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A reddit user ( https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1v6ehm6/comment/ozrmz... ) shared this link to the sentencing decision https://canlii.ca/t/k2frf Some interesting bits I foun…

Have you looked at jpdb.io ? Iirc it has randomized example sentences

How does that square with this comment from greg from today? https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/3 (About heads up to distros) > Nope, sorry, we are NOT allowed …

I don't think itd be ok, personally. My impression is regulations and regulatory institutions can be very slow to evolve after technological advances, unless the government is fina…

Harfbuzz does shaping, my understanding is slug does rendering. So they do different things

I have no experience with minors using Linux. Do they not typically have sudo access?

Clang can target windows just fine afaik, although I'm sure the whole process could be improved. That said, as long as windows is the bigger more profitable market I wouldnt expect…

> In addition, success is generally pretty well-defined. Everyone wants correct, performant, bug-free, secure code. I feel like these are often not well defined? "Its not a bug it'…

"life of the program" might imply it needs to begin life at program start. But it can be allocated at runtime, like an example in the list shows. So its rather "lives until the end…

Not who you were asking but for me about 1800 hours of study+srs+reading+listening for simple shows (not "tons of idioms". Or at least not ones Im not already familiar with). This …

Speaking as an argentinian, every time I hear about someone using crypto in that way its to avoid taxes, which seems legally murky/gray (if not directly illegal, but not currently …

Is games not a part of tech?

Since you already quoted wikipedia, here's what it says about ECS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system > Entity–component–system (ECS) is a software architectural…

> I think his definition of OO is different to what we've got used to. Perhaps his definition needs a different name. I've seen "OOP" used to mean different things. For example, so…

If my memory isn't failing me, that was part of the reason rust went with a postfix notation for their async keyword ("thing().await") instead of the more common syntax ("await thi…

I'm a bit confused. What does any of this have to do with the central thesis of the talk? ("Compile time hierarchies of encapsulation that match the domain model were a mistake") I…

I would assume some orgs made it public facing for covid and it remained like that

I don't know if it matters to you, but the "video" is just a recording of a conference talk. It wasn't made with the sole intention of making a "video". I agree a text format versi…

> but also wrong in a few places Would you be so kind as to elaborate how/where? (Other than the "arpanet in the 90s")

I think they were thinking of Carlos Menem's "si hubiera dicho lo que iba a hacer, no me votaba nadie” , but AFAIK thats a misquote [1] A more recent Argentinian president (Maurici…

> What do people find upsetting about Discord? These are the most common complaints I see from people - They don't allow third party clients and some people have various complaints…

You're correct that as far as I understand it the analysis propsoed by the C++ Lifetime Safety Profile is similar in many ways, however I think there's a few important distinctions…

Are you also a proponent of nonlocal type inference? Do you think annotating types is too costly for programmers?

Not to mention the error messages when you get something slightly wrong

If you need to separately convert files yourself, then it is by definition not drop in