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I was hoping that this would talk more about the logic behind generating a diff, rather than the optimisations involved in rendering the text. IMO (as someone who doesn't have to d…

I think the more relevant point is: But almost all social networks and search engines won’t let you advertise without a license from the required jurisdiction. Which is a good thin…

It's really annoying. I have a sudoku game on my phone, works great but give it internet access and it's suddenly full of sketchy adverts. If I'm playing it on my commute, it's usa…

Lionel Hutz Works on contingency No money down Always the best example for missing punctuation!

Awesome to see a perl JIT. I love perl, and it's exciting to see something that tries to offer good-enough compatibility to run most perl code.

https://archive.org/details/1066allthat00walt/page/n5/mode/2... for anyone who'd like to read it. Embarassingly for me, while the book advertises that it contains '2 genuine dates'…

Re: OpenClaw in particular, I had never realised that simply getting lots of stars on Github meant that your project was actually a success...

From the parent comment: because of OS-level overcommit, which is nearly always a good thing It doesn't matter about the language you are writing in, because your OS can tell you t…

Oxbridge have never had to 'let in dumber people'. They are always heavily over-subscribed, and give offers to a small fraction of the people who come for an interview, let alone a…

You can tell the difference between the two by checking if the Evil bit is set in the corresponding IP packet - RFC 3514 already standardised this.

Improvement suggestion: Keep the search text in the search field when you show the results. The 'what are you looking for' box gets cleared when you show the results, it would be n…

"Floor to ceiling libraries with a ladder" Does that mean it excludes most of the results from "Floor to ceiling libraries without a ladder"? You know, if I'm buying a house, I thi…

I think I misread your tone, sorry. It's a good article though, the explanation of how multiplies work is nicely written.

But it is (or was originally) used in lots of places, not just jump tables, generally to do relative addressing, for example when you want to refer to data nearby, e.g. ADD r0, r15…

Yeah, it was that way for all previous ARM processors too, for exactly that reason. Adding special cases would have increased the transistor count, for no great benefit. The only d…

Is this really C++ specific though? It seems like the optimisations are happening on a lower level, and so would 'infect' other languages too. Whatever the language, at some point …

Your comment boils down to 'all code should be perfect'. Which is a lovely request, but doesn't really help. In particular, I'd challenge you to find one large program that handles…

Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s? Of course YOU can, it's open source, feel free to hack away at it.

I've not seen a very convincing use-case for ETags vs Last-Modified date caching. In the example request, the server still has to do all of the work generating the page, in order t…

Thousands of words written about how, specifically, gcc produces poor slow code ('the application users' time is more valuable than their time') and yet the article never tries to …

But Dracula was defeated by being decapitated and stabbed in the heart. I do hope religion isn't claiming those as their own! FWIW, I like the concept in the book 'I Am Legend' whe…

The meaning of ^ and $ in perl regexes can be altered by modifiers at the end of the regex. A 'multi-line' regex, with a /m at the end, makes them match the start and end of any li…

One angle that isn't mentioned in the article is that there are companies that now stream live GNSS/GPS data from horse races, so the drone users are competing against 'official' f…

They can't stop you doing that, and I've been to races years ago where people were on their mobile bellowing out a horse number to their mate on the other end, who is sitting ready…