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There's a GNU time as well, but it appears not to always be installed by default.
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It looks like /usr/bin/time foo |bar would actually give the output of foo as input to bar, since the time statistics go to stderr.
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There's one more separate issue. Piracy: You have a ship. I climbed aboard, murdered some of your crew, and took control of your ship or stole some of your belongings.
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This appears to not actually be open source or free software. The MEGA Limited Code Review License [0] gives some permissions but stops short of allowing use for any purpose, modification, sharing, and redistribution of modified versions. [
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(3) and (4) would be nice, but (2) can happen with an oligopoly as well as with a monopoly. Working machines are already owned or controlled by a small number of companies.
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What are the better ways to address the perverse incentives that trap people in poverty? Also, do you think the current distribution of incomes is proportional to how much wealth is produced? Does an executive who makes a hundred times as m
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Looks like it's 9. Bhautik Joshi, first author on this paper, collaborated with Sébastien Ourselin on e.g. [1], and Sébastien Ourselin has an Erdős number of 5 [2]. So Stewart's Erdős number is at most 7. Her Bacon number is 2. &#
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Macros are often a bad idea for defining types. If you do #define INT_PTR int* INT_PTR p, q; the code is actively misleading. Is there a better way to do it for function pointers?
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So, applied to the examples: As a variable: returnType (*variableName)(parameterTypes) = function_name; variableName is a pointer to a function that accepts parameterTypes and returns returnType As a static const variable
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> + Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > + Contributed by Andrew Waterman (andrew@sifive.com). It looks like there's been a resolution to the issue of copyright assignment that was preventing RIS
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> In the decimal numbering system, the radix complement is called the ten's complement and the diminished radix complement the nines' complement. In binary, the radix complement is called the two's complement and the dimin
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The example C function in the article uses 8 instead of CHAR_BIT, which today seems not worth complaining about. I never knew there used to be so many machines with non-8-bit bytes.
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So Firefox includes the ability to play DRM-encumbered content. Is it implemented using proprietary software? Do all Firefox builds include this? It seems similar to Encrypted Media Extensions, which I thought wasn't a web standard yet
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Good point. I was confusing GitLab.com the hosting service with GitLab CE the server software, which they could run an instance of.
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by ramshorns 10y ago
There are a few ways to do it, including Unicode superscript and subscript characters rather than formatting. These ones all look a bit different in my browser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_super
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There's another way to make fractions in Unicode, using the fraction slash (U+2044) and/or superscript and subscript numerals. That way you can get arbitrary fractions that don't have their own vulgar fraction character.
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GNU grades hosting services based on different sets of criteria. GitLab gets a C, "acceptable hosting for a GNU package", but not "good enough to recommend" because the JavaScript on the website is free but doesn't
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by ramshorns 10y ago
There's a forum post from a few years ago [0] with a few links to projects; I don't know how active they are though. One of them [1] is an array of treadmills running in one dimension, mounted on a track that moves them in the
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by ramshorns 10y ago
What's the HN policy on editing titles? Is there always a note in the comments to say that the title was edited? I'm probably missing something, but it seems like the HN admins' ability to edit titles is susceptible to the sa
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That's an interesting effect of dual licensing, but I'm not sure I understand it right. If you write a routine that uses the `chol` command, that's not a derivative work of chol, is it? It's just a function call, which i
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The first sentence in the description is "Not open source," and the license wouldn't qualify as open source or free software because of the limitation on use.
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Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
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For these images, a lot of the legal issues would be simpler and fair use wouldn't be necessary, since they're all CC-BY.
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What would a minimal and sane variant of Unicode be like? Removing the weird behaviour of Unicode would necessarily mean removing support for some characters, like those that only exist in decomposed form with combining diacritics, and some
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This is similar to the improvement Facebook made when they added a few emotion buttons beside the like button. It's technically a pretty small change, but it affects what is seen as one of the core features of the website. What's
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I don't think the author was referring to transposition there. I think that was about leaving the notes on the staff the same but just changing the key signature. This is done sometimes as a novelty, and the best example is changing so
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This should be an option, so that if your black ink has run out but your color ink hasn't, you can print something without having to go buy more ink. But as a default I agree it shouldn't do this.
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The article mentions that undefined behavior permits wrapping and trapping implementations. What about bignums? Would a C or C++ implementation be allowed to allocate more space to deal with integer overflow? On the one hand, C data types a
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There's a mistake in the analysis of the ternary operator in the assert that doesn't check anything. Not only does the ternary ?: operator have lower precedence than the comparison <= operator, but it also has lower precedence