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by tom_ 3y ago
The versioned object storage solves nothing. If your colleagues need the files, they're going to have to get them, and it's going to be no quicker getting them from somewhere else. Putting them outside the VCS won't help. (Fo
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by tom_ 3y ago
And that is precisely why those services are not obviously thinking of abandoning their free tiers.
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by tom_ 3y ago
The idea isn’t bad because it’s making people pay for stuff; it’s bad because people won’t, by and large, pay for Twitter specifically.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Sole reason for his political pivot: he knew the centrists and left wing people would let him be thrown under the bus if any of this came to light, but his new audience would think it some deep state lie that if anything proves Brand is eve
845.
by tom_ 3y ago
I downloaded the version from archive.org. Looks like it might say thank you on exit from the character converter. I just did a string search through all the files to find this though. > Thank you for using the Wing Commander character c
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by tom_ 3y ago
Nope! It sound very familiar to me too when I first read about this. Feels like I played a lot of DOS games though, looking back, so perhaps I got mixed up. Printing stuff on exit was not that unusual.
847.
by tom_ 3y ago
Odd choice, given the venue - and that's even before we get onto the guy drinking in a mosque. Stirrers gonna stir, I suppose.
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by tom_ 3y ago
From... to is usual in the UK, and to...from is common for Americans. I don't think I've ever seen both used in the same sentence. (See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37250458 )
849.
by tom_ 3y ago
Everybody I know that used FogBugz seemed to really like it! They also did Trello.
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by tom_ 3y ago
I've found struct fields that are pointers far more common than pointers to pointers to structs, so if nothing else it feels like *(p->target) is a more widely useful interpretation of *p->target than (*p)->target would be. Re
851.
by tom_ 3y ago
You also run into problems with a=*p and a=-b, which are perhaps more likely.
852.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've thought of doing one of these for my favourite 8-bit computer, though never actually got round to actually trying it. How wide is a bank number? Even if it's the full 8 bits, that's only 24 bits, which is nothing these d
853.
by tom_ 3y ago
Which OS do you use? It sounds like it can't be Linux! Looking forward to hearing about this crash-free nirvana.
854.
by tom_ 3y ago
It's like an RTS, but you only have 4 units, and you've got fairly close moment-by-moment control over their actions. It's continuous, not grid- or turn-based like X-COM. A lot of the maps feature police, antagonistic to all
855.
by tom_ 3y ago
That is exactly what they did. It's discussed in the Masters of Doom book, as I recall.
856.
by tom_ 3y ago
This feels like a needlessly combative reading of the comment!
857.
by tom_ 3y ago
It just does a pretty good job of dealing with binary files in general. The check in/check out model is perfect for unmergeable files; you can purge old revisions; all the metadata is server side, so you only pay for the files you get;
858.
by tom_ 3y ago
From that perspective, indeed, very true - but then that's exactly why you need to be able to have goto labels inside a switch!
859.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've worked on a couple of game projects that did this. Build on Windows PC, build for Windows/Switch/Xbox One/Xbox Serieses/PS4/PS5/Linux. I was never responsible for setting this up, and that side of thi
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by tom_ 3y ago
Indeed, in some cases you want the unrolls. The 6502 is good in the twisties, but if you're trying to do any kind of copy or fill then the percentage of meaningful cycles is disappointingly low, and the unroll may be necessary. Also, i
861.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've got two Macbook Pros - a 2014 15" (500 GB SSD) and a 2015 13" (1 TB SSD). Both are still going. I can't imagine newer Macs are worse. I'd be more concerned about replacing the battery!
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by tom_ 3y ago
I bet that sizeof(int)==2 - which immediately tells you everything you need to know - and the return value from a function has 8 bits in X and 8 bits in A. So ldx#0:txa is how you load a return value of (int)0. Regarding this specific unrol
863.
by tom_ 3y ago
> "...And the lord said, 'lo, there shall only be case or default labels inside a switch statement'" Did it seriously not let you have a goto label inside a switch?! This seems like an odd restriction, as all 3 are th
864.
by tom_ 3y ago
British people generally don't, but Americans very often use "to...from".
865.
by tom_ 3y ago
The whole point of the rules in the second paragraph are that you can then fix it without needing to replace the whole thing in one go!
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by tom_ 3y ago
There's a Microsoft note about this issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/sta... The list of affected operating systems supposedly includes Windows 10, version 22H2.
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by tom_ 3y ago
My UB links list is getting on in years, but somehow remains vaguely relevant. "These people simply don't understand what C programmers want": https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/boring-crypto&#x2F
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by tom_ 3y ago
And one of the anythings permitted would be to behave in a documented manner characteristic of the target environment. The program is after all almost certainly being built to run on an actual machine; if you know what that actual machine d
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by tom_ 3y ago
"Last" in this context refers to the year. Last July would be July 2022; July 2023 is this July. July 2023 will become last July at the start of 2024.
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by tom_ 3y ago
The limit might apply to some specific part of the message, rather than the whole. You can't check this without actually deserialising, or at least doing most of the same work.

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