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... I can't believe I typo'd that as "LobreWolf". OH WELL.

It's a big part of why I'm strongly opposed to common-law systems (as opposed to civil law). All the case law, all of it becomes, well, law. And then you get the whole "legislating…

Yes, and it's a surprising good part about PHP (a language that otherwise has an enormous collection of warts, to put it mildly). I feel like the more dynamic and/or weakly-typed t…

LobreWolf is a good recommendation, though if you want something with more "usual" defaults --- I love WaterFox, myself.

I know it's not the only problem (but it is IMO the main one), but this is why I'm a proponent of allowing operator overloading in languages. Yes, you can't tell at a glance if `+`…

TIL that TLS (before 1.3) was designed by non-cryptographers. What the hell.

I really hate the whole thing about companies promoting using LLMs to change one-liner emails into this long multi-paragraph thing that ends up saying almost nothing ... just wasti…

I'm confused, how can I see it, for example?

I feel like this should be treated as, and have consequences similar to, plagiarism. Alas, it's probably just wishful thinking on my part.

My #1 complaint by far is that it --- pretty much silently --- depends on systemd to work correctly. Try having a docker-compose with a service that waits until a dependency is hea…

That gives me an idea for an icon pack. TL;DR path-traced voxel art, isometric render. Alas, I'm no designer.

You can't rip it, or even make backups in the US (you can in most, if not all, of Europe; dunno about the rest of the world). It's illegal, and constitutes piracy.

A rip & copy is a breach of the DMCA (because it involves circumvention of DRM, among other things) in the US, which makes it software piracy. And then they wonder why so many advo…

Where could one find resources about implementing such GCs in their own language?

Yes, copying strings is definitely cheap, but allocating memory for the copy is absolutely not. And I have my doubts w.r.t. 0-terminated strings being more efficient, with maybe th…

In the other, you say "xy, yz, zx" (or whatnot), which makes it much clearer as to what's what. What exactly does `i` correspond to in a quaternion? They always rely on implicit as…

Also, I really think we'd all be better off if we stopped using quaternions entirely and started using rotors instead.

I still like the idea that Han Solo was --- quite simply --- bullshitting, talking out of his ass. It fits the character and it resolves the filming/script mistake with a good expl…

> Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts ... but then again, neither does VMware, apparently.

By that logic, no natively-compiled language has a type system. Though I should note that in a way, even some ISAs have one, what with e.g. separate float vs integer registers.

I like the D approach where arrays are just `struct { size_t length; T* ptr; }` internally --- and strings are just arrays of `immutable(char)`. It has a big advantage over the Pas…

I very commonly see fixed-point libs be slower than floating-point (assuming floating-point hardware is available --- soft-float is slow as hell compared to fixed-point, of course)…

If you include Uranium in the oceans, we have about 4.5 billion years of fuel. It's no less renewable than the Sun.

Coal in the US alone kills one Chernobyl of people each year. (using estimates for Chernobyl --- so, in coal's advantage, as Chernobyl's confirmed deaths are actually very low)

Solar isn't exactly squeaky clean either. Look into things like lithium mining (for batteries; yes, I am aware that other options exist, but lithium is still a very common one). Th…