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Isn't this a job ad for the United Kingdom (YC1215)?

This feels like a corporate plug with extremely minimal engineering discussion, and which mostly just boasts platform features. I wouldn't even say this really counts as significan…

There isn't, by design. You write _some_ black-box implementation locally which outputs a textual solution you drop into the browser (at least, this is how it was in 2015 when AoC …

Honest question: is there any need to poll the touchpad more often than the screen's refresh rate (usually 144Hz or below as of this post)?

That's not a hobby -- that's a job that requires you to shill out to brands while being as loud and obnoxious as possible... A hobby isn't usually about being popular, it's just so…

While I don't want to downplay his role in mobilizing the community, it's hardly single-handed. Implementing ext/sodium was a group effort by dozens of developers, reviewers, and t…

I actually posted the port on the Code Review SE, where (after almost a month of silence), someone stepped up and offered a CFFI solution. https://codereview.stackexchange.com/ques…

While I've found that Haskell's laziness can often be worked around with appropriately-implemented memoization, it's an absolute PITA for anything that requires frequent hops into …

As interesting as SIGINT against terrorist networks sounds, I assume most of this is classified -- since the cells are already known to operate smaller, and likely more difficult-t…

Progress has to begin somewhere. In another 10 years, this kind of lithography will likely have evolved into something much more viable.

Speaking as a non-American, this is partially-valid point, and a very frustrating one. While the only people who can affect the decision are Americans (members of congress won't, a…