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It's not clear to me if the author actually understands how staging works and how that affects the commands they suggest. They claim that stashing takes staged changes and then not…

Really? I'm not sure if this is bait or not, but 64b time_t extends the epoch over 200 billion years into the future. I figure we'll handle it in Linux 7.0 or 8.0 at the earliest :…

Thanks, I hate it. I'm a bit bemused about this bizarro case_N.h trickery. I'm also almost positive __COUNTER__ would be adequate and entirely remove the need for __LINE__ as sugge…

This puzzled me also. Perhaps it's been kicked down the road as an engineering problem and we'd end up with a hydrogen extraction system which is responsible for that part. We'd pr…

The first paragraph of that question says 'address the possibility that a US company may have had spacecraft launched into orbit without the appropriate approval from the US govern…

I make heavy use of cardless cash via my bank's app when I need to visit an ATM. I haven't had my wallet with me for more than half an hour at a time this year.

This isn't wrong but I've got issues with some of the examples, especially the lack of a solution for #2 and #4. #2 is referred to as an unsafe macro because of the multiple evalua…

That's a K&R (Kernighan and Ritchie) style function declaration. Compilers still support it but the version you'd be more familiar with (ANSI C style) has been standard since at le…

Did you genuinely find it difficult to parse the comma delimited representation near the bottom of the article? Just curious. It seemed very natural to me, a minor variation on Bri…

Not sure what you mean by a sub-session but my perusal suggests an entirely new conversation key is negotiated by current participants when those participants change. The spec does…

TFA gives two very disparate examples of documentation failures (basic use of the dock vs service management and the init system). What does the author want to write? A book in the…

Well it's definitely possible unless I'm a moron (correct me if I am). If you have the primes up to √n you can find all primes up to n because everything else will be composite of …

The highlighting and counting is cool but isn't this just colouring prime numbered elements (off by one) by knowing the primes up to √n? Bit of a circular problem! (: It'd be prett…

Agreed, something they should have a plan for but not too worrying to see it with a few caveats at this stage. I actually wrote a comment in response to loeg elsewhere in the threa…

I would definitely expect a separate piece of hardware to be swappable without impacting on the rest of my machine. I can change/upgrade the CPU without breaking the north bridge o…

This is super interesting but due to the per-CPU inode table structure, it is impossible to move a NOVA filesystem from one system to another if the two machines do not have the sa…

I'll preface this by saying that I love radare2. It's my goto tool when I don't need to share work with IDA/Binja users and don't need to decompile something. The radeco project is…

Even if they have taken UI cues from elsewhere, I don't think this is a bad one. The search box is in the global context section and it's important to signal that it's going to beh…

Part 2 is here: https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/

Can someone explain the actual use of sharing a terminal with someone while not being in person with them (in which case they could just watch you and shotgun the keyboard?)? I can…

Just say that it's a signed log of the session. "Cryptographic proof" isn't necessarily incorrect but it has other connotations which don't make any sense here and make it sound li…

> why should that be so much harder for me? And my friends*. My social group (25-30yo) is generally pretty morbid about the whole situation and most are resolved to wait for some s…

This isn't just discretionary spending, it's total outflow of money earned (presumably after tax). They mentioned costs of housing, insurance and student debt repayments in the art…

I'm dumbfounded finding this link on the top page. In news today, we found out that stream ciphers retain [zp]text length and unpadded form data is insecure. The nuance which seems…

The Lagrangian answer covers this a bit more obviously by stating a solution which results in a closed curve of states around some equilibrium point(s) for certain initial variable…