dous's comments

On: Kali Linux 2020.3

[dous]

Maybe they mean this

"Zsh is able to emulate POSIX shells, but its default mode is not POSIX compatible, either."

from http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Doc/Release/index.html

On: Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes

[dous]

while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line"; sleep 0.1 ; done < <(banner Hello)

On: Excel.vim

[dous]

Thanks for sharing this. To the author, if you're reading this, thanks for putting your work up on Github.

On: Only Apple

[dous]

Announcing (almost final) products once you're sure they will be released seems better than announcing "plans".

On: Ask HN: I can't do this anymore, I need help

[dous]

Depending on which country you live in, taxes can be a real pain and will only leave you with a small bit of your salary. Not to mention transportation could eat up a lot your otherwise "free time" in the evenings. :(

I do agree that freelancing would definitely give some nice extra income but only if you're disciplined enough to find time for it.

On: Pre-New-Year Check of PostgreSQL

[dous]

http://www.viva64.com/external-pictures/txt/mysql-test.txt

[raverbashing → dous]

Interesting

Disclaimer: I didn't check the code

But maybe the sizeof(buf) is right? - if you want the size of the pointer (maybe if you're using wide chars?)

Especially since it's an 'Error_message_buf' type

EDIT: probably not, I'm thinking of sizeof(buf[0]), sizeof(buf) makes even less sense, it's a bug unless someone has a very good reason for it

Amazing that the tool detects collections of similar blocks, it's not wrong per se, but it's a common source of copy-paste bugs.

On: XKCD 1190 is now more individual frames than there...

[dous]

http://xkcd.com/1190/ changes every 30 minutes if I'm not mistaken. The link shows all the frames since the comic was published.

[xmjw → dous]

Yes - after a couple of days it slowed down and now updates once per hour.

[baby → dous]

When was this comic published?

[xmjw → baby]

March 25!

On: Ask HN: Technology behind Push Notification

[dous]

"push" requires that an open connection be maintained, while "poll" means you connect multiple times.

On: Ask HN: Is there a way to do this layout in HTML 5...

[dous]

https://gist.github.com/3193548

[ge → dous]

Same problem as with "the1"s solution.

On: Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline Dat...

[dous]

Seems like there were + prefixes before - https://www.alien.net.au/irc/chantypes.html

I can't remember exactly where I first encountered the plus prefix (it's been a long time), but I remember # and + more than &.

[swang → dous]

Huh? That says the + prefix came from RFC2811 which came out in 2000. So after RFC 1459 which only specifies &/# as channel prefixes.