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ulbu

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    I think they mean red as a shell scripting/command line language.

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    Comment #48732038

    or “sometimes not, until more data arrives”.

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    Comment #48689006

    it’s little-endian protocols that require that you juggle your struct fields. plus, there are still big-endian protocols that will stay for a long time. for example, MIDI clip file…

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    Comment #48680338

    C3 is a contender to C++ because of its namespace operator?

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    Comment #48678141

    you need different packed structs for little- and big-endian data. and casting with little-endian data is a nightmare - you need to reverse-cascade your struct fields to be in acco…

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    Comment #48669030

    well, it doesn’t say Lua5.1-JIT

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    Comment #48523199

    evolution is a wrong concept to approach it. cancer is not a separate life form, but a bug in the regeneration system of a complicated life form. it doesn’t exist outside of it, it…

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    Comment #48423880

    Excuse me, but I think zig grows ever better from driving away users who are driven away by flashy headlines and whatever is the opposite of this “activism” you suggest.

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    Comment #48423843

    the green is from moving the line

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    Comment #48335430

    bun seems to be committed to slop rust already. so, with their ethic, maybe we should just disassociate them from zig and let them go realize their slop dreams? zig is on its way t…

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    Comment #48335343

    the “(super) efficient” is not there yet. Io is still dynamic dispatch with multiple layers of indirection. afaik it’s slower than before. the upcoming releases are expected to pro…

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    Comment #48322176

    I propose GRIM: Generative Recursive Indeterministic Impression Machine.

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    Comment #48301500

    this comment sounds so ironic in the context of a discussion pertaining to llms

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    Comment #48301446

    or pain perception

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    Comment #48258032

    scheme is great, but the dx of some implementations is not. i’m on guile scheme due to guix, and frankly, i’m hating it a quite bit. stack traces are esoteric and error messages en…

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    Comment #48221839

    how is guitar shape a trademark? edit: thanks for the responses!

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    Comment #48214106

    that’s why we say that with such discoveries we receive a new way – of looking, of doing, of thinking… these new paths preexist in the abstract, but they can be taken only when the…

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    Comment #48134547

    that’s the advertisement part of this ordeal you’re experiencing.

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    Comment #48128675

    it can’t really be a way to think about it when the recommendation is to not think about it and just do it. experience, observe, reach opinion. all in accordance with you and not s…

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    Comment #48120368

    IDEs made the mistake of locking the user into desktop-traditional keybinding paradigm instead of using a more flexible one which would allow for implementation of both vim and des…

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    Comment #48108586

    so Tao is coinductive

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    Comment #48108540

    well, it needs to be communicated better.

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    Comment #48069650

    orr, maybe it is about mending the world. but the little part that’s yours.