compiler-guy

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by compiler-guy 4d ago
Trust me, I will never forget 8" floppies. But in the context of drive lettering, although CP/M supported 8" floppies, MS-DOS never did. MS-DOS adopted the naming scheme, but not the boot style.
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by compiler-guy 4d ago
Even further back into time, before 3.5" disks, both A: and B: were 5.25" disks. And, although my memory is hazy, 3.5's were commonly slotted into B: at first, because no one had 3.5" boot disks until the drives became s
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by compiler-guy 4d ago
Many people don’t care about resale or pass-along value in the things that they own or gift. And even if one does, then you just consider the diminished value as another cost of having the personalized item. For many people, especially gift
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by compiler-guy 5d ago
People who own the click farms who get paid to run the ads when they are clicked on. This type of fraud is almost as old as web ads themselves.
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
This puzzled me and I looked it up, and yes, sinks without overflow meet code [1] (but not tubs). So your situation was apparently legal. But the sibling comment to this one, where a sink had an overflow, but it was not connected, did not m
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
I once saw Casablanca with a friend who hadn’t seen it, and she said, “Wow. This movie jam packed with cliches. It’s off putting. Wait. This is the source of all the cliches isn’t it?” Which it is. One of the most quotable movies of all tim
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
In the US, any tub made past about 1900 or so has an overflow drain that prevents overfilling. The adoption of such drains not quite contemporaneous with the adoption of indoor plumbing, but very soon after. It's the metal plate usuall
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
There is also the issue that the next person stepping into their shoes to clean up the mess is being recruited exactly during this time. And if your company gets a reputation for not paying out prenegotiated severances or nitpicking over th
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
Tim Cook: [Jobs’] advice to me was ‘Never ask what I would do, just do the right thing,’ He had watched Disney go through this paralysis of sitting around and talking about what Walt [Disney] would do. And he did not want that for Apple. h
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by compiler-guy 7d ago
There is a lot of software support needed to make this work great. So first generation of all that for sure.
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by compiler-guy 8d ago
Things could be a lot better than they are now, but “maximally evil”? Come on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikip
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by compiler-guy 9d ago
The reason the enum is so nice is that it works as a terrific language-supplied abstraction that covers up those bit manipulations. It's very nice to get those abstractions for free like you do in Rust, but it can't be optimal for
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by compiler-guy 9d ago
One of many errors. Another is saying that all memories support writing data. Apparently this author has never heard of ROM. Or CD and DVD drives. Or neglected to carefully read the ai assisted parts.
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by compiler-guy 14d ago
Sports betting has externalities that are hard to push back into the original bettor and the bookie. Solving those externalities involves regulation in some form, whether by regulation or heavy taxes.
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by compiler-guy 14d ago
The data speak very strongly against this conclusion. The data is deep and broad that marriage leads to better outcomes, and is a result of marriage itself, not selection for people who tend to get married, although that also helps. Also, t
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by compiler-guy 15d ago
I have had two different dentists recommend water flossers in the past. Got one as a gift several years ago and am pretty happy. I believe that sometimes there are bad outcomes from standard medical advice—humans are messy and the world is
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by compiler-guy 16d ago
Plus everything important is always written down. It’s more true in aviation than anywhere else (except maybe space flight), but still.
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by compiler-guy 17d ago
It doesn't even have to be a pile of shit; it could be something that was interesting by itself, but that doesn't mean I want a deep dive. This happened to me with youtube and feral hog trapping. A two-minute video of that showed
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by compiler-guy 18d ago
emacs did this too.
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by compiler-guy 20d ago
Clang and GCC do provide these, and automatically use them in many situations (particularly small copies). But c-libraries can actually do it better in many cases, especially for large copies. Glibc, for example, has perhaps ten different i
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by compiler-guy 21d ago
"The underlying product, the model keeps improving and therefore increases its value." That's not exactly true. Yes, the fundamental capabilities of the models do seem to be growing dramatically, but the economic value of any
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by compiler-guy 22d ago
They were acquired by AWS, not Google. But the point still stands.
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by compiler-guy 23d ago
I greatly appreciate this attention to detail, and there isn't enough of this in the world. For example, in Visual Studio popups on hover happen so fast you can barely select anything, or you end up clicking on the popup instead of sel
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by compiler-guy 23d ago
Yep. To overcome an incumbent that sells a very good product and has momentum, it is almost never enough to be somewhat better. You have to be "knock my socks off" better. The Zune may have been somewhat better (until the nano and
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by compiler-guy 28d ago
Pareidolia is part of the human condition. It's unfortunate that people take the results of that very natural tendency with a grain of salt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia (/ˌpærəˈdoʊliə&
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by compiler-guy 28d ago
No. As long as the sharing permission is “Anyone with the link”, then anyone can download from that link with wget or whatever. Is that the permission they use? Who knows? But it’s at least possible.
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by compiler-guy 29d ago
"Code is bytes of text on disk".... ...organized in a very specific fashion with a great deal of creativity and attention to that specific organization. I can't copyright the alphabet, but I can copyright certain arrangements
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Pointer Chasing in Modern Systems: Why it hurts, When it helps(sourav-k-paul.medium.com)
2 points by compiler-guy 29d ago|0 comments
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
Heh. It's pilot error all the way up at the beginning. GCC releases did ship these files, and they did it by using maintainer mode, which was generally a pain for those not maintainers. Which also explains why I was confused about th
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by compiler-guy 1mo ago
The output is stored in the build directory, not the source directory. So now you have to either detect that lex and yacc aren’t available and do something clever or let the user do it. And then wonder why their modifications don’t stick. Y

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