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King is good, also Seacord’s books: Effective C and Secure Coding ..

Just ignore suggestions (parroting really) for K&R. It’s probably the worst introduction to C when it comes to good habits, undefined behavior and writing secure code, since it doesn’t even attempt to cover any of these but presents a total facade regarding what programming in C is like.

K&R has created generations of people who call themselves C programmers but are essentially clueless when it comes to deep understanding of the language. Anyone that recommends K&R today is someone you want to avoid taking any advice on programming from.
> I do expect people to move away from Emac because of it, and I do expect people to just have a fork, potentially with increasingly more macOs specific features.

1) Emacs isn't a business, so it doesn't care if it loses market share.

2) Emacs won't have any trouble keeping up with a MacOS fork if it wants to. The software is GPL. It's not like Open Source, it's yours no matter what happens. Apple will be obligated to share everything it does. Emacs will merge it if it likes it.
I just went straight to the comments looking for "in mice", not disappointed
I don’t imagine OP had a 34 year old book in mind when there has been multiple C standards since then.
A German word, “Realsatire” comes to mind. As you might guess from the words alone, it describes something so absurd, you wouldn’t believe it not to be an exaggeration if you didn’t experience it yourself.
And in August there was this:

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1561775821257379840
What?! Of course it’s possible
Better than dying of old age though.
Yeah, it's a valid comparison. I will let you in on a secret: I have a full 1990s' Britannica set in my home, about three metres from my desk.

I consult it maybe four or five times a year, and the Britannica website maybe another dozen times or so.

Still, it's good to always be aware that the ways Wikipedia and Britannica are produced are very different and to factor that in (see my post below from just a couple of minutes ago, about the desert article).
Simplified Piet interpreter written in Python
I think it handles all of those situations really gracefully. It sets fair limits on what it asks for, but is unyielding about what it requires.
Amazing how only an extra 2 pixels horizontally adds a ton of readability. If I was ever going to use a font like this I would hands down use your 4x6 version over the barely legible 4x4 that was linked.
There are three types of meetings
There's a difference between "being" stressed out -- and your employer taking specific actions to make you stressed out so that you quit.

Ramping up work expectations

With the specific intent of causing the employee to quit, you meant to say. This in fact fits precisely with the language of the California Supreme Court in the section you referred to.
> Is x86 at the end of the road?

No. AMD and Intel are the oligopolistic providers for an unbelievably vast software ecosystem that practically rules all computing outside embedded (and some legacy mainframes here and there), are they going to throw away that market position just because the cleaner encoding of ARM or RISC-V would save an estimated low single-digit % of decoding power [1]?

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool...
> the free software movement has been an amazing success.

It is a pretty hollow success though, just look at what it enabled; adtech, large corporations, proprietary SaaS, locked down consumer devices etc.
And to tell it somehow not to keep the clock running. Which of course is not possible.
No, they aren't. Most houses that I've been in have electric heating, but not central heating. Folks heat each room seperately. Occasionally, it is baseboard heat. More commonly, it is portable heaters or electric panel heaters hung on a wall and plugged into a socket. Heated floors in the restroom are fairly common.

I personally have a small attic apartment in Trondheim (Norway). It has bathroom floor heat and came with one wall panel: I actually just use one oil-filled electric radiator and keep a fairly cool bedroom. Wood heating is pretty common too - one of the scents of fall is the lighting of fireplaces.

That said, more central heating is starting to become popular in the form of heat pumps, but I honestly only know one person that has one - and they are on a farm in the countryside instead of here in the city.
> But no matter how much proof is presented, people believe what they want to believe, for no other reason than to disagree with the environmentalists and academic community.

I think you are wrong about that. Many rational people do the cost–benefit analysis of fixing global warming and arrive to the conclusion that it isn't worth it. Those people believe that the negative consequences simply aren't that bad and that they can be overcome through progressive adaptation and technological progress. Those people will maybe accept small costs like switching to reasonably priced EV car.
It is easier to detect with thumb drives.

A fake (say) Gucci handbag is made with less premium materials, but only savvy consumers would notice once it arrived. You would not necessarily know from the product details on Amazon, but may have a clue based on price.

Whereas 1tb thumb drives have been sold for years now on Amazon and Wish and what-have-you but only recently did real 1TB thumb drives come into existence. Real Gucci bags have been around for decades.

Any 1tb drive which costs less than hundreds of dollars is fake. Full stop.
Oh wow, thats neat! Thanks!
With or without same symbols? There is 362880 ways to map symbols. That is replace 1 with 9 and so on.
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>not multiple differently named tools. I like the simpler interface this provides

They've been working towards this with the (introduced[0] in v2 few years ago) experimental `nix` command that combines the various `nix-*` commands.

