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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
It's a shame they didn't capture that first image. You'd think someone would have had a camera handy! I was glad to hear Sasson found a place at Eastman-Kodak and worked there for the rest of his career.
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Do you know if those characters are in supplemental planes? The BMP would only be glyphs from U+0000 through U+FFFF (though the first 32 and last two aren't printable, and wouldn't be included in this font). Another example would
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Yes that section raised my hackles too, to the point where I'm suspicious of the whole article. The solution, in my opinion, is to either document that strclone()'s return should be free()'d, or alternately add a strfree() de
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Yeah, at the least you'll need an understanding of ULPs[0] before you can write code that's safe in this way. And understanding ULPs means understanding that no single constant is going to be applicable across the FLT or DBL range
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
The reference is that the anime character "Naruto"[0] wears the same colors and roughly the same uniform as a Japanese recovery worker[1]. During disaster work, you see swarms of recovery workers and the joke/reference being
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Code golfing originated in perl. There was strong cultural pressure to be able to write perl in as few bytes as possible, ideally as a CLI one-liner. Books[1] were written on the topic. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/per
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
By definition of a pure spaceship / glider, no it can't. If it emits persistent "exhaust" that's a "smoking ship"[0]. [0] https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Types_of_spaceships#Smoking_ship
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
Then, importantly, it collapses itself back down to a 1-dimensional copy of its starting representation, but translated.
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by syncsynchalt 10mo ago
I'm not a GoLtician myself but I don't think that would be possible under the "standard" rules anyway, except the trivial case of stasis/death. I'm really charmed by the linked thread and all the passion and wo
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
Simen Olsen is not fictitious, but the "my@" email/username seems to be. Zero hits on DDG, and only this article comes up in Google Search.
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
Take a look at the decade+ long effort that Debian has put into this problem: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds Here's a talk from 2024: https://debconf24.debconf.org/talks/18-reproducible
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
It's not about the delay, they can take as long as they want to build what they want to build. I object to their attempt to use patents to block competitors for decades when they didn't even have a product yet. Fortunately it was
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
Over eleven years after Blue Origin patented landing a rocket on a barge, and nearly ten years after SpaceX's first "ASDS" (barge) landing, Blue Origin has finally successfully landed a rocket on a barge. We should be impress
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
I'm not sure they mean financially, I think they mean protection from being made unexpectedly homeless. There are an array of tenancy laws to prevent this from happening, but they don't seem to cover bankruptcy of hotels.
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
We have the same word in English, as "sunder" (sundered).
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
The trees are really sneezing today.
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
No, she's saying that due to UK legislation that Apple will no longer be allowed to offer e2ee and it's time to start moving your data off of their cloud services before you're forced to turn off ADP. It's not an article
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by syncsynchalt 11mo ago
His dad was Bob Morris. Unless that's the joke you're making. Bob Morris wrote crypt(1), dc(1), crypt(3), libm, co-wrote the rainbow series, and did additional unknown work as a cryptographer for the NSA. dmr writes about working
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
I'm assuming you're referring to partitioning of boot-critical binaries into `/bin`, but "the reason for having a separate /usr" is even older and worse than that. In original Unix `/usr` was for home dirs
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
One of my big problems with ASN.1 (and its encodings) is how _crusty_ it is. You need to populate a string? First look up whether it's a UTF8String, NumericString, PrintableString, TeletexString, VideotexString, IA5String, GraphicStrin
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
I wonder how long he worked on the "at this particular time" line before giving up?
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
It was worse than IE not adopting standards. It was a capricious browser, would crash and misbehave for arbitrary reasons, and had an almost perverse implementation of web rendering. People try to equate it to Safari now but that's jus
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
As someone involved in web dev during the IE5/6/7 days, the short answer is yes. The longer answer is yes, absolutely.
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
Renewables are a quarter of electricity generation now, and in some states are the majority of generation. They're also a decent chunk of all energy though that number's harder to pin down. GDP is no longer tied to fuel consumptio
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
When your scale is large enough, you move to "what monitoring methodology will find this?" When you're doing enough transactions you start to see a noise floor of e.g. bit flips from cosmic rays, and looking for issues involv
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
The netlink function uses a larger stack than most. Their repro case required a stack adjustment larger than 1<<12 (4kiB).
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
Funny you should mention the Miata, the author was the lead concept engineer behind the 1990 (NA) Miata.
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
It's because the wheels can turn the engine more easily and for longer in higher gears. This isn't intuitive until you realize that you've flipped the inputs and outputs of the transmission, and this inverts the gearing relat
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
I think side-effects are exactly the problem, you can't have the runtime default to lazy-loading all modules without breaking code that e.g. relies on side effects running before thread creation or forking.
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by syncsynchalt 1y ago
Politicians make a lot of noise about renewables but they're still being installed by grid operators record-breaking numbers, including in places like Texas. Renewables pay for themselves and the lack of federal incentives no longer sl

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