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I found octopus megamerge hard to collaborate - my colleagues don't use JJ so they may introduce changes that would cause conflitcts to my megamerge. When you have a conflict on a …

The most difficult part of Objective-C is its ARC rules, and mixing ARC and non-ARC code in the same project.

But no one is claiming w3c is not running a website.

It’s unfortunate that they claimed “Matrix is a protocol not a service” while they are literally running a home server on the Matrix domain. They should really rebrand their home s…

If you feel that TypeScript, or hell even JavaScript, is becoming more alike C#, it's actually deliberately done by Microsoft in benefiting their ecosystem. In this interview they …

“Stand Alone Complex”

If US and China, two nuclear powers, engaged in direct wars, drone attacks would be the least to be worried about.

Does implementing algebraic effects requires stack switching support? If so, I wonder what runtime cost we must pay when heavily using algebraic effects. Is there any empirical stu…

Netflix implements "imgsub"[1] - it actually delivers a zipped archive of transparent images to the player. So technically they can pre-render positioned typesetted subtitles on se…

I also explored Rx in Go several years ago. https://dev.to/rix/rx-with-go-generics-2fl6

They should call it Blade Runner

Another more powerful option: Intel SDE / PinPlay

I remember arguing with Ron on the TC39 disposable proposal that I think Go's `defer` is a better pattern than C#'s `using`, and he tried to convince me the otherwise. I was surpri…

Kind of related, a tool that allows you to hand write ASCII-art-annotated hex dump files, while also able to generate the original binary file from such text file: https://github.c…

This is also a result of the detachment of TC39 and the developer community. Just how many JS developers are participating TC39? I can recall multiple TC39 proposals that didn't ev…

I think React would get better developer experience and performance if they adopt language coroutine feature to implement direct style algebraic effect. In fact the React Fiber sys…

I wish the TypeScript team can actually make a good and fast compiler with type inference support. There are so many opportunities for minimization, optimization, conditional build…

You should do some measurement before calling it an improvement. If you read the ECMAScript standard[1] or this blog post from V8[2] about the inner workings of the `await` keyword…

Most third party keyboards cannot emulate the Globe key. Apple would only recognize it if the USB PID/VID matches real Apple USB keyboards, which third party keyboards are not allo…

I really wish a similar tool for exploring binary lifting to different IRs. Like Ghidra p-code with sleigh, LLVM Machine IR, Qemu TCG etc

I ask the opposite - should employers reimburse commute expenses for return to office workers? Gas / electric, and time wasted on traffics etc?

I shamefully paid for both Sublime Text and WinRAR

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There's a conversation I had with Ron Buckton, the proposal champion, mainly on this specific issue. [1] Short answer: Yes, Disposable can leak if you forget "using" it. And it wil…