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flysand7

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About flysand7

Low-level programmer, like C and stuff

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    Comment #47621271

    Something tells me this ain't the kind of redundancy aerospace engeneering really needs

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    Comment #47620864

    1969: Our toilets suck, better be miticulous and careful with waste 2026: Too much shit, we need to design new toilets

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    Comment #47549442

    Cats aren't social species, they don't have the capability to understand what is and isn't private. If a cat wants to lick its balls it'll do that, even if the owner is watching. A…

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    Comment #47549393

    A chinese company Hello has created an app called Hello Street Cat - a livestreaming app that allows viwers to donate money to feed stray cats. Presumably, since it's the same comp…

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    Comment #47393635

    I enjoyed it too! Enough technical details to be useful, but not too boring.

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    Comment #45949200

    yea, me (pls dont crack)

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    Comment #45258907

    This reminds me a Russian localization of the "Search" bar on some version of Windows 10, which reads something like "Type the prompt to perform search". Also weirdly infantilizing…

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    Comment #45176457

    This article, although is trying to provide some arguments as for why package managers are "evil", I found the argumentation pretty weak/non-descriptive. It's good if you have the …

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    Comment #45132921

    There's something similar I've done programming on linux. I've been working on some things in Odin programming language for a while and there are a ton of changes I've made where t…

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    Comment #45123988

    As someone who knows what they're talking about, I'm curious to hear from you, why you consider use-after-free an undefined behavior and not an unspecified behavior instead? Becaus…

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    Comment #44715059

    Watched this video yesterday, and damn, it's really delightful watching experts make content about things they are passionate about. This love and passion is contageous, and even m…

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    Comment #44714998

    I don't think the birds will like the sounds of that :)

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    Comment #44697741

    Speaking of postgres, you don't even need a function, you can just use RETURNING clause of a modifying query to provide data source for the select: select * from ( delete from user…

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    Comment #44553579

    Except the pain of hitting your pinky on a corner. That one's very real

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    Comment #44514705

    I really suggest not removing them as they are a great way to estimate the length of the article (which was the first thing I tried to do on your page and had to spend a good minut…

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    Comment #44514548

    The analysis seems to disagree with the data shown in the graphs about the labels of "left" and "right". The author seems to be confusing left/right? It's not just the first stacke…

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    Comment #44494393

    The biggest thing I'd want from a calculator -- having to calculate numeric expressions involving units, and getting the result in a specific unit. This is something I've used the …

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    Comment #44483978

    I'm kinda wondering are there any countries that still use the long scale nowadays? For me the biggest thing I've had to learn is that in Russian we use a short scale, except we do…

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    Comment #44458790

    I'd go as far as to say it is carbon-based. >they cracked cell membranes >they found DNA Which by the way are carbon-based chemicals.

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    Comment #44427663

    So I've got some things that seem a little bit weird to me: 1. Typing uppercase characters counts as a mistake I'm not sure how that got to be the case, but somehow typing an upper…

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    Comment #44427375

    Yeah, this kinda becomes a problem when the library you are using does not distribute its source code, so even if you get the line, this information is practically useless to you. …

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    Comment #44416320

    Apprently this claim got removed in README in c4710d3e17b3888946e2283a26ad54968f8e9196 So yes apparently they have joined the dark side and embraced the yaml hell

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    Comment #44416311

    What does "fast" mean? Would have preferred to see benchmarks if this claim is to be made. I'm curious to see if it's faster than other CI workflow engines

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    Comment #44416280

    f00 is red, 1000h is the number of colors

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    Comment #44370938

    I'm curious as to how do they violate it