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Posted by Screwtape
I mean, it doesn't strictly speaking matter whether that particular person was joking or not. There's six billion people in the world; I guarantee that there are people out there who genuinely believe the software industry's reverence for C is an instance of toxic masculinity, and I guarantee that there are people who genuinely revere C in a toxically masculine way. Both extremes are cartoonishly exaggerated (most of the time) and also perfectly correct (in a few tragic cases).

My apologies if you didn't intend it this way, but to me it looked like you grabbed some evidence that was ambiguous, or at best ha ha only serious, to use as proof that some group you don't like are terrible people. And even if it was absolute, undeniable proof, why bring it up and sour the thread with needless vitriol?

Opportunity cost, man. Sure, they probably have enough engineers on staff that they could build a dozen Facebook Messenger clients in parallel, as long as they stopped doing everything else, but that's too high a cost for the expected benefit.

Why hire even one engineer to work on rewriting an app when you can just get one of your existing admin staff to slot some extra meetings with standards bodies into their schedule?

If you're suggesting that sticking with IE6 and XP as hardware got faster would have left more computing resources for apps, why do you think apps wouldn't get even more bloated even faster when they didn't have to compete with the OS for resources?

If you're suggesting that sticking with IE6 and XP would have meant hardware improvements would go towards cheaper, more power-efficient hardware instead of performance, then we wind up with cheap hand-helds that run XP as sluggishly and crashily as a 2001-era desktop PC would? Uh, thanks but no thanks.

XP is just as much of a bloated, buggy mess as Windows 10, and Windows 3.1, and every other version: as much as they could get away with. If you claim that XP on modern hardware is elegant and optimised, you're really saying "I am OK with wasted resources as long as the total waste is less than X%", which is exactly what Microsoft believed when they were making XP in the first place, except that they probably used a bigger value for X than you did.

Advertising is a centuries-old industry, which just about every human interacts with regularly, as a customer or as a consumer. Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies are mostly known for Internet scams and ransomware. It's the same reason alcohol and cigarettes are freely available while other equally- or less-harmful substances are banned: nothing to do with the substances themselves, everything to do with tradition.

See that thing there, where you imply an entire group of people are incompentent, just based on their profession? That's kind of a dick move, you know? If you don't like the idea of C programmers being blanket-accused of toxic masculinity, maybe don't sink to the same level?

The optimistic perspective is: you might not be able to change *every* circumstance, but there's always *something* you can change for the better, either for yourself or for other people. If you focus on the impossible things, everything you look at is doomed. If you focus on the improvable things, everything you look at is getting better, or could get better, or is already better, and that's a much healthier and much more *practical* attitude.

Posted by https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/everyone_wants_to_ow.html
If left to grow, these external control systems will fundamentally change your relationship with your computer. They will make your computer much less useful by letting corporations limit what you can do with it. They will make your computer much less reliable because you will no longer have control of what is running on your machine, what it does, and how the various software components interact. At the extreme, they will transform your computer into a glorified boob tube.

...

Just because computers were a liberating force in the past doesn't mean they will be in the future. There is enormous political and economic power behind the idea that you shouldn't truly own your computer or your software, despite having paid for it.

mpv ~/Documents/torrents/ARTIST\ –\ ALBUM/

Posted by jimbo1qaz
I know a person (ax6) on Discord (pret server) who thinks "safe languages just create an illusion of safety, since CPUs are unsafe", "semantic type systems don't reflect what the actual hardware is doing", and "if you're making a mistake on C, it's because you're not a good enough programmer".

I think "anything safer than C is bad" is a counterproductive and elitist (and toxic) attitude. I also think that blaming it on "masculinity", and claiming elitist behavior is somehow "masculine" is a discriminatory man-hating stereotype.

Posted by wareya
"toxically masculine" is actually just grammatical gymnastics for "regarding the toxic behavior that tends to occur when someone misunderstands values that are traditionally masculine". It doesn't have anything to do with masculinity itself. The situation you described is actually a perfect example of something that stems from this particular kind of toxicity.

Posted by jimbo1qaz
Good guess, pret is a Discord server where people try to decompile Pokemon games into "matching" C, where using the original (leaked or obtained via GPL) compilers produces matching binaries/ROMs with the same checksum.

Posted by Kawa
Even with the same compilers, bit-identical output from a decompile is a stupid desire.

Posted by Kawa

Posted by sureanem

Posted by Kawa
Even with the same compilers, bit-identical output from a decompile is a stupid desire.

It means you've reproduced the source code, which is pretty cool.

I don't think you got my point there. You can reasonably expect the same or at the very least effectively the same behavior, but to expect bit-identical output from a higher language (it's all relative, C is pretty low) is quite frankly madness in my eyes.

Posted by Kawa
That's the thing: you can't be sure you didn't miss some obscure edge cases. With a disassembly you can pretty much guarantee will result in a bit-identical end product, assembly and raw machine code being what they are. You rebuild the C code in any way, be it automated decompilation or intense manual labor, you're not gonna get a bit-identical compile, debug information or not.

You can only guarantee it's bit-identical if you use the original source code and compiler. In fact, the very presence of that debug information would invalidate the result even then.

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Posted by BearOso
You’re probably breaking the encoding when you save the file. The indentation and encoding should be intact. If you’re using Windows notepad, don’t. It’ll screw up any UTF8 files by adding a marker.

Thank you so much for your reply!

Using notepad is exactly what I'm doing.....I feel bad but how would I suppose to know? :-)

Can you please recommend a good program to edit the Super Famicom.bml without breaking anything?

td.side > div.smallFonts > img {
  max-width: 45px !important;
  max-height: 45px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  clip: rect(0px,6px,20px,0px);
}
td.side > div.smallFonts:nth-child(1) {
font-size:0;
}
*{
background:none !important;
background-color:#fff !important;
color:#000 !important;
  border-left:none !important;
  border-right:none !important;
  border-top:none !important;
  border-bottom-color:#ccc !important;
  box-shadow:none !important;
}
table.post td.side,
table.post td.post{  
  border-bottom-left-radius:0 !important;
  border-bottom-right-radius:0 !important;
}
td.userlink > a > span{color:#222 !important;}

td.post{
  word-wrap: break-word;
line-height: 1.4;
  font-size:14px;
}

Posted by CaptainJistuce
But surely we can apply the same attitude towards "deprecated software" that the Linux community does in my experience. It doesn't exist, it never existed, and there is no excuse to use it.

Posted by wertigon
That, and they want on-the-fly JS loading stuff. For instance, I tend to frequent the Level1 forums these days. They have a lot of cool stuff like an auto-updating editor that shows an automatic preview of what your post will look like, entirely JS driven. Not to mention these fancy scroll-down-for-more-content-loading thingie. Or links loading either previews or, in case of sites like Youtube, loads the movie frame.

The most sane thing I ever designed was a PHP mechanism that allowed me to load parts of a website. Basically, each template had a choice to either render in full, or only render the relevant parts. If you clicked the link with a JSON-call, it only loaded the relevant part. If you did not, you reloaded the entire site. This required a slightly ugly quirk for every template to be like this:

if ($minimal) {
  render_content();
  exit;
}

render_header();
render_content();
render_footer();

But otherwise worked like a charm. Of course, a JSON-driven JavaScript loader would have been even better but...

Posted by CaptainJistuce
The problem is actually that the cord IS fastened. The movements of the wire become movements of the earpieces, which disturb the air in the ear and create unwanted sounds. It is mostly a problem with in-ear phones, because their size and position makes them sensitive to small movements.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/reduce-annoying-microphonics-from-your-in-ear-headphones/