acockworkorange @ acockworkorange @mander.xyz

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MLK has a good rep today because of the non violence. Malcolm X and the Black Panthers were just as if not more influential for change, but they're completely ignored in schools and media today.

Bit fields are a necessity in low level networking too.

They're incredibly useful, I wish more people made use of them.

I remember I interned at a startup programming microcontrollers once and created a few bitfields to deal with something. Then the lead engineer went ahead and changed them to masked ints. Because. The most aggravating thing is that an int size isn't consistent across platforms, so if they were ever to change platforms to a different word length, they'd be fucked as their code was full of platform specific shenanigans like that.

/rant

Talking heads - once in a lifetime

And you may ask yourself: where is my beautiful house? Where is my beautiful wife?

In the industrial automation world and most of the IT industry, data is aligned to the nearest word. Depending on architecture, that's usually either 16, 32, or 64 bits. And that's the space a single Boolean takes.

For ages the four nations lived in harmony...

Don't worry, it gets worse after level 40.

QNX 6 had a public beta some years ago. It breathed new life on a very old 486 I had laying around.

QNX 4 was also used on some fancy life signs monitors and other safety / mission critical equipment.

That didn't address any link with age.

Lots of people are old and age correlates with weight gain.

Only in the US and countries with similar shitty feeding habits.

Can I walk low on ink? Amble?

Throw the book at him!

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is a masterpiece. He denies it, but anyone that has seen the movie and really knew Brazil in the eighties knows that movie is absolutely about the country.

Laced with copious amounts of copium.

Leave them. Let them have the years they voted for.

Balkanization*

As rule of thumb, try to keep the root word intact (Balkans here) as much as possible. It doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's a good heuristic.

Why?

BTW, do you know why are there so many forks of Greasemonkey? What happened to the parent project?

They lure you in with their neat thematic icons and ordered structure, but they're all MANIACS there! Every last one of them!

Apocryphal counterpoint.