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‘Non-IO functions can't call IO functions.’ How do you handle logging then? If f() calls g(), how can I add logging to g() without having to change or recompile f() (and everything…

"This open-access course is directed at those who are already familiar with C and object-oriented programming" ... but not C++ That's a very, very small target you're aiming at the…

Has anyone got the hang of Thursdays yet?

This feels like a restatement of the trivially obvious observation that, if your type system is Turing complete, you're going to run into the halting problem.

Because making every jet engine in two different models would make them a lot more expensive. It would also cause maintenance issues because of non-interchangeable parts.

I'm in Australia, you're Swedish (but I don't know if your business is based there), and most web sites show US prices by default. So I wouldn't like to guess whether it was meant …

I like this and would seriously consider buying it - except that the purchase page only has prices in something called "AA$". I have no idea what currency that refers to (AA is Aru…

Non-paywalled version on one of the authors' site: https://www.liyiwei.org/papers/noise-sig12/

That doesn't make it open source, just "source available".

"The `await` keyword means "turn the rest of this function into a callback for the when the Task I'm waiting on finishes, and return the resulting Task"." Oh my god thank you. I've…

Broken in Safari on Sequoia, unfortunately.

Does the command line to remove the quarantine flag (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename) still work?

Put it this way: Can I build an executable using this, that I could confidently give to a Windows user who has never heard of WSL?

This looks useful but I'm worried about portability. Are there any plans for native Windows support?

I'm disappointed that they passed up the opportunity to call the project Stargazy Pi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie )

Just waiting now for someone to find a spectre exploit in quantum mechanics.

Some people, when they have a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 1.9999998 problems.

It can't be any harder to search for than C.

Well, what actually killed it historically was AMD64. AMD64 could easily not have happened, AMD has a very inconsistent track record; other contemporary CPUs like Alpha were never …

“Daft? Of course it’s daft - it’s traditional!” - Terry Pratchett

Thanks. Strangely I'd never heard of this site before.

Is there a (legal) way to get this book in pdf?

Math is integer, unless declared real.

"The awesome unstoppable terribleness that is Postel's Law." Eloquence for the ages.