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bumblebritches5··on Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea
What's the altitude in feet? because that sounds a LOT like my trip to Wyoming, I was at either 8400 or 8600 feet, I don't recall which.

It was near the continental divide if that helps.

bumblebritches5··on Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
Which is fine when you're doing nothing but a simple operation on a string, then reencoding it.

Seriously, how many strings have you ever ran across that are more than 1kb?

how many strings have you ran across that are more than 256 codepoints?

bumblebritches5··on Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
Have you ever written your own unicode library, or are you just parroting what you've heard?

I have written my own unicode library, normalizing strings as UTF-32 is MUCH MUCH MUCH easier than trying to do the same in UTF-8 or UTF-16.

not to mention casefolding, and it also allows you to design better interfaces, so that the actual algorithm only needs to be implemented once.

bumblebritches5··on Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte
Yes, it gives you flexibility in using UTF-8 and UTF-16 (which despite being a shitty format, you WILL have to support UTF-16), and also overlong sequences don't matter.
bumblebritches5··on Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class Security
2011, and the iPhone 4s was released a few days after he died.
bumblebritches5··on Viability of unpopular programming languages
I'm also a C dev, Hi OP.
bumblebritches5··on Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20
so tldr, the C haters have won in the process of rubyizing C++ for webdevs who literally could not care less about a language that they have absolutely no use for...

I'm glad I decided against moving to C++

bumblebritches5··on My Google job was tedious and pointless
That's how it is in the midwest.

The Democratic Republic of California is a liberal shithole.

bumblebritches5··on Insane state of today's advertising part 3
I actually did that in my tumblr's theme once, tumblr didn't like it at all lmao.
bumblebritches5··on Insane state of today's advertising part 3
How the hell does that work? you just automatically spend your clients money for them without even asking? Sounds shady af
bumblebritches5··on Brief thoughts on the “Google memo”
It'd be great if you yuropoors would just stop jumping to the conclusion that you're better than us as your default reaction.
bumblebritches5··on Xcode 8
Nope. Xcode 8 is supported on El Cap and Sierra. not sure about Yosemite.
bumblebritches5··on After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
"high information density"?

This is why 99% of programmers shouldn't be involved in design.

bumblebritches5··on FFmpeg's future and resigning as leader
He's Austrian, and his first language is German...
bumblebritches5··on Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X
Yes. Safari is much more efficient on iOS
bumblebritches5··on YC S15 Interview Invites Today
They deleted my application, messages from Kevin, everything. they REALLY don't want us asking for feedback...

Honestly they way they handle the rejection letters feels like a sucker punch in the face, I get them not wanting to spend a lot of time on it but damn.

bumblebritches5··on YC S15 Interview Invites Today
I'm working on an audio codec that's light years ahead of Dolby Atmos and DTS X.
bumblebritches5··on YC S15 Interview Invites Today
Why is that useful? who needs their medical records on their phone? also, does it violate HIPPA?
bumblebritches5··on YC S15 Interview Invites Today
I thought for sure I would make it, but I didn't. and the thing is, I'm sure all those that got in are yet another social media site, or app.
bumblebritches5··on YC S15 Interview Invites Today
I'm so nervous
bumblebritches5··on I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA
I couldn't agree any more than I already do.
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