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  • Why make it complicated?

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  • So I think it's still probably unclear to people why "mix of keywords and identifiers" is bad: it means any new keyword could break backwards compatibility because someone could have already named a type the same thing as that new keyword.

    This syntax puts type identifiers in the very prominent position of "generic fresh statement after semicolon or newline"

    ..though I've spent like 10 minutes thinking about this and now it's again not making sense to me. Isn't the very common plain "already_existing_variable = 5" also causing the same problem? We'd have to go back to cobol style "SET foo = 5" for everything to actually make it not an issue

  • BUT THE CHILDREN

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  • giving a medically unnecessary ear piercing to a 1 year does sound like something that is potentially child abuse, yes

  • Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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  • yep, it's almost all banana pi, and at least 4 different 'models' of it it seems. But the word is also used in some string processing tests and as an example comment of how suffix arrays work..

  • Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

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  • And most of those cases are of course using the word sarcastically

    The next function to implement is called, amazingly, next(); its job is to move the iterator forward to the next position in the sequence.

     
        	if (lc->sync == NOSYNC)
		for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
			/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
			log_set_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);
	else
		for (i = lc->header.nr_regions; i < lc->region_count; i++)
			/* FIXME: amazingly inefficient */
			log_clear_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i);

    /*
     * Amazingly, if ehv_bc_tty_open() returns an error code, the tty layer will
     * still call this function to close the tty device.  So we can't assume that
     * the tty port has been initialized.
     */

     *   this header was blatantly ripped from netfilter_ipv4.h
     *   it's amazing what adding a bunch of 6s can do =8^)

    /*
     * I studied different documents and many live PROMs both from 2.30
     * family and 3.xx versions. I came to the amazing conclusion: there is
     * absolutely no way to route interrupts in IIep systems relying on
     * information which PROM presents. We must hardcode interrupt routing
     * schematics. And this actually sucks.   -- zaitcev 1999/05/12

     * corresponding ABS_X and ABS_Y events. This turns the Twiddler into a game
     * controller with amazing 18 buttons :-)

     * In an amazing feat of design, the Enhanced Features Register (EFR)
     * shares the address of the Interrupt Identification Register (IIR).
     * Access to EFR is switched on by writing a magic value (0xbf) to the
     * Line Control Register (LCR). Any interrupt firing during this time will
     * see the EFR where it expects the IIR to be, leading to
     * "Unexpected interrupt" messages.

     * Thanks BUGabundo and Malmostoso for your amazing help!

  • Altitude

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  • Davy jones couldn't step on land, and the dirt in the jar symbolizes land in the same way as the bucket here supposedly counts as land

  • Anon predicts the future

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  • getting the picture to perfectly replicate the image on the screen without it being noticeable that it's just a picture of a screen would be so difficult it would probably be easier to modify the camera instead

  • Anon predicts the future

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  • blockchain is a totally useless extra bit glued on there. All the real evidence will be the cryptographic signatures added by the hardware manufacturer (which can be faked, but requires extracting the keys from the "security chip" in the camera which may be very difficult)

    all the blockchain does at that point is provide a timestamp of "signed hash of the picture+metadata was uploaded on x date" which can easily be done without blockchain too

  • map reducer

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  • You can still be snobby by instead insisting on "fold, scan, iterate"

  • TIL Erica Chenoweth et al. studied over 323 movements and found that in aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change

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  • the czech republic has over 40 thousand police officers and singapore routinely executes drug dealersSo while it may be technically true in that no actual violence was involved in the latest changes of government system, the threat of violence is always there

  • Steam adds accessibility features to store pages and filters for searching

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  • Apparently it's specifically "Players can avoid sequences of precisely timed inputs ("quick time events") or button mashing"

  • Anon goes camping

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  • Anon confused a tap water filter for a camping filter

  • anon realizes we’ve been played

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  • I love the implication that a "rational actor" would choose death over losing money

  • C Programming: Pointer Analogy

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  • It's a technicality about the pointer type. You can cast the type away which typically doesn't change the actual value (but I'm pretty sure that causes undefined behavior)

    For your example, int x = 0xDEADBEEF; signifies the integer -559038737 (at least on x86.)

    char *p = (char*)0xDEADBEEF; on the other hand may or may not point to the real memory address 0xDEADBEEF, depending on factors like if the processor is using virtual or real addressing, etc

  • Everything Started with the Promise of Loosely Coupled Systems

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  • Lots of em-dash usage

    Service goes down after emitting an event but before persisting internal state—causing partial failures that are hard to roll back.Subscribe to an existing event and start processing—no changes to publishers.Helps track a request across multiple services—even through async events.We once had a refund service consume OrderCancelled events—but due to a config typo, it ignored 15% of messages.Takeaway: fire-and-forget works—until someone forgets to monitor.Use it when the domain fits—fan-out use cases, audit logs, or workflows where latency isn't critical.

    combined with other chatgpt-isms like the heavy reliance on lists, yeah safe to say it's mostly AI generated

  • Safe array handling? Never heard of it

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  • what kind of psychopath even came up with int a[ROWS][COLS] = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 };

    it's even obviously caught by -Wall (-Wmissing-braces) for both clang and gcc

    (oh, actually, g++ fails to recognize it even though gcc and clang do recognize it)

    sometimes the latter part is also caught by -fsanitize=undefined, though that goes away if you wrap the array access like so:printf("%d\n", ((int*)a[0])[i]); (which I'm unsure if that's still undefined behavior, not that it's any more sane even if it isn't)

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • it does kinda fit in that if you forced people to learn linux, the basic stuff most people do should in the end not be much more difficult than windows (assuming you don't run into more bugs)

    but that would never happen unless a "linux revolution" was already in full swing

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • My major version updates on 2 computers with linux mint in the past few years have been just one click, wait, reboot when prompted, everything works and you barely even notice that anything changed. Though maybe I've just been lucky

    though the rest of the video's takes on the linux experience for new users seems pretty accurate to me (lol downloading an application and using it requires at least a manual chmod +x and that's the best case scenario. Maybe there's a distro that has a solution but I have doubts (and "have everything you could possibly need in the package manager" is obviously a nonstarter))

    But the community parts seem odd to me:

    Is "just disable secure boot" a bad take? Has someone been holding everyone out on a better solution?

    and

    The only way linux is going to change is when money and development power is given to major dekstop Linux projects. It's time to stop wasting time on customization or packaging

    is just.. sure, herd all the cats into one place, make them all work together in harmony, and summon 500 million dollars out of thin air to wrap it all together. Instead of writing bash scripts everyone should be praying to gabe newell to save us lol

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • People who cant use linux never learned the basics of computers

    that's like 80% of all people

  • Polar bears

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