grahamdowney.com
Programmer, tinkerer, and music lover.
Breathing new life into old things!
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This is peak web design
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This 25 year old copy of Microsoft Word knows the difference between Canadian and American spellings. Why can't anything built using Chromium??
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That Dell Dimension is peak PC case design
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Maybe he thinks everyone is still buying DVDs
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This is disgusting
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This is crazy cool!
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How would you set up a new machine in an area with no internet access?
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I'm not here for a conversation with ChatGPT or for someone who has never written C to tell me my understanding of the language is wrong. Maybe try reading some real documentation and tutorials to familiarize yourself with the language instead of asking AI to think for you.
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I wrote an entire HTTP library in C for a lastfm plugin 3 years ago. I have a pretty good understanding of how strings and memory management work in the language.
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Never rely on AI for real information. It has no real intelligence and is frequently just wrong. I used the wrong slash because I was on my phone, but \0 is 100% a null terminator in C. There is no regex in C, and strings are just arrays of chars in memory.
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Length is calculated by running through the array until you hit /0. Since that's the first byte it thinks there's no string data. It's the difference of buffer size vs data length. Can use that trick to store multiple strings in a single block.
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I miss being able to drop back into the basic HTML version
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They have EVs still running on the same battery after 15+ years?
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I always wonder what kind of climate these cars are in and how that impacts battery life. Where I am we get -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer. Even on a new EV you could see up to 35% capacity loss in the cold months.
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How much on an EV would be owner serviceable where you could just go to a junk yard to buy cheap replacement parts to drop in for repairs also?
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My car is 25 years old and still running on the original engine and transmission. If this was an EV would I still have a usable battery when our weather drops to -40C over the winter and +40 in the summer?
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Worse than Clippy asking if you want help writing a letter
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Why does browser support matter for a command line tool?
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I've actually heard a lot of great things about SDL3 since it came out
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Hungarian notation is awesome! You always know exactly what datatype a var is just from the name alone.
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That's actually a lot more practical than I originally thought
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I wasn't aware it was designed to do more than play steam games with the stock firmware.
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Being targeted as a gaming device though, is it that much different from losing a Nintendo handheld with a bunch of games installed to internal memory?
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Zuma!
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I originally stopped using Twitter around 2019. Going back now it feels so soulless and terrible. Bluesky reminds me a lot more of how it was in its glory days.
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Sending this to my dm for inspiration. (I love chaos)
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Just acquired one of these a couple weeks ago
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The raisins I'm a little unsure about but the potato does sound very good! Next time I visit my friend I'm gonna tell her we're making pão de queijo burgers too. That was one of the best breads I tried on my trip, as a burger bun would be amazing!
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Is that true? My friend told me São Paulo was the best place to try one! lol That may have also been because 2 of our friends are from there
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I tried one of these in São Paulo. Nothing in North America can compare
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The author claims "unsigned char" doesn't exist in C?? What an absurd claim. That is one of the fundamental data types of the language.
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I think the worst part is most updates aren't just security updates anymore. I don't need telemetry settings reset, extra apps installed, and annoying UI changes bundled with kernel patches
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A lot of them let you set 2 alarms. I always set both, one 15 min after the other.
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Got one of these last week. Gonna have to do the same thing soon
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This is really stupid, I love it!
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I would be so upset if you weren't such a cute puppy
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Cut to this morning and we get woken up 4 times between 6 and 8 to find Sparky HOWLING because he's upset the window's closed
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Case on the right is one of the best! I reused one for my desktop build in 2016