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by spatulon 4y ago
They were probably trying to avoid using 'football' or 'soccer', because the former would be misleading to some North Americans, and the latter would be off-putting for some Europeans. The suffix FC is used by teams on b
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by spatulon 4y ago
I'll make sure we fix those (I work on CodeQL).
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by spatulon 5y ago
That's odd. The error was not present in the original publication of this article in ACM's Queue magazine: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3487022
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Pull Request File Tree (Beta)(github.blog)
2 points by spatulon 5y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 5y ago
I have this as well, and I like it, but it's quite difficult to find a computer capable of driving it at 4K and 144Hz. You can only do that if your GPU supports DisplayPort Stream Compression. My GeForce 960 does not, so I can only dri
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by spatulon 5y ago
My old cycle commute into Oxford took me along the riverside path following the River Thames. There are no particularly sharp turns, but it does meander, and you'd get pretty wet if you couldn't steer. I once managed to cycle an e
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by spatulon 5y ago
After Hotline there was Haxial KDX, which was similar and thought to be written by Hinkley.
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by spatulon 5y ago
I used to work in automotive software, where the SH-2A was a popular choice for engine controller units, particularly in Japan. It was the first CPU I encountered that uses branch delay slots [1], meaning that the instruction immediately fo
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by spatulon 5y ago
Is the LLVM optimisation pass that does this hyper-specialised for this one particular trick, and, if so, is it valuable in practice? Here's an example where (I think) the two functions are equivalent, so I'm a little disappointed
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by spatulon 5y ago
I remember Memory of a Broken Dimension piquing my interest many years ago, and I believe it's still in development. I see the creator streaming development on Twitch pretty regularly. https://store.steampowered.com/app
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by spatulon 5y ago
Note that snprintf returns the number of bytes that would have been written if the dest buffer were large enough, not the number of bytes actually written. I've seen a few projects misunderstand that and write code like this: for
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by spatulon 5y ago
Thanks, corrected.
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by spatulon 5y ago
Here's one interesting application of a digit-count function. The naive implementation of an integer-to-string conversion involves writing the number backwards, starting from the least significant digit, and then reversing the string a
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by spatulon 5y ago
Safari was never released for the classic Mac OS – it was released in 2003, two years after Mac OS X was introduced. Before that, folks mostly used Internet Explorer for Mac.
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Among the Covid sceptics: “We’re being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt”(theguardian.com)
3 points by spatulon 6y ago|1 comments
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by spatulon 6y ago
When I was first in the market for a smartphone, circa 2009, the iPhone's smooth animations were a large factor in my decision of which one to buy. Back then, the Android phones I looked at couldn't scroll a simple web page withou
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by spatulon 6y ago
I follow the tweet author (Per) and I know he's a big fan of building compilers in the style of Niklaus Wirth. I think the idea is that modern compilers generate very inefficient code first, and then have many expensive optimization pa
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by spatulon 6y ago
Microsoft's compiler has an optimization that means it doesn't even open the header file a second time if the include guard surrounded all non-comment tokens. I imagine gcc and clang do something similar. Of course, they also reco
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by spatulon 6y ago
Can you think of a less snarky way of saying that he hasn't released it publicly yet?
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by spatulon 6y ago
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I prefer playing the game without the voice acting. It's a bit hard to describe why, but there's a lot of both dry and surreal lines in the game, and hearing Guybrush deliver them all in the sam
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by spatulon 6y ago
These posts contain some details about incidents over the last few months: https://github.blog/2020-07-08-introducing-the-github-availa... https://github.blog/2020-05-22-april-service-disruptions-ana...
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by spatulon 6y ago
I cancelled quite easily, because I explained that I was not only moving house, but moving into a house that already had Virgin Media broadband. I guess that moved them to the part of their script where they actually go through with the can
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by spatulon 6y ago
One thing I love about the internet - a couple of years ago I googled some half-remembered lyrics to a song I'd heard a long time ago on John Peel's show, and eventually found it was called Hey Gravity by M.A.S.S., and that someon
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by spatulon 6y ago
For those who don't know of him, John Peel was a presenter/DJ on BBC Radio 1 from the 60s until his death in the mid 00s. For as long as I've been aware of it, Radio 1 has followed a format of playing mainstream pop music dur
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by spatulon 6y ago
I was part of the GitHub team that helped get the code ready for public release. We fixed a few bugs, reduced memory consumption, made it portable across operating systems, etc., but the code you see is largely what was written by Neil Ferg
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by spatulon 6y ago
My experience is that palm rejection on my Mac laptop works flawlessly (I literally cannot remember ever having an issue with my palm interfering), but on my Dell/Win10 I get frustrated on a daily basis.
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by spatulon 7y ago
sure you can: $ cat hello.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("hello world!\n"); } $ gcc -o hello hello.c $ ldd hello linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffff9da0000) libc.
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by spatulon 7y ago
I'd love to hear if they made any progress in tracking down the 'interesting WebRender bug' from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22359574
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by spatulon 7y ago
I use ~/code
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by spatulon 7y ago
It's clickbait, because it's deliberately vague. The natural human response is to to click through to find out who 'He' refers to, even if they have no other interest in the story. Bloomberg could just as easily have wri

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