70s-80s-90s an uneducated worker could support Then the entire West started buying cheap from China and imposing rigid environmental constraints locally, and manufacturing jobs left forever.
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by pif 2y ago
> a nation of people of shared blood, culture, and history. That time has passed. Nowadays, travelling is extremely easy compared to a mere century ago. You can have your family half a planet far from your life, and still maintain suffic
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by pif 2y ago
> It is a handout to corporations. You are right, but unfortunately you are not completely right. The problem lies in a universal truth: people buy cheap. A corporation that can afford lower wages is a corporation that can maintain its
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by pif 2y ago
Why did they have to buy the sheets from Russia? I'd naively expect they could source it locally. What am I missing?
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by pif 2y ago
I read your comment just after posting mine. You have expressed the concept better than I did.
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by pif 2y ago
Pie cannot be duplicated. Even if you're offering me a worse pie than I ate yesterday, either I enjoy yours or I have no pie. Software, on the other side, is duplicated on a whim. If you are not offering me new solutions that I need, I
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by pif 2y ago
> people which obviously didn't even look at rust Since when is Rust a requirement to help Linux development? Only an utter idiot could think that such a big and successfully community would put any effort in addressing any issue th
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by pif 2y ago
I heard more like: "We have been borking like this for 26 years now and the result is amazing. If you want to introduce a new API for a couple of eventual use cases, you are welcome to do so, but don't event think to impose any ad
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by pif 2y ago
> Why should that not be possible to replicate today? What is missing is the user base! When Linus started his project, many people knew Unix in their professional life and were disappointed with what the market (M$) was proposing for th
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by pif 2y ago
> The mental safe space of old time kernel developers? As long as they are the majority of the kernel developers, their wish is what matters the most.
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by pif 2y ago
What was heard in the video was both technical and sensible.
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by pif 2y ago
Unless the Linux developer community at large requested Rust in the kernel, this is good news.
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by pif 2y ago
My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
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by pif 2y ago
I have met several Brexiteers on Quora, and not one of them could give a sensible reason for their vote. I don't mean a reason that I would like, I mean just a reason that could make any sense. I still hope some smart Brexiteers exist,
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by pif 2y ago
> The wastefulness of EU is the real reason people want their countries out of it. Unless such wastefulness is directed towards your own country! By the way, the only ones who actually voted to quit were those idiot Brexiteers who were n
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by pif 2y ago
The most useful ChatGPT has been for me consisted in teaching me some nice recipes for elk eggs. For the record, before spelling the recipes out, it made sure I understood that collecting elk eggs may be unlawful in some jurisdictions.
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by pif 2y ago
> taking some time to learn a standard, SQL. One huge problem is that learning SQL will take you nowhere, unless your schema consists of a few tables with a handful of rows at most. There is no standard SQL, and there is no serious appli
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by pif 2y ago
> devs by and large don't know SQL, and don't want to learn it One huge problem is that learning SQL will take you nowhere, unless your schema consists of a few tables with a handful of rows at most. There is no standard SQL, a
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by pif 2y ago
> The consensus on HN seems to be that you can be pretty productive with LLMs as coding assistants If you define "productive" as writing a simple CRUD web application that your 13-year-old cousin could write between two gaming
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by pif 2y ago
> The number of expected other winners on the date you win is the same as the average number of winners. Sorry, but no! The total number of expected winners (including you) is the same as the average number of winners.
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by pif 2y ago
> 99.5% of those projects overrun their timeline or budget. This does not shock me. In the corporate world, plans are not there to be adhered to, but only to give upper management a feeling of having tightened the rope for those pesky en
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by pif 2y ago
Second example: doesn't the bad refactor also modify the list of users?
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by pif 2y ago
Concerning the first example: whoever thought that passing property names as string can be better than any other style should have his coding licence revoked!
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by pif 2y ago
Please, help me understand something! Private, remote communication was not a thing until a couple of decades ago: how can we consider it a basic human right?
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by pif 2y ago
> Fascinating that there's a neutrino beam cutting straight through the earth, in a chord hundreds of miles long This is not the first time! Search about neutrinos from CERN to Gran Sasso.
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by pif 2y ago
> what are neutrinos for? I'm not sure I understand your question, sorry! > Are they "just" a side effect of radioactive decay They are (as fas as we know) elementary particles as several other elementary particles. &gt
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by pif 2y ago
> academia needs to be rethought dramatically, this all makes very little sense now in the light of LLMs, Global Libraries and open-source > i have 2500+ teaching hours in the disciplines intro Academia is much, much, much more than w

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