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The oldest defer-like feature I can find reference to is the ON_BLOCK_EXIT macro from this article in the December 2000 issue of the C/C++ Users Journal: https://jacobfilipp.com/Dr…

I thought the "free" in "free web" was supposed to mean "free as in freedom," not "free as in beer." Have we really reached the point where the CEO of Mozilla no longer understands…

There's plenty of application-level C and C++ code out there that isn't performance-critical, and would benefit from the safety a garbage collector provides.

Several things: 1) Em-dashes 2) "It's not X, it's Y" sentence structure 3) Comma-separated list that's exactly 3 items long

It's possible that without the medication, you wouldn't have gotten burned out like this. But it's also possible that you'd have missed out on all of the benefits of being medicate…

import std.meta: AliasSeq; enum E { a, b, c } void handle(E e) { // Need label to break out of 'static foreach' Lswitch: final switch (e) { static foreach (ab; AliasSeq!(E.a, E.b))…

> ChatGPT is succeeding because they created a better search experience Or perhaps because Google created a worse search experience.

It's not actually that much to remember. There are 3 shapes that cover most of the major chords, and 3 special cases (F♯, B♭, and B).

You can still write the extension in C++ and expose an extern "C" interface.

It looks like bans for odd/even license plates were used in Paris in 2014 [1] and 1997 [2], but not before then. However, a similar scheme was used to ration gasoline in the US dur…

It looks like this is what git merge-base --fork-point is supposed to do, although according to the docs it is not 100% reliable.

Interestingly, C already does this for function calls: "fptr()" is considered equivalent to "(*fptr)()".

Page is completely unreadable in Firefox for Android.

I'd say C is actually a pretty good choice for an educational project like this. Having to write out all of your data structures by hand and manage your memory manually is a good l…

I don't think these authors intend for you to interpret their criticism of Audible's business practices as a statement about your moral character. One of their central points is th…

Most likely the intended audience is the press. Now that this letter has been published, journalists can write stories like "Online Safety Bill Under Fire From Security Experts", w…

> Case in point at 9:30[0] he talks about localised memory patterns as though he's the first to come up with it This seems like an uncharitable interpretation to me. When he says "…

First result on DDG is a Wikipedia article that says > The term was coined in 1998 by Vincent Flanders, author of the book and accompanying website Web Pages That Suck.

A number of command-line programs are actually just wrappers around a more strongly-typed library API. For example, curl and libcurl, or ffmpeg and a whole collection of audio/vide…

Maybe "decode"? As in "decode a Unicode string", or "decode a JPEG image", or "decode an MP3 audio file."

MuseScore doesn't use MIDI to store sheet music; it only uses it for playback.

And the use of the LAMBDA keyword goes all the way back to John McCarthy's original paper on Lisp from 1960: https://archive.org/details/recursive-functions-symbolic-exp...

If you want to play an RPG that will get you used to moving around with hjkl, you can also try a traditional roguelike like nethack [1] or dcss [2]. [1] https://www.nethack.org/ [2…

IANAL but it looks like the default is 30 days: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_34

Someone has uploaded a PDF to github, here: https://github.com/VernonGrant/gnu-c-language-manual