ben_bai

    Recent research showed the increase in the number of programmers twofold every year all over the world.

That means 75% of Programmers (SW Developers) have less then 2 years of experience!

We are still a very inexperienced and unregulated industry.

by convention: if it's not NUL terminated, it's not a c-string.

that would be wcslcpy(3)

i guess that's what spikes interest. although strlcpy was first introduced in openbsd 2.4, 26 years ago! back then as a drop in replacement for strcpy.

so yeah, good things need time to adopt, no wonder it's not up-to-date tech, lol.

and because of NIH-syndrome we now got lot's of strXcpy functions to choose from.

it's like 6h when you know what you are doing :-)

Love it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.

yeah it's other peoples mouse courser, as they browse the site.

It's one of those condom-style things.

It's more effective volume wise. I did the math, some time ago here are the rough numbers.

Sand has way less heat capacity then water per kg (about half).

Water can be heated to 95C with standard unpressurized vessel. Sand in this application is heated to 600C.

Sand is denser then water (kg/m3).

For the same heat energy stored this comes out to about 2.5x more volume of water(95C) compared to sand(600C).

Water and Sand are both dirt-cheap.

Hot water can be managed with standard plumbing equipment.

Sand needs some high temperature piping (hot air to water heat-exchanger, resistive heat tho heat up the sand).

How well both contain the heat is primarily dependent on the isolation. Which favors the smaller footprint of sand, but needs to isolate a higher temperature difference...

It is also a fertilizer, providing Carbon and Minerals to the farmland.

I would add that it's "doing nothing important". Like when someone asks: What did you do today? And the german answer is just "Nix" ("Nichts", aka. nothing important)