At the time that C was designed, ASCII was not a universal standard. It was one encoding competing with other encodings.

In C and C++, the source character set is implementation defined. This means that each compiler sets its own rules about what characters are accepted. For example compilers could choose to accept ASCII or EBCDIC or Unicode, or some combination, etc.

So the ISO standard will say that ; character is the end of statement punctuation. But it is up to the compiler to say which character(s) or code point(s) represent the ISO ;.

The ISO standards also require compilers to define a separate execution character set to specify values that can be stored in char and used with the string library functions. The execution character set doesn’t have to be the same as the source character set.

Edit: I should also mention that the rules for this stuff are changing a lot in ISO C23 and C++23. (Which standards I haven’t yet personally adopted.) Basically the ISO 23 standards mandate compilers to support UTF-8 source files, and they map every source character in the ISO standard to its corresponding Unicode character.

It changed a lot. Even if you ignore the stuff that happened between the king and the emperor, that emperor changed a lot. Massive legal reforms. Upended world order. Etc. Etc.

Well, for one more moment anyway.

Rudy Giuliani, when asked, “What does the fifth amendment mean to you,” responded by…pleading the fifth.

Yeah, the damage curve is exponential by axle weight.

Renea Gamble was found by a municipal judge to be not guilty of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and providing a false name to law enforcement. (The allegedly false name was “Aunt Tifa,” which is hilarious).

She has filed a civil claim seeking monetary damages of $2 million and attorneys fees.

Likewise, Chernobyl reactor 4 suffered its mishap in 1986. Reactors 1, 2, and 3 remained operational and on the power grid. Reactor 2 continued to operate until 1991; reactor 1 until 1996; and reactor 3 until 2000.

The fuel wasn’t completely removed from reactors 1-3 until 2013. Just to give you all some idea about the timeline of nuclear decommissioning.

Really? Banned from NCD? I was incredulous.

Then I saw it was /r/NonCredibleDefense, not !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works or !NonCredibleDefense@piefed.social.

Carry on.

In this case, John Roberts and company decided to issue the judgement immediately over the objection of the losing party. This move seemingly facilitates Louisiana’s effort to switch maps even after voting has already started.

Meanwhile, just 2-3 years ago, Roberts said that Alabama had to continue using illegal maps because we couldn’t disrupt an election cycle that was less than 6 months away. Just a few months ago, this court said that Texas can’t be forced to change maps 4 months before election.

The only real distinguishing principle that you could use to predict these decisions is which political party benefits from the decision.

Even if the VRA decision had some principled reasoning on the merits, all of this posturing on the timelines is clearly nakedly partisan.

There is no reason to have 50 separate curriculums. The ONLY reason that exists is so MAGA states can use the schools to indoctrinate American schoolchildren

That’s not the only reason. There are in fact principles of federalism, and there’s the 10th amendment to the constitution. Educating the public is not one of the 17 enumerated powers granted to Congress in article I. Under the 10th, powers that are not granted to the national government are reserved to the states or to the people.

This is why the national government’s regulation of education is based around carrots in the form of block grants that states apply for. Not enforcement sticks.

Now introducing new host Tim Heidecker.

This could be a nice lesson about the taxicab metric and the Euclidean metric, but that doesn’t seem like the intention.

Low approach. Delivery truck was on the public highway. Not a runway incursion. Pilot’s about to lose their job.

A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don’t have to talk to each other.

A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It’s hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.

And I’m still getting at least 20x speedup on my applications. I don’t know where this 0.001 stuff is coming from.

No, I’m quoting the Constitution because it means something to me, and maybe to you as well. I’m not talking to them.

“They” will only accomplish their goals when enough regular people go along with it. Conversely, the Constitution will continue to have meaning as long as enough regular people are still invested. Despite some serious cracks and strains, it is holding up so far. I hope it continues to do so.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

• Constitution. Article III, section 3.

The fifth circuit court of appeals has been described as “a collection of 4chan posts wearing robes.” It has a reputation for very conservative decisions that are poorly reasoned. And in fact I think it is currently the most overturned circuit at the Supreme Court.

The 5th circuit covers the geographic territory of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. In the US appellate system, the decisions of each circuit are binding precedent within their territory. So the interpretation of the law can literally change if you move to a different part of the country. The Supreme Court is supposed to step in when these “circuit splits” occur, but sometimes it’s slow to do so.

In this case, the effect is nationwide because it’s an APA case. The court is ordering the FDA to reverse one of its regulatory policies. And the FDA can be sued in any of the 50 states because they operate in all of them.

Edit: I’m just assuming that OP is talking about the mifepristone decision that just came out. But they could be talking about the Louisiana Callais decision on redistricting instead.

“Perhaps some time in the pattern buffer will mellow you out.”