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The origin of a thing does not forever define what that thing is and always will be. C++ has evolved far beyond C with Classes.

> Year.version I think you mean "(Year % 100).version". Or is it "(Year - 2000).version"? Pardon me for being overly pedantic, but ever since Y2K it really bugs me when someone ref…

I think I saw Jesus, because a guy ran right across the surface of a swimming pool.

> Pen and paper is just not a very good way to produce text. Pen and paper are literally designed to produce text.

I visited this page in Firefox and was presented with a message that essentialy said (paraphrasing): "this site best viewed with browser X". Now, I'm not a professional web develop…

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Because there's already another 6 on the same main diagonal. This is an "X Sudoku" puzzle, which means that each main diagonal must have all 9 different numbers.

I frankly don't buy into this trope that a lack of monetary cost should shield something from criticism. Anything created by humans for other humans, especially tools meant for get…

I can't speak about Dart, but Carbon had just barely started development when it was first announced 4 years ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not…

It would be fiscally irresponsible to the shareholders for tech companies not to voluntarily do so.

> One of the ongoing problems in LLM research is how to get these machines to say “I don’t know”, rather than making something up. To be fair, I've known humans who are like this a…

I can sympathize; I shudder to think of how many total hours of my life I've spent tweaking fonts in my text editors. That said, these days I almost exclusively use Input Mono [0],…

Doesn't work for me either. I'm running Sequoia on an Intel Mac. When the saver runs, it says "No art sources configured. Open Screen Saver Options to add pack URLs or a local fold…

Opinionated design was great back when Apple's Human Interface Guidelines were based on concrete user testing and accessibility principles. The farther we get from the Steve Jobs e…

The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human be…

“our AI has messed up completely.” No, it worked as designed. Generative AI simply creates content of the type that you specify, but has no concept of truth or facts.

Similarly, is ordering Zhu Li to "Do the thing!" doing the thing?

I do not miss the days of "This site best viewed with browser X".

I've often thought, "If AI is so great, how come all these tech companies are shoving AI features down our throats for free, instead of charging real money for them?" I'm actually …

So, I gather that you treated your solutions as throw-away code, rather than keeping them? Kind of surprising, considering that some problems build off of each other, or otherwise …

> who would think to focus the area first for scrolling??? Sadly, this problem is common enough that click-before-keyboard-scrolling has become second nature for me.

But Word Mastermind (like regular Mastermind) only tells you how many letters are in the correct spot, and how many are present but not in the correct spot. Whereas Wordle tells yo…

After installing bash via MacPorts, it works for me. All except #3 cutesaver, which gives an infinite loop of: cutesaver.sh: line 55: shuf: command not found