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by scoutt 6y ago
I used to criticize those who use dark modes, but then after trying it I think I cannot go back again. At the end of the day, it's like when we were using monochrome screens back in the 80's/90's. I don't think anyo
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by scoutt 6y ago
Why do you think the values were allocated in the heap?
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by scoutt 6y ago
> costs of comparison to NULL aren't massive Depends on how often you are doing the comparison. Is it 1 time/second, or 10 million times a second? There is a difference. If the code above is the one in charge of putting/re
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by scoutt 6y ago
It's a bad idea, especially in kernel/low-level/performant code. It's OK to check some values at specific points (like when a value is passed from user space), but in general it's bad practice to check it at every s
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by scoutt 6y ago
> the problem is in fact memory-unsafe languages, and not general engineering practices. Languages don't introduce bugs by themselves. Engineers produced those bugs. I always thought that bugs are the programmers' fault, and no
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by scoutt 6y ago
> every one of your developers You don't need "every one of your developers" to write C neither.
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by scoutt 6y ago
That's a very polar way of reasoning. It's not all politics. I can imagine several reasons to justify those decisions outside "doing politics"-reason . Or please define "political decision".
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Rust has very few OOP features like an optional notion of a `self` on a function bound to a structure. There's no classes, no subclassing, no message passing, no inheritance at all (structure, interface or implementation), limited
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by scoutt 6y ago
Note that much of this content is there in the form of "entertainment". Like Veritasium, extremely well made videos with the "feel smart for some minutes" format that others use too, like smartereveryday . It's jus
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by scoutt 6y ago
The question is why these videos "pass by in feeds". Is because they are popular? If so, why? Is because people is "liking" this kind of content? To "like", you do it under a certain criteria. This criteria sho
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by scoutt 6y ago
Even if the following only applies to the commercial license, I find it kind of insane : "Can I continue to distribute my application after my commercial license has expired? No. You are not permitted to further distribute your appli
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by scoutt 6y ago
I'm afraid to ask how you take screenshots.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I agree that there is no easy way when it comes to build systems on C/C++ (other than known environments for specific platforms, like Visual Studio). Also, following the reasoning line of your comment you can make a parallel conclusi
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Digital spying and Denying something you know is true This is very interesting, and the linked page too[1]. As a long-time Firefox user I find this kind of shocking. I trusted no traffic (or no such traffic) was generated from Firefox.
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by scoutt 6y ago
> the Rust community tries really hard to combat How? My impression is that they are not trying to do the language easier at every release. Contrarily, I see more new features added all the time (which is a good thing if Rust is your thi
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by scoutt 6y ago
If I could edit my own comment I would add: Is not that it was easy, or that programs weren't buggy. As read in other comments: autoexec.bat settings, sound card problems, network drivers and a bunch of software that had severe errors.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I also remember the CD-ROM era (and before that). It was also the time when software just worked. There was no other way. The content on those CDs was permanent. Software rarely needed an updated, it didn't called home with telemetry a
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by scoutt 6y ago
Yes, but no. This virus is insidious, so we have deal with it the way it is.
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by scoutt 6y ago
You might not be interested in advertising in some kid's instagram, while at the same time you get 30 emails/day asking for free stuff. Often if you deny it or don't answer you also get a rant about how famous the influencer
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by scoutt 6y ago
I wanted to say there is an underlying problem. I don't know what it is, but I cannot see why it has to be IP. I didn't said that I disagree. I did said that I cannot understand the relation between social media problems and intel
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by scoutt 6y ago
It wasn't a bait. Is just that I cannot connect Intellectual Property issues with social media issues. > Social media is currently poisoning our country What IP has to do with a kid joining extreme right (or left) groups, higher rat
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by scoutt 6y ago
While I am not printing much code lately, I do print a lot of datasheet sections that usually force me to go back and forth through a PDF, like complicated clock trees and memory maps (embedded development).
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Finally, the interfacing for printers today is fantastic. Still in the year of our Lord 2020, once a document hits the Windows Printer Spooler, good luck trying to cancel/abort it.
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by scoutt 6y ago
Thanks. I don't know the whole story, but I cannot find Fauci's name (ctrl + F) in the last article you linked. It mentions a Surgeon and a Vice President. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Vice President Mike Pence have urged peo
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by scoutt 6y ago
I am not in favor or against Fauci or his comments (I am not even american), and I am not a linguist either so perhaps you can help me: Is "not recommended" == "discouraged"? "He also acknowledged that masks were i
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Why do you want to curb the infection rate? What’s the end goal? To not saturate the healthcare system. > practically harmless We still don't know the long term effects of the disease, or please define the term "practical
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by scoutt 6y ago
While I agree that social media is not the root problem, I cannot grasp why a disquisition about Intellectual Property could help us to understand what is going on.
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by scoutt 6y ago
And it also allows you to pull some quite elegant RoP attacks! :)
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by scoutt 6y ago
Like all the time. Think that POP and PUSH are aliased to LDM and STM type instructions, so at least they're emitted when entering and returning from functions (exceptions apply).
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by scoutt 6y ago
Ahhhh the good ol' Google... The source of absolute truth... By the way, if you make the claim, the burden of proof is on you.

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