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by romed 8y ago
As they say: is that a lot?
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by romed 8y ago
Note that if this were C++ (11 or later) this could be done with the static variable in a thread-safe way, since function-scoped static variables initialized by functions are guaranteed to be initialized exactly once. So this code could be
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by romed 8y ago
I'm kinda bothered by the "C/C++" indistinction of your request. This code would look very, very different in C++.
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by romed 8y ago
I was going to say Slack but it "only" transferred 5MB.
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by romed 8y ago
All Blu-ray players have the same problem because there is only a single source for the transports. The transports are all really loud! Kinda ruins the experience for me.
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by romed 8y ago
EDA and CAD programs. Expensive software but I don’t need the vendors’ “support” so their thoughts on my operating systems are not important to me.
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by romed 8y ago
I’m still carrying a Win2K Pro image around in VMware. It runs all the windows software I need (and this is the right way to choose an operating system IMO) and if it gets screwed up I can always blow it away and revert to the snapshot that
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by romed 8y ago
The design defects of X11 do not necessitate the implementation defects of Xorg.
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by romed 8y ago
This is much more interesting than all of this soap opera about Theo. What we see in this commit, regression, and vuln is that the X server is an enormous setuid program with tons of code and zero tests. The "fix" also does not c
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by romed 8y ago
Well there was the $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of a company whose products are complete garbage, but I guess the OP was referring to Fadell's notoriously rude behavior toward his subordinates.
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by romed 8y ago
I don't know why Google has always been so generous with its execs. It's a little club I guess. But when someone is walking out the door, why the need to heap money on them? They're all as rich as anyone already. When Pic
102.
by romed 8y ago
Essentially, yes. The "green revolution" is an illusion and its effects cannot be sustained. We need to gradually back down to a place where humans can grow enough food for themselves without also poisoning themselves and withou
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by romed 8y ago
USDA Organic program also excludes GMOs.
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by romed 8y ago
That is not accurate. If you went head-to-head with the Standard Oil Company they would send a guy over to blow up your house. The East India Company was based chiefly on genocide and high seas piracy. All this yip-yap about Google being
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by romed 8y ago
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the company all-in on the Web has a solution for every part of the stack. It might be a surprise that they open source so many things but that’s a pleasant surprise. Every thing you mentioned has a replacemen
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by romed 8y ago
gRPC is not "typed" in any substantial way. You wan use any payload encoding you feel like suits your worldview. Protobufs happen to be a common choice.
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by romed 8y ago
Proto encoding makes the unfortunate choice of more-bit variable-length numbers which are hard to decode. JavaScript engines and browser all have very well optimized decoders for the unary length-prefixed variable-length numbers (i.e. UTF-
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by romed 8y ago
I think it is much more likely that the mapreduce shard responsible for updating the tile was stuck for 8 years, than there is a massive government conspiracy to prevent the update.
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by romed 8y ago
It was only about one year between Swisstables being generally available within google and the absl release, which isn’t bad at all.
110.
by romed 8y ago
Hrmm this is the first I’ve heard that Google has opened swisstable[1]. Strangely the three submissions to HN of this attracted no comments. This blog is interesting but a write-only benchmark of a hash<int,int> is sort of niche. htt
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by romed 8y ago
The Bay Bridge happens to have twice as many lanes.
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by romed 8y ago
Not just houses but any kind of building. There is an architectural movement called Mass Timber where the buildings are not just framed in wood but are virtually solid wood. It actually solves a lot of problems around building cavity thermo
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by romed 8y ago
But the decline hasn’t been monotonic. There have been several years of the past ten where absolute and per-capita CO2 emissions in the US have increased year-over-year.
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by romed 8y ago
That seems like a highly questionable statement demanding some evidence. Perhaps you meant if they retrenched into existing markets while raising prices and laying off all of their business development staff?
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by romed 8y ago
Only 9200 vehicles per day, that’s really small. The SF-Oakland bridge does a quarter million vehicles daily. I wonder how they can justify the cost for so little.
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by romed 8y ago
The USCG is charged with coordinating oil spill response under a law passed as a result of the Exxon Valdez disaster.
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by romed 8y ago
On Windows WCHAR is defined to hold a 16-bit unicode character, and is defined to be unsigned. In standard C wchar_t can be any damn thing, and isn't even guaranteed to be wider than char. It can be signed or unsigned. It is useless.
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by romed 8y ago
It was possible until quite recently for businesses to order Lenovo machines with IBM branding.
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by romed 8y ago
I actually had a hard time finding a legit OEM cooler for my X60 after it failed. Found one offered with the right SKU finally and it was electrically and dimensionally correct but it’s actually the part for some other machine and incredibl
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by romed 8y ago
Good, because nobody should use wchar_t at all. It's the API that was thought up by people who got drunk and asked themselves "how can we make this char situation even worse?" wchar_t is widely recognized as one of those hug

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