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  • As long is it’s not autogenerated then thats fine. The correct statement would be

    “What Arch user actually like:” --> “What Arch users are actually like:”

    or even “What Arch users actually look like:”

    By leaving it as “what they like” you could be implying that they like these things, as in they enjoy them.

    “Like” has both a verb definition and an adjective. And also a noun, but I’ve never once seen it used that way lol.







  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaytoProgrammer Humor@programming.devEvolution of C
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    Fun fact, C didn’t have a lot of things like Classes and was often distributed or stored alongside various libraries so it was C Plus (as in addition to) Libraries before it was C++, and somebody decided the next iteration was C with 4 pluses, which forms a #

    Source: Bjarne Stroustrup, I forget which edition of his C++ book.




  • Does THIS LINK work you or no?

    It’s a little hard to find copies of prep guides for each year since it’s so niche. I had copies over a decade ago but those are probably useless now. In general its really hard to get pirated technical books, I’ve had some luck with Library Genesis, Z Library, Liber3, or project Gutenburg.

    An alternative to look at might be doing all of the AP High School and College subjects on KhanAcademy. And practice handwritten essays if you intend to take the optionals.

    TBH scoring a 30 or higher on the ACT is a lot easier than scoring high on the SATs. None of the subjects will ask you to solve multivariate differential equations or anything high level like that.




  • Why can’t we talk about improperly formatted kernel level drivers? MS is notorious for “oops” accidentally rolling drivers back 8 or more years, and now it’s become a problem.

    And correct me if I’m wrong but the CS update came before the windows update which caused the problems.

    EDIT: I am a bit off the mark

    On 19 July at 04:09 UTC, CrowdStrike distributed a driver update for its Falcon software for Windows PCs and servers. An update to a configuration file that was responsible for screening named pipes, Channel File 291, caused a logic error with the Windows sensor client, causing affected machines to enter the blue screen of death with the stop code PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, indicating an error caused by a page fault.


  • TBH regardless of windows security, this was clearly the fault of a lack of compatibility. Whether CrowdStrike was made in a way that caused the problem or if the Windows update wasn’t properly screened or tested for this kind of failure, I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot about very soon, but the jury is out on which one is at fault.