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by ecma 7y ago
It's not clear to me if the author actually understands how staging works and how that affects the commands they suggest. They claim that stashing takes staged changes and then note that after stashing the working tree will be clean. T
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by ecma 8y ago
Really? I'm not sure if this is bait or not, but 64b time_t extends the epoch over 200 billion years into the future. I figure we'll handle it in Linux 7.0 or 8.0 at the earliest :P
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by ecma 8y ago
Thanks, I hate it. I'm a bit bemused about this bizarro case_N.h trickery. I'm also almost positive __COUNTER__ would be adequate and entirely remove the need for __LINE__ as suggested in the addendum which is likely to be quite l
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by ecma 8y ago
This puzzled me also. Perhaps it's been kicked down the road as an engineering problem and we'd end up with a hydrogen extraction system which is responsible for that part. We'd probably need to feed protons back in though...
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by ecma 8y ago
The first paragraph of that question says 'address the possibility that a US company may have had spacecraft launched into orbit without the appropriate approval from the US government.' This is a discussion of another offence aga
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by ecma 9y ago
I make heavy use of cardless cash via my bank's app when I need to visit an ATM. I haven't had my wallet with me for more than half an hour at a time this year.
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by ecma 9y ago
This isn't wrong but I've got issues with some of the examples, especially the lack of a solution for #2 and #4. #2 is referred to as an unsafe macro because of the multiple evaluation of its arguments. In some cases this is fine
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by ecma 9y ago
That's a K&R (Kernighan and Ritchie) style function declaration. Compilers still support it but the version you'd be more familiar with (ANSI C style) has been standard since at least the late 80s IIRC. ANSI C was standardised
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by ecma 9y ago
Did you genuinely find it difficult to parse the comma delimited representation near the bottom of the article? Just curious. It seemed very natural to me, a minor variation on British style thousand separators.
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by ecma 9y ago
Not sure what you mean by a sub-session but my perusal suggests an entirely new conversation key is negotiated by current participants when those participants change. The spec doesn't say anything about requiring everyone to be online
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by ecma 9y ago
TFA gives two very disparate examples of documentation failures (basic use of the dock vs service management and the init system). What does the author want to write? A book in the style of the For Dummies series? Something more like the Wi
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by ecma 9y ago
Well it's definitely possible unless I'm a moron (correct me if I am). If you have the primes up to √n you can find all primes up to n because everything else will be composite of the primes you know already. This is basically wha
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by ecma 9y ago
The highlighting and counting is cool but isn't this just colouring prime numbered elements (off by one) by knowing the primes up to √n? Bit of a circular problem! (: It'd be pretty cool if CSS could define new rules based on coun
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by ecma 9y ago
Agreed, something they should have a plan for but not too worrying to see it with a few caveats at this stage. I actually wrote a comment in response to loeg elsewhere in the thread and lost it by refreshing (and then lost interest, hah!) o
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by ecma 9y ago
I would definitely expect a separate piece of hardware to be swappable without impacting on the rest of my machine. I can change/upgrade the CPU without breaking the north bridge or losing my RAID mapping so why should the data storage
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by ecma 9y ago
This is super interesting but due to the per-CPU inode table structure, it is impossible to move a NOVA filesystem from one system to another if the two machines do not have the same number of CPUs. seems like a dealb
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by ecma 9y ago
I'll preface this by saying that I love radare2. It's my goto tool when I don't need to share work with IDA/Binja users and don't need to decompile something. The radeco project is a train wreck. The current state o
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by ecma 9y ago
Even if they have taken UI cues from elsewhere, I don't think this is a bad one. The search box is in the global context section and it's important to signal that it's going to behave in a non-global way. Having a flexible wi
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by ecma 9y ago
Part 2 is here: https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/
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by ecma 9y ago
Can someone explain the actual use of sharing a terminal with someone while not being in person with them (in which case they could just watch you and shotgun the keyboard?)? I can't imagine watching someone else's terminal sessio
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by ecma 9y ago
Just say that it's a signed log of the session. "Cryptographic proof" isn't necessarily incorrect but it has other connotations which don't make any sense here and make it sound like it's doing something it&#x2
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by ecma 9y ago
> why should that be so much harder for me? And my friends*. My social group (25-30yo) is generally pretty morbid about the whole situation and most are resolved to wait for some sort of bubble to burst in Australia. Investing in other m
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by ecma 9y ago
This isn't just discretionary spending, it's total outflow of money earned (presumably after tax). They mentioned costs of housing, insurance and student debt repayments in the article as growth factors.
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by ecma 9y ago
I'm dumbfounded finding this link on the top page. In news today, we found out that stream ciphers retain [zp]text length and unpadded form data is insecure. The nuance which seems to be missing in the understanding is that TLS confide
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by ecma 9y ago
The Lagrangian answer covers this a bit more obviously by stating a solution which results in a closed curve of states around some equilibrium point(s) for certain initial variables. I think that matches your understanding of this as two pe
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by ecma 9y ago
Pretty uncharitable read of what I meant by "funny" really. Satire can be amusing without invalidating the referenced issue. Don't get so hung up on the issue that you can't laugh about things too.
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by ecma 9y ago
Yes, see https://marc.info/?t=149028609000002&r=1&w=2 for some context. One of the other comments summarised why this is funny.
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by ecma 10y ago
I'm assuming it's for jobs at FOSS shops, not necessarily shops which publish all their stuff with free software licenses. The latter sounds too niche although I'd love to see a board like that exist.
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by ecma 10y ago
It's likely that this would push the tools toward being too opinionated. I spend a lot of time pushing little WIPs so I know where I am and my macros rely heavily on -m, e.g. I end up with a commit message like "WIP: don't me
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by ecma 10y ago
Having been involved in several large scale (10s KLOC) source ports from Python 2 to 2/3 compat, I can say that IME it is trivial to make a mistake when handling these kind of changes. The complexity and regression risk is entirely dep

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