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> code-signed MacOS binaries are not possible

As far as I know, this is possible with clang and the new mach-o lld port as well.

While it's possible with clang/lld in C++, it looks like it is much easier with zig.

Whoa, Firefox is suddenly good now!

I give it a try every now and then, but somehow it never sticks. Random perf hangups, keyboard shortcuts not working like I'm used to, but this time I didn't run into anything obvious yet. Hm, now that I write this, Ctrl-A/Ctrl-E are wrong: They're supposed to jump to start of logical line, not visual line on macOS, and Firefox gets this wrong. But it took a lot longer until I ran into an inconsistency like this.

The UI looks a lot less clunky than I remember.

Nice job, Mozilla! Keep working on OS integration :)

If your brain prefers that order, you can emulate it in vim by doing v-movement-action, for example viwd to first select an inner word and then delete it.

I've used it for well over a decade, I'm very happy with it.

Many projects in that repo are one-eng 20% projects.

Maybe https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere... ?

I was offered to do this at my current job and I didn't take the offer. I feel I wouldn't really disconnect on the additional day off, so it'd be a full 20% pay cut without it really being a full 20% work cut.

It uses that for its build configuration, not for build steps, as far as I know.

It's good to see that python startup time is an explicit goal. Empty scripts taking 10-100ms is a problem if you use python in Makefiles, where you can have thousands of invocations in a build. This wasn't considered a use case upstream cared about for quite some time. I'm glad to see this is changing. Here's hoping the acknowledgement will result in concrete gains!

It's new in gcc 11.1

Does -fdiagnostics-plain-output not do what you want?

expressive diagnostics was one of clang's early selling points: https://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html

Clang was released 2007 and was usable 2009/2010-ish. Rust dev started 2010.

I'm not saying the trend of having good diagnostics was started by clang, but it's a more believable than the claim that it was started by Rust.

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Rust-the-language is nice, but the Rust community feeling the need to mention Rust on every unrelated thread is a bit of a turn-off for me.

> You won't even get a warning unless -Wextra or -Weverything is turned on.

That's because -Wconversion isn't part of -Wextra for some reason. It is part of -Weverything though, and with that clang does warn:

  warning: implicit conversion changes signedness: 'int' to 'unsigned long' [-Wsign-conversion]
      if (sizeof(int) < -1) abort();
                     ~ ^~

I thought we know by now that transmission mode is more similar than initially thought? That is, it's mostly airborne for both covid and flu.

Lots of interesting details. I especially liked the section on gamma handling. I knew most of the theory there, but it was a readable refresher and seeing before/after images of emulated games really helped to make things understandable.

Also the relatively low number of cores.

I also didn't enjoy Surely Joking, for the exactly the same reasons.

In part this is in Feynman, in part this is on society being more accepting of this behavior back then. People pick behavior by immitating what's around them.

I for one am glad that expectations for conduct, but also available role models are at a higher standard today.

It does make code harder to debug when something goes wrong. Since tail calls create no stack frames, a call sequence f->g->h where g tail calls h will show up as a stack of (f, h) in the debugger. The fix is easy, just make MUSTTAIL expand to nothing in debug builds. But it's something to keep in mind, and it means your debug mode code will have different memory use characteristics.

> studies by TU researchers at the Department of Computer Science show that uninvited people can also tap into data.

Cool. Security research is important.

> The research team developed a solution that could replace the flawed AirDrop.

Wait, what? Nobody will want to install some third-party tool over this.

I think he's in a different profession.

You're saying the person complaining about the release notes is one of the people who wrote the release notes? :-D

The US has the best research universities in part because it's socially accepted, even expected, to call anything remotely good "the best" over here. People are a bit more restrained elsewhere.

For universities, they're admittedly the best by several objective measures too, but the willingness for self-promotion helps :)

It does look like they missed the "write release notes" part of the release playbook. ...does LLVM have a release playbook? Is it public?

Yes. "clang Foo.S" will use a built-in assembler. "llvm-mc" is another command line interface to that same assembler library.

If we're doing anecdata: All my contacts are on Signal now. I uninstalled WhatsApp back in Jan.

It's common for people to identify with their job too much, independent of employer. It almost feels like it's a rite of passage to pour everything into your first job in your early to mid twenties, especially if you're a high performer with something to prove and you're lucky enough to work on something that "really matters". What I've seen is most people go through a period of mild depression / burnout, realize that a job can be a fun and rewarding part of life but isn't life in it's entirely, and then live on more happily after learning to keep some distance.

If you haven't seen tom7's youtube channel: Every single video at https://www.youtube.com/c/suckerpinch/videos is a treat. Mind-bending, deeply funny, and amazingly work-intensive.

How do they know it's "remote" and not "working during a pandemic"?

Yes, TFA and OP mean the same thing.

That's something that sounds like it makes sense but is flat-out wrong. See this graph (from the TFA): https://read.dukeupress.edu/view-large/figure/2454457/dem893...

A bit depressing that these lazy, swaggy, wrong hot takes are so often upvoted.