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Isn't the ¨ (U+00A8) character equivalent to an umlaut on a space? I suppose you used ◌̈ (U+0308).

The atmosphere is estimated to have ~830PgC worth of CO₂, and plants are estimated to photosynthesize ~120PgC worth of CO₂ every year, so a given molecule would have 14% chance to …

I have seen the similar assertion "some of the water molecules you drank today were once part of a dinosaur", which is false because water molecules do not last very long when in l…

We are using binary formats in production, also for data visualization and analysis. We went for a simple custom format: in addition to the usual JSON types (string, number, array,…

I would say 4. grab individual code files (as opposed to entire libraries) and manually edit them, removing unnecessary features and adding new ones where needed.

Tree-shaking is able to remove code that will never be called. And it's not necessarily good at it: we can detect some situations where a function is never called, and remove that …

The snippet you shared is consistent with the kind of output I have also been seeing out of LLMs: it looks correct overall, but contains mistakes and code quality problems, both of…

We use the following steps: - Each service listens on a different, fixed port (as others have recommended). - Have a single command (incrementally) build and then run each service,…

Indeed. Worst week of 2023 ! But I consider myself lucky that the issue could be reproduced on a local machine (arguably, one with 8 cores and 64GiB RAM) and not only on the 32 cor…

One of the hardest bugs I've investigated required the extreme version of debugging with printf: sprinkling the code with dump statements to produce about 500GiB of compressed bina…

The trouble is, darklaga.bin will not work locally because it must be fetched over an HTTP(S) connection. So, there's a darklaga.local.html provided when running locally. The build…

Yes, ship offset from touch point was an intentional 2024 change. In the 2004 version, touch screens used a stylus, which were thin enough that you could see whatever you were touc…

The square pattern enemies are a bug (well, level design mistake) back from 2004, where they would move outside the range of the laser but would still be within reach of other weap…

On other browser/platform combinations I use fullscreen mode, which gets rid of the issue entirely. But it isn't supported on iOS Safari as far as I can tell.

Sadly I could no longer build the C++ version of the game because of some missing proprietary dependencies, but I don't expect there would have been noticeable improvements: it was…

My background project for the last two years has been re-implementing my 2004 C++ shoot'em up game in TypeScript + WebGL, and it's finally done (just in time for the 20th anniversa…

I agree ! We use the commit status instead of the PR status. A non-FF merge commit, being a commit, would have its own status separate from the status of its parents.

I suppose our development process is a bit unusual. The meaning we give to "the commit is green" is not "this PR can be merged" but "this can be deployed to production", and it is …

Wouldn't CI be easier with a monorepo ? Testing integration across multiple repositories (triggered by changes in any of them) seems more complex than just adding another test suit…

I'm not familiar with GitHub Actions, but we reverted our migration to Bitbucket Pipelines because of a nasty side-effect of conditional execution: if a commit triggers test suite …

Avoiding SQL migrations was my #1 reason for moving to event sourcing. This approach cuts the "database server" into an event stream (an append-only sequence of events), and a cach…

> Onion architecture etc. is a long-term strategy that mainly benefits the company/project owner, but not the individual contributor. So it basically has to be forced upon programm…

I have created a DSL for supply chain optimization over the last 10 years[1], and gave a talk about it back in 2017[2] that summarizes the main reasons why we did this over the alt…

I'm a maintainer for an open source .NET library that, ironically, only exists because it provides a feature that Microsoft removed from .NET during the migration to .NET Core. Ver…