sgbeal

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by sgbeal 3y ago
> The thing I love most about C is that there is a direct relationship between me doing something stupid and feeling pain for it. Excellent! Such wisdom is rarely found in random forum threads on the internet.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> A stronger tool such as the Clang static analyzer should also be used. While also teaching students that static code analyzers are very far from infallible and can waste a great deal of developer time with false positives. It happens a
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> The big use case is if you need to use Fossil, which only supports Pikchr for inline diagrams. That's a shame IMO, and I would love Mermaid support. Sidebar... (A fossil dev here.) That would require third-party code dependencies,
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> why not use existing tools like plantuml for common diagrams? Pikchr was created specifically to support the sqlite family of projects and was initially deployed in the markdown processor of the Fossil SCM (one of sqlite's sibling
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> obviously regulation plays some role in creating this situation so I think it can ameliorate it too. Funnily enough... the EU commission (the source of the cookie banner woes) has admitted how annoying those banners are and are set to
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Unless that loophole was regulated, Regulation is always jurisdiction-dependent and the world has LOTS of jurisdictions. As we can see today, some of the EU's laws have lead to some US-based sites simply blocking all visitors from
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> This setting would default to essential cookies only, Seeing as literally nobody would want any other value for their own account, this hypothetical setting seems completely unnecessary. The inevitable outcome would be that sites creat
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I’m just curious about the intent, as the article implies it was a deliberate prank. The pranksters "thought it would be funny" (one is quoted as saying in the article).
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Paywall :(.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
FWIW... The past few weeks i researched SBCs before buying one to supplement my collection of Raspberry Pis. Radxa has some truly compelling devices, and were initially my first choice, BUT... the Pi family beats out every competitor by a f
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by sgbeal 3y ago
This is quite possible the coolest technical accomplishment i've seen in... since... well, further back then i can currently recall. On some level, even more impressive (to me) than the AI-related advances of the 2020s. Absolutely mind
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> PKZIP. Was pretty much required. Do you recall what the benefit of registering pkzip was? i used it a lot but never bought it (and don't recall using a cracked copy).
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by sgbeal 3y ago
(OP here...) Wow, you folks have reminded me of dozens of tools and games i had forgotten were shareware (like pkzip, Telix, mirc, Wolfenstein...).
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I think we should try to transition code to the current ISO standard and in almost all cases this will just work without problems. In the few cases, where it does not, it is usually for a very good reason. Microsoft's C compiler d
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Small-C for CP/M anno '87 or so. "Power C" by Mix Software was another one, targeting PCs, and is the C compiler i cut my teeth on back then. IIRC it cost only 5 USD for the compiler and debugger. i don't recal
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> One Must Fall from Epic Megagames Thank you - Epic Megagames was a name i was trying to recall while writing this post. Their Jill of the Jungle and ZZT are shareware titles i remember (but never bought).
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> PC-Write, which had nice macro keybindings for programming. i used qedit for that, but it was an admittedly cracked copy of the full version. (Noting that the statute of limitations for that crime has long-since passed!)
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> ... it is not clear to me that there would be any advantage to switching. Indeed, getting an accurate answer would require looking at the whole constellation for a given use case.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Saving a small fraction of a second millions of times over, or a handful of cycles a trillion times over, is so much more impactful than saving a dozen seconds per hour-long recording. At a large-enough scale, all savings are significa
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> IMHO that's still a "so what?" This is addressed in another response in this same thread regarding electricity usage.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> ... it's hard to imagine this making a big difference in any real use case, offline or real-time. Google once, back in 2013, made an API change to their v8 engine because it saved a small handful of CPU instructions on each call i
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Ok, but what would make that useful? Lower run-time means less electricity and less tying up of the CPU, making it available for other things. As a real-life example: i frequently use my Raspberry Pi 4 to convert videos from one format
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> I would love to see this principle updated to set a time limit, along the lines of: existing code that has been maintained to not use features marked deprecated, obsolescent, or removed in the past ten years is important; unmaintained
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Tip for those who are looking at the compression ratios thinking "so what?": look at the run-times. It's a minimum of 3x faster than its contemporaries.
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Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?
106 points by sgbeal 3y ago|195 comments
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by sgbeal 3y ago
FWIW... $ echo "Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about how you got to the site, the blog pages you visit, how long you spend on each page and what you click on while you're visiting the site.&q
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30th anniversary of Windows 3.11 release(xda-developers.com)
3 points by sgbeal 3y ago|1 comments
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by sgbeal 3y ago
3.11, for those who didn't live through it, was a milestone in desktop computer network connectivity.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> It's mostly just good creative fun. The absolute best justification for coding. Thank you for your detailed response.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
TheDraw was one of the few pieces of 1990s shareware i purchased, and i have fond memories of it, but i feel compelled to ask: what use is that sort of thing nowadays? Back then we used them to make animations for dial-up BBSes, but the int

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