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That's what I meant: the first you can do, the second, not.

I think the creators did it a disservice to xmake when they tried to unluaize the syntax. You can also do: target("foo", { kind = "binary", files = { "src/*.cpp" }, includedirs = {…

"photos of giants that built the pyramids in Egypt, all the way to short videos of pretty girls saying that the EU is bad for Poland." Those sound funny; why would they make you sa…

I focus on peer-to-peer services, as I think it is the most important focus for free software: - Radicle - IPFS - torrents and magnet links - i2p - syncthing - PeerTube/ActivityPub…

"allows them to have more resources to invest in patient care" LOL

PW;DR: Pay-Walled; Didn't Read. But... Will this be the stuff of the housing of tomorrowind?

> will likely not be a major boost for software productivity You can make plastic knives much faster and cheaper than metal ones. Production!

It failed to catch on outside the defense industry because that is where is started. It was long sneered at as a "language designed by committee". In one programming class, in coll…

ASCII makes up 90% of all digital text; UTF-8 makes up the other 90%.

Just no. address = X length = *X address = address + 1 while length > 0 { address = address + 1 print *address }

I am not waiting for Janet for Ethereals. Once it ships, it will always have been available.

No.

Stanley Kubrick was one of that kind of people who cannot take criticism of anything they do.

The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton Some others I daren't mention. Category Theory for Programmers - Bartosz Milewski The Design of Relation…

Whenever you extrapolate the "corporate vision" of these VC pontificators, you see a company all of whose revenue goes to investor share-grabbers, and whose projects are all funded…

The Deep State treats human rights as damage, and routes around it.

I think we'll be led by a programmer from another language who comes and unites the tribes against the languages that now dominate, a voice from the outer world. The "Lispan al-Gai…

Is this a trial run for an April 1 article?

A detailed criticism of Diamond's hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFECyeihuZY

We ran so much faster when we didn't have to run with shoes on.

> Any invocation of an external program can fail for a variety of reasons, and the shell doesn't provide adequate mechanisms for dealing with it, apart from exit codes and filterin…

He built several utilities for doing what is described here. https://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html These are great for duct-taping connections. I created a whole suite of utilities for a…

This company creates sensors for monitoring power-grid lines which are powered from line induction: https://www.gridsentry.us/

Worsidge's headline: "Can this headline be answered by the word 'no'?"