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Given that it is easy to feed FFMPEG arbitrary input to exploit any vulnerability, popular codecs are very likely to be already secure enough, while unpopular ones are far more dan…

It is usually possible to design a representation where cows and pigs are the same thing, either Animal class instances or equally unified other data structures, and their differen…

You don't seem to grasp that handling individual entity state has a cost that has to be minimized and amortized. A generation counter offers a good deal in many common cases: for t…

> start incorporating DUP and OVER and ROT and PICK and friends If one understands adding and consuming values at the top of the stack, putting the stack in the state you want it i…

No amount of ideology can fill L1 cache.

I certainly don't know "what my program does" if it's a game where, at every frame of the simulation, thousands of entities might or might not be created, deleted and recycled depe…

Focus on formal verification is a technique to "harden" an unreliable LLM that produces meaningless slop from arbitrary text into a compiler that produces a correct program from a …

I agree with the distinction between using a LLM as a tool to make personal contributions to healthy projects and expecting Codeberg to host arbitrary slop, but I'm afraid you are …

> It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don’t realize that they don’t actually have a community around them. This is not about demanding a community, as the article argues about at grea…

Being fast and being as easy to program as CUDA are two different things.

C++ is in the transitional phase where major bad things are being taken away very satisfactorily, usually by providing a simpler and more general replacement (for example, auto ins…

Unable to be willing. The combination of not knowing any better, political parties and media that don't care or exert a contrary pressure because they belong to billionaires, and p…

They don't consider the ORM the second class citizen it actually is: an optional simplified alternative to normal queries, that can be used for the easy cases.

One of the points is that, for a startup, not flailing around is very difficult and unlikely: these patterns of failure and "classic bullshit" are the universal norm. This piece "a…

It can be accurately simulated with appropriate brushes and rags, water and soap, and a sufficient number of hands.

Considerable arrogance is required to think you can improve on mature products enough to conquer a large market share. Such arrogance should be supported by having, if not a demons…

Brilliant autobiography.

On the contrary, the new trend of telling a bot to write code automates disregard for architecture.

> I've been thinking about the futsal effect - which is how Brazilian footballers developed superior skills through a constrained small-sided game with 5 on each side, then moving …

A contributor in good faith is going to accept criticism and resubmit an improved change: less files modified, more explanation, more focus, references to actual tickets and discus…

Is this a joke? Instead of using a formal aspect specification that people (and bots) can get wrong, like any other programming language, trust a bot to do the right thing spontane…

The flaw in the argument is postulating a subscription model for a product that a normal customer needs very sporadically. Even old-school selling of perpetual licenses and support…

The quoted code suggests that the wrong sizes aren't evident constants in code (there is a function to compute/retrieve them) and extra inspection during debugging is the most plau…

Judging from the initial portion of the anime Dragonball pivoted gradually from a loose adaptation of Journey to the West (with Goku as the protagonist among funny versions of trad…

There is a lot of room to do exactly the same thing more efficiently, which doesn't count as different algorithms.