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This is by design, the regexp syntax has been invented for write-only programming at the CLI, and graduated to ubiguitous programming language syntax because worse is better. The r…

I'll add that, unlike what your parent wrote, asset reuse will be minimal, in adventure games, one of the reward for solving puzzles is unlocking access to new locations and thus n…

I've had my share of battles on WP to preserve content that was dismissed as fringe by people who didn't understand what they were looking at (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

v1.4 hasn't been tagged... No idea what the shipped binary corresponds to.

Does `bun upgrade` provide the source code?

> The same thing is happening to Wikipedia, BTW, which is also aggressively moderated [citation needed] Well here it is, and you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:S…

I remember having to fight a mod for him to restore a reply penned by Mike Pall, to a LuaJIT question. Mike Pall is the author of LuaJIT. The reply had been either deleted or edite…

Not lazy enough to keep quiet rather than spreading FUD.

Pseudo-exhaustive knowledge disorder (PEKnoD) is a meta-psychosis that afflicts most medical professionals. It's a plague.

Psychiatrists are tourist guides for the Paris catacombs who try to get around using an underground map. When you do cluster analysis of the symptoms of psychiatric patients, the e…

Are you saying that you are a literal philosophical zombie? Do you understand the difference between feeling the pain in your toes when you shoot in a door frame and what you exper…

Re. color and wavelength, some of the colors one can experience are only accessible in after-images, not through direct retina stimulation.

Color perception has nothing to do with light wavelength. Color is a subjective perceptual space. If you zap your occipital cortex with electromagnetic pulses, you'll experience co…

And even then, in different contexts, a major chord can sound jarring and a minor one satisfying. That being said the nature/culture duality is often not the right way to frame the…

What is it like to experience synesthesia :-) These are very good analogies (and possibly experiences for those who are natural synesthetes), but even then, that won't make the who…

Indeed, I didn't remember that Chamlers was literally building his argument around the "why?"... But he does. This reduces to the intractable mystery of existence. A more interesti…

FTA: > Then he declared that there is another distinct problem — why the brain’s behavior is accompanied by experience at all — which he christened the “hard” problem of consciousn…

> Some physicians and researchers have argued for years that emotional dysregulation is not peripheral to ADHD but a central, overlooked part of the condition. Yet this symptom doe…

Batching isn't just an optimisation, not having transactional semantics can cause bugs.

I wouldn't have expected graphic sex slang to be acceptable as a NH user name. This would translate as ~"eats pussy", where "broûter" is a verb reserved for animals feeding on gras…

Yup, this is a one-time, startup operation, using a proper parser would make it more robust at no runtime cost.

It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project. The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn'…

But by doing this, you limit your talent pool to folks who accept to associate with hateful folks.

You've put it on a forge with issues and PRs open, which implies you expect external contributions. I'm trying to warn you about the implicit message your copy sends. It will chase…