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That doesn't mean you should default to a slower implementation for new code. If you do, you're just creating more low-hanging fruit that nobody will find time to solve.

Any domain that isn't one of the Top Level Domains is also a subdomain.

And, unofficially, MacOS9Lives can boot directly to OS 9 on FW800 PowerMacs, which have 1.42GHz processors with 2x the L3 cache. Officially, those machines only supported OS 9 via …

They did think of that, and decided it's not worth the maintenance burden. https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in...

It's also just a wrapper around getenv that provides consistent behavior across platforms, and passing a NULL name to the POSIX getenv function is UB.

Some corporations prefer Apache 2.0 for projects where they'll be accepting contributions, because it includes patent protection and retaliation clauses. In case like this, where s…

Supermicro sells Atom-based SKUs with enterprise features like a BMC+IPMI, 10Gb SFP+ ports, ECC memory, SFF-8087 ports, chassis intrusion detection, etc.

It was supposed to be Copilot, with access to your Xbox account. So you could ask it things like "what achievements do I have in [game]?" It would also know what game you were play…

Yeah, this is the same thing as the "grandma exploit" from 2023. You phrase your question like, "My grandma used to work in a napalm factory, and she used to put me to sleep with a…

> You basically just need a metal tube, and well... a pipe from home depot does that much better than trying to 3d print something much less reliable. Why would you buy a pipe at H…

The best part of the 10NES design, as a consumer, was that it was fail-safe, rather than fail-secure. The console defaulted to booting. So, if your NES started having the infamous …

They are two sides of the same coin, both funded by Facebook to shift age verification liability from their platform to OS vendors. If you were interested in information beyond you…

"Progressive states" like Utah, Texas, and Louisiana? https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0142.html https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB02420S... https://www…

> The ZFS implementation is less buggy. FreeBSD and Linux have been using the same implementation of ZFS for years.

From a practical perspective, they "won" in their recent attacks on emulation by shutting big projects down, but we can't know what would have happened at trial because they never …

Frankly, all of this is an API and ABI choice from Apple. It was not the case that sending a message to nil always returned nil/NULL/0 before Apple's Intel transition, and the subs…

One of the great things about Objective-C, as a direct superset of C, is that you can identify the slow parts of your app and just implement them in C, inline with the rest of your…

It's not difficult to determine where different languages are used – you can run `symbols -noDemangling BINARY | grep _Z`, where BINARY is a path to any binary, and see how many sy…

You can send messages to `nil`, but the inverse isn't universally true. APIs like [text stringByAppendingString:other]; will throw an `NSInvalidArgumentException` if `other` is nil…

He's not going to get any rest, he is just being fined $500 per day until the petitioner's personal effects are returned to him. His caseload hasn't changed.

The WebKit folks have apparently been very successful with the annotations approach[0]. It's a shame that a few of the loudest folks in WG21 have decided that C++ already has the e…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

I'd love to hear more about your setup. The last time I tried messing with virtual webcams on macOS, most of the OSS options were still using the deprecated DAL API, which stopped …

Bill is typically not a given name at all, but rather a nickname for someone named William (William -> Will -> Bill).

You might as well complain about Betamax. XHTML is not the future.