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It's promising and I'm glad to hear such a depth-oriented study of making things, taking time is still a thing in a fast world. People are paying to study this, nice

I'm surprised no one posted Eric S Raymond's treatise on the whole thing in a lot more detail! https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html It reads a bit harsh in some place…

Here's my created list I maintain: https://legends2k.github.io/note/cg_resources/ Do learn if it piques your curiosity and have the time. You're in for a blast and a lot of learnin…

Two if you're lucky, and work full time on it. More like 5+ plus if you are inexperienced/part time.

Yes, every user just gets a handle with no personal or bank info revealed and off you go. User keys in a UPI ID in any merchant site/app, get a push notification for approval in mo…

This is exactly what India's UPI (Unified Payments Interface) works. No PII, just a UPI ID is given and the user gets a push notification in Android/iOS app for approval (with PIN …

By the same token, AI came along and we all still have intelligence, needless, eh? I mean people reading and writing stuff has nothing to do with AI. I don't see how some people se…

I'm not sure I understand this. Most puzzles are number-crunching but very little to do with graphics (maybe one or two), so no usually OpenGL isn't used AFAIK. Of course, folks ma…

Not sure about FreeCAD but got a lot done with Gimp, Inkscape and LibreOffice in my personal projects. Totally worth my time!

Sorry, hard disagree. Try to understand what `this` means in JS in its entirety and you'll agree it's by no stretch of the imagination a simple language. It's more mind-bending and…

My comment didn't convey it, but I'm with you on using the right tool for the right job. Just that I always don't have the luxury to do so. And yes like the other comment I'd use i…

While there are other parameters I would consider like maintainability, ergonomics, mind share, ease of deployment, etc. The ubiquitous availability point triumphs most others thou…

I haven't signed in to my Google account since browser install but I still see it in StackOveflow.

Even games, epitome of performance, have 5 levels of abstraction (including your 4, 5, 6 + an engine layer + game code). This isn't new in GPU/Graphics programming IMHO.

Huge +1, same for me, but with GNU Emacs instead of neovim but can completely appreciate the philosophy.

I don't think a sentence in a big report page is counted as touting.

Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.

I discovered notes from the man pages around 2020 but didn't use them as it was primarily a local repo feature. By default they don't get pushed or fetched. If course, one can conf…

Why not Python? I primarily program in C++ but I see it as a decent choice as Python is available in almost all recent machines. Of course Windows is a notable exception but given …

This! Also my guess would be Kernighan or Pike aren't (weren't?) deployed into some random codebase every now and then, while most grugs are. When you build something from scratch …

Paul clearly excludes non-native writers. I know excellent thinkers who struggle to express an idea in a given language that they're not fluent in. Another related point: I've seen…

Even if we agree on a format I don't want someone to quietly say a song I like is gone from my library while I wasn't looking due to some reason.

Isn't this so common in computer science, haven't you heard of Worse is Better [1]? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

I see no problem though. Most package managers support binary-only package installations.

I thought FFmpeg is pipeline based too; graph of filters. Am I missing something? You can set up a complex graph of source, sink and transform filters.