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The hope for semantic HTML died the day they said "stop using , use ", regardless of what the actual purpose of the italics was (it's usually not emphasis).

I'd take this a step further and say that the design flaws that motivated Perl6 were what really killed Perl. Perl6 just accelerated the timeline. I do imagine a saner migration co…

Any statically-typed language has this. In pseudo-Java: class Parent {}; class Child extends Parent {}; class Wrapper { Parent foo; } w = new Wrapper(); w.foo = new Child(); evalua…

... really? Many words came to mind when I saw this warning, but nothing really adds to the incredulity of this one word.

Hmm, the is `type` the static type or the dynamic type, for languages where both apply?

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The author of the article is claiming it extends beyond ads. That does not appear to be what the court actually said, however. And I 100% believe that all advertisements should req…

At a glance, that looks like worse than merely the negligence of using a new technology. The whole point of 3D printing is that the material is moldable when hot but rigid when it …

Related: doctors will refuse to test you to see if what you're suffering from is a particular condition unless that condition actually has a known treatment.

Those are not unrelated. Both from my family and from looking at the research, there's a strong correlation between long/difficult births (sometimes explicitly hypoxia) and autism.…

There's a reason I prefer "lots" over "infinity". For your "quicksort of 4 elements" example, I would note that the algorithm doesn't care - it still works - and the choice of when…

For the "all zeros" case, my concern is that you said you're forcing a reset every 1024 words. This implies that if you have N kilowords of zero data, then it takes N times as much…

This is missing a lot of context. What integer patterns does it do well on, and what patterns does it do poorly on? How many strategies does it support? It only mentions delta whic…

Better option: just wrap it in a unique struct. There are perhaps only 3 numbers: 0, 1, and lots. A fair argument might be made that 2 also exists, but for anything higher, you nee…

Compiler speed matters. I will confess to not as much practical knowledge of -O3, but -O2 is usually reasonable fast to compile. For cases where -O2 is too slow to compile, droppin…

I would expect a little benefit from devirt (but maybe in-TU optimizations are getting that already?), but if a program is pessimized enough, LTO's improvements won't be measurable…

For laptops specifically, opening them up and blowing all the dust out can be a huge difference. After that, if the fan is making noise, it's not worth attempting recovery. If atte…

The amount of money the US Government pays just for that 40% should be enough to cover all 100%. We know this is possible because it happens in other countries, which have shorter …

I have no real knowledge of React from the developer side, but as an ordinary user who occasionally pokes around in dev tools to assign blame, React clearly is failing at Simplicit…

Hm, what about using `%` itself?

Since this is really confusing without any context, "1964" is a Nintendo 64 emulator for Windows.

> Healthcare costs [...] The only difference is with an employer intermediary, [...] That's missing the biggest problem, which is that the employer gets a free chance to extort the…

It would take someone who actually knows React writing an answer that explains how it is different. Usually newbies are not in a position to understand when version differences are…

It's claiming "questions on SO are deleted because people don't understand them", as opposed to the reality that moderation is done by the more experienced users (in this case the …

It uses a sandwich; see https://fil-c.org/runtime