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I agree that drivers should know not to reverse on a highway regardless of local signage. But in situations that could be ambiguous, I think this is a regional difference - the US,…

If my coworker was part of a clone series of 100 million units, requesting a character sheet would be pretty reasonable

I really want to like QBE, but declaration blocks like this make it feel like 1970s Unix code more than a modern hackable piece of software: int t, x, r, rf, rt, nr; bits rs; Ins *…

Carmack gives updating in a loop as the one exception: > You should strive to never reassign or update a variable outside of true iterative calculations in loops. If you want a com…

> It's all fun and games until you realise you can't run a consumer economy without consumers. If the issue is that the AI can't code, then yes you shouldn't replace the programmer…

The French Wikipedia page doesn't talk about it, but the quoted text from the English Wikipedia page involving an iron bird (and not a bronze owl) is accurate. Here's the official …

Huh, I was curious about how that was done, and it looks like it's a specialized Java to C++ converter: https://github.com/validator/htmlparser/blob/master/translat... . Looking at…

Some laws are much easier to evade than others, and some laws have especially bad side effects when evaded. (A law about e.g. requiring a certain type of government certification b…

You can do high density without block housing! Many European cities are good examples of this. Paris, for instance, has very high density because it's packed with mid-rise (~7-8 fl…

Aren't m/s the correct unit for wind speed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_speed > Meters per second (m/s) is the SI unit for velocity and the unit recommended by the World M…

What do you think the current text encoding footguns are? In a different direction, I don't know what your problem domain is/was, but in general when I'm dealing with UTF8, I don't…

Letrec requires either laziness (which implies some sort of internal mutability, as thunks get replaced by values at some point), or "internal" mutability that may not be visible t…

I'm always interested in understanding animal neurology, especially in the context of trying to reach more general levels of AI. I find it interesting that modern ANNs perform near…

visudo isn't a fork, it just locks the sudoers file against concurrent edits, runs whatever standard editor you want, waits for it to finish, and validate the new file before commi…

> This requires introducing a right-handed partner for each known (left-handed) neutrino, which some people don't like because right-handed particles don't partake in weak interact…

Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: https://www.levenez.com/unix/ . It's a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relat…

Not the OP---I agree they're very different, but there's a striking resemblance in how both countries think their political and intellectual culture is civilization's crowning achi…

This might be somewhat subjective, as I don't know how you'd measure correlation between spoken and written, but French seems to have a much higher match between written and spoken…

Thanks for the links! I wasn't aware of the PyMem_ layer above, the justification for that does sound bad. But Python runs a generational GC in addition to refcounting to catch cyc…

> and Python still does AFAIK Don't you sort of have to do that if you're writing your own garbage collector, though? I guess for a simple collector you could maintain lists of all…

> American SUVs built for Europe > they'll have that right-hand-drive that Postal workers love so much. Maybe you know, but the vast majority of Europe is right-hand-traffic, left-…

Really? I feel like having an opinion based on reasoning from first principles should make discussion easier, because you can try and challenge any element in that explicit chain o…