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Maybe the store was recently opened? This project is from last year, I just finished the write-up now.

NUC is a single board computer :) If you think the price is high, I would point out that the SSD I used cost €200 new when I purchased it back in mid 2022. A used 120 GB SSD by con…

I probably would have if it had been available at the time. This project was actually done last spring/summer.

If this was going to be used for some "big and serious" application, maybe different choices would have been made. Hopefully it was clear from the post that my goals here were the …

Yes, I considered that and agree that it would have been nicer! I didn't pursue it for this project because my jury-rigged SD boot was working fine and I wanted to move on to other…

> challenges rm -rf /var/tracking_data/jforberg

It rarely makes sense. Pointer to const is a contact between caller and callee. A signature like char strdup(const char ) says "I take a pointer to memory that I promise not to mod…

> Our observations are consistent with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

I mostly deal with openembedded at work and I have few positive things to say about it. I'm sure Nix is much faster and nicer. Frankly it's hard to imagine that the opposite could …

That looks completely inscrutable to me. Like a sequence of magic words. I don't see the connection with JSON at all.

If you'd like to hear the case against OOP in modern programming, the Rich Hickey talks are a pretty good place to start: * The value of values * Simple made easy * Are we there ye…

> "Virtually all Server OSs get hacked/have had security bugs. Nobody should use them to host or store anything." Your comparison is flawed. Most server installations are not broke…

Are you implying that DRM is a solution to piracy? If anything, DRM is a big driver for piracy, and its success rate is near zero. Virtually all major DRM-"protected" works are ava…

Gotta get rid of all those nasty pure functions. Can't have any of that cruft in muh object oriented language.

This is true, but if anything it reinforces my point that continuing past a signal is the exception, not the rule. In the general case services are not at liberty to just exit(), t…

This discussion seems to ignore the fact that being blocked in a "long-running system call" is the normal state for many (most?) Unix services. If you look at `ps ax` on your syste…

Spotify did it right; they managed to put together a service that is actually better than piracy in the ways that matter to a typical consumer. The movie and TV industry have inste…

No, your point is still extremely muddled. Cuda and Wolfram are both compilers/runtimes, they fill exactly the same role of translating high-level code into something that can run …

What if we could have examples on our homepage that actually made the product seem useful in some way...

Guess what, all you need to prove in order to get a new "valid" cert is that you control the server. And, if you control the server then you already have access to the original cer…

Indeed. What I would really like is a way to toggle it on case-by-case basis. With -fwrapv you have to convince the code owner to toggle it globally, which can complicate things un…

That sounds reasonable. I agree that overflow is often a bug (and in GCC can use -ftrapv to enforce that view). But overflow is also frequently what you want in algorithms that dea…

Nice! That's something I often wish GCC had.