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New comment by nickez in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

nickez — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:01:14 +0000

No, that would be implementation defined.

New comment by nickez in "Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden"

nickez — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:12:58 +0000

losing the gold standard 1971?

New comment by nickez in "Guix for Development"

nickez — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:40:49 +0000

What if a piece of software isn't packaged, like for example the ARM GCC toolchain. In a Dockerfile I just need to curl and unpack it. How do I solve that with guix?

New comment by nickez in "Talk Python in Production"

nickez — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:32:34 +0000

Only if your system/browser is set to dark mode

New comment by nickez in "Regex Isn't Hard (2023)"

nickez — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:56:50 +0000

Found an error immediately "Any lowercase character" doesn't match all Swedish lowercase characters.

New comment by nickez in "TrunkVer"

nickez — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:25:16 +0000

It would be semver compatible if they used 0.DATE.0 or 0.0.DATE instead.

from semver spec:

4) Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

New comment by nickez in "Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit?"

nickez — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:00:36 +0000

Does the data support the "general rule" then? I think 65 year olds today are much more able than 65 year olds 50 years ago.

New comment by nickez in "Identifying Rust's collect:>() memory leak footgun"

nickez — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:25:30 +0000

Please read the article. His produces 200x intermediary values. Clickbait title, since it wasn't a leak.

New comment by nickez in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

nickez — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:55:01 +0000

You can have different standards for different use cases. So you mean that iMessage and rcs are so different that Android can't use iMessage or apple couldn't use rcs? We don't need to find one standard to rule them all. But we need to stop anti-competition behavior like allowing these protocols to be exclusive.

New comment by nickez in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

nickez — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:56:11 +0000

The reason gsm, 3g, 4g, sms and so on succeeded was because everyone could implement them. I guess you had to pay license or patent fees, but they are not walled gardens. Phones from different manufacturers and/or different operators can communicate. I'm surprised that "chat"-protocols are allowed to be monopolies by the regulators. The regulators probably don't understand tech.

New comment by nickez in "White Rabbit Project (2020)"

nickez — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:19:56 +0000

The roundtrip time is never consistent. Light travels with different speed in fiber depending on the temperature. This is why you calibrate every second.

New comment by nickez in "What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide"

nickez — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 22:25:38 +0000

The SEK used to be locked. That lead to another kind of crisis in the nineties. You are right that we should've adopted the euro though.

New comment by nickez in "USDD/Tron near collapse: USDD stablecoin below $0.97, reserve collateral drained"

nickez — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 11:31:00 +0000

Tax, if your country has capital gain tax you need to declare every single trade to real USD. When you are trading between crypto pairs you are not realizing any gain, thus you don't need to declare it. Until you eventually sell of course.

New comment by nickez in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

nickez — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 10:54:35 +0000

I'm also a proponent of nuclear, but modern nuclear power plants seem to take 15-20 years to construct and typically go 10s of billions of EUR over budget. So one does not simply "build a reactor".. look at Olkiluoto 3 in Finland, Flamanville 3 in France and Hinkley Point C in UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

New comment by nickez in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

nickez — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 10:48:05 +0000

Also most of the wind power is in northern Sweden.

New comment by nickez in "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built"

nickez — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 10:47:09 +0000

This is only half the story. What is actually happening is that Sweden is importing expensive electricity from the baltics and exporting it to Germany. So even though the electricity is only in "transit" through Sweden, the prices go up in southern Sweden. Obviously everything is working as designed, but it does feel a bit unfair.

To lower the prices in southern Sweden either southern Sweden or northern Germany must increase "plannable" electricity production to avoid expensive imports from the baltics.

New comment by nickez in "Ctrl-C"

nickez — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:06:32 +0000

It mentions ACID compliant databases for one.

New comment by nickez in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

nickez — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:58:07 +0000

You avoid use after free for example

New comment by nickez in "“Risc V greatly underperforms”"

nickez — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:28:44 +0000

For those use cases you typically have specialised hardware or an FPGA.

New comment by nickez in "All businesses will eventually turn into subscriptions"

nickez — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:21:46 +0000

I would never own a car. But I suppose I don't want to drive a car that is older than 3 years and I don't enjoy selling used cars. I prefer the freedom I get to just hand the car back after 3 years and don't have to think about it anymore. Also no unexpected service costs and so on.