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13 days late but for posterity: Yes. Not Wanting To Do That was the motivating factor for coming up with this approach :D

8 days late but for posterity: So far I've only ever been using a private symbol that only exists within the codebase in question (and is then exported to other parts of said codeb…

Oh my word. const defer = f => ({ [Symbol.dispose]: f }) using defer(() => cleanup()) That only just occurred to me. To everybody else who finds it completely obvious, "well done" …

I regularly add Symbol based features to JS libraries I'm using (named methods are riskier, of course) import { SomeStreamClass as SomeStreamClass_ } from "some/library" export cla…

If you want to play with this, Bun 1.0.23+ seems to already have support: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/4325

I feel like it would be creepy if the kid was using it without anybody ever checking up on it ... but I think all of my friends with kids would say that the answer to that is "pare…

OpenAI stuff in general seems (to me, at least) to be overly positive and confident in terms of how it replies. While I make no foolish claims that it's perfect, I've found Claude …

I absolutely agree with your analysis wrt current tech - however, I suspect the person you're replying to is talking about "what would be really cool" in terms of it happening in a…

It does kinda make sense to me that the various non-US subsidiaries that survived did so at least in part because those places didn't have anything like Walmart. Whether they'll be…

Lots of people not in the US saying they got redirected to various places due to (I guess) some sort of GEOIP detection rubbish, me included. There's a (just about readable, the ba…

I got redirected to history.co.uk/ (the root, so lol, no article for you) There's a (just about readable, the background is greyed out due to a popup) archive at https://archive.ph…

Once you get as far as FDIC insurance being involved, the bank generally ceases to exist (ideally via a fire sale to another, more stable bank) and the shareholders generally get (…

I remember some years ago we got somebody joining irc.perl.org #perl to ask for help replacing perl with lua as a game scripting system. Obviously, a few people were like "uh, why …

If the map editor is an extension (and they have lots of example extensions on github, all of which I've checked are under normal open source licenses) rather than a set of patches…

Paid extensions are allowed, which seems like a neat compromise. If you need to add an extra API or something to the core to make your paid extension work, you can't charge for tha…

They seem to be fairly explicit that _they_ believe that extensions aren't covered by those restrictions. Possibly the license text needs to be tweaked to make that more clear (IAN…

> Yeah but the open source ones ARE guaranteed. Even if they later become closed source, the code up till that point will remain open source forever. The changes from the Apache 2.…

My first Archimedes came with a ring bound user's manual that was, IIRC, about 1/3 a guide to using the Risc OS GUI, and then 2/3 a programming guide to the version of BBC BASIC th…

Having cut my teeth on early Archimedes machines, I have a deep fondness for arm2's 16 instructions and the (lost during a house move, I suspect) assembly book I had that gave me e…

Turing complete YAML ends up being an app specific terrible programming language. Many of us would rather use a less terrible programming language instead.

Honestly, "using the same language as the application" is often a solid choice no matter what the application is written in. (and I suspect that for any given language somebody mig…

You could use docker export to sluro the container contents (see article for example)

Aha! Doom noclip so you can run through walls. (the first google result I got for idspispopd did not say _which_ cheat code it was, so figured I'd mention)

> I think every run that claims to be RNG-edited should post RNG seed for verification If I understood the later parts of the article right, that's now basically a standard or nobo…

Yes, but I think it's also true that LLMs are acting as a force multiplier to the underlying effect you describe. Something like (my apologies to maths for the abuse) LLMs are addi…