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Yeah, I'm not an archery nerd and even I could see that the archery looked very poor compared to other movies like Lord of the Rings. There didn't seem to be any weight to the draw…

Agreed. Work through the Emacs tutorial to find out how vanilla editing works. Then look at buffer management, window management (Emacs 'windows' are actually more like frames in o…

Britain and Portugal have one of the world's oldest alliances, established in 1386. At various times, especially starting in the 1700s, British wars with France meant that French w…

It's more minimalistic, that's true. But there's nothing stopping you writing or downloading an array library so you can do this: enemies = array.filter(enemies, function(e) return…

I signed up and I'm finding browsing a repo quite snappy. Good job.

Neither the title nor the article implied so.

This is fantastic. I don't know if it tells us anything about the human brain, but it's so cool to be able to do emperical science on large neural networks like this.

Yeah, this speed is excellent! I'm using GPT-5 mini for my "AI tour guide" (simply summarizes Wikipedia articles for me on the fly, which are presented on my app based on geolocati…

It's working reasonably well for me. But this is inside a well-established codebase with lots of tests and examples of how we structure code. I also haven't used it much for buildi…

> I imagine an LLM would be very good at writing Elisp to leverage EMacs’ strong core functionality Yes, they are pretty good. I have set up GPTel (an excellent Emacs package for i…

https://gleam.run

I'm not familiar with the Web Audio API, but I am interested in audio APIs in general. Could you explain where the designers went wrong? The templates listed in this (very nice!) a…

Ask it to cite the document and page, and verify it yourself.

It lasted because React genuinely did introduce a useful new paradigm - of UI being a (mostly) pure function of state. This has actual benefits. Unfortunately the way this was impl…

"and can't be easily extracted" is doing a lot of work there. People are very good at reverse-engineering. There would soon be a black market for 'clean' private keys that could be…

I wouldn't describe intelligence as well specified. We can't even agree on what it is.

I agree - I use 4o via the API, simply because it answers so quickly. Its answers are usually pretty good on programming topics. I don't engage in chit-chat with AI models, so it's…

I don't think Hayleigh was trying to gatekeep, just noting that some developers prefer features that Gleam intentionally omits. As for the @external annotations, I think you're bot…

Fine, but also how to explain the crazy claims flying around the internet that London is a warzone and a no-go area? I live here and... seriously, nothing has changed. I feel perfe…

That's a sad way to think. I'd like to hope that humanity can improve itself, and that includes building products that are safer, more refined, more beautiful, more performant and …

I don't find that convention unusual. That's how I (and everyone at my company) writes code every day. If an argument is a pointer, that means it may be null. If it may not be null…

> almost anything now can be interpreted as 'offensive' or 'hate speech' I only know about the UK, but this is not really true there. Your speech has to be obviously threatening or…

This doesn't seem like something that should require generating assembly to solve. Couldn't `CALLBACK` just return a table, which contains both the userdata pointer to `REAL_CALLBA…

> With a reference counting GC, you're essentially emulating "perfect" use of C++ unique_ptr. Did you mean shared_ptr? With unique_ptr there's no reference-counting overhead at all…

> With respect to the income tax, it is possible for higher earning (not by US standards) employees to receive a bonus and actually take home less money than before they received t…