pelya

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In a sane and healthy software company, they would contribute their changes back to BSD just because it makes easier to apply latest BSD changes amd security fixes.

Most companies wont. They fork, modify the BSD code for their specific hardware, sell it, and never ever update thier software.

The superior technique is solder the strands together at the tip of the wire, then plug it into Wago so you can disconnect it easily when you need to add another wire.

Or well, crimp the ends and connect to a busbar with bolts, but that's for wires where you calculate your electricity in kilowatts.

By the time your wire reaches 200⁰ needed for your solder to melt, your insulation would already be burning. That's not a plausible scenario, or you need to deliberately make a bad solder joint, cutting half the strands in the wire so it overheats in that particular place.

on 98.css · c/programmer_humor · 7 pts · 10d

TreeView is designed as an afterthought. Some manager at MICROS~1 was like 'ah yes we need an expanding nested list widget by tomorrow' and they mutilated text edit box to draw text lines that expand when you click them. It does not have keyboad focus. It can only be operated with a mouse. It does not have shadow or raised widget borders. It has black text on white background, while every other widget has Windows Gray background.

The proper UI would be a separate button for each label, like multiple hierarchical combo boxes.

on Regressive JPEGs · c/programming · 19 pts · 16d

I didn't think it was possible to invent a worse format than .gif for moving pictures.

Congratulations!

Huh, I actually forgot cat is used to join several files together. Last time I needed to concatenate two files, I did

{ cat file1 ; cat file2 ; } > output

But the most valid case is when I want to unpack .gz or .xz archive but do not want to delete the original file, as xz -d will do by default. So I naturally do

cat input.img.xz | xz -d > output.img

I've heard rumours that xz has a special option to not delete the original file, but I know no one brave enough to search through the xz manpage.