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Funny enough filenames are just byte sequences. So almost anything goes. There was just some patch that added '/' protection, because that's the only character that's not allowed i…

Recent research showed the increase in the number of programmers twofold every year all over the world. That means 75% of Programmers (SW Developers) have less then 2 years of expe…

by convention: if it's not NUL terminated, it's not a c-string.

that would be wcslcpy(3)

i guess that's what spikes interest. although strlcpy was first introduced in openbsd 2.4, 26 years ago! back then as a drop in replacement for strcpy. so yeah, good things need ti…

it's like 6h when you know what you are doing :-)

Love it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.

yeah it's other peoples mouse courser, as they browse the site.

It's one of those condom-style things.

Yeah the Minecraft and MC anarchy community is insane. If you found this amazing, take a look at this, it'll blow your mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea6py9q46QU and https:/…

In short: Sand for industry scale heat storage, water for private heating storage. Using a heat pump will increase the yield. Usable temp range from 95C water all the way to 0C ice…

It's more effective volume wise. I did the math, some time ago here are the rough numbers. Sand has way less heat capacity then water per kg (about half). Water can be heated to 95…

It is also a fertilizer, providing Carbon and Minerals to the farmland.

I would add that it's "doing nothing important". Like when someone asks: What did you do today? And the german answer is just "Nix" ("Nichts", aka. nothing important)

Just like C, COBOL will always be with us. > According to research, up to 850 billion lines of COBOL code are currently running in nearly 30,000 organizations, typically in critica…

HAHA, Xorg will always be with us. GNOME and KDE will maybe do something like that, but that's no problem.

And Erlang the Movie II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ

Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2724/ and Tech Connections Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections/search?query=...

I think the engines worked perfectly. The booster broke up in the middle, at least it looks like it on the everyday astronaut feed.

Gathering data and making orbit. Plan was to return the booster near the launchsite and make a water splash down. The ship should make a single suborbital flight with orbit velocit…

There was a estimated 1/16 failure possibility for the first couple flights. Lots of edge-cases where: If XYZ happens, you die. But we were in a hurry, so it was just part of the p…

Apollo was a one off government program, which was unrivaled for 50 years. And never even tried since then. You have to understand this is a private business doing it on a budget a…

When you have multiple cycles per day, the higher price of flywheels trumps over the limited but cheaper battery lifespan. Batteries degrade with charge cycles.

Since the announcement mentions "existing LTE phones" it seems to be no problem, power wise. So, it all depends on the satellites antenna.

Then don't run a OS with a kernel written in C. That would rule out Windows, Mac, Linux and *BSD.