Hacker News: legalcorrection

New comment by legalcorrection in "Usage of EU subsidiaries of US cloud providers deemed unlawful by German court"

legalcorrection — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 19:07:59 +0000

I'm sure. It's really a lovely place full of lovely people. And the standard of living is still relatively high. They are their own worst enemies sadly.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global"

legalcorrection — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:24:03 +0000

>sigh what is the point. Might as well talk gibberish in this "us vs them" society

Yeah it’s too bad. The quality of service has totally gone to shit in this country. But God forbid you complain, then you’re a Karen. People are “nice” these days, but they forgot how to be good. A nice person is trying to avoid conflict all the time. A good person is willing to enforce society’s standards in their interactions with other people.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2022 edition"

legalcorrection — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 04:53:01 +0000

Incredible to see how many people in these comments are mad that someone dare challenge that their dear GNU/Linux is a great desktop OS. This is part of why it will never get there. The Linux community just doesn’t Get It. Too much autistic nerd energy, not enough people with a functioning sense of empathy.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’"

legalcorrection — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 14:07:09 +0000

In your world, disease and famine would be much more common than they are now.

New comment by legalcorrection in "GraphQL kinda sucks"

legalcorrection — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:37:14 +0000

It’s a false promise. You’re just moving the complexity elsewhere, into wiring this ridiculous graphql infrastructure together and making it actually do what you want in all but the simplest/tutorial-like scenarios.

New comment by legalcorrection in "GraphQL kinda sucks"

legalcorrection — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:28:15 +0000

Ignore all the noise and just use an RPC model between your backend and frontend. All these stupid trends and overengineered abstractions will come and go, but people will still be using plain RPC in 5, 10, 100, and 1000 years.

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 06:11:46 +0000

MSVC doesn’t enforce strict aliasing to begin with. And passing /d2UndefIntOverflow makes signed integer overflow well-defined. Even if you don’t pass it, MSVC is very conservative in exploiting that UB, precisely to avoid breaking code that was valid before they started doing this optimization (2015 or so).

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:01:21 +0000

Okay so take the two most complained about UBs, improper aliasing and signed integer overflow. Every compiler I’ve ever used lets you turn both into defined behavior.

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:16:51 +0000

Oh really? Then why does every compiler I use have a parameter to turn off strict aliasing?

You cite to a source that contradicts you. In the llvm blog post: "It is also worth pointing out that both Clang and GCC nail down a few behaviors that the C standard leaves undefined."

New comment by legalcorrection in "Windows HEVC video codec from Microsoft costs $0.99"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 06:07:39 +0000

Your comment is indecipherable. It sounds like it might be interesting. Any chance you could rephrase?

New comment by legalcorrection in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:30:45 +0000

It’s not the greatest but it’s also not awful. Ideally the 123 would be replaced by a less common sequence, and maybe add one more word, but as is, it’s fine.

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:21:30 +0000

These people are just regurgitating HN memes and then flailing when someone prods a bit deeper. C is basically the Donald Trump of HN. All rational thought goes out the door at the mere mention. In fact, you’re socially rewarded for joining the idiot mob.

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:19:59 +0000

Tell me, what’s wrong with variably modified types specifically?

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:09:11 +0000

You are confusing the C standard and actual platforms/C implementations. A lot of things are UB in the standard but perfectly well defined on your platform. Standards don’t compile code, real compilers do. The standard doesn’t provide standard library implementations, the actual platform does.

Targeting the standard is nice, but if all of your target platforms guarantee certain behaviors, you might consider using those. A lot of UB in the C standard is perfectly defined and consistent across MSVC, GCC, Clang, and ICC.

New comment by legalcorrection in "C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'"

legalcorrection — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 17:45:40 +0000

You are entering the function. It's not in the function body in the source file, but the code is almost certainly inserted at the beginning of the function in the compiled output.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"

legalcorrection — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:43:59 +0000

This is a common misconception. Cold emailing is legal under the CAN-SPAM Act.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"

legalcorrection — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:28:57 +0000

People reuse passwords and having your password appear in a list of known passwords, even without being associated to your email, is reason enough to change it.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Sending spammers to password purgatory"

legalcorrection — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 04:01:21 +0000

This is wrong. You are logging their password attempts and then sharing them with the world. It doesn’t matter that you think you know they are scammers. What gives you the right to dispense vigilante justice by disclosing people’s passwords? Shame on you.

New comment by legalcorrection in "Cut the cutesy errors"

legalcorrection — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:51:25 +0000

These days, if something is print only or has similar stupid hurdles, I suspect that the purpose is market segmentation. Some people will prefer to avoid the hassle and just pay full price or go without. Which means the company can offer that much more value to the people who are willing to go through the hassle.

New comment by legalcorrection in "US Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force"

legalcorrection — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 22:17:52 +0000

Never underestimate how out of touch and incapable of understanding other people HN nerds are.