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When the GDPR came into force https://npr.org started redirecting to https://text.npr.org with an explanation that sounded like that fact was supposed to annoy you, but I honestly …

> If anything, the word STRASSE is a great example why case-folding followed by string comparison is not the same as a case-independent string comparison s/case-folding/lowercasing…

Which makes sense, games have a much smaller area of contact with the host platform. This sounds strange given how much modern GPUs can do, but consider that a typical Windows mach…

> there are some weird AI generated comments by new[] accounts on this thread When you have showdead on (as I’m guessing you do), there are weird AI-generated comments by new accou…

> This might be the best case of the Torment Nexus meme in action. At least the author seems to think[1] it is one, if in not so many words: > And don't ever let anyone tell you th…

I mean, yes, you’ve given a correct algorithm for parsing this simple precedence grammar, but it still leaves the impression that there’s something new to learn in addition to C ex…

Why would you do that? Ignoring for the moment arguments of prototypes and sizes of arrays, read C declarations the way they were designed: “char *a[ ]” means that the expression *…

GP’s point is that many keyboards these days come with a Mac/Windows switch, and one of the things that switch does is swap the keycodes sent by the Alt and Win keys—the “Mac” beha…

Error handling in Dylan[1] worked mostly the same way, if syntax is truly the issue. I posted a toy implementation in Lua a few years ago as well[2]. In general there’s nothing Lis…

> Once I had the design [of the enclosure], I tried to 3D print it on my brand new 3D printer, which turned out to be a disaster. Took me some time to learn more about designing fo…

TL;DR: The old-school empty branch preserves $?, while logical negation doesn’t. Sure I guess, but this is not always relevant.

The battery life’s reportedly kind of garbage, though, isn’t it? As it seems to be on all these devices. I understand this is partly due to overpowered output amplifiers (to suppor…

> Not sure about Linux, too many stacks involved. Wayland: wl_shm and that’s it for the “stack”.

There are indeed precomputed LUTs, but apparently you need to be a bit more sophisticated than that if you want your sun angle to be dynamic, and they also did clouds: https://www.…

I once tried to ask it for an example of a particular twisty situation in Latin grammar, and try what I might it kept hallucinating false citations while ignoring my instructions f…

Yup. I once came across a (picture of a) test print made by one of the old black-and-white street photography greats, and it was all marked up with development adjustments for bett…

I recall a GDC presentation about a physically-based atmospheric model developed for a (good) AAA game released sometime in the last decade, and it reportedly took up a noticeable …

I’m guessing GP’s point is that Google also has the locations of all the people not in cars, so Google Maps could take the hint if it wanted. But thus far nobody appears to care en…

Sadly, after the 2024 anti-E2E-messaging piece[1] I do in fact think he’s pretty anti-privacy overall. Perhaps calling that pro-regulation is more correct, but my (non-American) ex…

That one’s cache-oblivious so nominally the right answer if you don’t know how your cache works or have to deal with several of them at once, but the constants are bad enough to ma…