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> Those 20% would just figure that there's no need to have children when you can just focus on yourself and go largely extinct within a generation, replaced with some people from t…

Write once run anywhere? But C already is a "write once run anywhere" language! Though, you usually have to recompile first :) The criticisms related to UB are not about understand…

If you want to avoid string manipulation then you can construct queries with a query builder API like C#'s LINQ. Other languages have similar libraries, e.g., Rust has Diesel. If y…

No, not really. I bought an $800 pair of designer sunglasses a couple of times, but usually, good frames are only a few hundred bucks.

I’ve thought about this myself. Couple of points: 1) It’s not my job to fix all the problems of Capitalism. It’s painful to try to fight the system without collective action. My fa…

The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947. If the Congress wanted to change the name then they would pass another law to do so. An executive or…

What are you trying to communicate in this comment? That you have spite for your users? Why? That you consider not bothering with Firefox support to be a good way to, what, express…

You’re not wrong. You’re not the only one saying this either. Though, I’m currently of the mind that the concern is overblown. I’m finding Opus 4.6 is only really capable of solvin…

This article does not make it clear what a metaproject actually is. That said, I _believe_ the author is describing a concept similar to something I do. Choose a very small number …

This is why, of course, nearly all open source projects are written in Java.

The Instruments suite, plus sanitizers like ASan, is basically the valgrind equivalent on macOS. It’s not exactly the same, but it comes close.

Memory management in Swift is almost broken? How so? This is a fascinating assertion, and I’d love to learn more.

There more to stability than continuity of government. Though, that definitely is important. It’s bad enough that America’s foreign policy lately swings wildly every four years. Mo…

I think black hole accretion disks and jets are something like several orders of magnitude less dense than would be required for that.

Yes. As far as kernels go, NT was pretty damn good. So is Mach, by the way, if you can afford the microkernel performance overhead.

I don't think it's strange at all that the scientific framework of today is capable of investigating physical phenomena in the real world. It would be strange if it _couldn't_.

PsyOps, you say? Operations by which organizations? Which specific individuals were involved in the planning and coordination? How are they funded? Who got paid and who paid who fo…

If you’re looking at the AI-generated output then you’re not Vibe Coding. Period. Let’s not dilute and destroy the term just as it’s beginning to become a useful label.

RISC vs CISC is nonsense. Pre-RISC CPU designs were pragmatic responses to the design constraints of their time. (expensive memory, poor compilers) RISC was a pragmatic response to…

I had been planning to explore Lima tonight as a mechanism to shackle CC on macOS. The trouble with sandbox-exec is that it’s control over network access is not fine grain enough, …

Just two days ago, I asked Claude Code (running as a restricted non-admin user) to generate a unit test. I didn’t look too closely at exactly what it wrote before it ran it for me.…

How so? In this context, “tedious” clearly means “not very exciting for the reader.” Were you hoping for more relationship drama, or romance? I’d be down for that. Though, it doesn…

While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and l…

That’s a bad analogy. It works against your point. It seems entirely, entirely reasonable to avoid a clothing store that refuses to stock hip styles simply because they’re “offensi…

It’s highly dependent on what I’m viewing, of course. Some people just… talk… so… slooowly. If the content is interesting then they get 1.5x. Some people talk a mile a minute with …