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by to3m 11y ago
What does the comment about stack unwinding refer to? I've always found macros pretty horrid for debugging because you can't step through them properly. I just tried with gcc 6.0 and gdb 7.11 and it still seems to be unsupported
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by to3m 11y ago
What problems would there be doing things from GNU make, that there wouldn't be when doing the same thing from a shell script? My experience has been that you can totally use GNU make as a replacement for shell scripts, and it works fi
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by to3m 11y ago
You probably want to be using phony targets if your Makefile consists of stuff like this. See: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Tar...
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by to3m 11y ago
I don't know if they fixed VSS in later versions, but I used it in a team environment from 2000-2002, and heard of other people using it similarly even later than that (including for art assets as well as code...), seemingly without an
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by to3m 11y ago
The MBP's sound hardware might not have a problem with it, but I was using the MBP's built in speakers ;) They're generally pretty good on the newer models, I think, as laptop speakers go. My 3-word review might be "bett
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by to3m 11y ago
You can only interact with one at a time, but you can interact with that one while looking at another one. You don't have to look at your fingers to type, and you don't have to look at the screen you're typing into while you
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by to3m 11y ago
With the volume at maximum on my 2015 MBP I get sound... of some description, at least. It just doesn't sound much like it does through headphones. It sounds like speakers trying to reproduce something that's beyond them ;)
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by to3m 11y ago
Radio 4 documentary about numbers stations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvr6o7fBcTY
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by to3m 11y ago
And now we've got the warning, we can go back to leaving the braces out more often ;)
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by to3m 11y ago
Last I looked, this only worked for C# (possibly all CLR-based languages...) - but native C/C++ breakpoints were addressed by file and line only.
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by to3m 11y ago
Setting up a 1-node ethereum testnet is not too hard (though it's not especially user-friendly either). I did some work with Ethereum last year, and I ran a 1-node testnet on my laptop when working on code. The node was mining constant
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by to3m 11y ago
I've never met a C or C++ debugger that handled this case nicely, unfortunately. Totally ridiculous, of course, because they could! They just never seem to. Meeting snippets of code like that when debugging is a constant source of frus
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by to3m 11y ago
I don't think it would be much help in that particular situation.
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by to3m 11y ago
I have one word to say to that bet... no, wait... five... um... how many words is "]]]~3H^\x0b]]"? But I suppose at least you only had to press one key to type it ;)
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by to3m 11y ago
Funnily enough, as far as I've ever been able to tell, the phrase "LOL colours" would mean "these colours are stupid". (Of course, as I no longer 14 years old, who can say for sure that I've inferred correctly?
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by to3m 11y ago
Interesting video of the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpGUYbehSk EDIT: Well, I thought it was interesting anyway... my ability to perceive flicker deteriorated markedly after the age of 30 but this way I can at
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by to3m 11y ago
A proper RAII object has no pre-acquisition state, hence the acronym. Such objects are always valid and ready for use. That means resource acquisition has to take place in the constructor, which means you need to report errors by throwing i
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by to3m 11y ago
The specific details aren't too important. (Another example: "(T)-1" - very different interpretations depending whether we previously had "typedef int T" or "int T=10"). The problem is that a line of code
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by to3m 11y ago
You can't assign a category to the tokens in something like "T * p" unless you know whether "T" is a type or not. Suppose you have the following line of code: T *p; It means one thing if it were preceded by
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by to3m 11y ago
The slow motion thing can be found in BEEBUG, Volume 2 No. 6, p31: http://8bs.com/beebugmags.htm It does overload the system with interrupts, by making the (normally 100Hz) timer interrupt that the OS uses occur a lot more
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by to3m 11y ago
Yes. People are quick to point to the standard when it comes to compilers doing something surprising, and quick to use this as evidence that programmers are silly to expect the expected. But if compilers did exactly what these programmers e
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by to3m 11y ago
6 is a very good point - Lua has advantages for embedding, but its API is not one of its better points. Of course, when coding in C, your options are limited - Python's reference-counting isn't much fun either! But code using the
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by to3m 11y ago
I read all of it. Whyever not? Slogging through a mere 70-page rambling monologue written in tiny print never hurt anybody ;) Straight after the speech: "It wasn't real, was it?" said Mr Thompson. I had to laugh at t
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by to3m 11y ago
Some PC-style keyboards only have one Windows key, with the right-hand equivalent being the Application key. So you only get one command key in OS X. Fortunately, you can use Karabiner ( https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner&#x
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by to3m 11y ago
The layout is closer to the usual one (though it's still a bit unusual). Look at the right-hand side in particular. Whether you approve or not is a separate question...
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by to3m 11y ago
I think you can do this on OS X using the Mach vm_XXX family of functions (I've only used them for querying state, though, rather than rearranging the mappings.) The documentation is pretty terrible, though, so some experimentation may
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by to3m 11y ago
There's a single thread score you can see by clicking each link. (I don't know what this measures, though. It seems to be about 1,900 to 2,100 for the newer chips - even the one in my laptop. The score doesn't vary us much as
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by to3m 11y ago
There's a fun example here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project Compare and contrast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book#Custodial_histor...
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by to3m 11y ago
Interested readers can see for themselves what the salaries are using the H1-B data: https://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/performancedata.cfm (select Disclosure Data section, download PERM spreadsheet - haven't chec
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by to3m 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs/W3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eww_%28web_browser%29 I don't believe there is any Javascript support, though, so you'll be out of luck for many

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