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Re:The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:50PM (#49527150)
Maybe like some kind of https://jjhub.com :-)
Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:01AM (#47074520)
Not a Linux distro, but FreeBSD uses Clang.

And Android uses Clang for its Linux kernel.

-fbounds-safety is not yet available in upstream Clang though:

> NOTE: This is a design document and the feature is not available for users yet.

Re:-fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:53AM (#47074412)
The extension is for hardening legacy C code without breaking ABI.
Re:Understanding Deflate on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:38AM (#45287127)
> Though the encoder deciding to repeat those Ts doesn't make much sense, shouldn't this be compressed to literal("TOBEORNOT") copy(6,9) copy(9,15)?

IIRC zlib won't consider matches at offset 0: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/5a82f71ed1dfc0bec044d970...

Re:The provenance memory model for C on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:55AM (#44423321)
> Looks like a code block didn't get closed properly

This seems to have been fixed now.

Re:How University Students Use Claude on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:25AM (#43642510)
> Is there a way to just download an Android SDK?

Yes, you can just grab the zip files. For example like this: https://www.hanshq.net/command-line-android.html#sdk

Re:Compiling to Assembly from Scratch [free to read online] on Monday September 23, 2024 @05:04AM (#41623957)
Re:Curl is just the hobby on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:30AM (#40112983)
I think it's a Bay Area thing.

Google's {First 10-digit Prime in Consecutive Digits of e}.com ad is a classic in this genre (https://www.hanshq.net/eprime.html)

From the article:

> In 2022, there were 90 explosions and 101 cases of attempted bombings or preparations for bombings in Sweden, according to police data. As of 15 August this year, 109 explosions had been recorded.

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