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Who cares if a piece of open source has American maintainers? The point is not to avoid touching anything American. It is control and sovereignty.

Do you think it would fundamentally be a mistake to thread data along with error type through the error return path, or is it just that it costs too much say from a calling convent…

My feeling is that I consistently find on-point solutions for my Linux problems with a quick search. However if my Windows install gets in trouble my search will yield some DISM.ex…

Let’s not underestimate the scale of the search which led to us though, even though you may be right in principle. In addition to deep time on earth, we may well be just part of a …

XWayland is compartmentalized, and should not make life harder for anyone else in the Wayland world (except the ones spending time maintaining it). And Zink gives us a clean OpenGL…

Since it's trained on a vast a mount of code (probably all publicly accessible Go code and more), it's seen a vast amount of different bespoke APIs for doing all kinds of things. I…

If it was first, it could have self-improved more, to the point that it has the capacity to prevent competition, while the competition does not have the capacity to defend itself a…

Cut for the foreseeable future AFAIK. They may return to it when ready

Why would the function's dependencies need recompilation? I guess the dependees may require it, if they inlined it, or if the signature changed.

That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping …

Calling some of those leftist is quite a condemnation of the right.

The question is who is suppressed.

And start treating the alliances as vital part of the whole, and stop betraying the fragile trust they are built on. Use Korean industry until the industry at home can catch up.

Maybe idealism is dead and even the youth have been corrupted these days.

I’m talking of the typical left/right split. Where leftist policies tend toward redistribution of wealth to the benefit of broader swathes, while right oriented policies tend to at…

On the flip side, it seems evident that younger people tend to vote for the betterment of all, while older people tend to shift toward voting for «themselves».

Ideally arrays of primitive values like `long` to store the bytecode represenation for proper good performance. Then use bitwise manipulation to access "fields"

I actually prefer the Adlib version!

Given the accepted MAD doctrine, which kept the "peace" throughout the cold war, you would think nuclear escalation would be unthinkable as a means to stave off a conventional defe…

Though if the evidence presented for this event is persuasive, then all they achieve by making the connection is to speculate on a natural cause for a biblical "miracle". I mean it…

You can constrain type arguments with a compile-time `if` check, and generate a compile error on violation.

Since then Zig has come quite far in its self-hosted rewrite. So the point of it being Andrew's first compiler is no longer valid.

Zig does it ( https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/ ). Basically using "await" just means you are declaring opportunity for concurrency at the call site, but it is s…

Soundness gives an important benefit: Performance, for a compiler capable of utilising the type information properly. It can omit run-time checks, and unbox primitives etc.

This shows that if you are making a not-very-fast compiler (most compilers these days), then the much maligned C compilation model has some serious advantages on modern and future …