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If you have a web API that returns a 200 OK with a JSON object with a missing entry when an item is not found, instead of a 404 error, then you have a bug in your API. But you cann…

The people who matter, who write init scripts, in other words the distro maintainers, were happy to switch. Why else do you think so many distributions switched? Yes, the resistanc…

The journalctl binary format seems to handle corruption pretty well. That was a design criteria. Everyone forgets or tries to ignore that text files ARE A BINARY FORMAT. It is enco…

That isn't exactly switching engines. That's the Vulkan renderer they're working on. It is a component of the same engine they're already using.

LOL! No, the HDD never was reasonably fast. Our expectations changed. I booted up an old Windows XP box about two years ago before recycling it. It took almost TWO MINUTES to finis…

I have a Windows virtual machine that was doing this to me a lot, and making Ubuntu reboots take a long time, and then requiring a disk check after the unclean shutdown. I found a …

Not counting BIOS time it is about 5 seconds to Windows login on my Windows with NVMe systems. It does take about 20 seconds after login for it to finish loading all of the tiny st…

I believe the benefits of cryptocurrency outweigh problems. I like having options that can be anonymous, don't require banks, immune to government influence, and even completely ou…

Old tools stay around because they are good tools. See windbg also.

But it would be transpiled so the programmer would never need to look at the very ugly stuff. The idea reminds me of the original asm.js

> Wouldn’t all sequence points executed before undefined behavior is encountered be required to occur as if the undefined behavior wasn’t there? It would seem so: No. Code optimiza…

Your other choices are: - Never GC via using object pools. This code is nastier than C++ because Java is not intended to be used this way. - GC whenever needed randomly. The game w…

It is about making money. Starlink is a money generating system that makes use of low cost launch made possible by SpaceX. If it does use up most of the low orbit space it is becau…

Build better walls. Don't try to outlaw people "looking at you", no matter what frequency they use. I find it equally ridiculous to try to outlaw software radio that might listen t…

Copy-on-write is exactly what G++ and libstdc++ did with std::string before C++11 changed the spec. And it was terrible and full of bugs. I remember how I had to solve a pile of th…

Some applications using OpenGL or Vulkan and Wayland compositing end up with latency related to one or two frames of the screen refresh. Which means that characters appear onscreen…

I like to nitpick and point out gets() can be used safely, as a stunt. Memory map a read/write page and after that memory map a no-permissions guard page. Now you can safely use ge…

In relativity, everything is relative. You can choose any "rest frame" that you like and all the math still works out. For the star, from its point of view its mass has not changed…

Yes, if allocation failure is not tested, it is not likely to work correctly. SQLite is also famous for its strict and complete test sets.

Being good as headphones does not necessarily make a headset bad as a microphone. I have a set of Bluetooth Plantronics Backbeat PRO. There is no boom mic, but everyone I have talk…

I have had to help a few Unix newbies, and systemd is way easier to explain than RedHat init scripts with comment blocks for chkconfig and no useful errors if things are wrong. The…

These tools are mostly useless because they take time to discover and learn to use. In the meantime you could have solved the problem. Developers who waste all their time searching…

Latency often does increase with new generations of RAM. But remember to compensate latency cycle counts with the faster cycles of higher speed RAM. Often the absolute time in nano…

From what I have seen the available spare value will decrease rapidly near end of life. As Flash cells start to fail they are replaced by spare. Because of write leveling this is d…

Many people are happy to save $100 in exchange for not having 8 USB ports. Or $300 to not have dual 10G Ethernet ports. If you aren't getting "adequate rear I/O" then go looking fo…