[0]: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/release-notes/rl-2.0.htm...
> Don't meet in person - some kind of dating site that forces you not to meet in person, so everything must stay online

I might steal this one.
That's not a scam, it's stupidity.

It would be a scam if half of the keys did nothing from the start.

As it is it's design in California inside an air conditioned and purified office. You're using the laptop wrong if you take it outside ;)

Source: I own one of those unusuable keyboards.
No, Mastodon 'users' have to keep linking tweets from Twitter in Mastodon more frequently and it is not the other way round on Twitter.
Can confirm that in the "socialized" health care system of the UK, the "quota" is more like a "cap" and the optimization done is towards 0 not infinity.
It also doesn't have to be shut down entirely. It could morph into a form that doesn't work for a lot of people, but does for others (yet making meta more profitable).

I presume this Metaverse thing is that. Facebook may stop being the platform that serves every second person on earth a feed of images and text. Or stop being the place where we can communicate for free. Once profitability shifts to VR sets, virtual-asset markets and augmented advertising (or whatever markets emerge, if any)
I was too loose with that. There is CLIPDraw and others that operate at the stroke/action level but haven't been trained on as much data. Still impressive at the time:

https://www.louisbouchard.ai/clipdraw/
Do you think humans have run out of things to invent and improve? Are standards of living good enough that we can be content to stop here? Why exactly should we expect (let alone hope) that growth will stop?
Maybe more like: "We have a bull market and almost no unemployment; let's lower the interest rate to below zero".
With the advent of the internet, one can pick and choose copious examples to cast either political party as hypocrites. This is because political parties are formed of lots of people, and most of their leaders will not live by their claimed prinicples (because lying and signalling is a much easier path to winning elections than living by principles).

I cannot emphasize enough how much both parties are corrupted by this. Both parties are beholden to corporate funding, and to the groupthink of their elite friends whose problems and concerns are not representative of Americans.

And the Republican leadership will have secret affairs and secret abortions, while the Democratic leadership will send their children to private schools (or the public schools of exculsive enclaves), while the former preach about the sanctity of life and marriage, and the later preach about the importance of diversity and public education.
>DOers will always come out ahead. Not do it once but acting on your ideas regularly. Yes, some ideas will go wrong but at least you know the out come.

Especially if they are already rich.

>DOers are those we read about all the time.

Because nobody wants to hear about the DOer that failed and ruined his/her life.

>You never hear about those that did nothing. Maybe, we read their name in a grave stone.

And maybe they had a great family and their name will be remembered in the family for generations as the "founder" of the family. Almost a mythological figure.
Any resources that take a project based approach to teaching C?

I find just learning language features in isolation doesn’t give a complete picture.
As a funny aside, the author of one of the early works on wavelets [1] employed the first person plural pronoun with a footnote on the first page defining it as the “Royal we”

[1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1994-2280
Hi! OP here, thanks for your comment. Please note that I'm not a native English speaker so probably during translation I might have miswritten concepts as I intended. Let me explain.

The fact that he released the first genesis block on 3rd January 2009 with the sentence of UK Times article is not casual. We can see from the first version of the source code that his network was ready many days before that date. Was he waiting for "fixing issues"? No, he ended up clearly with a release that contained many errors (e.g. amount created in genesis block can not be spent).

> Isn't this completely normal in programming? I only ever use the plural first person in code unless I'm specifically referring to myself as a human (in the same way that academic writing uses the plural).

Yeah, I do agree. However if you notice there are some comments written in a particular style ( with double slashes //) and there are some others written with four slashes. It's really weird to have both styles on codes, unless there are more people (>= 1) that work on the code or that reviews the code.

In addition to this, please understand that none of my content must be taken as the only truth in this world, so I'm open to any discussions about those weird things I noticed :)
Did you bother to check? AirTags doesn't have any battery by itself, they use replaceable CR2032, which are most commonly lithium. Although alkaline alternatives exist.
Haven't lived in Sweden for 35 years, so not familiar with that. A web search found https://1177.se , is it that?

We also have it in Finland as https://kanta.fi. You can see all your healthcare visits, but only short summaries. Results from examinations are not there. Got the analysis of my last blood samples on paper. But that was a friendly doctor, often you get nothing. I think legally you have the right to get everything, not sure, haven't been ill... But you'd need to request it and there is no standardized way to do so regardless of healthcare provider.
Self Referencing HN Submission
They are completely different markets, the M1 and M2 are part of Apple's consumer devices, mostly premium notebooks running macOS. That's a niche market even compared to premium notebooks running Windows.
NixOS has had the new `nix` command for a long while, this bundles up all the functionality under one command just like `apt` or `guix`. It's still marked as experimental and has to be enabled manually, but once done you'll never have to touch any of the old commands ever again. The only problem left is that a lot of the documentation still refers to the old commands.

