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ptato

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    Comment #36428787

    >You’re not exploring something. Asking for something. Acting on something. Why? Because it’s a bad idea. No, it's because it is hard. If it is a bad idea, why would I want to do i…

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    Comment #36428163

    Spain - most people wouldn't ask guests to take their shoes off

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    Comment #35857767

    What is Kanban?

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    Comment #35581501

    I've found enough Firefox-only bugs when doing things through spanish government sites that I started using Chrome for them preemptively.

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    Comment #35567786

    Zig embeds clang to compile C code. This doesn't add a new dependency since Zig already depends on LLVM. If there is a future where the self-hosted Zig backend is good enough to no…

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    Comment #35553390

    For Morrowind it didn't just upgrade the rendering, it completely changed the aesthetic of the scene. Is that on purpose? At that point you can't call the results better, only diff…

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    Comment #35553261

    good enough

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    Comment #35552905

    Can you write GUIs with Janet?

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    Comment #35552035

    Yeah... he says you can learn the language in an afternoon, but his book is so long-winded... I just want a short intro so that I can start writing programs.

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    Comment #35359280

    I've thought about setting up something like this before for myself. You might have given me the motivation I needed...

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    Comment #35324804

    Built-in names are essentially reserved words, and there are dozens of them. The @ prefix ensures you don't step on user's variable names, and that you can add new built-ins withou…

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    Comment #35323942

    Please don't do "const Self = @This();" if the type isn't generic. It is pointless, redundant, ugly. What issues could public struct fields have caused?

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    Comment #35323932

    It isn't possible, compiler will complain about "actual" being an undeclared identifier. The function arguments are declared in order.

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    Comment #35208700

    Nobody knows.

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    Comment #34749036

    I don't know if this fits what you were thinking of but I love rateyourmusic.com. Great community, great content, simple website.

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    Comment #34213273

    A good side effect of this game is that you can find great songs from cultures that aren't as well represented in popular culture.

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    Comment #34198328

    The answer to help beginners understand highly generic rust code is not more abstraction and magic.

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    Comment #34186854

    the self-hosted rewrite took a long time so it felt like the project had stalled for the past ~year. the team has started working on new features like the package manager, though.

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    Comment #34142776

    I'd like to know the name of these libraries.

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    Comment #34067855

    That looks great. I had no idea this was coming. Now I wonder which other ideas the Obsidian team has.

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    Comment #34029086

    So because most people on this site are American and might misread the title, the authors have to consider changing it? Why would the authors of Carp care about the demographics of…

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    Comment #33984534

    > Elon claimed he would not “ban” the account. And he has not done so. They were suspended. So the argument is that the word he used is different?

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    Comment #33916335

    from only a glance and without having ever used nim, it seems to be more abstracted from the machine, whereas zig is closer. nim code should be shorter, nicer, closer to ideal pseu…

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    Comment #33916265

    On Windows one can use https://scoop.sh too. There's a "zig" package for numbered releases, and a "zig-dev" package for nightly.