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by to3m 10y ago
Windows can do this - its "non-blocking" read calls are better described as "asynchronous", and take ownership of the buffer until the job is cancelled or it runs to completion. So if the buffer is paged out, that's
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by to3m 10y ago
Whereabouts in the UK do you live? This isn't at all my experience... Old people might still commonly use Imperial gallons, Imperial pints, pounds, Fahrenheit, inches, and so on, but the cutoff age for this is rising. I'm 39 and I
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by to3m 10y ago
Here's another example - the Aston Martin Cygnet: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/aston-martin/cygnet/96647/world...
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by to3m 10y ago
Presumably something along these lines: 1. attempt to log in to target's email system 2. "I forgot my password" 3. get 2FA key via SMS 4. enter 2FA key and new password, gain access to email <rummage through email looking
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by to3m 10y ago
I doff my hat to the Guardian's clickbait team on this one. This is the best I've read in ages. Is it self-parody? Is it bullshit? Does the guy believe this nonsense? I CAN'T TELL. My slack-jawed incomprehension remained firm
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by to3m 10y ago
That's amusing, and I wonder if this particular analogy was chosen deliberately. But I don't think there's anything wrong with it - it's designed to make intuitive sense to non-programming readers, not to be some rigorou
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by to3m 10y ago
"More than £18m": http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/mercia-exits-wa...
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by to3m 10y ago
Our one way to do it is Python 2.7, and Pyth... hmm, let's try that again...
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by to3m 10y ago
There are numbers greater than 99. I'd like to provide some examples but I can't find my calculator :(
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by to3m 10y ago
Have you tested this recently? I haven't for some years now but performance was identical regardless of direction. Maybe I need to try it again. I'd expect going backwards to be no worse than "not as good" - like say per
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by to3m 10y ago
I've had a shoelaces break maybe 3-4 times on shoes I wore regularly for more than 2-3 years. It's annoying out of all proportion to the expense involved. (The plastic bits at the end can also get frayed and fall off, which happen
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by to3m 10y ago
Why not stop using the menus then? ;) Visual Studio can be operated pretty much entirely from the keyboard. The default shortcuts are fairly sensible, and you can always add more from the options. There is one major omission: changing bui
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by to3m 10y ago
Once Doom stops being a landmark in gaming history, I'm sure he will ;)
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by to3m 10y ago
Just goes to show the truth of the old adage: those that know Unix are condemned to reimplement it.
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by to3m 10y ago
On Firefox, code examples are sometimes 1-2 pixels longer than their viewport, so you can get a fairly pointless scrollbar. See, e.g., https://helpmanual.io/man3/printf/ One suggestion: how about guessing at hyper
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by to3m 10y ago
Take your pick: 1. it's a ploy to out uppity Europeans 2. they would rather have a sucky showerhead than be like the French 3. it's to annoy you... you personally 4. They use US Customary Units... need I say more? 5. FREEDOM
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by to3m 10y ago
Maybe it didn't occur to him that people wouldn't know what it is. If you were writing an article about programming, would you explain what BASIC stands for?
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by to3m 10y ago
I don't find dynamically-typed languages productive at all once the program gets past about 400 lines and/or you figure out what you need to do. The break-and-follow-the-errors approach is very powerful. It's usually not hard
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by to3m 10y ago
Bolivia's capital city, La Paz, is striking-looking too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Paz
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by to3m 10y ago
I use Ubuntu on my work PC. - had to buy a 2nd GPU to get 3 monitors to work - GPU driver won't drive my 2560x1440 monitor at the max res - popup volume control pops up every minute or so (and sound pops and stutters a bit each time th
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by to3m 10y ago
I think a better TL;DR is the second paragraph here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/11/ave...
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by to3m 10y ago
calloc doesn't know what it's allocating for, so it has to hand out m * n. (Despite the syntax, the same goes for operator new in C++! Placement vector new in particular is a trap.)
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by to3m 10y ago
But this is why you leave showdead off.
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by to3m 10y ago
A legitimate line of work with a long tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulist
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Amazon is eating the software (which is eating the world)(blog.gardeviance.org)
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by to3m 10y ago
This won't do all that much to fill in any gaps in his CV, but here's something else he wrote: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=656
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by to3m 10y ago
I don't know if you're familiar with the ins and outs of writing computer programs, but it's actually often practical to make a program that does one thing do another instead. So in this case one obvious thing that could be d
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by to3m 10y ago
Who is this for? If you're a regular reverse engineer, won't you just pick up the Intel reference manual and flick through it? (It has a sorted instruction reference, which you'll probably find much more useful than anything
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by to3m 10y ago
Regarding the "interest over time" graph, it's fantastic to see people designing graphs that are just as meaningful for the colour-blind as they are for those of us with normal colour vision.
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by to3m 10y ago
It is supported on OS X as well: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/unexma... (And Windows: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/s

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