I see it again in this post where shell pipes are used to pass *text* between processes. This is not correct (at least on *nix), because every byte of output is passed unmolested to the connected process. This is behavior is quite useful fo stuff like this:

ssh remotehost.domain 'tar czf - *' | tar xzf -

I'm not a Prime customer, yet I rarely pay Amazon for shipping; if your purchase is $25 or more, you can usually get free shipping that takes ~3 days. I realize that the cost is folded into the purchase price, but at least I know how much I will pay for something before getting to the final step of placing an order. This saves a lot of frustration when compared to sites who slap a large shipping fee on your order after you've invested your time rounding up the items.

People make fun of me for coding in C all the time. Turns out efficiency never goes out of style for long.

and you'll get banned too. Twitter gets to curate their community as they see fit.

Based on some recent work I did with the Win32 API, I think Microsoft has a huge house of cards on their hands. The whole I/O subsystem looks bizarrely complex by Linux standards, and the TCP/IP implementation seems like an afterthought at best. If they have any sense they will put a BSD or Linux kernel under their graphical shell, and drop the steaming turd that is the NT kernel.

If I understand correctly, the economic argument for hydrogen remains ambiguous because of the cost of isolating the element and of ongoing refueling infrastructure (refrigeration, pressurization, etc.). Electric batteries on the other hand are already economically viable, with near term improvements on the horizon to upgrade the economic proposition.
While it may never become practical to fully recharge a conventional electric vehicle as quickly and conveniently as simply pumping gas (very high energy density), this distinction becomes less relevant as range on a single charge grows longer. I foresee a smooth transition towards conventional electric vehicles in urban settings, while ICE will for some time remain the choice for long haul, high speed travel.

I had the same thought myself. Only more specifc:

his may sound conspiratorial, but please humor me long enough to read this post.

Trump's endgame all along has been declaring nationwide martial law, because when this happens he will in effect become a dictator.

Prior to this pandemic, the plan was to foment civil war for this purpose; thus the sabre rattling such as, "our side has things that go boom."

With a pandemic in full swing, civil war will not be necessary. Instead, all he has to do is wait for conditions to become so bad that the populus will accept martial law without protest. This explains the recent characterization of Covid-19 as a "military invasion", and why his state governor operatives continue to hold out on an SIP order.

It is a forgone conclusion that by late April conditions will be horrible enough that declaring martial law will solicit no protest.

The economic stimulus congress is working on is also part of this plan, the main objective of which is to seize control of the USD; investment bankers are the likely benefactors.

All the 2nd Amendment folks out there, this is where you have a part to play; because our last line of defense against tyrannical oppression will be citizen militias. Please begin to organize yourselves.

God, I sure hope this is just paranoia.

Official pandemic propagation models are rigged: y=mx+b stuff. The correct equation is:
y=y0*(1+r)^x
y: cumulative count (cases, bodies, take your pick)
y0: initial count
r: growth factor (currently 0.32 for US)
Give this a try!
#CoronaMath
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This may sound conspiratorial, but please humor me long enough to read this post.
Trump's endgame all along has been declaring nationwide martial law, because when this happens he will in effect become a dictator.
Prior to this pandemic, the plan was to foment civil war for this purpose; thus the sabre rattling such as, "our side has things that go boom."
With a pandemic in full swing, civil war will not be necessary. Instead, all he has to do is wait for conditions to become so bad that the populus will accept martial law without protest. This explains the recent characterization of Covid-19 as a "military invasion", and why his state governor operatives continue to hold out on an SIP order.
It is a forgone conclusion that in 3 weeks conditions will be horrible enough that declaring martial law will solicit no protest.
The economic stimulus congress is working on is also part of this plan, the main objective of which is to seize control of the USD.
All the 2nd Amendment folks out there, this is where you have a part to play; because our last line of defense against tyrannical oppression will be citizen militias. Please begin to organize yourselves.

God, I sure hope this is just paranoia.

If you are so inclined, please share this post far and wide!

Follow me on Twitter @JohnDRobertson4, get the message out!

Am I the only one who thinks these graphically oriented, ridiculously complex IDE's are equivalent to putting the "special needs" kids on the short bus and sending them on frequent field trips? They will have a good time, and they will learn useful information. But kernel developers and other god-like software engineers to not use these tools. Is this mere coincidence?

People will probably stop using C when Turing machines are eclipsed by something else. There are many security bugs found in C applications because the majority of infrastructure and cryptography code is written in C. It's sort of like saying that most traffic accidents happen in automobiles, so we need to replace them with something else.
Almost every computing platform in existence for the last 40 years has had a C compiler; this because it provides an efficient, comprehensive, and largely portable means of harnessing the capabilities of the computing platform. In short, if you can't do it C, it can't be done.
Rather than hoping that some nanny programming language de jour will solve security bugs, wouldn't it be more productive to develop and promote secure methods and strategies in C?

Because all the software projects outsourced to India would come to a grinding halt.

If you wrote a program in 'C' 40 years ago using libc calls, chances are it will still compile and run on just about any platform today with no more than very minor source code tweaks; 40 years ago nobody had even thought of Java. My own experience using Java software is one of frustration with incompatibilities between the different runtime versions. In general I avoid software written in Java.
Java made sense when compilers were proprietary and expensive. Now that compilers are ubiquitous and free, Java is a solution looking for a problem.

Under U.S. capitalism journalists must write stories which generate revenue; be it from subscriptions, advertising, or political interests. A demographic trend of pandering to aging and selfish baby-boomers has seriously undermined the availability of legitimate journalism. Unfortunately I have no clue how a solution would actually occur, but things may get better as the boomers die off.

When investments like government securities pay back more interest than the central bank "prime" lending rate, then all investment banks have to do to make money is borrow some from the central bank and use it to buy securities. This will work until investors lose faith that securities will be paid back with interest.

Who, you ask, is on the hook to pay back government securities? Why taxpayers are, of course; and national debt is astronomical. The upshot is this: our economic growth is predicated on the notion that the taxpayers will continue to service the growing interest on our national debt going forward.