nmilo

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by nmilo 5y ago
In 50 years everyone will have moved on to the hot new language, but your OS will still run, at least some, C code. Whether you like it or not C has enough inertia to last a really, really long time.
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by nmilo 5y ago
I think that idea is pretty cool. I don't like the new closure pointer type, and how all functions that take function pointers need to be retrofitted to take closures as well, but I guess it's necessary. I assume closure pointers
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by nmilo 5y ago
Then it doesn't need to use the existing attribute syntax, which requires that attributes can be ignored. They can make a new syntax.
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by nmilo 5y ago
I really don't like it. The lambda stuff, especially the captures that were ripped from C++, don't fit C at all. The question about whether it should be cleaned up at end-of-scope or end-of-function is too ambiguous and debated. A
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by nmilo 5y ago
It's fun and small
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by nmilo 5y ago
Artists make most of their money from touring and merchandise. It's the labels that benefit off of their copyright-given monopoly.
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by nmilo 5y ago
Coming from someone that has been using an old computer for a while, I could definitely tell the difference between Electron and non-Electron apps based on their speed. E.g. Spotify and Discord. They take forever to start (the worst part IM
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by nmilo 5y ago
I'm not defending the industry or the case at all. I'm just saying that saying "youtube-dl is technically a browser", and letting the defense rest its case, is the kind of technically-correct nonsense that often gets wri
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by nmilo 5y ago
They would certainly agree. Most of their work involves playing the cat-and-mouse game of youtube-dl vs. YouTube, all coming from the fact that YouTube never intended people to view their content using youtube-dl.
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by nmilo 5y ago
The law isn't based around technical gotcha's but instead on how human judges judge things. It doesn't matter that, if in some very techincally-correct viewpoint, youtube-dl is in theory performing the same actions as a brows
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by nmilo 5y ago
If you walked into a store and the cashier was unconscious, would that not be stranger than if the cashier was conscious?
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by nmilo 5y ago
Funny to note that the top post of all time in r/poor is someone telling people to "Buy even 10 dollars in Bitcoin at a time if that's all you can spare," with investment advice stating: > It's the best way to sa
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by nmilo 5y ago
Agreed. Beating bad habits/addictions is a change in mindset and identity. OP's system will work for a bit, and then it just takes one lapse of judgement for OP to inevitably turn the shortcut off for the last time, never to turn