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by thwarted 2y ago
Your description reveals a complete lack of understanding, and pointing out someone's lack of understanding is not being pedantic. Your choice of wording—"real free()" and "any program"—misrepresents the inherent co
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by thwarted 2y ago
when you do a real free(), it frees up memory for any program to use This is an extremely naive description of not only what the libc free() function does, but also of how memory management works in general.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Something I find interesting about early technology IPOs is how early they IPO-ed compared to more recent tech companies I am unable to resolve this sentence with the list that follows that has Microsoft IPOing significantly later in
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by thwarted 2y ago
There's probably a program in /usr/bin on your machine that does that.
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by thwarted 2y ago
In everyday speech, coke means cocaine. Coca is short form for coca cola. And cola is the generic for a coca cola flavored soda. I admittedly used a very rare/specialist example homonym. What I'm really wondering is how context
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by thwarted 2y ago
I've heard that the French are strict about language, but what does "reserved" mean here? What do the French call coke¹? ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_(fuel) ?
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by thwarted 2y ago
I wonder if the ads are still visible when you're fuming with rage.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Sometimes in another office building's lobby.
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by thwarted 2y ago
It took me seven weeks (not full time, but from the initial incident to the final publishing) to do the research and write up for a recent event. This included in-person interviews, data correlation, reading code, and revision control spel
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by thwarted 2y ago
The delivery driver is not the customer, but I wouldn't be surprised if some MBA bonehead thought showing ads to workers was a win. "They have to use the app to schedule and do the work, so it's a captive audience!"
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by thwarted 2y ago
Can you show where it says those who criticize are entitled to be listened to on the internet? It works both ways. If you have a beef, don't be surprised if someone responds to it in a way you don't expect or like.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> Here's an example, $ lm "ssh command to forward the port 5050 on user@remote to my localhost:7001" ssh -L 7001:localhost:5050 user@remote Was this a real example of the input and output generated, because it s
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by thwarted 2y ago
Because more money and special interests are behind fun lettuce smoking enforcement than local taxi companies could put behind protecting their own cartel from interlopers. If the taxi companies had more money to dump on politicians than is
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by thwarted 2y ago
And writing has costs too, so if someone is going to look for a way to avoid paying for photography, they are probably also looking for a way to avoid the costs of writing.
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by thwarted 2y ago
The military industrial complex in the United States is a socialist jobs program (with the added benefit of making the management and shareholders of contractors richer).
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by thwarted 2y ago
> I met someone who was an early employee at King about a year after they were acquired for 5.9b - it’s a little different since he wasn’t involved with the sale, but he was still processing the insane amount of money he had Is there a
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by thwarted 2y ago
A subset of people come in an use something inappropriately, introducing risk for everyone else, and the easiest/cheapest way to control this is by restrictions on access to the item/tool. Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything A
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by thwarted 2y ago
Isn't this nntp?
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by thwarted 2y ago
If the intent is to make a recognizable caricature and apply labels to it ( cough stereotype), you don't have someone draw themselves. And it's really looking like stereotyping is their intent.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Is the stack trace in the section "Clearer exception backtraces" actually from 3.4? It has mixed backticks and single quotes.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 2y ago
There's another side to it, which you allude to with the give away of credit monitoring services that data breaches result in. The whole reason the data is valuable is for account takeover and identity theft because identity verificat
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by thwarted 2y ago
I know about VSCode's terminal, and the few times I've used it seems like an afterthought, bolted on, to the primary function of the program as an editor and file navigator . I don't live in the editor. I live in the shell.
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by thwarted 2y ago
My great-grandmother never used a mixer when making cakes or bread, long after mixers were available, and she was able to pump out treats and full meals without batting an eye, the best anyone ever had. I don't have a problem with my &
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by thwarted 2y ago
> I don't really understand the aversion to using these tools No one is yucking your yum, it's not an aversion, it's that we don't need them, it never really occurs to us to use them, just like it never occurs to
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by thwarted 2y ago
The shell is my development environment. I open up new terminals and shells willy nilly. I find cli tools like find/fd/grep/rg are useful because I rarely need to find only the definition of a function, but rather other call
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by thwarted 2y ago
Abuse of comments is not an academic, theoretical consideration. https://www2.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html (Unfortunately, because jwz blocks HN referrals, you can't click on this link, but will need to copy it into the
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by thwarted 2y ago
The original claim that Michelangelo11 made is that society in the past was higher trust. That's the claim that needs evidence. The person who disagrees with the initial claim is not the one who needs to initially provide evidence.
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by thwarted 2y ago
How do I reconcile my claim that Michelangelo11 is looking at the past with rose colored glasses against your observation that things were much worse 100 years ago? These views are the same. There is nothing for me to reconcile.
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by thwarted 2y ago
The origin of classic explanation probably comes from people attempting to computerize paper forms. The school would have profiles for each teacher, probably a series of pages in a manila folder stored in a filing cabinet, that was filled

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