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by to3m 9y ago
Yep. I posted a link in that one too, so, fingers crossed, the people interested in discussing this will be able to find one another.
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by to3m 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
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by to3m 9y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551
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by to3m 9y ago
The horror! Who can say what unspeakable acts people will perform in the interests of potentially securing a better life for their children. I for one am reassured that there is at least one voice speaking out against this atrocity.
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by to3m 9y ago
Assuming I've understood correctly, if you want the easy workflow then you just have to have the 3rd party code in its own repo and add that repo as a submodule. Best if that repo is one you look after, so that you can commit local cha
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by to3m 9y ago
No, not really - I have no particular opinion about what POSIX chooses to support or not. But I'm going to go back to my original point. What I do have an opinion about is how reasonable it is for tools not to support a character tha
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by to3m 9y ago
I expect you mean NUL (ASCII 0) - but that's typically not a good choice, because POSIX decrees it invalid, along with '/'. But anything else is fair game, sure. Handling every Unicode char might be a pain, but that&#x27
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by to3m 9y ago
Who on earth insists that? Only Windows programmers, I expect! But it's easy: make sure they're expressible in your syntax, then pass them through as part of the file name. Just like spaces. If there's a problem, you'll
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by to3m 9y ago
That's a worthwhile clarification - thank you. While that's certainly true in the strict sense, I remain bemused.
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by to3m 9y ago
I'm bemused by this repeated insistence that supporting spaces in file names is somehow difficult.
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by to3m 9y ago
Use git submodules. git submodules interact tolerably neatly with GitHub's PR functionality; if you make changes to your submodule, then it's straightforward to turn that into a PR that you can submit to the upstream repo. And sin
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by to3m 9y ago
Ignoring the question of whether there's even a morally correct action here, why not keep the worthless car you already have instead of replacing it with a newer one? That £10,000 will pay for a lot of petrol, car tax and repairs.
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by to3m 9y ago
Possibly relevant: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow...
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by to3m 9y ago
I think Perforce does this too... it's not a problem as such, but since you can't silently rewrite history in Git it's somewhat hard to get rid of the old versions when they start taking up space. Perforce on the other hand l
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by to3m 9y ago
I noticed that the photo at the top of the article shows somebody washing under a running tap, so maybe that's how they got to 120L. I'm not myself concerned all that much about conserving water, but I am a normal person, so I don
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by to3m 9y ago
It must surely include rinsing under a fast-flowing tap (something I rarely bother with personally), and/or maybe doing the washing under a running tap too. I don't see how you could get to 120L otherwise. 120L = 7 very full sinkf
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by to3m 9y ago
It seems not to be entirely without problems, or at least hassle: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41840479/how-to-use-home...
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by to3m 9y ago
OK then, what does it mean?
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by to3m 9y ago
Sure they would. If zombie processes were everywhere, they'd put the effort in. How much space do you need to store info about a zombie process? It's probably 4 bytes: the exit code. I think that's all the info you get on Win
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by to3m 9y ago
I think the logic makes sense. Presumably the thinking is that zombie processes take up 64KBytes apiece because there aren't enough of them, in general, to make it worth doing the work to make them take up less.
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by to3m 9y ago
They added some useful stuff in subsequent versions... my recollection (though this is going back a while now) is that even only 3.81 was a worthwhile upgrade over 3.80! However I have better things to do than try to figure out how to build
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by to3m 9y ago
Good idea! Let me know when you’ve done it... I could do with an updated copy.
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by to3m 9y ago
https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/blob/master/snmake.exe - standalone build of GNU Make 3.80. Has a couple of hacks in it to better support Windows-style paths with colons in it. I think this came from th
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by to3m 9y ago
Perhaps the musl author is referring to Sean Barrett's comments about strict aliasing on his web page: http://nothings.org/ Fun rant by the owner of the company Sean Barrett works for: http://web.archive.org
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by to3m 9y ago
What about original sin?
56.
by to3m 9y ago
Is there a good reason to require https for localhost?
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by to3m 9y ago
Same in 10.12.
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by to3m 9y ago
This isn’t abuse... it’s exactly how you’re supposed to use a debugger.
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by to3m 9y ago
A personal bugbear for me too. The writer's story is theirs, and I wish they'd stop trying to tell me it's mine too. I typically assume that they're right, that I know what's going to happen, and stop reading. I don
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by to3m 9y ago
I did some off-the-cuff analysis of some random code a couple of years ago and found the traditional ARM constant encoding to be not as good - for that code, at least - as the MIPS-/POWER-style load low/or high business. So if my

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