prodigal_erik

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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Are these all undefined rather than merely unspecified or implementation-defined? I'm a little suspicious that they don't explain the difference, but I'm having trouble finding a definitive list of the places where the stan
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
I definitely don't want a backup camera display that I can't see without unmounting my phone.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
"Integer between 0 and n-1 inclusive" is the type of valid indices for an n element array. The trouble is most languages don't have type systems that allow expressing that.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Even when you can't prove what arbitrary code does, proving what well-written code does is useful, and not writing unprovable code would be a small price to pay.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
The right choices are bounds checking or autoboxing. I very rarely want arithmetic modulo n (and when I do, I want to choose n), but never do I ever want signed overflow quietly giving wrong answers.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Search results for "how do I branch in Mercurial" always seem to lead to elaborate tutorials that suggest repo clones or bookmarks or numbered anonymous heads or smuggling diffs outside the commit graph using an extension. If the
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
All I know is what the manufacturer said about unexpected resistance to changing building codes, and the blatant make-work compromise they ended up with: https://reason.com/blog/2010/06/24/plumbers-unions
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Not all of them are. When you can't install a waterless toilet without hiring a licensed plumber, that's just corruption.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Bias regarding skin color and genetics is greatly different than bias regarding chosen behavior.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
DisplayPort is one of several options, but I wouldn't call them native because you can't rely on any of them being supported.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
A smart pointer is just a way to add custom behavior when it's created and destroyed. The question is what the smart pointer does. Usually the answer is update a reference count, which happens so frequently that it ends up being a lot
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Knuth's code has bugs. NASA's code has bugs. There's no reason to believe that high quality software engineers even exist.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Whole versions don't get deprecated. Visible features get deprecated when they are still present in the latest version but will be missing or incompatible in the next major version.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
IMHO a sane protocol sends command from the app to the GPU under my desk, rather than requiring every computer in the world to have a headless GPU and a fat enough pipe to stream pixels to my framebuffer. People keep saying some other par
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Why would anyone ever do that? Are they going to put it on a thermos and drive around with it until lunch?
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Coffee should be served safely drinkable for the same reason that Burger King doesn't hand you a beef patty while it's still on fire.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
No human can drink 212 degree water, so you can't sell it calling it a beverage.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
It's pretty common for states to pass laws against impeding traffic and refusing to get out of the way. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/beat-ticke...
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
They were not only dropping standard features like RMI and JNI but also sneaking proprietary methods into standard classes. They could have clearly and honestly put them in a com.microsoft package, but they couldn't trick anyone into w
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
> ssh -X is hardly "everything". It's damn close. How many apps do you exclusively use locally? A terminal emulator, maybe a web browser? There are engineers out there who are expected to never have work product on their l
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
If everything still has to go through an X server, what has Wayland accomplished? Is Xwayland just going to become a more easily maintained substitute for Xorg? I can't imagine writing anything other than a twitch game as a raw Wayland
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Depending on VM_OVERCOMMIT_MEMORY, Linux might give out address space well beyond the size of the pagefile, hoping many of those pages are never written to (e.g., most threads never get anywhere near the bottom of their default stacks).
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Is the air conditioner more efficient than suffering drag from open windows? Each has been commonly recommended at different times, and the correct answer depends on your compressor and body shape. The optimal cruising speed might be anywhe
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
You can make assumptions about what's probably more efficient, but you can't confirm them without knowing how much gas you've consumed, and that takes several hours to justify stopping to refill the tank. Empty/full gas
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Windows doesn't allow deleting an open file. Unix allows the deleted file to be used (even for IPC) and doesn't GC it until it's closed. Breaking an open file's user would be bad design requiring some kind of complicated
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Library users expect breaking changes to be rare and have a damn good reason. What you're describing is deprecation without any warning period ("this stuff will go away in the next major release").
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
They shouldn't believe that shipping a MVP will immediately displace the current legal system in which they are vulnerable to nuisance lawsuits over an implied warranty.
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
They're putting in token effort and trying to create an impediment for Linux kernel development even on other hardware. And they were warned months ago that it wasn't going to fly. Having a driver is good, but putting it in-kerne
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
Urban dwellers park on the street a few blocks away from their upstairs apartment if they're lucky. Rooftop solar and a charger in a garage are pretty much only an option for suburban homeowners (and only those without range anxiety).
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by prodigal_erik 10y ago
The article talked about how Linux supports several models, not just the latest one. If I owned an older Macbook but now regarded the product line to be doomed, I'd want to know how painful it would be to start migrating to a different

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