numeromancer

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by numeromancer 8mo ago
That's what I meant: the first you can do, the second, not.
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by numeromancer 8mo ago
I think the creators did it a disservice to xmake when they tried to unluaize the syntax. You can also do: target("foo", { kind = "binary", files = { "src/*.cpp" }, includedirs = {
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by numeromancer 8mo ago
"photos of giants that built the pyramids in Egypt, all the way to short videos of pretty girls saying that the EU is bad for Poland." Those sound funny; why would they make you sad?
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by numeromancer 1y ago
I focus on peer-to-peer services, as I think it is the most important focus for free software: - Radicle - IPFS - torrents and magnet links - i2p - syncthing - PeerTube/ActivityPub &al
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by numeromancer 1y ago
"allows them to have more resources to invest in patient care" LOL
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by numeromancer 2y ago
PW;DR: Pay-Walled; Didn't Read. But... Will this be the stuff of the housing of tomorrowind?
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by numeromancer 2y ago
> will likely not be a major boost for software productivity You can make plastic knives much faster and cheaper than metal ones. Production!
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by numeromancer 2y ago
It failed to catch on outside the defense industry because that is where is started. It was long sneered at as a "language designed by committee". In one programming class, in college, we used a text-book called "Oh my, Modu
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by numeromancer 2y ago
ASCII makes up 90% of all digital text; UTF-8 makes up the other 90%.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
Just no. address = X length = *X address = address + 1 while length > 0 { address = address + 1 print *address }
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by numeromancer 2y ago
I am not waiting for Janet for Ethereals. Once it ships, it will always have been available.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
No.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
Stanley Kubrick was one of that kind of people who cannot take criticism of anything they do.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton Some others I daren't mention. Category Theory for Programmers - Bartosz Milewski The Design of Relational Databases - Heikki Mannila, Kari-Jouko Raiha
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by numeromancer 2y ago
Whenever you extrapolate the "corporate vision" of these VC pontificators, you see a company all of whose revenue goes to investor share-grabbers, and whose projects are all funded by employees who are paid nothing.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
The Deep State treats human rights as damage, and routes around it.
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by numeromancer 2y ago
I think we'll be led by a programmer from another language who comes and unites the tribes against the languages that now dominate, a voice from the outer world. The "Lispan al-Gaib", if you will.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Is this a trial run for an April 1 article?
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by numeromancer 3y ago
A detailed criticism of Diamond's hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFECyeihuZY
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by numeromancer 3y ago
We ran so much faster when we didn't have to run with shoes on.
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by numeromancer 3y ago
> Any invocation of an external program can fail for a variety of reasons, and the shell doesn't provide adequate mechanisms for dealing with it, apart from exit codes and filtering error text output. True, handling multiple sub-pro
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by numeromancer 3y ago
He built several utilities for doing what is described here. https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html These are great for duct-taping connections. I created a whole suite of utilities for another programs for uploading firmware upd
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by numeromancer 3y ago
This company creates sensors for monitoring power-grid lines which are powered from line induction: https://www.gridsentry.us/
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Neovim v0.9.5 Released(github.com)
57 points by numeromancer 3y ago|10 comments
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Worsidge's headline: "Can this headline be answered by the word 'no'?"
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by numeromancer 3y ago
The text implies that any second call to getenv invalidates the returned value of any prior call to getenv; even without threads, without calling setenv, a second call to the function invalidates the return from an earlier call. I re-aff
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YouTube has gone too far this time [video](odysee.com)
3 points by numeromancer 3y ago|0 comments
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by numeromancer 3y ago
It says more than that: "The returned string pointer might be invalidated or the string content might be overwritten by a subsequent call to getenv()" You don't even need threads for this to be unsafe; another call to the sam
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by numeromancer 3y ago
I wonder if anyone has done a study of the relation of market share to software quality. It seems as though there is an inflection point of the market share measure above which software quality declines significantly because the fear of be
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by numeromancer 3y ago
Or, perhaps, piracy measurement is link to box office revenue.

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