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by quelsolaar 4mo ago
I was luck to know Josh Nimoy who is responsible for a lot of this in the movie, who has since sadly passed away. Josh took great pride in the fact that he was able to put Emacs and a bunch of Unix commands in a major Hollywood blockbuster.
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by quelsolaar 4mo ago
The things you want from C isn't C. Id advice you to use another language.
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by quelsolaar 4mo ago
A lot of the Central UB can not be defined, because they rely on detection. In order to have a well defined behaviour (by the standard or the compiler) the implementation needs to first detect that the behaviour is triggered, this is often
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by quelsolaar 4mo ago
The 5 stages of learning about UB in C: -Denial: "I know what signed overflow does on my machine." -Anger: "This compiler is trash! why doesn't it just do what I say!?" -Bargaining: "I'm submitting this pr
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by quelsolaar 6mo ago
Mark down is great because it doesn't define a bunch of things. Headline? Its a headline, no font, no sizing, no colors... Just a headline. It means that it can be displayed on any device, printed on any paper, work with any accessibil
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by quelsolaar 6mo ago
Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
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by quelsolaar 10mo ago
This, "If you have enough, why does it matter if someone else has more" argument doesn't really hold. Yes we can make more TVs and phones so that everyone can get one, but then get to things like centrally located housing, wh
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by quelsolaar 10mo ago
Thanks for the shout out. I had no idea my 2h video, without a camera 8 years ago would have such legs! I should make a new one and include why zero initialization is bad.
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Undefined behaviour spotted in safe Rust code(twitter.com)
2 points by quelsolaar 10mo ago|1 comments
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Yeah the idea i that school is somehow a bastion of meritocracy is misguided. Academia is better at setting clear requirements and measuring those goals, but whether these requirements have anything to do with being successful or useful in
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
This is awesome. I run a team that uses software I produce and i have a rule that i can’t deliver breaking changes, and i cant force migrations. I can do the migration myself, or i have to emulate the old behavior next to the new. It makes
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Writing in binary or cranking your own electricity is easy. Anyone can do it. There is a difference between things that are difficult and things that just take a lot of work.
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Your customers will pay more for things that are hard to do. Ask ASML.
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
I exclusively write in C89. I'm a member of the ISO C standard board.
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
When ever i see "never implement your own...", i know i want to implement it myself. People say that about hard things, and I only want to do hard things. Nobody wants people who can do easy things, people want people who can do h
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Better Software Conference: Finish Your Software [video](youtube.com)
7 points by quelsolaar 1y ago|0 comments
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Maybe the victims of gunshots wanted to be shot? People shoot themselves all the time. Should we make convictions of murder, depndent on proving that the victim dint actually want to get shot?
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Yeah thats an old idea, that have proven again and again to cause misery. Its not flimsy at all. Its peer reviewed science.
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Yes, Sex work can be made more safe. However none of these protects against the psychological harm that may sex workers are experiencing. There is plenty of evidence how harmful prostitution can be to mental wealth. You list things that reg
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
We want to protect vulnerable members of society. they come in all sizes and shapes.
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
I'm saying that hiring people to do a job that is extremely dangerous, and likely to cause the worker harm, especially for your own enjoyment is exploitative. Most of the jobs you list are FAR safer then prostitution. But yes I would a
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
I'm ok with outlawing adults with free wills, getting payed to play russian roulett even if five out of six wont take a bullet to the head. Adults can be exploited too. "neither harmful", tells me you know nothing about the s
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Understanding effective type Aliasing in C [pdf](open-std.org)
54 points by quelsolaar 1y ago|18 comments
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
Yes, Objective C is built on some deep C calls you can call directly. I was a part of a project that built an automatic wrapper generator for C. Check it out at https://felixk15.github.io/posts/c_ocoa/
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by quelsolaar 1y ago
As a foreigner to the US, this gives you real pause about working or even visiting the US, even if you have all your papers in order. I guess that's the point.
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by quelsolaar 2y ago
The policy of "No C++, because I don't want to deal with C++ people", should be extended to the Rust community. Whatever you think of the merits of the Rust language, the drama, the lecturing and the general superiority compl
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by quelsolaar 2y ago
Gaza has changed.
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Why is C the safest language? [pdf](quelsolaar.com)
34 points by quelsolaar 2y ago|5 comments
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by quelsolaar 2y ago
Not right there, some other place in the function. Also people will start adding defer in macros and then things will go sideways.
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by quelsolaar 2y ago
...and a we would get a host of new bugs that would be a lot harder to fix. Invisible jumps are very bad.

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