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> Buggering op[] would be the slowest possible way to get the NUL there. > Evidently that is a minority preference. What evidence? Pointing out a fact isn't an endorsement. > If yo…

Not a particularly informative or well-written one frankly. "Also, with more memory, there are simply many more possible features that MIDI 2.0 can try to emulate. More memory shou…

No. The popular C compilers have a feature where they will do some additional type checking on the arguments passed to "format" functions. You can mark your own functions with this…

> Anyway, that was true until somebody jiggered the Standard, just before 1998, to require a NUL visible to s[s.size()]. This is not technically true. You could plugin your hated N…

The front-end is in Visual Basic. The backend is most certainly not in anything close to Visual Basic.. (MUMPS - using Intersystems Cache as the object store implementation)

hardlinks are paths pointing to the same inode - the same metadata, the same contents - they are the same file - just happen to have multiple addresses. Inodes that happen to share…

How do you "plugin" the NUL. If there's no space for it, then everytime you want a C string, you need to do an allocation. And why would you put something in it's place - as you sa…

Umm.. in any implementation you can already "cast" a std::string to a null-terminated string without a buffer (cf std::string::data() and std::string::c_str()) -- C++11 essentially…

> Hard links mostly work as you tell them to. You may need to set things up properly, but it's essentially the same thing being done. That's bullshit. hard links are the same exact…

In the US for home connections (cable, fiber, DSL) everybody gets an accessible IP address pretty much -- the worst is that some ports are blocked like port 80 or 25. Phones don't …

> Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention. Nah. There should be (prob…

Yeah, unfortunately color perception is one of those things that is a bit too complex for a self-discovery method. While the "symmetry" explanation is satisfying it really isn't co…

You can't trigger cones individually. The cones are responsive to a wide-spectrum and they overlap, especially in the case of the L and M receptors. The peak wavelength of the L re…

> If these are the primary colors, why aren't they what printers use? Printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow. There really is no such thing as "the" primary colors. The school prim…

> The general consensus is that putting big files in git means you're doing something wrong and the problem is with your environment not git. This is not a “general” consensus. It’…

That still leaves ridiculous, ludicrous, and plaid.

> However, those keyswitches are quite heavy by modern standards and you may find your fingers getting tired. I find fatigue to be a bigger problem on most rubber dome keyboards. I…

Technicians don’t interpret blood tests, and radiologists don’t perform most imaging procedures, so I don’t understand the comparison.

> Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree than without. Applying population statistics to individuals is a fool’s errand. Not everyone is cut out to be a software engi…

You’re not getting a fake for 30% off... because then it is not a fake.. that’s just some off brand crap It’s a fake when you get a counterfeit item that is sold to you at full pri…

Maybe he is aware of the existing maps ... and as he states “this isn’t an improvement”. Since the current NYC maps serves both purposes astonishingly well.