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It sounds like you were writing your documents in troff/groff.

Wouldn't it be possible to, with a really strange number format for integers, define SIZE_MAX as INFINITY? C doesn't require twos-compliment numbers, after all.

A while ago, while talking to a friend about game design, I had the realization: Players will quit over issues they see in a game, even when in actuality those are non -issues.

You're forgetting. All these are cryptocurrencies. You need to have more than that. I own 30,000 different kinds of assets. Stocks, bonds, crypto, I even own all of the funds. You'…

Rust sort of already has this, though implemented in a worse way. They use 0.[major/minor].[minor/patch]. When the library author wants to indicate that their library is stable, th…

My interpretation of the article was that chrome ships with a blocklist of websites that have annoying autoplay features, but will automatically remove websites from that blocklist…

Minecraft's Far Lands aren't actually related to floating point precision, although movement near the Far Lands is affected. My understanding of what causes the Far Lands isn't tha…

I assume Waterluvian is using the term to refer to a mac laptop with Windows or Linux installed onto it.

Python uses * * , but that is ambigous with int a = 1; int *b = &a; int c = a ** b; // Am I casting b to an int (returning it's address) and exponenting it or am I derefrencing b a…

It is possible for a compiler to optimize long method chains into the equivalent imperative code. The rust compiler is an example, and in the case of the iterator trait, it can act…

Counter-argument to changing the return type of a function with var: You can change the return type of the function to another type that might break some assumptions later in the c…

Small thing to note: While a lot of intelectual discussion does go on in /g/, the board's culture does often encourage misleading information and trolling. Browsers of reddit and H…