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Well, it's not a completely outlandish scenario that the value of `init` might come from a variable that is sometimes at the start of the string and sometimes not, and a newcomer m…

> In Lua it's only the start/end of the string There's an additional caveat: if you use the optional "init" parameter to specify an offset into the string to start matching, the ^ …

Although those functions operate on "binary strings", not Uint8Arrays, and there is no especially clean way that vanilla JS exposes to convert between the two that I am aware of.

SBF's announcement of Chapter 11 proceedings today explicitly includes FTX US: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591089317300293636

From their own benchmarks it seems more like bzip3 is geared towards a different compression/speed trade-off than bzip2, rather than an unambiguous all-around improvement. Am I mis…

Memento mori, motherfucker.

Went to http://www.sonnyjs.org/ (latest Chrome, Windows 7) - there doesn't seem to be any way to scroll the left-hand menu (it cuts off at "StorageManager" sub-heading for me at de…

The extracted quote at the top of the Forbes article here seems to indicate he was thinking along those lines: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/01/22/the-dread-... "I im…

But if you'd like to search Verbatim and also restrict your results to the most recent month/year/etc., even though these are separate dropdowns under Search Tools, you're out of l…

My mistake, I misread.

As Jason Scott (@textfiles) notes on Twitter, this will be something of a first: with all the old content coming back, Archive Team/archive.org "literally provided a backup of a si…

It did, immediately: "As a new Oculus Rift prototype is unleashed..." It didn't mention the most recent developments, as this article is several months old.

I had to check but yeah, that's true, the ECMA spec even says explicitly in its intro: "JSON is agnostic about numbers", they are "only a sequence of digits". (Unrelated observatio…

But that also uses double precision floating point number representation and UTF-8 for strings, so the only benefit (according to the arguments given in the OP) seems to be text vs…

Since the author seems to have a problem with text-based formats in general, here's a counterpoint by Mike Pall on the LuaJIT mailing list [1]: "On a tangent: IMHO most binary seri…

Well, if a security service decides it needs to blackmail someone, they're hardly going to send them a letter on official letterhead. In this case I imagine they'd pretend to be so…

Well, sure, but it's not like this message was rushed out within minutes of anything in particular. They seemed quite content to have a completely blank site for hours on end befor…

And it doesn't seem to have been proofread very well. "In the event of [something that has already happened]..."? I don't consider myself a particularly picky person, but come on, …

Well, at least he's not completely disappeared, I suppose. Otherwise there doesn't appear to be much to actually discuss here. Maybe the fact that he would tell the press that a st…

"I'd rather not touch anything which involves patents at all." Unfortunately, that's not something you can reasonably expect, ever. Mike Pall made a statement about the IP of LuaJI…

It's pretty far down, but: "Author of LuaJit Explains Why He Changed Mind on Weed" ...made me far happier than it should have.

Surprise is overrated. The truth has no responsibility to blow your mind every day.

Callous indifference can be just as bad as malice. I'm reminded of these t-shirts with "Keep Calm And..." slogans that were allegedly generated automatically (presumably culled fro…

Aha, that makes sense. Well, good luck to them on keeping their "secret" weapon under wraps :-)