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by tom_ 28d ago
Nested functions may require a context pointer of some kind, which the caller can't supply. One way of doing this: create a thunk on the stack that provides the context pointer, and use that address as the pointer to the nested functio
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by tom_ 28d ago
If there weren't a wide range of options offered, there'd be a risk of it not actually reflecting what people want - which is, presumably, the whole point of putting it to the vote in the first place.
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by tom_ 29d ago
Hold down secondary mouse button, typically the right one, and move the mouse. (If you don't have a mouse attached, you might not be able to perform this action.)
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by tom_ 29d ago
Producing shit code slowly hasn't held me back so far and I don't intend to start letting it do so now.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
"Shall I make it sound more like a human wrote it?" "Quite the opposite please Claude" (I'm going to have to stop commenting about this stuff but it feels like there've been so many amusingly egregious examples
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by tom_ 1mo ago
The iPhone autocorrects it to eMacs... it's so annoying.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
The writing style really seems to rub off onto people after a while, eh.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
Apparently nobody wants artisanal writing either!
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by tom_ 1mo ago
You don't get the option in the UI: there's just "Sleep", which on a desktop Mac seems to suspend to RAM only. At least, it seems to on mine, as I found out when I unplugged it. (Apparently the laptops do a suspend to di
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by tom_ 1mo ago
I was >60% sure it would be AI given the combination of calendar year and the wording "what the browser reveals" that I saw on the HN front page - and only when I clicked did I realise how wrong I was, because the actual probab
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by tom_ 1mo ago
Was there a top-down push? In general, people on average never really actually liked CRT displays all that much. They are annoyingly deep; they are heavy; the screen is flickery, or not quite pin sharp, or both; they use up a lot of power
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by tom_ 1mo ago
I accidentally did the same thing, and after 20+ years I've also found my QWERTY speed remains pretty good. I can type QWERTY ok on a split keyboard, but I have to look at the keys. I can't type Dvorak at all on a normal keyboard,
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by tom_ 1mo ago
It's standard for Windows. Double click a .exe, and a new copy loads and runs. If it wants to quit because there's an existing instance running, the code has to arrange for that itself. (It's possible Qt does this for you by
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by tom_ 1mo ago
His site has always looked like this, i'm sure of it. This is what sites look like if you just write them as text. Not everybody knows how to use sql or css or java or whatever thing it is that lets you pick the font.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
I was still digesting the throat-clearing intro when my eye noticed "quietly" and "honest" and I decided I'd not bother. But I scrolled through out of politeness, just in case the Basilisk will be very thorough. &gt
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by tom_ 1mo ago
Are we supposed to be able to read the examples with our eyes? It looks like black text on a very dark grey background on my iPhone. EDIT: same on Firefox on my Mac (macOS Ventura).
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by tom_ 1mo ago
The week has two ends. Maybe the people putting Sunday at the start are just trying to cover both options.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
Where's the rest of the article? Is there a rest of it? It gets to the end of what feels like the introduction, and then just... stops.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
If the NT design were as obvious as you suppose, then POSIX systems would work that way too.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
It's typically referred to as CE to indicate the speaker's personal lack of belief in the divinity of Jesus, that might be implied by using the term anno domini. Nobody is under any illusion about whose birth began this era.
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by tom_ 1mo ago
This was an interesting test, thank you for posting the link. I also found the AI writing in it harder to spot than I expected, but I suppose I'm mostly tuned in to the low-quality Claude-style slop that's most commonly posted to
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by tom_ 1mo ago
This entire subsection of the discussion is about the apparent fact that some people just can't tell whether they're reading AI slop or what. And this surely applies to the haters just as much as the lovers. Anyway, I've no d
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by tom_ 2mo ago
> Sort the corpses that way and they separate cleanly Just like when you get a bit of meat on the bone in a stew, and it all comes out as one piece - but it's just on the brink, and the slightest of touches with the fork is enough t
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I have been doing this stupid shit for long enough that, frankly, I am only happy when it does exactly what I intended.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
The goal is just to have the thing exist, I expect. Perhaps you might wonder to yourself: in some alternate timeline, where things played out somewhat differently, could the crappy old IBM PC have been coaxed into running an OS that was mas
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Additionally recommended: if attached to a debugger, the program should stop in the debugger, immediately, without printing a message (you can look at the code), or getting a stack trace (the debugger can do that), or whatever else, to avoi
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by tom_ 2mo ago
If you're right (and thank you for this comment by the way - I hadn't spotted any AI tells, but I think you may be, as they say, absolutely right about the maintenance backlog achieving immortality - a useful reminder that I need
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by tom_ 2mo ago
So many billions of dollars spent on data centres, and they could have saved a lot of it by just employing you to do the writeups instead.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
> And where a stack endpoints on a fixed silence threshold, those same speakers get talked over two to two and a half times as often Is the reader expected to understand this sequence of words? Because I'm struggling a bit.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
It's not a joke-it's an honest fact.

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