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The proper name for the calendar using the Gregorian system before the start of the Gregorian calendar is "the proleptic Gregorian calendar".

Nothing more complex than Hello world is easy to implement in C without risking mistakes in checking boundary conditions if you are not really careful.

Maybe there is something else in Gelidium amansii that it needs, if the tokoroten was produced in the traditional way?

Windows has its own library built-in: NLS. There have been a lot of back-and-forth about whether to use NLS or ICU in dotnet on Windows because it resulted in different behavior be…

But wasn't the whole (claimed) reason that it got banned in the first place that it is a logical impossibility? Reviewing code for bugs is legitimate. Writing regression tests for …

m68knommu was merged into the mainline kernel in version 2.5.46: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangeLog-2.5.4... Of course the 2.5 line was the unstable pre-release…

> A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclu…

I really wish they would have asked the representative to confirm that they can only share detailed information with the skeletal remains of an author who died 78 years ago. Not th…

I have been trying to work on debugging tools using Opus 4.8. As it turns out working with low-level techniques that inspects and alters behavior of other processes is bordering cl…

That's cool and all if you are writing GCC or Clang dialect C, but it doesn't change the fact that it is UB in the C standard.

It's not difficult not to lie to your customers. If you are actually selling a subscription then don't claim the customer is buying the game, and this law won't apply to you.

NTSYNC seems quite cumbersome to use for your own linux software though > The ntsync driver creates a single char device /dev/ntsync. Each file description opened on the device rep…

They are GINA gaskets[0], they were supposed to last 120 years[1], but it has recently been shown that they may deteriorate faster than previously expected due to being under const…

And if you switch the tty from "cooked" to "raw" mode then it doesn't do the conversion, and a CR just moves the cursor back to the start of the line and a LF just moves the cursor…

You can tell people what something is, that is nominative use of the trademark. Actually putting it in center of the branding might be infringing, but Don Ho gave their blessing to…

That was 11 years ago, under DHI Group though. I don't think Slashdot Media have been up to the same shady stuff.

Is the "genetic testing" for the presence of a Y chromosome or the presence of the SRY gene? And what about people with AIS? If it's just karyotype, are men with XX male syndrome (…

They haven't pierced the corporate veil as far as I can tell - it's not moot or any other executives that have been personally fined. Also as far as I'm aware the UK doesn't have d…

See https://reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billi... AutoModerator on /r/linux is set up to automatically remove posts after a set amount of reports.

Okay, but what does any of that have to do with knowing that the glyph at U+237C originated as a symbol for azimuth?

Hmm the comment was a bit difficult to parse, but I think they got it correct. Remember that we have arbitrarily defined the time during local winter as the "standard" time. If we …

You might need several more dimensions (assuming this quoted claim is correct - it does come with a Citation Needed) > Recent genetic analysis shows the papedas to be distributed a…

According to wikipedia they are cultivated from a hybrid of mandarin orange and Ichang papeda, the latter being from another wild lineage than the three shown.

It sounds plausible, but they really need to spell out exactly what the formatting requirements are, because it can make a huge difference in how efficiently you can write the json…

> The output should be encoded as a pretty JSON string. So apparently that is what they consider "pretty JSON". I really don't want to see what they would consider "ugly JSON". (I …