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In fact, that's how Lua itself came to be. They started with a simple configuration language and added more and more features until at some point they decided to rip the bandaid an…

Just this past week, I have had to answer two surveys, from different sources, asking how I use AI in my work. Both had a "choose all that apply" checkbox, and, funnily enough, nei…

In math, the utility lies in the proof itself. A novel proof of a hard problem usually comes with new insights and abstractions that help solve even more mathematical problems. To …

The part in the beginning about Galois Connections is very worth learning. It has countless applications.

European banks offer the credit, but the payments infrastructure currently goes through US companies. The first step is to get those payment processors out of the picture. In Brazi…

Wouldn't help much. * Some kind of scans, like CT scans, use ionizing radiation and should not be done too often. * Looking at only imaging scans it is often impossible to tell apa…

One important kind of seeded run are the daily challenges, where everyone gets the same seed once a day (like Wordle)

They want two players with the same seed to have a similar gameplay experience in terms of challenges encountered. For this reason they want to isolate the RNG that procedurally ge…

In the post, the ladybird maintainers say that they trust pull requests less than they used to, because many pull requests are authored by AI now. A big pull request no longer sign…

The article has a section covering this. According to them, finding Haskell talent is not difficult, the bigger problem is onboarding them into the company coding style because Has…

As you said, it's more like CPU stack frames. In a register VM all instructions can read and write to any position in the stack frame. In a stack VM, most instructions only read an…

The author seems to complain about a lack of stack manip expressions like dup and rot, but at least for me that's what I would expect from an average programming language stack mac…

We do run the linter on CI as well, but I think our comitters would get faster feedback if they ran those checks locally.

I have always had this problem with hooks and new contributors: since hooks don't run by default if you just clone the repository, my open source projects get many PRs from new con…

It can also happen if the person has some disease that affects the liver, which in turns lowers how much of the drug they can take.

That EWD is one if my pet peeves. Dijkstra makes an unfair comparison because he lists plenty of examples where 0-based indexing is more convenient but ignores the equally numerous…

There's a little bit of far side on the right of the picture.

Tail call optimization optimizes the situations where the recursion doesn't actually need any stack space, but I think the parent poster is asking about situations that aren't tail…

It's indeed very mechanical and some programming languages can do it for you. I think you're mainly asking for heap-allocated stacks. Some languages always use the heap for stack f…

Even if soaked, beans still take hours to cook without a pressure cooker.

Few students do optional assignments unfortunately. Other tasks that are directly worth a gradetend to take priority (e.g. studying for another class that has an exam this week).

Students are also people. If we're managing a software project, a single deadline at the end is sure to suffer from delays. It's better to split things into shorter deliverables wi…

Students are very grade-motivated and unfortunately they rarely do the homework assignments if they are not worth points. At-home coding projects, writing essays, etc also exercise…

J.K. Rowling is now infamous for using her vast wealth to lobby against transgender rights.

A microwave lifehack I recently learned: If you're gonna brown some onions, microwave them for a bit before tossing them into the pan. The first step of browning onions is just boi…