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> Running a GC takes time, pollutes the cache, and is often run at an unpredictable time. Isn’t this only the case for tracing garbage collectors? (And even then, not all of them a…

> What does weight affect? Obesity is strongly associated with several health problems.

Every physical gift card I’ve seen had an expiry date.

But then there would be no space for the extremely useful Copilot key!

> Especially if you use square brackets for generic instantiation, so your example is semantically close to std::array of C++. Yes, it is like that.

I don’t use AI for ethical reasons. I don’t want to support companies that are destroying the planet and inflating hardware prices.

You can have that without writing them in C or C++.

A Microslop employee won’t get promoted for that.

F-Droid makes it much easier to discover apps.

Or even var str: array[10, ptr char]

> The lack of digital evidence is not proof of innocence. A claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Where do you think the bots learned it from?

On Linux, the en dash is typed with `[Compose]--.` and the em dash with `[Compose]---`.

The second one is about how Git uses the word “checkout” for three unrelated operations, violating the Unix philosophy.

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I don’t eat food that I am allergic to or don’t like the taste. What does that have to do with politics?

He could have been paid by Anthropic to run a brute-force computer search. The counterexample looks short enough that, given a portion of Anthropic’s computing power and a sufficie…

Is there any evidence that the discovery was made by Claude and not by Levent Alpöge himself? The only sources listed in the wikipedia article are an X post and a news article that…

From the article: > When your posts are individual HTML files (not Markdown files or database entries), they can finally be seen as the individual web pages that they truly are. An…

NFS supports dynamic websites (giving you access to a full Linux system with many programming languages), though you’ll have to pay more.

Isn’t this only a problem if the language is case-insensitive?

> because people give up at "how do I import a lib to make an http call" ? Ironically, this is where I gave up on trying to learn Rust. I just wanted to make a HTTP request and the…

More like “This artist won the drawing competition because someone told her the theme in advance and the specifically practiced drawing pelicans for hundreds of hours.”

From what I can tell, DuckDB is more focused on huge-scale data analysis than simple data persistence, so I’m not sure if it fits my use cases. Otherwise, it looks good.

What are other choices for FOSS serverless relational databases? I’ve been looking everywhere and couldn’t find anything.