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Comment #22525272
The engine actually only made 150hp, but luckily there were 2 of them. Yes, they were certainly less efficient than modern engines. However, ICE engines have always had trade-offs …
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Comment #21627014
That fwrite writes the contents of output to stdout . output probably contains all the output that doesn't depend on input (which this program doesn't have).
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Comment #21584931
>since UTF-8 doesn’t have a “magic number” to identify itself, the convention is to use the BOM codepoint Neither does any other of the hundreds of existing text encodings. It's de…
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Comment #21584852
BOM is only a problem with strict syntaxes, which robots.txt is not an example of. If the "consumer" simply ignores invalid or meaningless lines, you can avoid issues from invisibl…
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Comment #21584759
>A motorbike will generally [...] brake faster than a car in a straight line (mostly because it's light) That's generally not true. At best you'd roughly match an average car when …
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Comment #21584512
Yes and no. Technically that results in UB with many inputs with platforms that use a signed char type.
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Comment #21583836
>Higher accuracy isn't the only reason, you'll get chronic wrist pain within a couple of months if the mouse movement comes from your wrist. Or you could just move the mouse with y…
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Comment #21536242
> to avoid things exploding because a zero length variable might exist is a stupid and ugly hack. That has less to do with POSIX compliance, as opposed to working around quirks wit…
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Comment #21396350
>10 years later, copy-paste is still a horrible user experience. Different apps use different clipboards :scream: Even for copying these commands from Firefox to the terminal with …
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Comment #21392177
>I have to disagree about implicit functions not being a part of C anymore. I've yet to see one generate an error; This is not really a debatable matter. There's an international s…
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Comment #21387776
>yes some compilers don't give warnings by default for implicit functions Broken or ancient compilers. That's as much C's fault as it's Intel's fault that Windows 10 doesn't run on…
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Comment #21370991
See https://git.io/JeEjB
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Comment #21355563
>It might still turn out to be, if you see if you can get a faster C version of wc. You definitely can, at least if you allow manually vectorized code. On my system, with a 1.661GB…
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Comment #18342953
>We don't allow unlimited free speech, but we don't view that as censorship. Speak for yourself. I certainly think blasphemy laws are certainly way past their due date, and more ex…
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Comment #16912777
Talking about disruptive things... to provide an unconditional monetary equivalent of the benefits any unemployed people are currently entitled to (rent, minimum income, supplement…
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Comment #16908202
In Finland, all unemployed are guaranteed “free money” even if they choose not to seek employment. The difference from UBI is that this final security net, so to speak, only guaran…
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Comment #16853336
You can watch uBlock's logger when using the web player to see what it does. AFAIK the blocking rules are imported from EasyList. However, as far as user experience goes, I don't s…
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Comment #16744833
That's very unlikely to happen, ever. (Too many "int var;" out there.)
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Comment #16739199
Oh, I'm certainly under no impression that nicotine might not have any health benefits, but with various inconclusive research it's hard to assess the complete picture and net effe…
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Comment #16738011
I don't think it's quite that clear – however, I think it is considered clear that nicotine is nowhere near as harmful as tobacco smoke.
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Comment #16720182
>Trains are perfectly capable for bringing me from A to B while I am sleeping for years now. For a very limited subset of points A and B, though...
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Comment #16679903
Why would you ever half-indent a block? For alignment you should of course use spaces (for whole alignment, not just the end, to be very clear).