> It is however a bummer that there's no socially-approved way to share packages of non-free software on the official channels

There is https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

That's one thing I prefer about NixOS, with Nix Flakes you can just turn any old Git repository into a package. No need to be part of any channels or need for the user to setup anything, you can just build and install straight from the upstream source with a single command line if they provide a `flake.nix` file. This automatically resolves a lot of pointless drama about what should or shouldn't be part of the distribution and makes it trivial to distribute patches and workarounds.
Productivity here doesn't mean "how much you get done" but "how much money is made off you". There may be some ways in which the two ideas correlate, but it's a complicated relationship and it's not even always in the same direction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33130986
This. I wonder why so many seem so eager to engage in the fantasy that Intel (and AMD) are planning to jump ship to ARM or RISC-V.

Yes, ISA's matter, to a point. And yes, ARM64 and RISC-V are much closer to 'best practice' ISA design than x86 with all its legacy baggage. But enough better to make AMD&Intel throw away the x86 market and their position in that as explained in the parent comment? No effing way.
Trains in large parts of northern Germany have been stopped (now running again)
Sounds like nearly every tool in history: it enabled good things and bad things.
Sign me up! Fridman’s prompts are like some alien kind of ads rendering the conversation unbearable.
Is there a way to get this score under GDPR?
I think it is time to refuse to call GPL 'free software'. It is not free like freedom. It can be free as free beer, but since you must pay for it with your changes, and can't/hard to monetize them, free as beer is questionable as best.
There's just something about that 68000 series processor with all those registers that seems very appealing. The silly part is I've got 16 64 bit registers in the machine I'm using right now.
I think of the use of we as the team of programmer and computer. I can see people not doing this but I don't think you could infer anything either way.
aobdev's idea of reimbursement doesn't work in either direction. The price you paid for something is only weakly connected to the thing's current value. But your damages are equal to whatever the current value is. If you bought a painting for $20 and it's appreciated to $15,000, you're owed $15,000 when someone destroys it. If you bought a suit for $2,000 and it's more moth-hole than cloth and it's been through a few paintball fights, you're not owed $2,000 when someone destroys it.
I am very pro-wikipedia.

If there's a problem with Wikipedia or even just the way that people use Wikipedia then I think it should be discussed, because that improves Wikipedia, and Wikipedia is an amazing human achievement.

I'll repeat my comment the last time this came up, that if you want a basic summary (probably more suitable for school) then the simple English Wikipedia exists.

It is slightly less likely to have a long rambling article.

I personally like the long rambling articles, because the point of a wiki should be to be easily updated, to harness the most intellectual input, and I feel it often better reflects reality than a polished summary.

But there is a place for polished summaries. Probably won't be long before they are done by AI (introducing more fascinating philosophical questions) but for now simple human written pages are available.

There seems to be some concerted movement to not fund Wikipedia, I'd encourage people to both donate money and time. The easiest way to get that money spent is by having lots of people using and improving Wikipedia and its sister projects.
I solved this problem by switching to GNU/Linux on the laptop and on the phone.
> The FSF is on the winning side of the war they are fighting, the GPL is nearly everywhere except firmware and phones.

The degree to which the FSF is synonymous with the GPL is exactly how much they've lost. The FSF's fight was never "for the GPL", the GPL was a tool to win the fight for people to be able to control their computers rather than the other way around. It's like saying (actual) war is "for the tanks".

The GPL is everywhere but people are more than ever at the mercy of opaque, inflexible, abusive computational systems. The FSF lost.
Seems like HN doesn't let you comment on those. At least I can't.
Crisis, combined with the pseudo-anonymity of the internet has a tendency to encourage people to show who they really are – and amplify their worst instincts. Unfortunately this leads to the conclusion that many (if not most) of those commenting online are full of shit.
If there are no companies selling affordable 2.5Gb switches there’s also no incentive to drive down the price.
Is there a version of this searchable online?
The “vote with your feet” argument has always been BS. The trend is overwhelmingly towards the introduction of DRM. It may be that there are options now, but soon there won’t be any.
It's FUD because OP cannot possibly know that "This is about them not wanting the public to see". That's pure speculation, and it fits the FUD definition perfectly.
Grace Hopper had a PhD in Mathematics from Yale.
Google is a tool
like a knife. If you don't know how to use it, you can cut yourself.

In a world, there children can't avoid knifes, children should be thought how to use them safely.

Google returning nonsense results can be exploited as a teachable moment. That is why non-practical questions such as the one about gravity and atmosphere are useful, they encourage developing more widely applicable skills (healthy skepticism) while stakes are low.
funny, USPS is still on the federal level last i was aware; and all your phone calls are monitored
> Also, even with the above stupid stuff, you can disable secure boot for now and move on with your life.

