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The column number can be negative. 1--1 vs 1->-1 vs 1/-1 ?

Wow, some people really can't stomach the idea of the Arabs and Persians saving Europe, do they?

> but there's also merit to letting the kids choose to hit pause Why is there a "but" there? Nobody is implying that children should be strapped to a chair with their eyelids propp…

You might want to read the TFA, it's describing a "whole other language" they call Hyperscript on click send htmx:abort to #contacts-btn on htmx:beforeRequest from #contacts-btn re…

You have never used for..range in Go? That's an iterator.

If the owner cannot generate any revenue from owning the plot, then it is not a "land-like asset" and it just doesn't factor into this discussion. A "land" in LVT is not necessaril…

HN: NPM is full of trash, anyone can put any garbage package on it, even is-even. Also HN: WTF Google doesn't just allow anyone to put any garbage on the Play store, this is bullsh…

Supposedly if you scan the sky long enough, you'd find a copy of Shakespeare's play written in the stars.

You say "just add copy and move contructors", but that requires function overloading, which is exactly why he spent a third of the article ranting about name mangling. The point is…

The author first says that CL people usually avoid dependency hell: >When programming applications in Common Lisp people will often depend on a small(ish) number of stable librarie…

All valid javascript programs are valid typescript programs, so typescript necessarily must have structural type, it cannot have nominal type without breaking compatibility with ja…

A poem that has been consistent and frozen for 50 years, that works 99% same across all vendors? We tolerate the SQL as it is, warts and all, because as soon as you bikeshed it it …

What, you want the largest exporter of bombs, missiles, and rockets in the world to scold another country for exporting a few tonnes of funny powder?

Because there's no rule that says signals should ever be created at the top level assigned to a const variable. You could create signal objects dynamically based on user input, no …

That is not at all how science works. Outside of Mathematics, there is no such thing as Truth, only conjectures of varying certainties. Also, research journals are really just fanc…

A dusty car body is no more "filthy" than the soles of your shoes. Do you wash your shoe soles?

The Coriolis effect deflects the warm moist from the equator eastward, such that there is a wall of eastward wind right around the polar circles the blocks heat from reaching the p…

Dubai, Israel, Singapore. Why do you think only Europe can do this?

> in any configuration language that supports comments Notably, not JSON. In fact JSON doesn't support comment specifically to prevent this. And YAML was created specifically to ad…

They speak many different languages at home, but they all do business in Mandarin.

For an article about "lightweight javascript", it mentions the bundle sizes of its examples exactly zero times. Probably because the livewire bundle alone is like 40kb, comparable …

Are we using that definition of "world" that somehow excludes any other country outside the western alliance? Saudi Arabia and six other countries have more seawater desalination c…

Same reason a top of the line PC tower still has crappy stamped metal frame and crappy injection molded plastic trims. The main contractor of the elevator unit is a mechanical engi…

No, they literally have to. The accessibility tool landscape is a wild place, since there are so many different human disability types, and people need different assistance in diff…

20% of the internet generates 80% of the revenue, and the salary for the webdev. Guess how much of that 20% is PHP? And how much of the 80% is PHP?