DaveFlater
Joined 3 years ago
Karma
600
Submissions
135
Member since
Feb 15
A humble karma farmer planting the seeds of a better future
View on Hacker NewsRecent submissions
Comment · 6 months ago
SI avoids identifying countable entities and events except in special cases like bequerel. This is but one example among many where the needs of IT are outside the scope that SI serves.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339954122_Quantitie...
Comment · 1 year ago
There they go with Dickens again. Why always Dickens? Haven't we suffered enough?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
GCC optimization causes the frame pointer push to move around, resulting in wrong call stacks. "Wontfix"
Comment · 2 years ago
Whether over months or years, they have certainly gotten worse. It is a race to the bottom or to 1 micrometer above the legal red line if one should ever be established.
CFPB and FTC talked about it: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/circulars/consume...
Summary of comparable talk in the EU: https://www.insideprivacy.com/eu-data-protection/the-eu-stan...
Down in the details, it looks like there has been enforcement in individual cases, but it obviously was not enough to stop the flood.
Comment · 2 years ago
In C++ this is simply legal code. But in C, the bogus warning has now escalated to a bogus error.
void fun110 (char const * const *a) {}
char **a;
fun110(a);