What is the correct way to indent
if(false) {
RUN_THE_THING(foo, bar);
}
when RUN_THE_THING is a macro along the lines of
} else if(condition(foo)) {
statements with bar;
?
(I did put a comment this time.)
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Where "soundproofing" translates to "about all the packaging materials I still had around from 2020 because 'they might still come handy oneday'". I think I just love to make something useful out of "worthless" things.
It's not retrocomputing if I actually use it for the performance, right? *adds more soundproofing*
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If there's anyone here running a many-threaded (32 or more) Linux/x86 system, can I ask you a favor?
Can you please install ZFS, create a pool on a storage device (preferrably a slow one so there'll be a lot of contention), then run a heavy multithreaded load (e.g. benchmark software like byte-unixbench) on it.
Do you experience kernel oops, panics, or are there random process(es) that got killed after you run it?
Thanks in advance!
Reposts welcome, I'm curious 
"New" server has arrived, and with some soundproofing (more to be done, I fear); I can now type `make -j` and not scramble to save my machine from unbounded parallelism and a swapping death.
Last night, I fixed someones Linux audio issues in one easy step:
1. connect to their computer via SSH
Also, old hardware has a surprising lifetime in this room. And have you noticed how long some CompSci departments can (and do) use their boxes?
Maybe there is actually something to bogon/anti-bogon theory. Computers don't break, computers absorb bogons from nearby bogon emitters.
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#LazyWeb question. I'm looking for source code to an interrupt-driven serial driver for a NS16550 UART chip, preferably in C.
Would anyone in the embedded or early PC software development worlds have any leads? I looked high and low, and couldn't find anything. It's almost as if this UART design has mysteriously vanished from the face of the planet.
Thanks.
Boosts welcome.
The code says commandHandler = handler;
... but operator = is overloaded and under the hood it builds a smart pointer and copy-constructs handler and then statically enumerates all argument types supported by decltype(handler)::operator() and stores them into a bitmap to dynamically disable the useless parser parts on the incoming network packet stream.
I wonder if I should add a comment.
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i was also today years old when i found out the kanji for hedgehog makes ‘pin mouse’ which warms my soul to no end 🦔
How I avoid analysis paralysis in one easy step (actually three):
ag FIXME *.c++ | shuf | head -n 1
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In the 1990s, for example, the X-Files era of conspiracy theories appeared broad-based and apolitical.
But they really weren't apolitical.
They were selling a very specific set of ideas:
"The government, any government, is evil."
"The world is filled with mortal dangers. Fear strangers."
"Trust no one. Only trust yourself. Be a strong, lone, individual."
This idea set just happens to line up with a very specifically libertarian, market-friendly view of human society. Odd how that happened.
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it annoys me to no end that EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX are indexed 0, 3, 1, 2
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Watching the progress of a full-backup is always a good way to learn about my home-directory contents.
o_O
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Is there any consumer-obtainable device with a similar form-factor as micro SD but which trades away re-writability (i.e. only writable once or maybe a few times) but instead offers supreme data retention (i.e. decades if not centuries)?
My trust in this pretty cheap micro-SD card from the SANSUN store at aliexpress has significantly diminished by its failure to keep an encrypted ext4 filesystem in a consistent state for longer than the page cache. :(
I got what I paid for, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Anyone know good cloud threat intel/red team/threat hunter type folks? I might have an interesting job lead for that.
IT-centric version of @drahflow
Joined Aug 2018
