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I find these modern artifacts fascinating, and a great example of how poorly we communicate {in,about} code. Not that either Wikipedia or RC is a reliable source of quality, but th…

Does Site Reliability include using assets from no less than 7 domains and requiring Javascript to present a few paragraphs of text?

pdf: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/website/recounting.pdf

Nice to see a fairly thorough set of examples, but my only conclusion is that C++ really has become a parody of itself. The language describing each policy is awful, but okay. "so …

This is nice .. but it could be nicer with (pun intended) use of the context manager protocols, a few less empty lines and a bit of minor refactoring for readability. Is execution_…

My opinion is almost the opposite: I find Granger's ambitious ideas and presentations stimulating, and I like that they're out there to inspire people to imagine more and experimen…

> Sounds like an ideal job for a 3d printer. Or, you know, a piece of timber and some sand paper. The consumer-grade 3d printers I have exposure to would have trouble with some com…

> developers often write software that trusts the local network Yes, this is still a source of problems - DNS rebinding allowing websites to attack random sockets on LAN and localh…

> This is without considering the false sense of security that address masquerading provides; I cannot recall how many times I’ve heard people say that (gasp!) NAT was fundamental …

Thanks, that's clear enough :-). In hindsight I can't imagine what alternative I was thinking of .. I had some idea you might have put the additional cost in the iterator by mainta…

Can you briefly describe how the msevector + ipointer works? I tried to look at the code but dense C++ is not my forte.

It's not cmake's job to limit the behaviour of programs written with it.

> The third social space (restaurants, cafe's, etc) becomes more and more irrelevant due to delivery services. Did you really mean to write that? :-) To be fair, delivery services …

I guess all it takes to push a draft is hubris. The clear fact it hasn't received editorial feedback from a single native speaker is an indication how popular this is. (not to sham…

> I find it hard to believe if you're a programmer Some people work better with reference documentation, books and their brain than SO "answers". Google for "complex programming qu…

by serendipity I clicked through on this link and sgentle's link to Kay on McLuhan and the following sentence comes remarkably close to my experience of the two presentations of th…

This should be titled more honestly: perhaps something like "Case studies in rapidly replacing dangerous C parser code with Rust using nom". The examples are interesting and well p…

> note how the second expression has no "z" variable in it. A better comparison would be to func2(1 + 2 + 3, func1(x, y));

> imagine Lisp without macros. Early on in my Scheme career, I found the tools to create macros a bit confusing and arcane .. but I still knew I wanted macros. I ended up writing c…

The thing about both Lisp and Smalltalk that keeps making me feel alienated is that their power seems much weaker beyond their kingdom. The outside world does not have an object br…

imho the headline should be the other way around: > Most scientific studies cannot be replicated by peers .. which is more to the point.

Thanks! That's excellent. Different measurements from populations with varying exposure to snakes certainly seems to weigh in favour of an evolutionary explanation. > That's a gene…

I take it you do. Thanks for enlightening me!