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Exactly what I noticed. The "safer" function relies on the length arguments being correct, just as the copy function relied on the strings being null-terminated. The safer function…

I think the issue is that Tesla has a warranty problem, not a design flaw. With batteries, even if the battery management system shuts itself down and all subsystems, the battery c…

I was actually apologizing for the due process reference since it was a concept formed from the Magna Carta, and I wasn't necessarily adding to the discussion. But I do fully agree…

Give the guy due process at least.... Sorry, had to add that

Forget the essay, he listed the course as "Hist203L:Dimentions of History Lab"...

They may be trying to collect resumes (and job placement performance) from the top 1000 students to see what the correlation is. If they can prove that correlation, then they could…

We need laws that focus on drivers, not the devices. There are plenty of ways to be distracted while driving. There are also reasonable ways to manage some of these distractions if…

If mastering English is your goal, then reading == doing

This project seems much more accessible since shell scripting is a more fundamental glue language. But if you read Zach Holman's post[1] on glue languages he makes the point that J…

hacker news required reading of course: Hackers & Painters - pg