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I read a sci-fi story years ago that had prediction markets in it that helped markets become more efficient. I thought it was a good idea at the time. What neither I nor the author…

If all you care about is the end product and not how it's made, then you never become a better person. Your capacity for thinking and solving problems will never grow. You will nev…

There are some good points here, but I disagree that programs are slow because they are accessible. Computers are ridiculously fast, and it doesn't take more time to display a stri…

Honestly, I think starting from win32 again would be a breath of fresh air. Also, note that I described it as an option, no one would be forced on Windows Lite. It was my own specu…

It's kind of crazy that we have a hobby OS that supports Linux infrastructure so that can support Wine infrastructure to support a Windows application. Very impressive!

I looked into writing an http server based on iouring myself, but all the resources I could find said iouring is less safe from a cybersecurity perspective. Is there a safe way to …

No, the idea is that the actual key is the XOR of 3 completely independent keys. I think you were thinking of XORing a key with itself 3 times, which would just return the original…

No, the GPUs used in AI data centers don't have the capability to do normal graphics. They're completely useless for games and content creation. Additionally, B200s can consume up …

I really like Iosevka, and though I haven't used it, I do like Berkley mono. Maybe I'll incorporate this into my list of terminal fonts in the future. It does look pretty sharp.

How many tokens did this port consume?

There need to be some serious regulations around prediction markets. I'm not sure they should even be legal. These "markets" are encouraging large amounts of fraud and manipulation…

One possibility is that most of the code that matters is being written by hand, while enormous amounts of code are being generated for other things. People are being evaluated on t…

This makes me think of the color scheme of Plan9. I think they chose that color design for similar reasons.

You probably also don't use a calculator because it uses a scary language called arabic numerals. Why write 123,456 when you could write out in english: One Hundred Twenty-Three Th…

It's not ape coding. It's skill coding. People who don't have the skill to do math and logic ask others to do it for them. The reason we have programming languages is the same reas…

Thanks for the update!

This page was put together very well. It has interactive illustrations when needed (not excessive), and the explanations were informative yet concise. I also like how it brings up …

This looks very interesting. It says it has networking, cryptography, etc. Is there any documentation of the APIs? I can't try this out if I don't know what they are.

As far as I know, only Go uses Go's back end because it was specifically designed for Go. But the architecture is such that it makes it trivial for Go to cross compile for any OS a…

QBE is a tiny project, but I think illustrates a better intermediate language design. https://c9x.me/compile/

People are correct I didn't explain my position. LLVM: Pretty much everyone who has created a programming language with it has complained about its design. gingerbill, Jon Blow, an…

There's no way to say this without sounding mean: Everything Chris Lattner has done has been a "successful mess". He's obviously smart, but a horrible engineer. No one should allow…