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fonheponho

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    Comment #48434852

    > The elegance of the fork() + exec() model is that every kind of configuration can be done after the fork using all the usual APIs. Unfortunately, the opposite is true, when the p…

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    Comment #47479548

    I have no love lost for Wayland, but this: > Make easy things easy. Make hard things doable. is generally unachievable. Instead, pick one: - easy things easy, hard things impossibl…

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    Comment #47479366

    > It does not matter which is the relationship between the sizes of such types, there will always be values of the operand that cannot be represented in the result. It's not that b…

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    Comment #47476512

    Everybody seems to be missing the forest for the trees on this. There is absolutely no "sign extension" in the C standard (go ahead, search it). "Sign extension" is a feature of so…

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    Comment #47137070

    One of the most fascinating and moving writings I've read in my life.

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    Comment #47018472

    Exactly; I can't understand this obsession with header-only C "libraries".