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Re:Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit on Thursday October 15, 2026 @11:04AM (#50104743)
Ugh, TP-Link, I hate those, they are pure garbage
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:15AM (#50072150)
I don't understand how are they writting html in C. Is it like they are doing puts("<html>");?
Re:I built a free I Ching oracle web app on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:43AM (#48729283)
Really cool, I like the interpretation part
Re:You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @02:39AM (#48729247)
That is flawed
Re:Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now on Monday May 18, 2026 @05:00PM (#48185549)
Lack of applications is my main problem
Didn't understand it well, I thought it was because english is not my native language.
Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:25PM (#45293877)
I’m a Linux user since 2001, I saterted with KDE 2.2 or something. I stopped using it in favor of Gnome, XFCE and recently fluxbox over the years.

A few days ago I decided to give it a try again and I have to say I’m impressed. KDE has reached a level of sophistication I had never seen before in any other Linux desktop environment. For me the experience is almost on par with macOS and slightly above windows.

Re:I write type-safe generic data structures in C on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:46AM (#44433889)
Interesting but too complicated for me.

For my own hashmap implementation I followed a wasteful aproach since I’m. It targeting embedded.

I created a structure called a hashmap object. It has two elements: a void pointer and a char pointer. The first one is the data and the second one is the metadata. The metadata is basically a string were the user can put anything, the type of the data, more data, whatever.

Then I preallocate 10s of thousands of hashmap objects. That way users of my hashmap don’t have to think about aollocating and de allocating hashmap nodes, they just insert, delete and search freely. They still have to care about allocating and de allocating they’re own data though.

Re:NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation on Monday May 12, 2025 @11:47AM (#43964350)
Cannot find the mail in @misc you are talking about
Re:The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @06:02PM (#43698965)
Looking at the title, at first I thought “uh?”, but then I saw microsoft and it made sense.
Re:The cultural evolution of distortion in music on Thursday April 03, 2025 @07:24PM (#43576667)
Or simply we just like things that have some noise.
What LLMs are people running on this kind of setups?
Re:The Future of WATMM on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @02:59PM (#43106765)
Any alternatives to this forum? I've never heard heard of this until now and as someone who spends a lot of time making music as a hobby sounds like a community I'd like to be part of.
As a total beginner in this field, how can I begin experimenting with this?
Re:Hands-On Graphics Without X11 on Friday January 17, 2025 @09:31PM (#42745281)
Awesome! I was thinking about playing with this on some BSD like two months ago.
I recently switched to OpenBSD for my home lab and the experience was exactly the same as yours. It works even better than FreeBSD.
Re:I Stopped Using OpenBSD on Monday November 25, 2024 @08:02AM (#42235926)
The way I see it, there’s conflict between her professional goals and her hacking goals.

The way I avoid that is by keeping that separate. But might not be for everyone.

Re:The Decline of the Working Musician on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:33PM (#42189627)
At least which genre and country
Re:When did estimates turn into deadlines? on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @07:30PM (#42189598)
So 1 year -> 2 decades?
Re:JSON for Classic C++ on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:10PM (#42133100)
What does “Classic C++” mean?
Thanks for the information. I’m a long time Logic Pro user and I wasn’t aware of this feature.
Re:The Decline of the Working Musician on Saturday November 09, 2024 @07:04PM (#42097693)
Band's name?
I have a problem with that. How could non-chicken laid a chicken egg.
Re:Unfortunate things about performance reviews on Monday November 04, 2024 @04:51PM (#42046345)
1000% agree with this, couldn't have explained it better myself
Re:No more blurry fonts in Linux on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @01:40AM (#41644024)
I kind of prefer the fonts in the first screenshot
This is awesome, for the past few months I’ve wondered why there was nothing like edit for Linux and now we have it, great.
I’ve been an amateur bass player since 2008. My GAS stopped when I took a year of lessons from professional player. I learned that most of the sound comes from good playing technique.
This advice is pure gold. Thank you.
Re:Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming on Monday July 08, 2024 @06:18PM (#40910357)
This is good advice. Nowadays I still earn my money from IT but I don’t do any programming. On my free time I’m doing my own stuff at my own pace mostly on Linux and C. It’s wonderful.
I'm currently writing my own hashmap implementation. The goal is to make something small, simple, reliable, and that anybody can quickly integrate into their own projects. So far it has taken me around 40 hours and it's 95% done.

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