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You cannot be an expert in everything, that I understand. But the "I can never get past the ugly syntax." reason is unusually superficial from you. Understanding Lisp macros or CLO…

84 total, with this breakdown: Core Basics 19/20 Intermediate 20/20 Advanced 13/20 Expert 15/20 Grandmaster 17/20 Scientific Estimate: 69 100 word It began very simple, so that I t…

Raku to me is like Esperanto: An absolutely beautiful idea that sadly is not used widely (or even known widely). And for both cases, I would love for things to be different, but si…

This is not wrong per se, but they also try to reduce/remove this giant lock as much as possible. If you see entries like "Unlocked socket splicing." in the changelog, then this is…

Scotty from Star Trek does approve!

The Emacs one is actually more a bug/feature in Git. If you execute "git ls-files" in the folder from the PoC, the payload gets executed. Emacs just does this automatically for you…

You mean like in this example? https://web.archive.org/web/20260313042512/https://gist.gith... There is never a guarantee with GenAI. If you need to be sure, sandbox it.

https://github.com/narqo/freebsd-brcmfmac/blob/be9b49c1bf942... seems to be the only file written in Zig. Using an entire additional programming language for 229 lines of code is d…

I am waiting for Raymond Chen to post a "Microspeak: Morged" blog post.

> Why is that not D ? You never get a second chance at making a good first impression. I believe that many people that gladly use Rust or Zig or Go nowadays would be quite happy wi…

That would still require someone else to burn 20000$ to try it themselves.

Almost lisp-like, isn't it?)))))))

It would not make Windows a good project, but it would mean that hardware vendors would have to implement good Linux drivers. It could therefore help all other distributions, too!

findall instead of bagof can also help for these cases. | ?- findall(A, (tree(A, N), branch(N)), As). As = [n,n1] yes See https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pagei…

I tried the pronunciation feature, which works less than awesome on my system. I am happy to share that "語彙" is pronounced "chinese letter chinese letter", while for "効果的" it is "c…

For reference: https://xkcd.com/1425/

Ha! I like the thought of unconciousness triggering a "kernel OOPS" and the brain dumping out a backtrace of everything. Makes you wonder who is supposed to debug it later ...

Rust is fractured by the optional async-ness of libraries. And all languages are fractured by GPL vs non-GPL libraries. You have a point, but it is not worth the drama. D's biggest…

The challenge then is to differentiate between "I wanted to access the secret website/document" and "Google/Copilot gave me the secret website/document, but it was not my intention…

The new kickstarter has launched and did meet its original goal in only seven minutes.