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Not "literative" programming, but "literate" programming. The official Knuth page: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html

What more do you want an OS to do? What do you expect Apple to add to MacOS? Just don't break stuff. Fix bugs. Once in a while some new kind of hardware or network protocol might n…

If done with Electron, that will be 100 MB. Or with Tauri, 5 MB. Which, amazingly, seems tiny.

I am always curious how different C programs decide how to manage memory. In this case there are is a custom string library. Functions returned owned heap-allocated strings. Howeve…

Obviously they don't put the weight on the product main page, that is absolutely heavy. The Helinox Chair Zero is the standard by which all backpacking chairs are compared https://…

True, "nm" initially seemed to be nautical miles, but then this square meters thing appeared. The point is that "m" should be meters, but "mi" would be a more customary abbreviatio…

"A single 1-kW jammer can take down GPS for a 300-nm radius.[...] A CRPA can shrink the effective radius of the 1-kW jammer to 3 nm. The jammer’s area of effectiveness is slashed f…

Very informative, thanks!

Hilarious, 3000+ votes for a Stack Overflow question that's not a question. But it is an interesting article. Interesting enough that it gets to break all the rules, I guess?

Is there any software that can provide verified, trusted archives of websites? For example, we can go to the Wayback Machine at archive.org to not only see what a website looked li…

I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or mo…

I predict this won't be popular. E-ink is great for reading a book, especially on a portable battery-powered device, but on a large desk display connected to a general-purpose comp…

To me, spam is unsolicited email or phone calls. People or organizations contacting me when I haven't requested they do so.

Interestingly the Macbook trackpad does not have physical buttons. It uses haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of a "click", but in reality there is no button which could be in…

For reference, Rust provides a similar experience let names = ["Peter", "Julia", "Xi"]; names .map(|name| format!("Hello, {name}")) .iter() .for_each(|greeting| println!("{greeting…

Just wrong!!

I am excited for any path that gets us toward a faster, leaner, cleaner web browser. It is insane that we have to dedicate multiple gigabytes of RAM, have CPUs 1000x faster than we…

Excel won't import ISO 8601 timestamps either, which is crazy these days where it's the universal standard, and there's no excuse to use anything else. You have to replace the "T" …

After a little confusion I see this "Ractor" is the Ruby actors library https://ruby-doc.org/3.2.2/Ractor.html I was a little confused because when I think of Ractor, it's the Rust…

Oh yeah, the forgotton IPv5!!

It is a clever trick. Very useful in C also, maybe more than in C++. It can be overused, though. Kind of works like Rust declarative macros (`macro_rules!`) in that it is often use…

I agree with the article. Maybe businesses are trying to protect themselves, but as a user, mandatory 2FA reduces the level of security I can achieve for myself. Because security i…

ARM Cortex-A is an application processor, not a microcontroller. With an MMU (can run a full OS like Linux) and without internal memory. Cortex-M is a microcontroller, without MMU …

Will phones really be completely without wired ports? It's possible but unlikely any time soon. Wired ports are still important for development/debugging and crash recovery purpose…

I've been using ripgrep for years now and I'm still blown away by its performance. In the blink of an eye to search a couple of gigabytes. I just checked and did a full search acro…