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True. I just happen to prefer the US to set the rules over an illegitimate, theocratic, and terrorist regime.

Funny how Windows copies KDE (features and trajectories), almost 18 years after KDE 4.0/4.1. Also makes me feel old.

Was gonna write that it pays dividends only from a certain project size onwards, but in fact it could be true from a certain org size instead. So yes, it has some component of bure…

I'm seeing this way too often in production code, despite linters and reviews. So we have to keep plastering over.

"They know what’s intuitive and what isn’t" ... and then they ignore it? It triggers me when someone calls hidden swipe gestures intuitive. It's the opposite of affordance, which t…

Like this? https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/

Funnily, 1.5 decades after Golang popularized formatters, in 2024 it is the only language that I work in that requires me to think about formatting. Mostly line length, but super a…

They have tons of commuters and business travelers. Didn't look into the methodology, but my first guess would be that those are included in the numerator, but not in the denominat…

That's what options are for. But I find it more cost effective to just diversify my investments.

Ok satire and i fell for it. Nice.

Not familiar with the details, but page fault != segfault.

Do it. I recently built a beefy machine, the first time in years that I have something I can play on, it's Linux only and it's great. Deepening on the games you play, check protond…

I agree with that, but null safety would be a big deal for correctness.

In the intern's place, I probably would not have bragged about copying that company's idea. Then again, as the company, if I felt a former intern could threaten my business like th…

In the second example, buffer is still a pointer? If so, when does free run, and who decides that? When buffer goes out of scope, could do_stuff store the pointer some place else? …

Try-blocks with ~one line are best practice on code based I have worked with. The upside is that you can bubble errors up to the place where you handle them, AND get stack traces f…

RIP. When I wasn't sure what to make of Goedel, Escher, Bach, his writings tipped the scale. Thanks!

Some of the in-house stuff was built before alternatives were available or scalable, and now there'd be a high cost and friction to trying to change it. Happens in many big compani…

As someone who hasn't thought about it that way yet: that's interesting!

Interesting. Though "ein Paar" is singular, "ein paar" is plural, making it clear from the context in many cases. Curiously, it's not clear in the case where it matters most: "plea…

Title should read "Extend a C project with Zig".

Exactly. So when people take"essential oils" or whatever to "detox" - yeah sure, you may feel a difference. But that's probably because that substance you ingested wasn't healthy i…

The thing I love about HN is that enthusiast stuff like this makes it to the front page. <3

Depending on your background, learning either will be beneficial in that you'll learn about a C-like memory model. My experience is that Go is way easier to get started with (both …