zmodem's comments

On: -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

[zmodem]

Not a Linux distro, but FreeBSD uses Clang.

And Android uses Clang for its Linux kernel.

-fbounds-safety is not yet available in upstream Clang though:

> NOTE: This is a design document and the feature is not available for users yet.

On: -fbounds-safety: Enforcing bounds safety for C

[zmodem]

The extension is for hardening legacy C code without breaking ABI.

On: Understanding Deflate

[zmodem]

> Though the encoder deciding to repeat those Ts doesn't make much sense, shouldn't this be compressed to literal("TOBEORNOT") copy(6,9) copy(9,15)?

IIRC zlib won't consider matches at offset 0: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/5a82f71ed1dfc0bec044d970...

On: The provenance memory model for C

[zmodem]

> Looks like a code block didn't get closed properly

This seems to have been fixed now.

[perching_aix → zmodem]

I still see it, even after clearing caches, visiting from a separate browser from a separate computer (even a separate network).

On: How University Students Use Claude

[zmodem]

I think that was Shopify: https://x.com/tobi/status/1909231499448401946

On: Rawdrawandroid – Build Android apps without any Java, in C and Make

[zmodem]

> Is there a way to just download an Android SDK?

Yes, you can just grab the zip files. For example like this: https://www.hanshq.net/command-line-android.html#sdk

On: Compiling to Assembly from Scratch

[zmodem]

Here's an example for x86: https://www.hanshq.net/ones-and-zeros.html

On: Curl is just the hobby

[zmodem]

I think it's a Bay Area thing.

Google's {First 10-digit Prime in Consecutive Digits of e}.com ad is a classic in this genre (https://www.hanshq.net/eprime.html)

On: Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour

[zmodem]

They use Swish: https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/hundreds-of-suspected-cocai...

[demosito666 → zmodem]

And again the same question: I have a friend who had to physically go to the restaurant to get a confirmation that he in fact had paid about $250 for dinner for six people and they then swished him back. How will you explain hundreds of transactions a month when you don't even have an official source of income?

On: Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour

[zmodem]

From the article:

> In 2022, there were 90 explosions and 101 cases of attempted bombings or preparations for bombings in Sweden, according to police data. As of 15 August this year, 109 explosions had been recorded.

[spants → zmodem]

it would be interesting to go back a few years to see how Sweden has changed. Has there been a huge increase in crimes in the last 10 years or so?.

[Pungsnigel → spants]

Gun violence and these explosions have been going up quite a bit last few years at least. Anecdotal (Sweden here) people in my closest circle feel a lot less safe, and less comfortable in public spaces, compared to a few years ago. Not to a huge extent, but noticeable.

[lucasRW → spants]

Wait, is that question serious or you are really prentending you don't know what "changed" in Sweden, or in another European countries, over the past 10 or 20 years :-) ?!