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by tredre3 1y ago
By mentioning K&R you seem to imply that C also promotes floats to doubles in function calls? But that is not the case, floats are passed as floats, as you'd expect. You can try it yourself on godbolt all the way back to GCC 3, tes
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by tredre3 1y ago
> All this tells me is that Intel is the only manufacturer making leading chips that you can do anything with. From context you seem to be talking about overclocking. In which case only a handful of Intel chips are unlocked per generatio
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by tredre3 1y ago
> It's so bad that Microsoft is actually going to start preloading Office on boot to speed up the application start times. Office has been preloading on startup since Windows 95.
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by tredre3 1y ago
At least the AI stuff can be disabled. Duckduckgo allows you to store settings in the URL too, if you're the type of person who disables cookies and localstorage. Edit your search URL to: https://duckduckgo.com/?k5=1&am
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by tredre3 1y ago
In your analogy I suppose bluesky is the serious one? Have you spent any amount of time there?
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by tredre3 1y ago
> It doesn't limit who you can follow. That's simply not true. All servers maintain blacklists of other servers they don't like and won't federate with, including mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social&#x
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by tredre3 1y ago
Advertising works. Shocking, isn't it?
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by tredre3 1y ago
I thought that bcachefs was pretty much only Kent, what is your role in the project? Unless you meant rawdogging or another similar sounding word to dogfooding?
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by tredre3 1y ago
> It's so popular because it's the only data structure that is easy to use in C. I don't understand that statement. Linked lists are no easier or harder to use than other data structures. In all cases you have to implement
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by tredre3 1y ago
Vivaldi is clunky and slow because the entire user interface (tab bar, address bar, title bar if enabled, etc) is a webview rather than native-ish controls like all other browsers.
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by tredre3 1y ago
> wireless USB being much easier than wireless displayport I'm sure you meant bluetooth but just so we're all clear: Wireless USB isn't easy at all. Hardware availability for it is very limited and you'll need adapter
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by tredre3 1y ago
I agree, even a handful of reports in a short period could have been orchestrated as a payback. However surely you could agree that there is a reasonable line somewhere. If, over the course of several months, multiple people with seemingly
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by tredre3 1y ago
Being unable to get the joke here implies that someone is obtuse or unable to grasp social cues (ie autism-adjacent), not that they are stupid. Which is further confirmed by the fact that HN's audience skews towards the former and away
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by tredre3 1y ago
> In an app, undoing that is pretty much impossible (or at least, above my pay grade). In my experience it is above the average user's pay grade to work around it in a browser too. Even power users will probably give up if the usual
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by tredre3 1y ago
I don't think this power bank uses 18650. You could fit 3 18650 in it, but the highest capacity 18650 out there is less than 15Wh and this advertises 77Wh. Even the tested capacity of 55Wh is higher than the before-loss 18650 capacity
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by tredre3 1y ago
> Concrete example: in Rust, locking a mutex returns a handle that lets you access the data protected by the mutex, and the mutex is unlocked when the handle is dropped. This is how it works in the kernel on the C side, too. Usually by u
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by tredre3 1y ago
Win+arrow does nothing if the window has a fixed size.
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by tredre3 1y ago
You can run nodejs through `sandbox-exec` which is part of macos. I've never tried any of them but there's also a few wrappers specifically to do that, such as: https://github.com/berstend/node-safe Otherwise
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by tredre3 1y ago
All the language tools that are being displaced by newer rust replacements were definitely not written in C/C++. They were/are written in the host language (js/java/python/php/ruby).
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by tredre3 1y ago
I don't think Debian creates a separate /var by default, only /, /boot, swap, and uefi.
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by tredre3 1y ago
> No nonsense on dividing tips between people that I did not interact with It is true that in some contexts, a good waiter elevates the experience. But in most restaurants the waiter adds nothing to my experience. If anything they&#x
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by tredre3 1y ago
> For every 1KiB page you have, you're wasting 15KiB of memory. Applications do not allocate memory through the kernel, though. There's a layer between the application code and the kernel, usually the libc or equivalent, that t
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by tredre3 1y ago
Presumably redbull, given their avatar https://bobdahacker.com/static/images/bobdahackerReal.png
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by tredre3 1y ago
> Given that his friend was fired, if I ever had an inkling of doing free pentesting for McDonald's, I sure as hell don't now. What is a company supposed to do when they detect an employee repeatedly try to access different sys
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by tredre3 1y ago
Kagi results are entirely sourced from other indexes (mainly google and yandex), their own index (Teclis) is small and insufficient. I guess you fell for the marketing. DDG also claims to have its own index btw, but as you've noticed i
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by tredre3 1y ago
news.ycombinator.com has a TTL of 1, so every page load will do one DNS request (possibly multiple). If you choose a resolver that is very far, 100ms longer page loads do end add up quickly...
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by tredre3 1y ago
> Deps are entirely unhealthy waste of spaces now that grocery stores are omnipresent. One dep takes the space of one apartment, and it helps the thousands of residents around it to not have to walk 15min to get milk. Seems like a fair t
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by tredre3 1y ago
The statement was: "Adblockers basically need webRequestBlocking to function properly. " This is demonstrably false, ublock lite proves that adblockers can work without it. Whether or not ublock lite is missing functionalities bec
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by tredre3 1y ago
Your post has nothing to do with the topic at hand, you do not make a single point against the N100. You just whatabout other Intel products that you hate...
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by tredre3 1y ago
Their first attempt at a unique menu button was on the left (circa Firefox 4-5). https://static.digit.in/fckeditor/uploads/ff4-newui.png But they probably figured that the more like Chrome they are, the better...

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