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is indeed just an American airline.
I would say there is nothing descriptive about calling something American. America doesn't even refer to a single country, does it operate out of Brazil? Would that even be relevant information to anyone using an Airline?
At least the GL part isn't something that has a widely understood meaning and I don't think any of the competing APIs are generally refered to as Graphics Libraries either.
How is Minecraft doing these days?
By "through metadata", you mean with some external separate mechanism unrelated to the XML spec?
The code generating the xml text may not be aware of the final encoding used to store/transmit it and a library writing text to an encoded stream might not be aware that the text it is sending contains xml. So I would say allowing xml to be parsed using an externally specified encoding makes at least some sense.
A document that initially looks like UTF-8 could be almost any of literally hundreds of encodings including all the common ISO 8859 encodings
Your own link shows that those "hundreds of encodings" are all based on ASCII, which is enough to get the concrete encoding from the declaration.
and then switch to a "parsing" phase after rewinding to the start of the document.
So one call to fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_SET)?
By default XML is either UTF-8 or 16, any other encoding has to be identified either through metadata or an explicit declaration in the document itself.
If you are guessing it is because someone failed to properly store or transmit the document.
The candidates for prime minister and similar positions tend to be front and center during an election.
From what I remember the head of the european commission was picked from a group of people that weren't even up for election after the official candidates that were paraded around during an EU wide election where dismissed.
Folded paper has some structure, so not as much?
Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this:
And the reason for that two language approach is given in the linked source:
We aimed to provide a “glue language” for the Web designers and part time programmers who were building Web content from components such as images, plugins, and Java applets. We saw Java as the “component language” used by higher-priced programmers, where the glue programmers—the Web page designers—would assemble components and automate their interactions using [a scripting language].
Earlier sources clearly state that Java was intended as the primary language and JavaScript merely acting as glue.
Having to install a binary blob from a free-software hostile vendor that wanted a monopoly to load a website was always ridiculous ask.
The entire browser ecosystem started out closed source. Even JavaScript was written to interact with closed source Java Applets.
Flash was a constant embarassment of RCEs vulns
Browsers still are the goto target for contests like Pwn2own. It is almost like inviting the entire world to run untrusted code on your computer is not a great idea, no matter how many security buzzwords browser makers like to throw arround.
The result I get has an entire section dedicated to scammers using the company name. The only links in that section go to a wikipedia page that doesn't mention any scams and a police help page that doesn't mention the company.
due to how easy it is to trick them into installing something
You have tools from large corporations where the official installation procedure involves copy pasting a command from a random blog post, run it with sudo and watch it download and execute a script from a random filehost. This is somehow deemed acceptable by everyone involved.
Meanwhile I can't use teams in our meeting rooms, since any form of internet access was deemed a security risk in rooms where customer projects could be discussed. This is in a day and age where 90% of customer meetings are done over the internet.
Anyone trying to follow sane practices in this industry just asks to end up in a padded cell.
Isn't that what vfork tried to address? No COW, the child starts in its parents address space and only gets its own after calling exec.
In modern CPUs a mispredicted branch is much more expensive than a memory write.
Mostly because of caching. The writes either go to the same address as a previous one or move only a small increment, so most writes are likely going to hit L1 cache. If it wrote to a random memory location after every iteration the cost of a misprediction would probably disappear in the noise.
That was an unrelated issue from an audit that had been done before the heist.
One of the theories right after the heist was that the thieves where former security guards. France had just laid of most of the museums security, the alarm triggered just fine, there just wasn't anyone left to respond.
Shouldn't desktop environments detect if a lock screen terminated abnormaly anyway? The OOM killer is just one of many possible causes.
If some architecture traps on unaligned access, then the compiler can and should simply generate the correct code so that it loads the integer piece by piece instead.
Wouldn't the compiler have to assume that every pointer access might be unaligned and do the slow "piece by piece" access every time? It can hardly guess the runtime value of a pointer during compilation.
So because they haven't produced your pet project means they haven't changed?
Good to know that their flagship cross platform framework not even having an UI component rates "pet project".
No. They didn't have to make .NET cross platform and run equally well on Linux
Which they never did, instead they renamed .Net core, which to this day isn't a feature complete replacement for .Net.
they didn't have to join the Linux foundation and make contributions to the Linux kernel.
Given that they sell cloud products with Linux integration, yes they did?
Microsoft is much, much larger than just Windows.
And here I thought everything they do is compensation for being tiny, I mean it is literally in the name.
produced one of the largest open source ecosystems in use (.NET)
Are they going to ship an official cross platform UI library any time the next century? Decades after the Java lawsuit they still ship only a crippled copy of their scrapped Microsoft JVM for other platforms.
Microsoft is a huge open source contributor now
Aren't almost all of their contributions for integration with their proprietary technology?
Sorry to say, but believing nothing with MS has changed is deranged.
Yes, they got worse. They maintained Windows XP for ages and you could actually feel the improvements they shipped. Windows 11 meanwhile makes me wait for them to add a robotic arm with a knife as hardware requirement, to improve the backstabbing experience.
but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's.
By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it.
In a classic Microsoft move they fucked over their competition, their partners and the entire ecosystem for well over a decade.
I am not a facebook user, but going by that post they seem to go a step further and outright block any links pointing to news sites. The article mentions some provisions in the Italian law that prohibit restricting visiblity of the news sites, at least during negotiations, so that kind of salted earth move could backfire .
The C compiler also isn't allowed to do all of them. However some people use fast-math or compilers that default to fast-math to break the rules. Some older targets also may use the 80 bit fpu, which is its own mess and any sane compiler will default to properly sized SSE instructions instead.
Didn't Apple once ship a patch to limit CPU performance on iPhones because battery degradation was a widespread issue?
The experiment proved that even at a low price point ($8), a massive majority of the PC audience will choose "free" regardless of the developer's size or struggle.
Several points:
* A pirate can pirate infinity +1 games for free, that will skew any statistic compared to legitimiate buyers that have to manage a finite budget. It also means that you aren't looking at 93% lost sales.
* It wasn't a new indy game, but a port of an existing mobile game, so I wouldn't be surprised if legitimate buyers weren't in a rush to get their hands on it on day one. The steam statistics from the first month mention a peak concurrent player count of over 7000 so it certainly didn't stay at 200 copies.
Biological classifications are one gigantic mess. There are multiple ways to define what qualifies as a "species". One of them is procreation and viable offspring, going by modern human DNA and the Neanderthal fragments contained in it we where one big happy family all along.
Didn't some get exploited early on because electron made it trivial to load third party websites without any kind of XSS protection?
What process? Wasn't the default state of things to just let any random person of the street spam vulnerability reports without validation or quality control?
What makes you think that Googles AI experts are US citizens?
Except that Erdős problems are solved all the time, so many of them are already solved. Quite sure the last time I saw an article about an LLM solving an Erdős problem someone even tracked down a solution published by Erdős himself.
Dont they report an advantage based on simulating quantum effects every other year? I was promissed a quick way to decrypt my old harddrives decades ago, can we have that at some point before the sun burns out?
I love how just ordering a ticket is already a minefield for anyone not aware of how crappy german services are integrated. Pick one route, you will get a list of fully customized tickets that cover everything you need, pick another and you will get a list of tickets that will get you fined unless you carefully read through each and pick both a ticket that comes close to what you need and buy more tickets to cover any additional options.
The only thing near 100% perfection when it comes to german services is the full assery with which they are implemented.