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Re:Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque (OpenBSD) on Monday July 21, 2025 @01:18AM (#44631991)
"Windows" did this 11 years ago:

>FILE Encapsulation: In previous versions, the FILE type was completely defined in <stdio.h>, so it was possible for user code to reach into a FILE and muck with its internals. We have refactored the stdio library to improve encapsulation of the library implementation details. As part of this, FILE as defined in <stdio.h> is now an opaque type and its members are inaccessible from outside of the CRT itself.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-runtime-crt-feature...

Re:Modern C for Fedora (and the World) on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:58AM (#38733012)
Besides fixing bad C code: how many of those packages are still properly maintained? The Ruby ones don't seem to be. Fedora and other distros likely have to build their packages with patches.
Re:Rewriting the Ruby Parser on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:32PM (#36312741)
>> CRuby actually ships with 90 encodings (as of 3.3)

>This is asinine.

Overall there are even more: 103. But then again 1.9.2 only has 85 and 95 overall. Also one of those new 'overall' ones is the EBCDIC code page for US/Canada.

Re:New C features in GCC 13 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:00AM (#35815450)
dmr would've approved of going a step further - only nullptr, no 0 and (void*)0:

>Although it would have been a bit of a pain to adapt,

>an '89 or '99 standard in which the only source representation

>of the null pointer was NULL or nil or some other built-in token

>would have had my approval.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/fh4xKnWOQuo/m/IAaOe...

Re:New C features in GCC 13 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:30AM (#35815002)
It's weird because even the first C standard was influenced by C++: function prototypes and const.
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:58AM (#18282079)
People just have to look at the politicians and parties he's supporting. For example in the last French presidential election he opposed the pro-capitalist liberal (redundant as liberals are by definition pro-capitalism). I wonder what's his opinion on the Brazil one. A moderate social democrat vs. fascist belonging to a party called the "Social Liberal Party"?

He's not even a good source of information as his 3 hours long videos consist of Wikipedia articles he glanced through and repeating extreme right-wing conspiracies (Cultural Marxism, the terrorist attack at the Unite the Right rally).

(Also the only decent anti-idpol people are Marxists.)

Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @11:02AM (#16266309)
>liberal-communism

What's next? Anarcho-Capitalism?

It's also kinda ironic because improved performance was the reason behind that decision.
Your snark doesn't make my comment less true.
Cultural Marxism isn't real. It's a Neo-Nazi conspiracy theory popularized by a right-wing terrorist. If fascism actually has arrived, you played a part in it. Your views on economic and social policies do too but propertarians like you don't understand fascism and reduce it to authoritarianism.
>discrediting political opponents [...] and inciting racial conflict to sow instability among Americans

Your mass media/ruling class does that too (especially on the political right). And they have much more influence than some largely unknown YT channel allegedly backed by Russia.

So-called tankies are pretty much irrelevant though.
Re:RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017 on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:27AM (#14131592)
I didn't know countries like the USA are majority muslim.

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