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That's literally what this post is about.

I am more shocked by the "overnight" aspect. I tried running clang-format on the Chromium source (68,281 .cc files, 21 million lines according to wc): $ find chromium-149.0.7826.1/…

I want to drop here the not very well known fact, that the SQL Standard grammar distinguishes between "SQL language identifier" and "regular identifier". According to the rules, a …

.NET Core ran on Linux from version 1.0 on and it was released 2016 .

Only cellular iPads have GPS IIRC.

Giving employees stock options does not solve the "employes should own the company" problem, when there is a market to sell the stock. Shareholders and employees have different goa…

A nice illustrative example of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer_fixed-point_theorem

I'm also interested. Setting up a passwordless SSH account for some public service sounds like a good way to give your machine away to North Korean hackers, because you forgot to s…

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/micro-chart-cpu-reference-... has a few more charts from the same publisher.

Pi5 is already on Geekbench. Speed seemed to be on the ballpark of a mobile Intel i5 dual core 4xxx IIRC.

Under UNIX, the lowest available file descriptor for the process is returned from open/create (also in Posix). So if you close(0) and then immediately open() something, you will (p…

2008 ThinkPad t400 user here, running Ubuntu. Most business class notebooks are incredibly durable and the market offers replacement parts for 10 of 15 year old devices. A t400 bat…

Transputer (and Occam) designer David May founded XMOS in 2005 where the ideas of the Transputer are still alive in the the xCore Architecture they make and sell. Their SDK offers …

>If you’re lucky, the LED will have a CRI of 90 or higher EU has banned incandescent lights years ago and the situation for LED buyers is much different here. My local drug store c…

Hey Bard, ever heard of Descartes?

I am not seeing an option to pass a password to the archive extractors. Is the any?

Yes, this was awesome. They explained the VM and everything.

I remember how I read about functional programming languages for the first time in the August 1985 Byte issue, which I bought as a teenager because it featured a technical rundown …

Sherlock Holmes stories are almost always narrated by Watson IIRC. ChatGPT missed that too, didn't it?

Every Covid self test I've ever used had two red lines for postive and one red line for negative. Why are there tests out there that need color vision?

The legal issue seems to stem from a few Sonos patents: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/8/13/22623977/son... For example, Sonos has patented "Method and apparatus for ad…

Related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29092292

Do I miss something, or does the quick sort example fail to handle the case where the value of "fst" is present more than once in the list?

Wrong. (-1/2) is 0, (-1>>1) is -1 in C/C++/Java/C#...

Now Docker should provide some way to bridge container ports to UDS. That would be perfect.