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No, I actually have a bunch of older Macs I keep running for certain experiments.

Whoa, thanks for the heads-up. I've been reading news about Zig from time to time, and planned giving it an honest try at 1.0 (whenever that may be) but it seems I'm out of luck. D…

If I were a Rust user, I'd be really afraid of what will happen to Rust when Microsoft gets hold of it in any way. Just look at what happened to C++ after it got popular because of…

Sounds like there is money to be made, no?

I can't help it, but reading Dom McLaughlin's testimony (scroll down to the examples) "...let's just say I'm not the most photogenic person..." makes me want to instantly go out an…

I love vim. It's a fantastic OS. Unfortunately it lacks a good editor.

Does anyone know what "Outside the US, we’ll support employees in line with local practices." exactly means? In Germany I could imagine it to be "You're fired. Go to the Arbeitsage…

The premise of a space craft traveling the long distance from earth to Mars and then crashing because of a unit mismatch is very amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate…

There is only one point around the whole Oumuamua topic for me, that makes me a bit sad. Extraterrestrial or not is not it, but that we had no means to just fly there (with or with…

This has nothing to do with C, and everything with its intended problem domain. You can get into pointer and memory errors in C++, Rust and Ada. All of them low-level system langua…

Not to be nitpicking, but there is a free(), and it is called "Unchecked deallocation". See https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05aarm... .

As someone who started his own company fifteen years ago I can relate. Being german, the process itself was not that much of a hassle. But the financial aspect of having to pay for…

From the front page: "Your program will also boot on bare metal too. In other words, you've written a normal textbook C program, and thanks to Cosmopolitan's low-level linker magic…

Have an upvote for making my day :-).

Made my day :-).

I hope i did not understand you wrong, but what I meant was the following. We create electric energy from source X. The electric energy is mutated to heat, or mechanical energy or …

Could someone please enlighten a physics noob? As i understand it, nuclear fusion could (as soon as really achieved, i.e. there exist commercial plants) provide more energy than we…

I'm honestly curios, so please bear with me. All the HN threads about recruiting mention this. I get the argument, and yes, there seems to be no better way than to test the candida…

> This person should already have enough of a reputation to get a job at many companies, if their work is public enough. But then why do people with that kind of reputation still (…

That's why you don't use it on small microcontrollers (8/16 bit). And if you absolutely have to, use it once on startup to implement a dynamic memory pool.

If you ask an embedded developer (as in bare metal, no OS), who is also into electronics, instant gratification and especially instant feedback, is what actually makes you choose t…

"2. Society stopped valuing education as much. While once educators traded lower pay for the prestige of being a professor they can’t really say it is a worthy trade anymore as a v…

Simple. Not to fall for marketing slogans and false promises, and not to rely too much on the results of technology. If you know (at least basically) how the sausage is made, you w…

Thank you very much for answering, although it is a very personal thing to ask about. I guess I should get an official opinion. Nevertheless, diagnosed or not, virtualizing people …

Have an upvote from me and thank you so much for this comment. This describes perfectly my own state of mind. I've noticed having problems communicating my thoughts about my code i…