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No piece of art exists without context. With AI there is no context, no meaning, no relevance. A pretty image by itself is just that - a bunch of bytes displayed on device of your …

There are also such things as art direction, vision, and style. Even if AI can mimic style with style transfer, it will never achieve greatness this way. You can apply an AI-powere…

There's nothing "on par" when it comes to C/C++/C#, and these three languages are still quite big in non-web world.

For C/C++ on Windows and Linux. CMake build support and cross-platform builds and debugging are available out of the box with Community version of VS.

Native macros were never supposed to be used that way. If anything goes wrong, you still have to deal with that, and no IDE will save you from having to invoke your compiler with “…

The C preprocessor is definitely ill-suited for metaprogramming, but it was never the C way, was it? The traditional way to do any kind of meaningful metaprogramming in C is just a…

This is a great idea! However, I highly doubt that they will disclose this information.

Switching to a personal email domain and another credit card did the trick, at least with the DigitalOcean.

Hello! I've decided to post it there given how popular FastMail seems to be within the Hacker News community. Earlier today I've tried to create new accounts on both DigitalOcean a…

Theoretically, someone could exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 [0]. I’m not sure how common these are in the wild, but it had happened before. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Ruby? Of all of the scripting languages out there, I find most suitable to write small scripts to transform complex text to something more suitable.

An example to prove your point: Flipboard determined that our current rendering engine was too slow for their needs and implemented their own rendering engine on top of ours while …

Beware the m_pszSlipperySlope [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

I think it’s the other way around. Instead of redefining operator new() to allocate from an arena, user allocates memory from the arena and then constructs instance there using pla…

SQLite has “virtual tables” feature [0] which was designed exactly for this use-case. Edit: and that Facebook project is called OsQuery [1]. It was built on top of SQLite virtual t…

Why do you want it in C? What are your use cases? I’ve always thought that idiomatic C for constexpr would be to write the code you want to be executed at compile-time in a separat…

I don’t think that this bugginess is an inherent property of these languages, because there are other practices that could lead to reduction in total bug count and severity, apart …

I’ve heard horror stories about reference counting performance cliffs caused by avalanche deallocations, which are hard to predict.

This is a very good intro to K-D trees, big thank you to the author. However, I think that a three-dimensional lookup table would be more performant in this case. 16M (256^3) of en…

When I started dabbling in programming languages design, Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide was invaluable for me. I cannot recommend this book enough. First edition is availab…