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571.
by veltas 5y ago
Life expectancy of a 66 year old is 83.
572.
by veltas 5y ago
Not if it's put in a trust.
573.
by veltas 5y ago
It's annoying that there's no internationally recognised way of saying "No, I (and my inheritors) are not going to sue you for using this source."
574.
by veltas 5y ago
And then we can have Ferengi - COBOL for the Browser
575.
by veltas 5y ago
Change the "www" in URL to "old". The redesign is awful.
576.
by veltas 5y ago
This would be much more minimum and much more viable if you just assume the user can acquire "a USB keyboard" for little or nothing.
577.
by veltas 5y ago
And it's poisonous to dogs!
578.
by veltas 5y ago
You don't need seatbelts if you're going facing opposite to direction of travel, so this is safe for driving forwards.
579.
by veltas 5y ago
Ratchet and Clank port when
580.
by veltas 5y ago
Reminds me of modern paganism.
581.
by veltas 5y ago
> It’s really, really weird, this mass hallucination going on. Honestly, all things considered, it's not that weird.
582.
by veltas 5y ago
Trotsky and the people he followed were brutal and violent, Trotsky reaped what he sowed. Just because Stalin was more brutal and violent doesn't mean Trotsky was innocent. Please look up Decossackization, or read any of a number of
583.
by veltas 5y ago
"Decossackization" to add to the list.
584.
by veltas 5y ago
This is the first chapter of Starting FORTH, which is my favorite technical book. The author of this classic, Leo Brodie, recently joined a recorded zoom session with some FORTHers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IJEl6HV2
585.
by veltas 5y ago
EDIT: disregard, I see this is a list of updates to clients, not a list of clients.
586.
by veltas 5y ago
What's wrong with irssi? Why's it not listed here? EDIT: disregard, this is a list of updates, and irssi had no updates
587.
by veltas 5y ago
https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/ > Every block must also contain a small, user-generated Proof-of-Work value which is a Quality-of-Service prioritization mechanism allowing occasional, average user
588.
by veltas 5y ago
Didn't even know about process substitution, had been using fifo's to achieve this!
589.
by veltas 5y ago
Would actually be fun to work from inside the Minecraft client all day, get bored and you can take a quick break to go build something. Spend the rest of day at something like a ComputerCraft terminal, make notes in-game. Sounds really fun
590.
by veltas 5y ago
Overall I think the code in the library is good, this was just the thing that stuck out to me most. Congrats on getting shared on HN.
591.
by veltas 5y ago
It does seem that 'modern' idioms tend to just be doing the same thing in a more obfuscated manner. Just a .c/.h pair would have been easier to add to your source.
592.
by veltas 5y ago
I wonder why the implementation is all in a header.
593.
by veltas 5y ago
true is also a POSIX utility (not builtin), so it can be used in POSIX-y sh scripts as well. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/t...
594.
by veltas 5y ago
: is a sort of 'null' function in bash and bourne shells. It also always returns 0 so it's an alternative to 'true'. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
595.
by veltas 5y ago
Also functions, loops, conditional statements, and arrays are considered abstractions.
596.
by veltas 5y ago
C's pre/post-increment is from B which was designed for an older arch, not PDP, and B still had the pre/post increment and decrement. It's now a well known misconception that C was based on the PDP's instructions, i
597.
by veltas 5y ago
Not a web dev so I'm curious to know what the problem is.
598.
by veltas 5y ago
Okay I have edited the post so it does not say "all".
599.
by veltas 5y ago
I honestly don't know, maybe. There are libraries for it too though. https://hboehm.info/gc/
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by veltas 5y ago
Lua for instance has specific syntax added for it: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#3.3.8 Languages tend to have workarounds or conventions for this kind of code where there isn't special syntax for

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