braindeath

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by braindeath 7y ago
> Buggering op[] would be the slowest possible way to get the NUL there. > Evidently that is a minority preference. What evidence? Pointing out a fact isn't an endorsement. > If you think anybody is complaining about the extra
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by braindeath 7y ago
Not a particularly informative or well-written one frankly. "Also, with more memory, there are simply many more possible features that MIDI 2.0 can try to emulate. More memory should also reduce the chance of the timing between playing
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by braindeath 7y ago
No. The popular C compilers have a feature where they will do some additional type checking on the arguments passed to "format" functions. You can mark your own functions with this attribute. See the format attribute https:/
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Anyway, that was true until somebody jiggered the Standard, just before 1998, to require a NUL visible to s[s.size()]. This is not technically true. You could plugin your hated NUL byte in the implementation of operator []. > C Code
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by braindeath 7y ago
The front-end is in Visual Basic. The backend is most certainly not in anything close to Visual Basic.. (MUMPS - using Intersystems Cache as the object store implementation)
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by braindeath 7y ago
hardlinks are paths pointing to the same inode - the same metadata, the same contents - they are the same file - just happen to have multiple addresses. Inodes that happen to share blocks are not the same file. ie totally different.
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by braindeath 7y ago
How do you "plugin" the NUL. If there's no space for it, then everytime you want a C string, you need to do an allocation. And why would you put something in it's place - as you said if you modify the c_str that was alw
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by braindeath 7y ago
Umm.. in any implementation you can already "cast" a std::string to a null-terminated string without a buffer (cf std::string::data() and std::string::c_str()) -- C++11 essentially mandates that. c_str must return "a pointer
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Hard links mostly work as you tell them to. You may need to set things up properly, but it's essentially the same thing being done. That's bullshit. hard links are the same exact inode, with all that entails. reflinking is at
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by braindeath 7y ago
In the US for home connections (cable, fiber, DSL) everybody gets an accessible IP address pretty much -- the worst is that some ports are blocked like port 80 or 25. Phones don't get a dedicated IPv4.
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention. Nah. There should be (probably is) a term for the phenomenon/trope where you c
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by braindeath 7y ago
Yeah, unfortunately color perception is one of those things that is a bit too complex for a self-discovery method. While the "symmetry" explanation is satisfying it really isn't correct at all. Color perception and color matc
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by braindeath 7y ago
You can't trigger cones individually. The cones are responsive to a wide-spectrum and they overlap, especially in the case of the L and M receptors. The peak wavelength of the L receptor (the "reddest") is about 580nm -- that
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by braindeath 7y ago
> If these are the primary colors, why aren't they what printers use? Printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow. There really is no such thing as "the" primary colors. The school primary colors are still primary as those used
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by braindeath 7y ago
> The general consensus is that putting big files in git means you're doing something wrong and the problem is with your environment not git. This is not a “general” consensus. It’s a consensus among hardcore proponents of git. I lo
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by braindeath 7y ago
That still leaves ridiculous, ludicrous, and plaid.
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by braindeath 7y ago
> However, those keyswitches are quite heavy by modern standards and you may find your fingers getting tired. I find fatigue to be a bigger problem on most rubber dome keyboards. I know the peak force for a Model M is a bit high, but how
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by braindeath 7y ago
Technicians don’t interpret blood tests, and radiologists don’t perform most imaging procedures, so I don’t understand the comparison.
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without. Applying population statistics to individuals is a fool’s errand. Not everyone is cut out to be a software engineer.
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by braindeath 7y ago
You’re not getting a fake for 30% off... because then it is not a fake.. that’s just some off brand crap It’s a fake when you get a counterfeit item that is sold to you at full price under the listing for the real thing. I think most people
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by braindeath 7y ago
Maybe he is aware of the existing maps ... and as he states “this isn’t an improvement”. Since the current NYC maps serves both purposes astonishingly well.
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by braindeath 7y ago
Uber, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all are present. What’s clearly wrong or at least misleading about this data is that they represent only a small fraction of the tech workforce in pgh. Other than Uber and Google these are only small of
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by braindeath 7y ago
The data we have is the 737 MAX itself that stands out in the backdrop of ever increasing safety. That happened. The 787 possibly being a safe plane is irrelevant and doesn’t change that. > And yet, air travel today is far safer than it
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by braindeath 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetically_excited_... Ie “coil whine”.. not saying this guy isn’t a nut. But it is possible to hear electronic devices. On a computer streaming video the increased current dema
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by braindeath 7y ago
The only one that sounds indefensibly vapid, is you. I thought they were thoughtful comments that would be valued in a more open-minded, and frankly more interesting venue. Certainly not worthy of being flagged. Not much latitude in thought
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Leaving things behind and forgetting them is how you get Tulsa Oaklahoma, or the Armenian Genocide denials. We don't get to choose what the future finds interesting, and for the first time in history, we do not have to. There is p
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by braindeath 7y ago
> Now ask your self, will you really get surgery for convenience and productivity sake only? Any sane person will say no. That's a bit of an unsubstantiated and far-reaching statement. Why not? People get surgery literally for appea
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by braindeath 7y ago
How is that link related to this company? Do you have some information they were even the same supplier? Regardless, doesn't change my basic point, which is that "real company" is a nebulous concept and not prudent for a cons
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by braindeath 7y ago
But not a $30 wireless router. And again there’s no need to be so draconian on something like a ResNet.
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by braindeath 7y ago
One MAC per port is very low yield, won’t do anything to stop even a mildly sophisticated attacker, and often just makes life more difficult than it needs to be. Especially for a college network where any notion that the general network is

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