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That order is not guaranteed consistent across installations, however.
I wonder if code to this effect has ever been written before for (int i = 1; i
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And so, yes, I’m certain someone must have done it, because it’s clearly bad idea jeans and so Murphy’s Law says it must exist.
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Honest question - what the heck are those characters?
In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character
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And that, children, is when marginalia_nu unlocked the seventh circle of the inferno. Tomorrow we'll read the story of how our new demon overlords forced us all back to Windows 3.1.
Win 3.1? on DOS 6.22? Actually, this sounds like heaven. Just don't put it on the public 'tubes.
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On POSIX systems file names are not strings, they are sequences of bytes. They might not be UTF-8 or have any meaning. Python3 had to hack around this, they thought they could force everything to Unicode and discovered that doesn't work.
Which makes for fun issues like there's no standard way to display a filename in Unix. A system that's, you know, all about files.
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No, it frees you to pick whatever unmessy solution you want. You can do `configure --prefix=/Program\ Files/ ` if you want.
If I am not writing all of my installation scripts by hand, because that would be really intense, then every folder gets filled with random bits of software. Offering too many similar choices leads to mess. There's nothing fundamentally different between using one or more of these options and using the only option, except that in the second case there isn't any opportunity to make mess. > You can do `configure --pref…
What does that even mean? When you install something, you put it where you want it.
If you don’t like where your distribution puts files, choose a different one. Not all of them use the same convention.
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GoboLinux does exactly that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux
How do you deal with lack of being able to just point to "/usr/lib/include" or other things when saying "here's my directory of shared libs"? This is definitely interesting though, and an improvement I would say
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This goes for most instances of user input. Timestamps is the other common one people get wrong. I've even seen programs that pass around timestamps as strings in multiple formats and as integers (Unix time).
As a programming noob, I'm wondering what would be the better way to pass or return a unix time value as opposed to an integer?
But also a "use a font that has a proper capital ß" hipster.