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My biggest problem with Europe's mandatory cookie warning is that the solution is worse than the problem. I'm aware that once I enter somebody's site there's a gazillion ways for t…

I think there's just one lesson, a no-brainer, to be learned here: That any halfway competent author can make his character appear superior in whatever way he chooses, because he o…

I'm in a corporation currently "upgrading" from Skype to Teams. Let me put it this way: Since chatting with Teams, I no longer think quite as badly of Skype.

Yes, but that's irrelevant to your parent commenter's point. I'll explain that in simpler terms: If the object has the slightest bit of (linear) momentum then it also has a non-zer…

Am I the only one who thought this article was about Apache Tomcat?

You're right, I missed that. But that still leaves the ASCII tree diagram agreeing with the sentence "Phix has just five builtin data types:" while showing (and describing, in the …

Looking at "Core Language" I was dismayed not to find any builtin floating point data type. In "Phix vs Conventional Languages" I'm told that "1/2 is always 0.5". And "Library Rout…

In the original article, the author claims that lots of repeated strings turn out to be beneficial insofar as they make compression (gzip or whatever) more effective. According to …

It's anticipated that at least millions, more likely hundreds of millions of humans will die to the consequences of climate change including effects of extreme weather, flooding an…

The author's expressing a personal opinion, and not supporting it very well. That this low-value piece complains about disinformation reeks of unintended irony. Here's my personal …

At the risk of seeming an ingrate: Does LibKtx also do 3D?

Yes. In the opening paragraph there's a reference to a companion paper from April 1, 1998. I'd say that's a strong hint.

For the past 2 years, most of my work has been in porting some fairly simple legacy message forwarding and conversion programs from C to Java. So on our test servers I can swap out…

Almost never. With the kind of software I mostly write these days, I'm fortunate to be able to incrementally develop my code and test it under real-world conditions or a subset the…

Underneath the eloquent prose and the many helpful examples and showcases, this is an anti-science hit piece. How dare theoretical physicists develop ideas about the world around u…

Pretty much every "alternative" medical procedure or product for the gullible has one serious side effect: the potential for abandoning medicine that actually and empirically has a…

Looking at your wish for exploratory evaluations in for-comprehensions, I was reminded of how Clojure does this. I found it quite elegant. The inside of the for-braces allow for ke…

No doubt our different perspectives are a result of us doing different things with Go. I don't write compilers or other "highbrow" Computer Science-heavy programs. I most frequentl…

I hear you, but there are also upsides. As a veteran of many programming languages, I find Go's minimal feature list a plus! Especially if I'm not rushed, I have an annoying tenden…

Might be against the rules, but here's a "me too." I've been avoiding Medium even before they became so blatantly commercial. Forcefully urging me to create an account and log in j…

Let's be fair to Haskell and LyaH: I've taught some Java classes. I can get people writing and running trivially useful code before explaining the concepts of "class" and "static".…

Wow, cool! Thanks. I hope to do more with Haskell once I retire, and this may stand me in good stead. I think my point is still supported to some extent by the fact that this is kn…

As a Haskell n00b, I'd like to mention something I can do in about 20 other languages but not in Haskell: ( UPDATE: I stand corrected, in a reply by tome. ) I'm writing and debuggi…

I read most of that salty social-media-suicide note and got the same vibe. "Help! This site is failing to tolerate my religiously motivated bigotry -- I'm being oppressed!" I would…