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I wonder if there is a typo in the title: '"C is how the computer works" can lead to inefficient code' makes more sense to me.

> I've got great experience with Indians working in Europe, not so great with Indians working from India. My impression is that the best Indian developers tend to move here, becaus…

out of curiosity, how wide apart do you place the two halves of your split keyboard? i recently got one, and been wondering if i should place them full shoulder width apart or not.…

Given the stagnation that's set in the mobile form factor, i think its the perfect time for unwalled FOSS mobile environments to develop. also, the demo with gesture typing on the …

used / refurbished iPhone SEs still work beautifully...i got one a few months ago and i've had zero issues with it its not really "top of the line" anymore, but the fact that its l…

Gentoo also seems to have updated firefox-bin (and possibly www-client/firefox too?)...I ran an emerge update a few minutes ago and saw it install the firefox update

I think the question of "Why does it takes fifty lines to create a dialogue with a button" is very programming-language dependent: If you're working with a higher-level programming…

Yeah, I understand the pains of implementing native GUIs, but one of the niceties that they provide is that you can implement simple - moderately complex GUIs in fewer lines and cl…

I looked at Imgui before for a project, but decided not to go with it since the examples are all over a hundred lines long, for example: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/blob/maste…

People who aren't very tech/privacy-savvy, like elderly people, or kids/teenagers. I remember signing up for facebook when I was in high school, and I probably would've provided my…

its such a coincidence that these accidents keep happening in ways that enable further data gathering...surely there isn't a larger problem with Facebook's attitude towards their u…

I'm personally not at all attached to the 'mastodon.social' domain (i'm self-hosting my own account on a different instance), but I am somewhat surprised at this perspective on TLD…

I've had a pretty good experience self-hosting with Pleroma. Its quite amazing that I can run a social media server with just a $5 VPS. Not sure if there are bots / apps that can e…

I know you're joking, but if you found your way on to a site called "Hacker News" at a URL like https://news.ycombinator.com , it it really going to be so much more complicated to …

Just wanted to say that i moved from twitter to mastodon sometime late last year amd couldn't be happier with it. Keybase integration is interesting to me, but not realky useful si…

i could imagine a third camp between Free Software and Open Source following something like the Qt dual-licensing model: 1. You are free to use this software for non-commercial use…

this is truly really cool! are there any resources you'd recommend to learn more about this area of music theory?

> Instead, what we need is a simple API with opaque handles and C function calls. No fancy OOP or macro preprocessors. Simple OpenGL style. At least regarding portability, OpenGL m…