I’m not sure that’s K&R style. In various places you have things where the thing that follows a for, while or if isn’t indented, and as far as I’m aware, K&R indents religiously. K&R omits braces on single statements, sure, but that statement is nonetheless indented from the parent keyword.

e.g. you have things like:

while (condition)
statement;

and

for(x;y;z) {
if (condition) {
    statement1;
    statement2;
}
}

Which I’m pretty sure should be:

while (condition)
    statement;

and

for(x;y;z) {
    if (condition) {
        statement1;
        statement2;
    }
}

respectively. The idea is that you can theoretically trace the keyword down to its closing brace, assuming there is one.

He’d say “I’ve had a wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.”

It’s kind of amazing that this is only anachronistic by four months. Both Bliss and (that image of) Tux are both from 1996, and Tux is younger.

Thirty years ago. Please excuse me while I turn to dust.

Rebooting is a good idea from time to time to ensure any new updates have taken fully and that old system drivers haven’t lasted and continued to run.

For example, one time I installed an XOrg update but didn’t reboot because my distro’s updater didn’t recommend it. And so I was very confused when I actually did reboot and graphics were borked. It took me a while to track down that the update - which I’d forgotten about - hadn’t been compatible with my graphics driver and I’d been using the previous working version until then.

It’s supposedly possible to restart / reload all software without rebooting, but it’s a royal pain in the [proverbial] when it’s deep in the system, and it’s far easier to just reboot.

And if you’re gonna reboot anyway, you could time that nicely for before you’d be about to stop using the computer for a while. Let it reboot first to make sure everything seems OK with any updates that might have been applied. When that works, you’re at a fresh slate with no programs open, so you can then turn it off.

(And if it hasn’t worked, you can roll back with something like Timeshift or whatever your distro provides, check that works and save the investigation for when you have time.)

DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue.

I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.

Those who dehumanise are the true subhumans.

Ha. I’ve heard of Amazon offloading heavier parcels to municipal mail carriers, so I don’t see that working out.

The day they codify in law that public services should not make a profit, the lawsuits will begin. Those to reclassify all and sundry that we think of as public services as not being public services.

A necessity argument would result. Do people need electricity, gas and municipal water treatment? No. They can live off-grid. Therefore these are not public services.

Do people need public transport? No. They can walk or buy rent a car. Therefore public transport is not a public service.

Do people need police, fire, medical? No. Most people can go months, years without needing any of those. Therefore they can’t be public services either.

etc. etc.

I’m not saying I agree with any of that, but the expensive lawyers will be arguing these points and they’ll continue to argue them as long as there’s a profit to be made.

Although a processor might be nominally capable of accessing a bus of a certain width, it does not mean that all address or data lines need be connected.

There are groups with “humor”, “comic” and “meme” in the name, some of which have a decent amount of traffic.

Use whatever search feature is available to you (pretty sure this varies by app and platform) to track them down.

orange = {
    you = "glad",
    I = {
        didn\'t = {
            say = "banana"
        }
    }
}

That’s not even hard to prove. On one of my accounts, they’ve been popping up little notifications oh-so-innocently asking the user if they’re having problems. They contain a link telling the user to turn off their ad-blocker or whatever other browser add-ons might be interfering with Google’s ad delivery platform. I paraphrase slightly, but it’s what they mean.

But to answer the question, while remaining somewhat vague: I know of someone who is said to have died of a specific ailment, but they’d hit very hard times and were of a religion where taking one’s own life is, or was, considered incredibly taboo. My lurking suspicion is that they might have done the unthinkable and it was covered up for the sake of appearances.

That’s not something I think I’d ever be able to prove and trying would cause more harm than good.

Alt-text should be “Resistance is futile”.

This whole thing is in violation of Rule 3.

There’s a place I used to pass frequently that has an automated car wash at one side of the road and a manual car wash at the other. In the sense that they have staff there who do all the washing, cleaning and even detailing if you’re willing to pay for it.

As far as I know they’re not owned by the same people.

It says “was” not “had”.

I’m surprised those signs don’t include sinistralité. Those left-handed f–kers are up to something even worse than the gays, I’m sure of it.

(/s is for satire and that’s good enough for me)

Surprised you didn’t link this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcwfEMdV-aM

My own external 1TB HDD is old enough that it only has USB2 connectivity. It transfers at around 40MB/s. Maybe you’re in the same situation?

I only transfer files of a few gigabytes to it every month or so, which I find bearable, but I’d be less happy if I was trying to move hundreds of gigabytes or the full drive contents on a regular basis. That would literally take hours.

I had a weekly schedule for the longest time, because if I didn’t, things didn’t get done.

When I let that slip to a colleague he thought it was hilarious. But then he wasn’t the one with undiagnosed ADHD.