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I've been using proportional fonts for programming for more than thirty years. Makes things much easier to read and it's only a problem where people try to make patterns out of the…

I have fond memories of bricking my Smalltalk environment several times trying to get instance behaviour working :-)

I think this is looking at what OOP has become (as implemented by systems and programming languages that don't care a wit about what OO was meant to be) rather than what Alan Kay d…

You're misinterpreting what I said. I said that your ability to defend yourself and your family with a gun was hypothetical. I can see that you like to think of yourself as a ratio…

This of course plays into the fear US gun advocates have of any attempt to remove their gun rights. If it were to happen though, then maybe as a prepper type with a house and lands…

I have had a gun pointed at me, and I've been where guns have been fired in anger around me. I'm kind of surprised to hear somebody in America think it's a likely enough thing to h…

This comes across a lot like you're saying that your personal feeling of safety for you and your family is worth more than the actual safety of innocent schoolchildren who are bein…

This is what makes securing this stuff so hard when you don't have proper review. What seems like a good idea from one perspective opens up another gaping hole somewhere else. Off …

Only in some parts of the world. In many it's the room and the object

And by a happy coincidence it turns out that audio does about one foot in one millisecond making light six orders of magnitude faster

REM was quite common across a number of languages at the time. You might still see them in '.bat' files

I think this is a much fuller explanation of what I was trying to say :-)

I think you're thinking of upgrading the 486sx which didn't have the on die coprocessor. That did disable the old chip as you basically replaced it with a 486dx

No. The conversation was on the eve of the Potsdam conference

One big reason is that when you add two samples together, if you overflow a signed int that's UB, but if you go over 1.0 on a float it's just business as usual. This means you can …

It's essentially the same everywhere, but these large planes are flying IFR not VFR and so they rely on the separation service provided by ground control. Ground control isn't allo…

So when generating a private key, is any 256 bit random sequence good (it gets reduced down to the 252 bits available) or do you have to check you didn't pick one of the 2^4 keys t…

Does that imply that there are some 256 bit patterns that aren't valid private keys, or does the 2^255 - 19 not describe the private key space?

> Iouring looks promising though It's more than promising. It's an unbridled joy to work with (compared to things like epoll) and performs very well already.