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Comment · 11 months ago

Follow this forum: https://forum.sailfishos.org/c/announcements/17.

Comment · 1 year ago

Autoconf can use cache files [1], which can greatly speed up repeated configures. With cache, a test is run at most once.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/a...

Comment · 1 year ago

Here is a non-zero null pointer: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/Po5r5Pa36

Comment · 1 year ago

It creates a compound literal [1] of type array of int, and initializes the specified array positions using designated initializers [2] with the results of calls to puts().

Using designated initializers without the = symbol is an obsolete extension.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Designated-Inits.html

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Comment · 2 years ago

Even the original version 1507 is still supported on the LTSC channel. Support for UTF-8 manifest was added only in version 1903.

Comment · 2 years ago

Old does not mean bad. Even a decade later Wayland struggles to provide basic features that were built in the X protocol.

Comment · 2 years ago

The number of registers available to the program is fixed in the instruction set. The program cannot address more registers without recompiling it to an extended instruction set.

Comment · 2 years ago

First person shooters. Vertical synchronization causes a noticeable output delay.

For example, with a 60 Hz display and vsync, game actions might be shown up to 16 ms later than without vsync, which is ages in FPS.

Comment · 3 years ago

The Soviet Union briefly tried 5 and 6 day weeks in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_calendar

Comment · 3 years ago

You can use systemd-cron [1] to run traditional cron jobs with systemd. No need for a separate daemon anymore.

[1] https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron

Comment · 3 years ago

Instead of "/usr/bin/time" you can also write "command time".

Comment · 3 years ago

1% is still a lot for power saving. If the system is idle, it should be at 0%. If it is anything above, then it shows poor design.

Comment · 4 years ago

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_polynomial