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I very regularly refer to the act of writing code as "hacking the Gibson."

But... how is this easier than the solution proposed by OP?

I'm pretty sure the page is supposed to be satirical. It's poking fun at the number of software projects that have been around for several years (or maybe even a couple of decades)…

To respond to another part of this, it doesn't matter if we can look at a brain scan and predict perfectly exactly what the scanned subject is thinking. That only answers the quest…

Because the web application is only an emergent phenomenon once consciousness has already entered the equation. Without an observer, the website is nothing more than the sum of its…

I've been testing out a new workflow I'm Git in some personal projects that basically works like this. Basically, I make a single wip branch, which contains all of my messy/frequen…

My best attempt at Japanese: その場合、彼女は監視されていたはずであろう。

> Essentially it means “it must have been the case that, at the moment we’re speaking of, someone was watching her.” Another native English speaker here. This would be how I would …

You should take a look at Zig.

So first of all, I just want to echo the general sentiment here and say that all of this is beyond awesome. Cosmopolitan libc seems to have the potential to literally re-define wha…

re: でしょう, without seeing the original Japanese, my guess is that a more atural English translation for your first example would be "Your brother is supposed to be a man, right? He'…

This may be a tangential, but I've recently found that it really is useful to track all/most of these pieces of personal data. I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way…

This isn't really true. If you're capturing by reference, you can easily say that defer can only be called on variables declared in scopes no deeper than the beginning of the defer…

Who said anything about better? Cheaper energy = cheaper everything, but that doesn't mean that quality is necessarily constrained by current energy prices (although that also does…

Slam dunk response. This is exactly my problem with how so many developer tools and services are branded. Just give it to me plain, please.

> To be fair, if this was truly a big deal, it would be a political issue with bipartisan support and taken care of short order. Are you serious? Since you're using the term bipart…

The irony of reading this, over two thousand years later, translated into a different language, presumably by someone who is, even after all this time, still able to read the origi…

> Sure, and if you do strlen(s) without checking if there is actually a NUL first then: >> finding the end of a string may place you into invalid memory if there are missing traili…

I think OP is talking about the fact that it is possible to represent and transmit sound via an electromagnetic medium and that therefore this limit is not a limit on sound informa…

I see comments like this often and I find them deeply confusing. To me, it seems like most of the different programming/scripting languages you've listed excel at completely differ…

From many of the comments in this thread, one might think that FAANG companies invented the concept of open source software or that software doesn't exist outside the context of a …

You really aren't kidding about Tcl. I recently discovered that with tclreadline, Tcl can be used completely in place of Bash in interactive mode, in a way that something like Pyth…