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by unwind 4y ago
As a side note, I love how geeky the notation is in "32K-64K I$ (ECC)", so much to unpack! Best is the use of "$", normally pronounced of course "dollar". That is a currency symbol (like £ and €) -> currency
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by unwind 4y ago
Just in case anyone was losing sleep over the first example, "räksmörgås" in Swedish means "shrimp sandwich". It's a well-known semi-posh dish [1] (and yes it's an open sandwich since in Sweden that is the defa
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by unwind 4y ago
It's fun how you refer to anything after K&R as "modern C"; since ANSI C was first specified in 1989, this means that any version since then is modern. Great! I do agree that "immutable" would have been a better
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by unwind 4y ago
This seems to a bit of a name collision, Wikipedia calls this "Nordic model approach to prostitution" which obviously isn't all that catchy or easy to use. Just "the Nordic Model" is usually used to describe an econ
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by unwind 4y ago
That sounds really interesting, although too limited for my current work focus which deals with Really Big logs. I tried the demo link, it rendered a lonely @ at the top left of the page, the rest was blank. The console said: Uncaught
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by unwind 4y ago
I love to see that it's 78% C code. :) Not trying to be annoying, but it's sometimes fun/interesting[*] to see that C (which gets a lot of critique here) is still important in order to enable higher-level languages like here.
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by unwind 4y ago
The linked background story [1] in the article has a bit more detail on that, worth checking out. Choice quote: It might sound paradoxical that a vehicle entirely powered by the wind can travel significantly faster than it. But, as Dr Karl
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by unwind 4y ago
Meta: this really needs a (2007) or something, to signify that it pre-dates Antirez creating Redis and stuff. I had time to think "wow, I also want to create some world-famous infrastructure software, rock that world for a bunch of yea
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by unwind 4y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by unwind 4y ago
Very interesting, and daring of them to taste food having spent 10 months in the ocean! That must have been an epic "for science!" moment, for sure. Semi-meta: as a non-native speaker, does the expression "a handful of apples
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by unwind 4y ago
On the other hand, the parent's wording kind of made it sound like it was a lot of people. "Nearly half" of "six or seven" could be ... two. That might be a lot percentage-wise, but it's also a really small num
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by unwind 4y ago
At least in my ancient copy (second edition, from 1988 I think) K&R most definitely has an overview of the standard library, in Appendix B.
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by unwind 4y ago
Uh, not to be That Guy, but what did you expect? Just compare K&R [1] and Stroustrup (any edition) [2] next to each other, and you will get a pretty strong hint of C being a smaller language. That's kind of the point, or it used to
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by unwind 4y ago
Wouldn't that be just as hard as for any other function? The name of a function (a bit like the name of an array) evaluates to basically a function pointer value, there is little difference between the two calls here: int foo(int
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by unwind 4y ago
Can you please elaborate on why those two ideas are "horrible"? Forking processes seems like a rather elegant concept, to me. Granted, it's sometimes weird that in order to have a process running image A create a process runn
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by unwind 4y ago
Obviously, the lack of memory protection was what enabled the global AbsExecBase implementation to begin with. I guess it would be possible to implement as a shared read-only page mapped into each process in a protected environment, but not
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by unwind 4y ago
Is that true? They swap actual instruction mnemonics as written in the assembly source into different instructions, for performance? I hope that is controlled by some flag or something, seems like a strange thing for an assembler to be doin
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by unwind 4y ago
That sounds horrible and rather disrespectful, what a bad experience. That said, is "coke-a-cola" a humorous spelling (like "Micro$oft") or just a misspelling of Coca-Cola?
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by unwind 4y ago
Have you seen AMPShare Alliance [1]? It's a common 18-volt battery tool platform with many partners. Mostly industrial/professional tools so far but I hope it will continue to grow. Yes, I have Bosch stuff. :) [1]: https:/&#
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by unwind 4y ago
Sweden did not have free outgoing calls but absolutely had a BBS culture. Definitely so in the Amiga age (late 80s), not sure about the 8-bit systems that was a bit before my time.
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by unwind 4y ago
No, it's not weird. At least on Stack Overflow it's a common way of sharing knowledge. Source: been using SO quite intensely, have many reps.
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by unwind 4y ago
Are you sure? The calloc() [1] function mentioned above takes two values of type size_t, and allocates their product bytes. I'm on mobile without (!) the C99 draft spec but at least the man page gives no such restriction. [1] http
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by unwind 4y ago
They are typically busy occupying our two kids, so chatting (which is more or less constantly on-going) is way more practical and faster. Writing "COME NOW!" takes two-three seconds, calling is nowhere near that.
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by unwind 4y ago
Yes, the feature should only be active on designated people. I would only enable it for my partner.
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by unwind 4y ago
Here's an interface idea for a feature I miss in the chat app I use the most (Signal): yelling. It would be great if the app detected that (for instance) something is said in ALL CAPS (or with an exclamation point, or perhaps some more
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by unwind 4y ago
Okay, cool. So if I read [1] right, some kind of average price for electricity used in the transport sector in the US as of September 2022 was 12.48 cents/kWh. That would mean that the 500-mile trip costs 500 * 1.5 * 12.48 / 100 =
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by unwind 4y ago
What is your recommended alternate solution?
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by unwind 4y ago
Krita [1] was started in 2007 [2], 15 years ago, so I'm not sure it warrants an "already" with any advantages it might have. :) [1]: https://krita.org/en/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by unwind 4y ago
Wikipedia has a huge page on them [1]. There have been developments and startups, see the section on the 21st century [2] for details. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor [2]: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by unwind 4y ago
Tofu is incredibly protein dense - on par or surpassing chicken breast. According to Wikipedia and Google, tofu [1] has 8% protein, while chicken [2] has almost 31%. Is there some more finesse required in the exact variety of tofu that yo

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