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Took a few more years to get really bug free. > Fast forward to 2006. I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley proved correct and subsequently tested in C…

How’s about radicle.dev ? Apparently like GitHub, but decentralized like Git.

TCO is surprisingly commonly supported in the real world. TCO is supported in C++ compilers, JavaScript in Safari, Scala, Clojure in a way, etc.! For instance: "All current mainstr…

Yes, I think it’s like a decentralized GitHub?

Works over Bluetooth mesh offline and Nostr online. Relevant discussion yesterday: > “Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey” https://news…

Like many countries, China has an unemployment problem especially with new grads. > demanding jobs and long hours in the private sector, where 12-hour days and weekend shifts are c…

What’s more funny to me is the set up to that quote: > Bill Gates had somehow manifested, alone, surrounded by ten Apple employees. … Steve started yelling at Bill, asking him why …

Apparently: https://www.folklore.org/A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.html

It’s important not to forget the (work) politics while looking at the work produced. Unfortunately when you get a politically astute Mad Men (for real, from Ogilvy) in the organiza…

> Isn't the available learning material better than it has ever been? Yes, and so’s the available distractions and entertainment.

Unless you don’t think Attention Is All You Need? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need

The strangest thing I found is: > on April 7, 2026 … U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convened an urgent, in-person meeting in Washingt…

You could open the doc or docx in LibreOffice 26.2 and use its Markdown export feature?

Well they already chose Swift over Rust because they said: > Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop So I guess from their point of view that’s why not rust. I don’t…

> In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop Why not D?

>> apples.stream() >> .filter (a -} ajsRed()); >> .forEach(giveApple); [sic] > The red apple streams one is good. It shows how developers chase shiny new stuff with no respect for …

> more emphasis on in-person tests and exams $$$ There’s a lot of interacting parts as to why many places have arrived where we are where cheap ghost writers (AI or not) can so eas…

“Please don't do things to make titles stand out… “If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out… “If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective,…

Oh definitely! I know you’re just using the phrase and don’t imply otherwise, but to clarify the word “imitation”, uBO lite is not a fake imitation but actually an official thing f…

FYI. iOS Safari already supports uBlock Origin Lite. iOS Firefox can do the same anytime but it already has some tracking and content blocking built in too.

I retired from wanting to write C++ when Scott Meyers retired from writing more Effective Modern C++.

Yes, and it’s instructive to see how automation has reduced head count in oil and gas majors. The reduction comes when there’s a shock financially or economically and layoffs are n…

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