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The cop's behavior was inexcusable. Even if he had those orders, he could have informed her and arrest her calmly without unecessarily escalating the situation. The loss of temper …

I'm also using (for now) something based on these time checks (also pure posix + local, but local is extremely portable (tests well on 7 shells), though mine's a little more involv…

I once benchmarked reads with `mmap` vs `read` ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/39196499/1084774 ) . mmap starts winning big time once the file is >= 16KiB. Copying should have similar…

I'm for a complete and total shutdown of all Americans entering the European Union until we figure out what the hell is going on over there.

I haven't seen it in practice, but OOM is conceivably recoverable in certain cases (e.g., exponential vector growth with large capacities fails on a 32 bit system, but switching to…

It's a common (gcc/clang/tcc) compiler extension (chapter 6.1 of the gcc manual) that allows you to use parentheses around a compound statement to turn the compound statement into …

True. However, I think in the case of the dynamic array, this effect is minor. The macros are small, and most of the time, they end up wrapped in a function anyway. But, admittedly…

Expression macros `({, })` aren't standard either. But I sort of go with, if all gcc/clang/tinycc support it and it's a highly useful feature, then it's part of C as far as I'm con…

__typeof_ is a compile-time feature. It's like C++'s decltype. (You can make C++'s auto out of it too.) There's is a potential for code size increases with this approach, that's tr…

I like my C alternative better. I pass growth factors/increments as parameters to the vector macros so that I can affect how it grows on capacity exhaustion during each call and I …

In my codebase, I use expression macros (with a little bit of __typeof__-based type checks) to do it fully generically. Much of what you think you need C++ for can be done almost j…

A very smart programmer who's made a large contribution to society decides not to have kids while people of which neither can be said breed like rabbits. Looks like we'll be wateri…

So true. A page long rant is much more reasonable than the ten-or-so keystrokes that would paste the ULONLONGs in there.

Czech (his passport) changes endings all over the place. It's how our grammar works. Nouns and adjectives have different endings depending on their contextual gender associations. …

Smuggling tip: On a Slavic passport, if your last name ends in ova, it says you're female.

I appreciate your appreciating my jibe. Good luck with your suite and sorry for the little bit of negativity. Command line apps are my favorite type of apps.

I'm quite unfond of this command suite pattern that seems to be popular in cli apps lately. It's a very git thing to do. Why not just mac-whatever1 mac-whatever2? It has less coupl…

Technology may well bring about a collapse of democracy as we know it. No longer are the mediocre and the below mediocre insulated from actual decision making for reasons of imprac…

I don't understand why someone thought it was a good idea to require that POSIX stdio should lock the thread. It slows down stdio several times compared to the nonlocking version, …

Nothing against gotos, but the cringe from that implementation was way too strong. Why does this even get any attention at all?