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I'm reminded here that JPEG includes arithmetic encoding as part of the standard, but almost everyone uses Huffman because up until a couple years ago arithmetic encoding was paten…

It varies a lot, though. My T1D supplies (as a college student on my parents' insurance) cost more like $50-$75 a month.

POSIX make really does make auto dependencies hard, but GNU make actually solves this fairly cleanly by adding an include directive. As long as you have a script or program to proc…

Less typing is exactly the benefit, and with it less chance of error because of less repeated code. It is also another way of showing parallelism in your code. And again, the wrong…

When I first started programming in C, I did the same thing with pointers (i.e., char* str; instead of char *str; ). Unfortunately, this creates the wrong impression that char* str…