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Presumably these are new subdomains, if a caching DNS resolvers never saw the domain yet, it would simply query the authoritative server. There's a small nuance here that DNS spec …

Good article! This matches how I feel about the situation. It's really not incongruent to use LLMs and be in awe of their frankly incredible capabilities while at the same time rec…

Yes! We played Achtung a lot on library computers in high school during breaks and I remembered it when I needed to pick a name for the app.

A few years ago I made a pen plotter attachment for Prusa MK4 ( https://www.printables.com/model/827264-pen-plotter-attachme... ) and at the time I didn't have a good way to turn a…

Given that we are talking about A4 papers and grams, I'd bet this wasn't in the US. In Europe, the typical flat rate is up to 100g for standard letters. And that's 20 sheets, which…

That's only true for information theoretically secure algorithms like one-time pad. It's not true for algorithms that are more practical to use like AES.

Similar - I learned HTML by tweaking ReadMe.htm that was included with Dweep videogame from (now defunct) Dexterity Software.

Not sure I'd agree about it being esoteric. Understanding or at least knowing about ARP is still very much essential for people in networking. arping is a very useful tool for seei…

You can go surprisingly far with C, though LLVM is probably a better long-term option for a serious compiler, because it's a tool made for the job (unless you target exotic and/or …

Just the standard Remote-SSH https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

That's interesting, I don't find VSCode slow at all, even when working on large workspaces via SSH over a high latency link. Sure, there are native editors that are snappier, but n…

It's not that it's hard, it's just that it is not inline, so it requires a context switch because the CM is defined outside, even when it's doing something specific. The most commo…

That's a good point and also one of the things I kinda like about Alumina. You can do thing like this and the file will only be closed at the end of the function rather than the en…

I wouldn't say it was very difficult, but it did take quite a bit of time. Apart from some basic principles (no GC, no RAII, "everything is an expression"), I basically kept adding…

No native compilation to WASM yet, but since the compiler outputs self-contained C, it should be fairly easy to do it with Emscripten. The sandbox is running the code server-side i…

Python context managers are actually very similar to guard objects in C++ and Rust. What I meant was something like this (could also be done with `contextlib`, but it's also verbos…

Scoped destruction is awesome in general, and I agree that it is superior to defer. I think one case where defer might be nicer is for things that are not strictly memory, e.g. ins…

Honestly, Tree Sitter is fantastic, I can highly recommend it. By far the most user friendly and powerful parser generator I've worked with. The C API is very nice. The only two pa…

Valgrind and Sanitizers should work on Alumina. I have not actually tried them myself yet, but I don't see any reason why they couldn't work. The only potential problem I see that …

As far as I know it doesn't have a single feature that is really unique. It's more like a combination of things I like from other languages, like syntax and expressions from Rust, …

Totally agreed about FFI. I wanted to make it easy to interop with C code and write expressive bindings. Check for example the language bindings to LLVM's C API (fairly low level) …

Alumina is a programming language I have been working on for a while. Alumina may be for you if you like the control that C gives you but miss goodies from higher level programming…