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English spelling irregularity serves a functional role similar to Japanese kanji. It distinguishes homophones (e.g., night and knight) and evinces the shared meaning of words which…

> nothing in the language itself dictates this convention. String literals are nul-terminated, e.g.: "foo"[3] == '\0'

TFA: > Checkmating loses the game, as it is always the top engine move. Rather than aiming for checkmate, players seek to force their opponent to make a top engine move. If a playe…

What's the rationale for this project? In other words, what makes it different than other embedded libc projects like Newlib or uClibc-ng or musl? Not seeing any documentation whic…

The GnuWin32 port of Make [1] is version 3.81. I've used it when I needed GNU Make on Windows. I know there are other ways to get newer versions of Make on Windows, but the GnuWin3…

> Is there a mnemonic to remember which one is the right one? "square the circle" The Markdown link format is [text](url) and [] is square-ish and () is circle-ish. Your mileage ma…

No, the recent change [0] was to add non-free firmware to the official installer (instead of relegating it to a separate unofficial installer). GP, however, was talking about the a…

I found it helpful. Just be aware that portions of it are outdated, as summarized by this comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/q8lsiq/how_relevan...

It's a good idea to pick a relatively popular distro, since it will be easier to find answers to your questions and since having more users/developers tends to result in fewer bugs…

> most people are already using wayland. Per [0], as of June 2022, Wayland is at 24.6% versus X11 at 67.7%. It's not a random sample, but it suggests that Wayland is not yet what m…