Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO

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Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO10h ago
@lispi314 modern ladder safety systems involve having the climber wear a harness connected to a shuttle that will clamp down on a cable or rail in the event of rapid movement, arresting the fall
Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO12h ago

watching the latests tom scott nebula video and going "wait how the hell are ladder cages safe"

and then I look it up and find out that OSHA's answer is "they're not, you're not allowed to install new ones anymore"

Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO1d ago
@ireneista wow I also saw myself in a pannenkoek video :P
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO1d ago
@poppyhaze lol this was also my immediate reaction
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO2d ago
@whitequark @weirdunits I realize it lost the format work, but I didn't think they'd declined in value *that* much
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO3d ago
@ireneista maybe the prototype specified a non-default calling convention? that was definitely a real possibility back then
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO3d ago
@ireneista heh, apparently that far back there was no real agreement on what the C data types were on Mac OS! Apple's own compilers used the ILP32 convention, but their docs note that others might've done Kinda Whatever lol
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO3d ago
@ireneista assuming it was any version OSX/macOS ≥10, int would be 32 bits
Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO5d ago
the little endian that could
Show threadRidley @ WATCH LYCORECO6d ago
@ireneista ah, paradoxical diarrhea