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by tom_ 3y ago
They can always read the book, as I suggested, and make their own mind up. They could do that with the other books I mentioned as well!
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by tom_ 3y ago
Why not just read it? You can always give up halfway through if you get bored. I quite enjoyed it, but there's something of the Young Adult Reader about it that sat ill with me. One of those books where (once I'd read it) I found
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by tom_ 3y ago
Shouldn't drink and post.
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by tom_ 3y ago
I liked it too. There's a bit near the start where one of the characters makes some comment with slightly awkward-sounding wording; I forget what, precisely, but it was exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a modern English
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by tom_ 3y ago
Some stuff about this: https://twitter.com/genmon/status/1752663797372801485 - excellent to see how much our shiny new AI future will make it simpler to get computers to do what we want
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by tom_ 3y ago
It maybe isn't on Twitter though! It is a public place, of a sort, which should always be borne in mind.
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by tom_ 3y ago
See also this comment in the Unreal Engine code about putting a nop in before as well: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/26677ca1b3c97... // Q: Why is there a __nop() before __deb
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by tom_ 3y ago
The annoying aspect of this is that you can end up with a deep call stack. For example, on macOS: * frame #0: 0x00007ff818dd6fce libsystem_kernel.dylib`__pthread_kill + 10 frame #1: 0x00007ff818e0d1ff libsystem_pthread.dylib
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by tom_ 3y ago
I did this once, after working for 15 years. Maybe that wasn't long enough? First question in the interview: whether I had a degree.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Some random suggestions: 1. other people may not feel the same way about the material 2. somebody else one or two sizes smaller might be able to make routine use of it with some other garment underneath 3. somebody else might feel it's
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by tom_ 3y ago
But those parts, if they exist, are irrelevant to the current discussion, because they are not the parts you are writing.
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by tom_ 3y ago
It can also be fantastically expensive. Roaming data charges for my phone outside the EU: £5/MByte.
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by tom_ 3y ago
I'm still using the macbook pro i bought new in april 2015. Nearly 9 years of use! You never got that in the 90s. And to think some say progress has stopped!
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by tom_ 3y ago
An occasional HN poster did a presentation a few years ago about his compiler, written in a similar sort of style: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638086
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by tom_ 3y ago
The Acorn Electron is a very different design, and the BBC Micro runs measurably faster (particularly in this case due to the high res graphics). The bbcmic.ro emulation will almost certainly be pretty much exactly the same speed as real BB
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by tom_ 3y ago
The Electron runs extra slowly in MODE 1 as the video system needs 100% of the RAM bandwidth to form the display. The CPU essentially ends up paused during the visible portion of each scan line, so the effective speed is probably more like
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by tom_ 3y ago
If storing the metadata in the heap, 0 bytes often doesn't even end up a special case. You need to have a case for allocations of some arbitrary number of bytes, and 0 is an arbitrary number of bytes. Another option is to treat them as
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by tom_ 3y ago
I'd expect the average 40 year old who is 75 kg, 15% body fat, and whose heart quickly gets to 155 bpm when on a rowing machine, is probably no stranger to at least one of push ups, pull ups, or running miles. And they could probably p
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by tom_ 3y ago
The page is quite dated and probably predates it.
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by tom_ 3y ago
A better question is why OP isn't using a library that will do it for them! Python's argparse is pretty good in this respect. Even if you don't supply help text and good metavar names, it'll at least give you --help outp
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by tom_ 3y ago
The --long-option thing is a GNU thing: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Argument-...
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by tom_ 3y ago
A fair comment, unreasonably deaded. I was mean, and I did apologise for it, and I meant it - but I still did it, and that reflects poorly on me. But: if you're going to make the case for the internet making us worse off, "people
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by tom_ 3y ago
NEVER FORGET WHAT THEY HAVE TAKEN FROM US. WE WERE ONCE A CULTURE. NOW WE ARE LOST, FOREVER. WHITHER OUR SENSE OF BEAUTY. (etc., etc., insert architecture pics to taste) C'mon dude. The opportunity for people to talk to one another abo
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by tom_ 3y ago
Better than that: the Saxo was from Citroen, who apparently haven't served North America since 1974 ;) The Renault equivalent would probably be the Clio. (Not a big hot hatch connoisseur though, I must admit - I just remember the Saxo
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by tom_ 3y ago
One call per path through the code, but potentially multiple calls lexically!
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by tom_ 3y ago
1+1=1? My maths education was a long time ago, but I triple checked with my calculator, and I'm uncertain this is quite right. My own mnemonic: SAXO. Shift, And, Xor, Or. (Like a real Saxo, it's fun to go a bit faster like this, b
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by tom_ 3y ago
The Apple branding App Store guidelines say: "Always use the correct Apple product names with the correct capitalization as shown on the Apple Trademark List. Always use Apple product names in singular form. Modifiers such as model ,
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by tom_ 3y ago
Nobody reads documentation at the time, and you shouldn't expect it. It's there so that when somebody asks about something that's got a documentation page for it, you can hand out a link.
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by tom_ 3y ago
It's presumably to reduce the number of places where you might need to call free, and then fail to do so? (This might already be happening in line 580? Though in practice perhaps that case never occurs.)
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by tom_ 3y ago
For whatever it's worth, I often use my work PC via the default Windows 10 Remote Desktop client on my laptop (old 15" Macbook Pro, running Windows via Boot Camp): 1 x 2880x1800 hi-DPI display, 2 x normal-DPI 1440x2560 portrait di

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