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> What’s happened, of course, with FORTRAN is that it has become the lingua franca of the computing world. It is the one language that everybody understands to some level of detail…

I suddenly understand part of why experienced programmers seem to find Rust so much more difficult than those who are just beginning to learn. Years of C++ trauma taught them to ig…

The Anglo-Saxon migrations made England English, and then the waves of Viking invasions littered North Germanic vocabulary all over it. You can see it in doublets like skirt/shirt …

Great when it works. Too many senders will only deliver to widely used hosts, and silently fail for anything outside their tiny allowlist. Note that I'm not even talking about tryi…

Rather than downvoting you, I will speak up to say I don't see what you're seeing. Spaces around hyphens, yeah, sure, but LLMs prefer em dashes, and even that is unreliable, becaus…

It is not obvious to those who refuse to understand, and who preemptively reject case studies on the grounds that the numbers are surely fabricated.

> If we took the same approach to other engineering, we'd be constantly tearing down houses and rebuilding them just because we have better nails now. It sure would keep a lot of b…

Intel Macs were always a second class citizen for Blender. There was a lot you couldn't do because the GPU drivers just didn't allow it. They actually announced they were dropping …

Looking forward to my next long flight where I can watch movies about Bharatna Jones.

...Except on websites that override this to make those links open in the current tab, or just silently fail. On the modern web, the menu is more reliable.

> Does that cause any symptoms? Tinnitus.

> Servo has been in development for a decade I was curious how you arrived at that figure so I checked the dates. Servo began in 2012 as a Mozilla skunkworks project, died off in 2…

From your link, emphasis mine: > permits the operator of a motor vehicle to turn such vehicle right at a red stop light after stopping Quoting GP, emphasis again mine: > the driver…

I would be surprised to see it high in the rankings before it establishes certain backward compatibility guarantees.

Are you perhaps referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229793

You mean a borrow checker? That exists, but not for Odin.

Outright impossible. You see, the US is far more spread out than Europe. You need only look at a map to notice the insurmountable geographic barriers that prevent a Subway from bei…

The citation is right there in the article: > source: i made it up

Rent can continue to go up as long as there is room (literally physical space) in whatever housing is still on the market. Ten years ago you might have been able to afford your own…

This already sounds like every independent coffee shop I've been to in the continental US.

> They could have represented dates as a simple int value In standard COBOL? No, they couldn't have.

If they continued to carry any of the games that were singled out for removal by Visa and Mastercard, they would not be able to accept credit card payments for anything else in the…

Coriolis forces acting on the human vestibular system can directly induce motion sickness just from turning your head. If it turns out humans cannot acclimate through long term exp…

Wizards wave their hands and say something like, "Whatever, space is an ocean." The Expanse makes the observation that accelerating your ship at a substantial fraction (or multiple…