Except for Android phones (nominally, an open source OS), disabling the cryptographic protections results in the loss of your Safety Net status, and from now on a whole host of applications will refuse to work at all, or have reduced functionality. Make no mistake, I think this is the future of the PC.
Sorry, but this simply isn't true. Hasn't been ever, really.

I say this as someone who set up and scaled one of Europe's large dedicated WordPress hosting platforms. Everything, from nginx-phpfpm to varnish to scaling that horrible mess of plugins and themes your Fiverr dev delivered beyond just five req/min.

It really isn't very easy. And certainly not simple.
> Who Is Behind Satoshi?

Curiously, the most credible candidate [1] is practically never mentioned, while that complete and utter Faketoshi clown always is...

[1] https://chainbulletin.com/the-unmasking-satoshi-aftermath
I suggest you first rewrite a operatingsystem in rust, maybe ask the openbsd community.
I get where you're coming from but it's not really practical. (For a start, how to decide which user is a first-time user, if there even is such a thing today?)

What I will say is that for a while the Wikimedia Foundation was trumpeting things like that somewhat flawed Britannica study and gave out PR messages along the lines of "See, we are reliable and as good as Britannica. Even doctors trust us." (Some journalists are still promoting that sentiment, and I think they are doing everyone a disservice. Example: https://twitter.com/Wikiland/status/1569781042764222464 Nobody should trust Wikipedia.)

Around 2016 though the Wikimedia Foundation shifted emphasis and its CEO would say things like "We don't guarantee accuracy, do check the references cited in the article". That was the right thing to do.

The rest is up to users now. I am all in favour of sharing stories of how things can go wrong when people trust Wikipedia blindly. Here are a few:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-37523772

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amelia-bedelia-wikipedia-ho...

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-a-ra...

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...
She could have just gotten those Kindle books from the library.

I recently dug into my property taxes and found I’m paying over $200/year (!) for the library. A lot more than the cost of Amazon Prime. Since I found this out, I’ve been using the library a lot more ..

As for our Amazon “customer score”, wish we could see it. I bet they have merchant scores too - would be interesting to see the number of returns per product displayed on each product page/merchant page.
I have AirTags in a case that is shipped by air a lot (without me being on the same flights) and once I got an updated location in midflight.
In Hacker News, we don't do memes.
It's not quite that simple. Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, but not Debian. Trying to install Ubuntu packages on Debian or the other way around will result in a complete mess. They are different and incompatible OS. That they share some roots doesn't really help much.

Debian was never flexible enough of an OS to allow all the customization that Ubuntu needed to do to happen in Debian itself, thus it had to be forked. That to me is a failure, not a success. Forks should always be the absolute last resort, yet are common place with distributions, which creates a terrible situation for the user, has features they might want end up being spread across numerous different distributions.
Thanks, I did not know about this!
It's really sad what Amazon has turned into :(.

Nowadays I only buy products from brands / companies I know (and I do visit my local electronic stores to buy them). It's really hard to find a brand on Amazon that doesn't sound like its name wasn't generated :).

Regarding these scam listings: I wouldn't buy a usb stick from a brand like "pullheart", "kiknin", "probuk", or "generic" (I'm not making these names up).

Also: the biggest capacity for a usb stick Verbatim or Intenso offer is 256GB (Verbatim) or 512GB (Intenso). These companies have websites with product information.
Presumably Ukraine would have to lose the war for that to happen now.
archive.org link

https://web.archive.org/web/20221008065200/https://www.tradi...
I forgot to add that there is the risk of 'Osborning'[1] x86 on day 1 of announcing a move to a new architecture as they effectively declare it a 'legacy' product.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Nice little bridge you have there to bring supplies, it would be a pity if someone blew it up...
Far-Ultraviolet LED Efficiently Kills Bacteria and Viruses Not Harming People
Supposedly not putting in airplane mode will also wreak havoc with cell towers when flying low enough to cause interference and hella-frequent base station handovers.

Though I've found the latest generation of planes to be pretty much faraday cages, with most planes I'd believe it.
Allowing someone to push products up the ranking is implicit support for those products, whether it’s an ad or not. Amazon know they’ll be bought more and are ok with that.

This is why advertising on the web, social media platforms, etc, has a bunch of stuff you can and can’t do. Scam products are harder to police there and definitely happen, but a product in a web page or next to a tweet is less risky than a product in a list of products where they user has intention to buy one.

Amazon need to tread really carefully here. I know so many people who avoid eBay because of scams, it pretty much destroyed their reputation in the late 2000s, and Amazon is headed that way.
People in SENS kicked out Aubrey de Gray for a ,,grooming” email and took over control of the donations that were sent because of him. I do not condone his previous action, but I also think that kicking him out to take over millions of dollars was not an unselfish action.

He is in the process of setting up a new foundation where I expect most of the new donations will flow.