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DaveFlater commented on College English majors can't read   kittenbeloved.substack.co... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
DaveFlater · 10 months ago
There they go with Dickens again. Why always Dickens? Haven't we suffered enough?
DaveFlater commented on The return of the frame pointers   brendangregg.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
DaveFlater · 2 years ago
GCC optimization causes the frame pointer push to move around, resulting in wrong call stacks. "Wontfix"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38896343

DaveFlater commented on Ask HN: Are app signup dark patterns getting worse?    · Posted by u/s17n
DaveFlater · 2 years ago
Whether over months or years, they have certainly gotten worse. It is a race to the bottom or to 1 micrometer above the legal red line if one should ever be established.

CFPB and FTC talked about it: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/circulars/consume...

Summary of comparable talk in the EU: https://www.insideprivacy.com/eu-data-protection/the-eu-stan...

Down in the details, it looks like there has been enforcement in individual cases, but it obviously was not enough to stop the flood.

DaveFlater commented on Porting to GCC 14: C language issues   gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/portin... · Posted by u/fweimer
DaveFlater · 2 years ago
In C++ this is simply legal code. But in C, the bogus warning has now escalated to a bogus error.

   void fun110 (char const * const *a) {}
   char **a;
   fun110(a);

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