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Always use -Wundef. For CCAN all config vars use #if and we lint for ifdefs of them, because you have to pick a side here, and sometimes using HAVE_X in C code is useful, so I pref…

I've worked on several projects writing and implementing specifications (particularly CLN): I've found the specs I write are much better when I quote them in the implementation, so…

How embarrassing! It's greatspectations.org not .com! And I can't edit the URL. Thanks, I will resubmit, and let's pretend this never happened? Eeek...

I've worked on several projects writing and implementing specifications (particularly CLN): I've found the specs I write are much better when I quote them in the implementation, so…

Nobody who would code this up would be entirely sane. But I can't help thinking "these are my people" when I read this...

I hacked up a (not SMP-safe!) compressed loopback driver for a now-forgotten startup's "bootable business card" rescue disk. Over a year later I received an email from someone want…

Um, the Linux Foundation is an industry body, not a user or community group. You seem confused?

Yeah, but there's little culture of actually taking that time.

It seems that wasn't the Claude part, though I haven't seen a full analysis of exactly what broke. I also only saw one report: are there multiple, or do you just perceive that? Rsy…

For those commenting, I suggest you read the post linked by the rsync author: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0 (Disclosure: while I haven't talked with h…

I'm shocked that people are jumping on one of the most productive and powerful OSS maintainers in existence. The actual Claude "churn" is mainly test suite enhancement.

"where intellectual property is not respected" This suggests to me the underlying concern is "but I won't get paid for my craft!". Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquera…

I agree: fork is fast, cheap and easy. If you're spawning something for significant work it tends to be in the noise. Linux kernel uses 8k stacks (TBH, it's been a while), but ther…

Adam is not Satoshi. In early days of Blockstream I remember him and Greg Maxwell spitballing ideas about Bitcoin, and he was clearly intellectually feeling out the constructions a…

As with many comments here: use a build-time assertion that the system is little-endian, and ignore it. Untested code is broken code . I was at IBM when we gave up on big endian fo…

In the small, it's still a meritocracy. A patch like this is obviously correct and I expect to get in first try (maybe with a formatting fix by the maintainer). For large works, th…

I share this frustration, but a downvote is probably a better reaction than a reply here.

You're writing this from a dystopian future where punctuation is banned? :) For those like me who still require parsing assistance : - We are Bob - Red Rising - Murderbot

On the other hand, I once implemented something to be told later it was novel and probably the optimal solution in the space. An AI might be more likely to find it...

I'm thinking early April?

A goid friend of mine worked on decimal floating point for IBM Power chips (I think it was Power 7 which had hardware support). Anyway, he insisted on calling it just "Decimal Floa…

I want signal to act as a transport bus. In particular, I want to give certain contacts permission to ask my phone for its location, so I can give my wife that ability without shar…

I want to implement this. My code is in C. How does this help me check my implementation? I guess I could ask ChatGPT to convert your tests to my code, but that seems the long way …

Did anyone else find the use if ABNF annoying? unicode-assignable = %x9 / %xA / %xD / ; useful controls %x20-7E / ; exclude C1 controls and DEL %xA0-D7FF / ; exclude surrogates %xE…

Andrew Tridgell's KnightCap did this differently: it's a network chess server, and it would dump its data to a file and re-exec. The trick here is that it would keep the (network) …