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Lisp was meant to be written with M-expressions instead of S-expressions anyway.

I actually created one for some time ago. It's nothing special but it has Vi keybindings. https://github.com/RauliL/levite

Unchecked exceptions will eventually lead into programs crashing because some developer forgot to catch specific type of exception somewhere.

In case you want to use React to make Web sites as well.

Mozilla later added them after the concept became popular thanks to Firefox. Mozilla and Firefox browsers coexisted for quite a while and Firefox was the lite version of Mozilla th…

Xfce is way too minimal to be great. An great DE must be written mostly in JavaScript and hoard gigabytes of memory in order to render a single window.

A good reason not to use those LLMs if they can be manipulated that easily.

We already have Sailfish OS but no one is using it.

Future goal of the "digital euro" is to get rid of the banks.

I remember a time in early 2000s when everybody seemed to be raving about duck typed languages and how awesome they are. Now we have separate tools for the same languages to implem…

In my country soups made from stinging nettles have been eaten most likely for thousands of years. It tastes a lot like spinach and is full of vitamin C and such.

Which very very few people have actually installed on their system.

Windows and *nix systems are often used for very different things so I don't understand why there would be need for some kind of universal superbinary. And thanks to WSL you can al…

Not in Finland which has never been a communist country. His parents were just political activists who forced young Linus to participate in that as well. Linus has said that the ex…

It's so weird to hear people who have problems with NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, because for me it's always been the opposite. I have had problems with AMD but never with NVIDIA.

That used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.

Not every code project needs to turn out to be world changing. Experiments like this sometimes produce excellent results.

I would add sponsorblock to this list.

That Git GUI got my attention. Does anyone have an idea what it might be? The titlebar says aurora but when I searched for it all I got was an commercial product with AI nonsense s…

Didn't know notepad has tabs these days. It's been almost a decade since I last used it.

As a Linux user I'm grateful that they are still developing the Java version of Minecraft.

Now all we are missing is Windows 3.x -version.

I've seen similar codebases as well written by people who have spent way too much time with Java. One even had it's own String class which was just a wrapper for std::string with J…

Completely agree but it's the best we got at the moment if you want to use the non-XUL version of Firefox.

Sometimes it's just fun.