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The problem is for most practical uses where you need fast calculations the 64 bit precision is enough. For example there is hardly any physical calculation that would need more pr…

How about everyone gets a digital certification from their own government that this is the person named this and that. No need to share cranial measurements and iris scans.

formatting should definitely be in pre-commit though, otherwise you'll destroy diffs.

This is not a complicated algorithm. A hash map (dictionary) or a hash set is how you would always do deduplication in Python, because it is easiest to write / least keystrokes any…

Yes, and while waiting for the child services to intervene then those children would still be starving.

What it means is that since i as the variable is monotonically increasing, an array indexing operation that is in the loop body can be replaced with an incrementing pointer instead…

It definitely hit this https://maps.app.goo.gl/Npbyqgiy57y7jZDj7 instead.

If you consider an underwater cable running from Finland to Germany or Sweden to Lithuania in the Baltic Sea, it is virtually impossible for a ship travelling from St. Petersburg t…

Yet Vietnamese can be written in Unicode without any combining characters whatsoever - in NFC normalization each character is one code point - just like the U+1EC7 LATIN SMALL LETT…

Oftentimes many of the significant new PHP features are to fix the shortsighted implementation in the previous ones - for example this method chaining with `new` - there was preced…

The issue was migrated to github so more up-to-date discussion is in https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/62817

IPv6?! The big thing about this was that you'd have end-to-end connections without NAT etc.

and it almost works, does not get rid of efivars... needed to add `-x efivarfs` for that .

No, it is not, and it has never been OK for as long as C has been standardized by ANSI or ISO. C89 says that "The value of a pointer that refers to freed space is indeterminate." a…

Well, there is even more to it. First of all the name My is (Finland-)Swedish, the Finnish name of the character is Pikku Myy. The Finnish name registry contains only ~2 mentions b…

In the case of execvp, you would pretty much be required to fork before it and then you could change PATH.

This! And the attributes page explains these even better: const Functions marked with const as an MT-Safety issue non- atomically modify internal objects that are better regarded a…

Well, Finland has been landing and taking off F-18s on these road bases for almost 30 years now.

This is for backward-compatibility reasons. The comparison operators in Python produced 1 or 0 before boolean was a thing, and programs existed that exploited this, i.e. you can do…

With pointers having lowest bit set, you'd check if the LSB is set and then do for example (uint32_t *)((char *)p - 1) + 2 which the compiler would optimize to register + 7 instead…

I believe it might be just because it is really easy to incorporate an association in Finland and an association that is a non-profit organization founded for public benefit will b…

I lived in Oulu and would go to a local library to download game programming tutorials for Turbo Pascal from x2ftp, not quite realizing that the library was pretty much half-way on…

I've wanted this too. Postgres allows one to write custom data types in C or other system programming language. The only limitation is that the "type modifier", in this case the pr…

Well, the mypyc was not a side project originally, as mypy was conceived to be a complete programming language with optional static typing ( https://www.slideshare.net/jukkaleh/myp…