iamthad

Wasn't copying from disk to memory found to be infringing in the Glider lawsuit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar....

> Citing the prior Ninth Circuit case of MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511, 518-19 (9th Cir. 1993), the district court held that RAM copying constituted "copying" under 17 U.S.C. § 106.

I think the intended link may be https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1d9yi7y/change_...

Your LESS_TERMCAP_us is the issue here; it's literally putting "In" wherever an underline is supposed to start.

I find the Horstmann indentation style [1], in which code is placed on the same line as the opening bracket, simultaneously disturbing and compelling. If it ever ends up added to clang-format as has been requested [2], it might become more popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#Horstmann_st... [2] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27263

Equivalently, one can run `less +F <FILE>`

Both Ecobee and Nest can do this:

- Ecobee "AC Overcool / Dehumidify Using AC": https://support.ecobee.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000268887-Ho...

- Nest "Cool to Dry": https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9294957?hl=en

Perhaps "For The/Those Interested"?

It's not clear to me what you mean by "longstrings" from that page. Are you referring to the double-bracket quoted style?

It's an optional feature and isn't built by default. See http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html#cfg_clang_assisted_...

strscpy seems like a nice interface. Is an implementation outside of the kernel available? Preferably one that is permissively-licensed?

Also, it doesn't appear to be specified what happens if the count argument is too large to be represented as a ssize_t. The destination buffer would have to be extremely large, so it probably doesn't happen in practice, but it'd be good to specify it, or at least explicitly state it's unspecified / undefined.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/kernel-api/API-strscpy.h...

I read PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394) differently. It states

> The more general python command should be installed whenever any version of Python 2 is installed and should invoke the same version of Python as the python2 command

Rather than permitting python to refer to python2 during a transition period, that is the recommendation. They later state

> It is anticipated that there will eventually come a time where the third party ecosystem surrounding Python 3 is sufficiently mature for this recommendation to be updated to suggest that the python symlink refer to python3 rather than python2.

It's alluding to the nabla symbol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol) used in mathematics, and the similarity in sound between the two does not go unnoticed by many students of calculus.

For what it's worth, git add, git checkout, and git reset all take the -p (or --patch) option, which allows selection of sub-sections of files to stage, discard, or unstage, respectively.

While it will end up being a little longer, these can all be defined as aliases within git (see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases). Some users might prefer the aliases there rather than in their shell configuration.

Some analysis on this topic has been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship#Material_constr...

This seems to be similar to the Costco / Sam's Club membership model, but only on certain items. Costco's profits are largely from memberships, as items are sold close to cost. I imagine Amazon is selling these items at lower margin to the Prime members.

If you consider yourself a "good hacker", then "anything [you] might find interesting" is exactly what the guidelines say is on-topic:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

xz is clearly superior in many regards. My understanding is that xz can use significantly more memory upon compression/decompression.

http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...

Some additional discussion about why xz is not as widely used: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...

Although this approach is obvious, there are complicating factors. The Coriolis force makes high-RPM centrifugal gravity unpleasant and perhaps dangerous to humans. So, to achieve 1g, structures would need to be very large (224 meters). Nonetheless, this is probably the best approach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity#Rotation

This is off-topic, but you should know that there are a number of significant issues with W3Schools that prevent it from being a reputable source: http://w3fools.com/

There seems to be a bug: when you reach the end of a line, you can no longer go back and correct letters, even though you have not yet advanced by pressing space.

I believe this is incorrect. If I remember correctly, transport was not the only issue with building the solid rocket boosters in one piece: physically pouring a solid rocket motor of that size was infeasible.