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by ralph 15y ago
LuaJIT uses NaN-tagging too.
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by ralph 15y ago
Agreed, I tried to get that across with the "split continuing" bit. :-)
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by ralph 15y ago
No, there are nine for the directions, one for the cheese, and another, the eleventh. IOW, the bottom-left one here. http://userlook.com/s/img/IKA_spectrum.jpg No code seems to make it appear.
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by ralph 15y ago
Another benefit from the split continuing was the smaller the root filesystem, the bare bones needed to get up and running, the less chance of filesystem or data corruption occurring. This meant your had a bootable system with which to rep
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by ralph 15y ago
What's the 11th image for in the background sprites?
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by ralph 15y ago
The reason for the convention is that there's often only one form of success, so 0 suffices, but there may be many causes of failure.
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by ralph 15y ago
It's an ARM11 SoC running Linux, of course you can program in assembler. And ARM assembler is a very nice one to start with, many did due to Acorn's Archimedes home computer.
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by ralph 15y ago
I think the UK is now like Canada; payments to the card issuer must now be offset against the dearest loan first.
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by ralph 15y ago
Do you know of date -d @1262307721
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by ralph 15y ago
True, but the OP asked explicitly for it and no one else seemed to answer that question.
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by ralph 15y ago
One way: wget -Ufoo -qO- 'http://www.google.com/search?q=ip' | sed -n '/.*Your public IP address is [^0-9]*$[0-9.]*$.*/{s//\1/p;q;}'
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by ralph 15y ago
Not a favourite, but one that isn't here so far... !!foo to map 0→0 and everything else to 1. Always interesting to see if the compiler produces the best machine code for it.
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by ralph 15y ago
Any pointers as to how to make this Ubuntu 10.10's malloc(3) never return NULL when asked for >0 bytes but instead abort?
344.
by ralph 15y ago
Note, malloc(3) can return NULL if asked for zero bytes. calloc(3) similarly.
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by ralph 15y ago
To avoid the duplication, with risk of mismatch, and to make it one less thing for the reader to check, I have #define NEW(a) ((a) = emalloc(sizeof(*(a)))) NEW(foo); Similarly with NEW0() and ecalloc(). Yes, the macro uses th
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by ralph 15y ago
Thanks John.
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by ralph 15y ago
Rubbish. It was emailed to me by Posterous as I subscribe to the blog, so to lots of others too I'd have thought. I searched Twitter and found many tweets about the hack; the cat's already out of the bag. The View count on the article s
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by ralph 15y ago
I considered doing that, e.g. log into a gmail account, but help@ is unlikely to wake them up or alert them quickly, unfortunately. Could really do with a personal call to someone that works there.
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by ralph 15y ago
I've tried to email help@posterous.com to ensure they know. Got an immediate SPF bounce. "help@posterous.uservoice.com rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided]. "help@posterous.uservoice.com received a m
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Unusual official Posterous blog post(blog.posterous.com)
5 points by ralph 15y ago|9 comments
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by ralph 15y ago
It's not a question of money. They are a UK charity and their 50 alpha boards are out amongst those who can provide the most benefit to the project. Get in line behind the rest of us. :-)
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by ralph 15y ago
I think I'm the bounty hunter that got $10 and $50 for two similar bugs. cperciva's summary is accurate in my case. WRT feeling respected, it wasn't an explicit need for me but implicitly it helps a lot that his replies had a few lines of
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by ralph 15y ago
http://norvig.com/sciam/sciam.html preserves the indentation.
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by ralph 15y ago
I came across a comment on the CSS in the HTML of the site offering a bounty for the fix, realised I didn't know the answer, and pointed it out to a LUG friend of mine who I thought would. He did and got the sole $5 bounty. :-)
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by ralph 15y ago
I've spent a while looking for tarsnap bugs; to date I count 86 email threads with Colin to report my findings. There are a couple of things I think are pretty good about the scheme Colin has devised. Unlike some other bounty schemes, the
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by ralph 15y ago
Programming languages created in England use "colour", e.g. BBC BASIC. http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/manual/bbckey1.html#colou... Yes, BBC as in British Broadcasting Corporation.
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by ralph 16y ago
GNU Parallel isn't needed to avoid this, using find's -print0 and xargs's -0 would suffice. The advert is unwarranted.
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by ralph 16y ago
What standard says < http://news.ycombinator.com/> ? The appendix of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt says <URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/> .
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by ralph 16y ago
This can be simplified. :-) awk 1
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Decoding S'board II Cassette Audio Using Python 3, Two Generators, and a Deque(dabeaz.blogspot.com)
4 points by ralph 16y ago|0 comments

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