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> C is an abstraction of the machine, so thin it's nearly transparent. -Werror might help with that

Thought it was about electric fence the malloc debug library, and was surprised to see so many comments. Turns out it is not mentioned at all in the comments, so correcting that :)…

These days they do that using a vape, cover the PCB with a thick layer of vapor and see where it raises the fast after power-up. Youtube has videos.

Check out: https://www.history.com/news/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-7-pe... Look up the section for Anatoly Dyatlov

Ooooh, that hit the nerve )). The author, rather unfortunately, focuses primarily on the predation from the "generalized colleague", and that wasn't welcomed by many commenters, po…

> Maybe I've read to much French literature which set some expectations. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome >

Do you have siblings? How have they turned out?

> And even if you write inefficient code, CPUs are so fast that you won't notice it. I think you are arguing for the right cause but with wrong arguments. In C language, not unders…

"Potop" is also missing it seems? Didn't find "Katyn" either.

> Yeah they compile to the same machine code operations though. Not always. Switch your example to AARCH64 and check out the BFI instruction.

> ... malloc() returns a pointer to sequentially-addressable bytes ... malloc () doesn't return even that. It returns 'void *' which isn't of much use without a further upcast. The…

> It's also hard to know anything other than C++, because of how taxing the language is; there's little energy left in you to learn something else. When I think that in my industry…

I spent time typing in a setup with very dim ambient light (think of a photo room with dim red light). I still cannot touch-type, but after some time I discovered I can type in QWE…

> Changing return type from "void" into some "result" is a mechanical change. .. but then checking the returned val for error in every call sites is very far from mechanical change…

> 10. has anyone yet found a legitimate use for throwing an `int`? I use that a lot in constexpr computations -- to stop the compilation, I usually do 'throw __LINE__'. -- Using a …

Let's go see some figures! "Empirical Study of Power Consumption of x86-64 Instruction Decoder" https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool... From the conclusion:…

Somehow I doubt this wide-sweeping affirmation, are you sure? Atom is really big family by now, starting from Silvermont it vent full out of order with all bells and whistles, I fi…

> Mixing unsigned and signed is seriously broken in C, and hence better to stick with signed. Mmmm .. maybe in this specific case (didn't look). But if you meant this as general ad…

You are of course entitled to your personal opinion, and sharing it is OK, but this: > ... the low work ethic .. (I exaggerate, slightly). is a very wide-sweeping generalization wh…

> After years of optimization, I have a better quality of life than our CEO. I'd be insane to give it up. Maybe you did run in to it but haven't mentioned, or maybe 5 years is not …

Many (most by now?) consumer cable networks use SIP (check out PacketCable 2.0) and still don't/wouldn't interoperate. There is much more to voice calling than just SIP, big part o…

IBM s/370 (possibly even s/360) too had memory page tagging -- see instructions ISK / ISKE.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I am far from blaming employer on that. Or anyone for that matter (not Canadian, Europe, our govt does what they can ... you cannot break bones to national …

Over here, yes, it has gotten worse since 2001 -- asian shops press much harder now, cheap remote labor really easily available ... competition vent through the roof. Longer hours,…