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From a bystanderʼs POV it is excessively hard to memorize all the mess with multiple different extensions. The naming style doesnʼt alleviate the task. But this is a typical issue …

A normal situation in my tasks is when the working copy contains lots of changes that are used for debug (mainly prints) but these changes shall not be committed to the proposed ch…

Slightly side note - I donʼt understand why C++ invents new stdio based functions like std::print but rejects to import funopen() or fopencookie() which make stdio flexible similar…

With the manner exposed by the most feature-full DEs, Iʼd expect setting default to ~/Cache (not ~/cache, the latter is for the userʼs discretion). But, I tend to agree with the ma…

Nice work! Perseverance to find the root cause in such an unfriendly environment as any bootstrap is what saves all us from the civilization crash...

RISC-V designers explicitly declare in their base specification: "The AMOs were designed to implement the C11 and C++11 memory models efficiently." So at least one example is prese…

> Python might have used array[~0] instead This is what was once added to C#: arr[^idx], when this ^idx is mapped to a special object, typically optimized then out. arr[^0] means t…

> In Europe, we typically mark the ground-floor as floor-zero, _Western_ Europe. Eastern Europe prefers 1-based numbering. The reason, typically assumed, is that thermal isolation,…

> find the convention used in many countries of numbering building floors starting with zero to be more logical. Ukrainian here. Multi-floor buildings always have at least one stai…

This division, using SRT loop with 2 bit output per iteration, perhaps would have already been microcoded - but using the lookup table as an accelerator. An alternative could use a…

Filename character set and its interpretation shall be controlled per directory or, at least, per FS. This pertains not only to permitted set like with or without LF, but to collat…

OK let them add an explicit check to standard tools, and/or to open(), mkdir(), etc. with O_PORTABLECHARS. And an environment option to disable this check. Why they force the restr…

> it seems that glibc does not support it `iconv` does, and this is enough in common. Among with tons of eerie EBCDIC/whatever...

> That can only be a bug - UTF-32/UCS-4 never saw external use I regularly use `iconv -t utf-32be | hd` to look what a bizarre sequence is denoting yet another weird symbol like an…

But at least a programmer shall be aware to call it (whatever API is used).

> You're not limited to 650MB provided you use UDF rather than ISO 9660. You donʼt take into account case of booting real ISO on an old hardware. If it doesnʼt know DVD, chance of …

> Makes you wonder why this isn't part of the C++ standard library itself. Plainly no need if there is a separate easily attachable library (and with permissible license). What C++…

> There’s no excuse. Until mid-2000s there was no certainty Unicode will eventually defeat competitors. In real it havenʼt fully yet - GB2312 and Tron are still locally prevailing,…

> In C# I can simply do this: "hello world".ToUpper(); Hmm still actual: https://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey...

All the code which is not in hot path may conform to any rules, and typically is designed according to something like SOLID, to make understanding and maintenance as simple as poss…

Really I would have concur with the author if dealing again and again with a need to fit the media contents into 650MB (if it is intended to be put at real ISO) or to guarantee how…

Live CD is mainly replaced with live USB, even if it is called the same nickname.

> QEMU running Windows for x86 on an M1 isn't very fast either. It seems the main obstacle is in paging where x86 4KB clashes with Apple 16KB (ARM/64 supports multiple sizes), so, …

> You're saying you can't think of one context where a trade of between largest supported int value vs total bytes of the message is a reasonable one? Seems you have pretty misread…

Most cases an initial estimate of change cost is utterly overstated because emotional and reluctant to change. (And, well, this fact is also abused by wreckers who explain any reas…