E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
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2·1 month agoMan it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
5·1 month agoA paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.
Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
21·4 months agoForce feedback codpieces.
9·4 months agoA .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?
Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.
So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?
That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.
161·4 months agoThere is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
Pfft. Real programmers use butterflies
1·9 months agoI’ve still got my Nintendo 64, and I sometimes boot up Goldeneye for old time’s sake.
Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/
The GTX1660 I bought in 2023 for $300 is still running fine.
23·10 months agoThat detail is conspicuously absent from the announcement itself.
Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.
We are Linux. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your hard drive will be reformatted to service us. Resistance is futile.
2·10 months agoSome have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.
Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.
Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.