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WSJ not tryna be found negligent in any social-media addiction trial.

"Rule 6: Don't waste time on syntax highlighting unless you're incompetent."

https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3961

You don't think AWS is internally built on massive amounts of open source?

Isn't this the same debate as airports post 9/11, whether you can have both privacy and security? Seems conclusive, no.

And a difference in price that amortizes about the same.

And starting fires or making coats used to be forms of art, now we just buy a Zippo and a London Fog and call it an afternoon. Jobs evolve to specialize. I call that progress.

Also it looks like[1] Luau is the official Roblox Studio scripting language, and is baed on Lua 5.1 (possibly LuaJIT?) which means it's behind mainstream Lua. Not sure which Lua ve…

Many of us would love a TypeScript analogy for Lua. There have been some attempts: Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/ , https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang ) Nelua (2.3k, 8…

It uses refcounting, and GC for cycles. Sounds good. Why don't more Lua-likes?

The article says it's repurposed.

Human history is full of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example. I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...

They're definitely going to do it at some point in the near future, mark my words.

These are fine times. Just need a little extra cash for cigars, that's all. Had two yesterday, made the money by selling Premium Snowballs in Chicago for $2 each (made $50 that day…

Looking for remote side quests. . . . . Ideally 5-20 hour projects with fixed prices. . . . . . . . . Ideal range is ~ $50-500 USD . . . . I can do any web stuff fairly quickly. . …

That list (or any similar list) would be so helpful if it had a health column, something that takes into account number of contributors, time since last commit, number of forks, nu…

The for loop is odd. Why is the word counter in there twice? counter :: int for counter in ( print(counter) print(" ") ) Using backfor to count backwards is an odd choice. Why not …

A new one seems to pop up every year, and some every 13 or 17 years.

I don't know why they do that, but it's really the main (only?) drawback to KDP. My guess is that they do expand, but only when genuinely needed for long-term. They probably keep a…

How likely is a future where Microsoft (a) gives us back 2000/XP/7/11 options for UI, (b) gives us a desktop-first experience when we have keyboard/mouse plugged in, (c) stops turn…

KDP usually cuts off high volume sales at a certain point, in order to give other books a fair amount of copies to print on demand. Usually it takes a few weeks of sales, but I sol…