Yup; I was referring to their implementation being dark magic, depending on calling convention, argument type, argument order and possibly other properties specific to the processor’s instruction set…

“If you think you understand va_*, you don’t.”

^ This is from glibc. Do you know what va_start and va_end are?

Does anyone? 🙃

I wouldn’t say the extension was the beginning of the downfall; that kinda implies it caused the downfall.

I would agree that it was the canary in the coal mine – management types were ramping up their “just jam X into it” attitude, techies were starting to really feel it, and this was an initial, small protest. Unfortunately, despite the techies’ well-communicated newfound capability to run applications in my butt, the management types kept focusing more and more on their hype-oriented strategy – but that would certainly have happened without the extension too.

There is the dali-interface Python library which seems to support a few PC DALI interfaces based on USB-HID and serial. I don’t know how well the translation between USB-HID/serial and DALI is standardized, so I can’t tell you how compatible this library is with DALI interfaces that are not explicitly listed in the README.

Software using this library includes dali_mon for monitoring the DALI bus and dali_cli for sending commands.

You are missing the Neuzeil at the end of the Schnur.

Well I know a guy who can change my lift in a week. And those modern elevators really are a lot more comfortable.

Sure, but the newest version of each package is four years old and riddled with dozens of Debian-specific patches that somehow only make it run worse.

To my knowledge, there has been some discussion regarding the AGPL as to whether using software through a network even creates the kind of legal relationship between provider and client such that the client has standing to request the source code. I assume similar discussions would crop up regarding the SOWPL.

Miller presented a general O(1) solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem back in 1949.

Yeah… I kinda wish he had provided it before all those devs quit, though.

Of course, he might have kept silent as a test to see if the project can remain healthy without his active stewardship, which makes sense for such a large and important project. I’m sure he’s unimpressed by the result.

I think the point is that Tim Apple is all of these things (so he need not care) except straight.

I didn’t know that Broadcom’s CEO was named Hawk Tuah.

Oculus VR maker (whatever) and Trump donor/fanboy (okay, you really have a point).

what the hell is that carpet pattern?

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they probably fucked between supper and breakfast too, but then they slept, so you don’t see the effects on their face

Kinda hard to encode it in /etc/passwd, which separates entries with newlines and fields of an entry with colons.

Of course, you can activate some alternative user database in /etc/nsswitch.conf and then you can have your usernames with newlines in them, but at least half of the tools on your system that process usernames will take that personally…

ps outputs a newline after every entry. What are you trying to accomplish?

Do you have a username that contains a newline character? If so… why?!

He prevented WW3, fulfilling his traditionally masculine role as protector in a way many of us can only dream of. It sucks if that isn’t validation enough of his masculinity for him…

Any statewide legislation is sure to hit significant headwinds, because the very idea of regulation runs contrary to many Texans’ political beliefs. “As constitutional conservatives, they have taken our core values and used that against us,” says Demetra Conrad, a city council member in the nearby town of Glen Rose.

Maybe your core values are really stupid…