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This fix means that you won't notice when you accumulate other such resource leaks. When the shit eventually hits the fan, you'll have to deal with problems you didn't even knew yo…

These are the same noises that were made on the right prior to the election. As long as people are sufficiently mad about the status quo, the other party has a chance to take over.…

This topic has been written about in more depth by people who didn't try to work it out by themselves. The classical artists color wheel is based on pigments. Printers use dyes. Sc…

I don't think we disagree it's just a different perspective. The forced handling or propagation is what makes them annoying, but I think they're conceptually wrong. It would be ano…

> But importance of the failure is determined completely by the program, not the library. Exactly. I think this is the real crux about what's wrong with checked exceptions. It puts…

It's more of an issue the more network-y and multi-cpu your ecosystem is. I find the post rather banal and obvious. The state is literally the how and what.

I have made ice cream like this using Gellan as a stabilizer. It's just too much of a pudding to melt. It's not really what you want in an ice cream. You at least want it to melt c…

His first mistake was to read back the verification number? Why would they legitimately asked for this theoretically? To verify he has the phone they just called him on? You should…

We used to laugh at the tin-foil hat people. Maybe they were just ahead of their times.

I remember well the movement that impressed me the most. The elaborate changing of direction when running and then turning. It looked so natural, and it was the first time I'd seen…

Some of them were made from 'rotoscoping' video recordings of his younger brother. Videos exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgLfqOVHco

This would've made an awesome SciFi short story. The twist at the end is that she's lying.

You also need a CRT or at least some sort of strobing refresh display to eliminate smearing from persistence of vision.

This takes me back! But it feels kinda wrong to have that mouse cursor and have it not move perfectly smooth.

Wouldn't an ad like that attract the biggest egos, not necessarily the best coders, nor people you would ever want to be on a team with?

The extension is somewhat of a misnomer. It's really a jif. JPEG Interchange Format. You can imagine the confusion if the jif extension caught on.

I called it that because I've seen fib be the go-to example of so many introductions to functional programming. But I suppose it's more accurate to describe it as the poster boy ex…

Just to underline the futility of this, if you are clever you can let the compiler do it. https://everything2.com/title/C%252B%252B%253A+computing+Fib...

Don't see the point really. Languages without tail recursion will perform worse. Memoization is borderline cheating, because it's a different implementation. Fib is the poster boy …

Yes. Especially if it has an ULMB function that can strobe the backlight.

It's sure nice to not have your corneas constantly assaulted by charged dust particles.

I've got a 10 year old who's been making a lot of stuff in Scratch since he was 6. I've been trying to think of how to phase him over to less limited languages and wasn't aware of …

The move from CRT to LCD adds a few milliseconds depending on the screen. We're so used do it by now, that typing on old hardware is almost jarring. It feels almost TOO responsive.…

Theoretically, it should be possible to recompress the video back into the compressed file with no loss, provided the same codec is used, but it would be far more expensive computa…