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“Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions.”

I wish there was a way to just repurpose existing operating system support for CJK language IME for English.

Is there an equivalent to caniuse.com for gauging the level of instruction set extension support on x86 and ARM in the wild?

I'm a well constructed system, you could probably get this down to one PostGIS query with some joins and spacial indexes that should run in <100ms.

"web scale"

If Rust was a higher-level language, then I'd say yes, just automatically handle running Futures in parallel, join them when you actually need to resolve the data, and pretend that…

Various thoughts: It seems to me that the fundamental definition of a function/method should be a compile time executed function that generates a syntax tree always (assuming the c…

I never can tell if chargebacks are truly a feature or a bug.

This vaguely reminds me of Adobe's ColdFusion except in the browser for better or worse.

I still kills me that (correct me if I'm wrong) the original version of SmallTalk on the Xerox Park Alto had a native arbitrary precision Fraction type.

If NeXTStep used "Display PostScript", then what display API did the original WorldWideWeb browser render to?

Perhaps this is one of the reasons that I've seen Linux deployments use XFS (e.g AWS). If you page through the filesystem documentation, once you hit a certain directory size, it a…

Hey HN, In conversation, I heard that Oracle had a version of their database that historically ran on the VAX system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Rdb I've never heard of…

Was seeing how far I had to scroll to find this perfect quote. How long before all the required readings are banned? I don't understand how you could run a philosophy course withou…

Just fair warning. 99% of the time, ncdu is great at intuitively finding what is taking up space. Know that unlinked, but in-use files still take up "physical" disk space. Be weary…

This is fantastic. This is almost identical to what I've been having to remember in the back of my head every time I go create a new project haha. I've also settled on the anyhow +…

So is this the use-case for going through the trouble of having a private Root CA that all your machines trust?