tonysdg

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by tonysdg 2y ago
I'd suggest Cory Doctorow's "ensh*ttification" might encompass the sentiment you're looking for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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What is your most indispensable subscription?
1 points by tonysdg 6y ago|1 comments
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by tonysdg 6y ago
I'm guessing this deployed on a secondary computer, not on any flight-critical computers; no way it would have passed airworthiness otherwise (even in a demo). As a result, the worst that could probably happen would be the pilot having
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. A small-ish exchange, run by a small number of developer-employees, with limited computing assets. I can easily see someone making the argument that moving cold wallets
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Replace strncpy and strcpy altogether with calls to snprintf. It takes a fixed buffer size, terminates correctly with the null character, and safely does everything strncpy does and more. It's a POSIX standard, so it should be portable
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I'd add that The C Programming Language should be seen as a tutorial (albeit an older one that no longer is fully up-to-date in best practices, in my experience) that can serve as a reference in a pinch (it skimps a bit on the corner
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by tonysdg 8y ago
A quick word of warning: be sure to treat C and C++ as two completely separate languages that just happen to have similar syntax. Yes, you can use C++ as "C with classes" (I and many others sure have at times), but you're doi
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Uh, are you thinking mean? Median is lining up every salary, counting to N/2, and selecting the number you happen to fall on.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Is there a reason no one has built a Cygwin-like environment for iOS yet? As in, is it because (1) it's time-consuming, (2) it's tricky, or (3) Apple won't allow it on their App Store?
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I know that Allen Sherman did a version of that joke in his "Ode to Fat People" :-)
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Fairly certain at least some of those debts can get passed on to your estate and/or children.
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by tonysdg 8y ago
IIRC, the idea is to help the (dependents of the) Kurt Cobains of the world: artists who die young and still have loved ones who can now depend on the revenue from the copyrighted works for at least 20 years. But IANAL, so I could be way of
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Ask HN: Resources for learning Ada?
4 points by tonysdg 8y ago|2 comments
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Presumably (and I'm partially speculating here, since it's not my expertise) because all of the neurotransmitters, hormones, etc. pay heed to the same laws of thermodynamics that everything else does. Your genes may influence how
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Paper to print my resume out. Got my first job!
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> So the question here has to be whether the creator of the machine acted reasonably in designing the machine as they did. I'm wary of this line of reasoning. No programmer outside of a terrorist organization will ever intentionally
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Not even close. Chess is a relatively easy target for AI: the rules are well-defined, all of the pieces are visible to both players, and while the state space is massive, it's a tractable problem. Now look at something like DOTA: while
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by tonysdg 8y ago
A fun article about PostgreSQL and fsync(): "PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise" https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> abuses of sex I think that's where the breakdown is occurring here: this is ultimately a values-based judgment. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but I think both sides of this debate would do well to recognize tha
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Scrubs?
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Possibly this? https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
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by tonysdg 8y ago
It's worth noting this is a testament to Microsoft's (extreme) dedication to backwards compatibility. I sometimes wonder who's more fanatical: the glibc folks or MS. But it seems to have paid off for both teams in the end, so
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I always enjoyed, "Need to generate a pseudo-random key sequence quickly? Open up vim and ask a friend to close it for you."
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by tonysdg 8y ago
On the flip side, however, I imagine it's a lot harder to convince some entity -- an individual, an insurer, a government -- to pay $1 million once vs. $100,000/year for 10 (or more) years. Whether due to psychology (the former mi
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Popcorn Linux is a thing, and it's a multi-kernel OS too: http://popcornlinux.org (I would know, I've been working on it for a few years).
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by tonysdg 8y ago
> It could be argued that the primary purpose of a government is to make things better for people As I understand it, this notion only really came into vogue during the European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries. For much of h
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by tonysdg 8y ago
`sl` -- makes you feel better about mis-typing `ls`!
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I do research in engineering, not psychology, but if I had to guess: probably the same way a lot of engineering research comes about. You read the literature, see interesting results somewhere, and questions start to pop into your head base
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I feel obliged to ask: are there any modern (post-1990) ISAs where a char _isn't_ 8 bits?
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by tonysdg 8y ago
To play devil's advocate: how many/which fingers do you use to hold a needle? I'd guess it's roughly the same ;)

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