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Absolutely. And eggs too [1]: these are libraries provided by the community, very easy to import and use. [1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs

I was eagerly waiting for this release, which brings full Unicode support. Congratulations to the team, Chicken Scheme is a little gem!

True, but this is C++23, while the post is about C++20.

This is relevant for solar irradiance but tells nothing about storage capacity.

Exactly

> It is absolutely ridiculous: of all countries, Italy has totally the means to rely only on solar and batteries Do you have any trustable source for this?

I believe that what we can reasonably expect in the future is machines that act as if they experience consciousness. But the fact that this is true consciousness is highly debatabl…

I agree, but I would add that they can be very useful even if you do not have clear expectations but have some solid ways to verify their claims. Often in doing this verification I…

I fully understand your rant! I pay ~20€/month for the Pro account, as my university has a deal with Microsoft and only seems to recognize Copilot, so it’s very hard to use one own…

I am a physics professor and often use Gemini to check my papers. It is a formidable tool: it was able to find a clerical error (a missing imaginary unit in a complex mathematical …

Initially, I was skeptical and thought that this is the millionth vibe-coded project that will die once the author gets bored. However, when I checked who the author is, I found he…

Giuseppe Tartini claimed his violin sonata "Il trillo del diavolo" (Devil's trill) was played to him by the devil itself during a dream. However, unlike you, Tartini declared that …

> they'll have to run for 25% of their expected life span to get them back Do you have a Life Cicle Assessment source for this? This paper [1] quantifies the Energy Payback Time fo…

True, but what if you need to re-run that command several months later and you can no longer find the message?

I too was perplexed, but the main use case seems to be when you want to share a particular configuration or need to be sure that you always use the same set of flags: > Flags are e…

Not the OP, but a few weeks ago I posted a comment about my problems with Wayland, which forced me to go back to X11. (I am still using it.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46…

Thank you! I regularly use Reveal.js to create interactive slide decks for my classes, and your project will be a great tool to have!

Correct, but I would add: Julia is better than Python+NumPy/SciPy when you need extreme speed in custom logic that can’t be easily vectorized. As Julia is JIT-compiled, if your cod…

It will surely be worse, at least at the beginning. But there is a significant chance that with time they will improve it, and one can hope that one year after the first release th…

A few weeks ago I decided to test C++ modules, but I had a hard time to figure out how to make them accepted by CMake. After a few days of struggle with `set(CMAKE_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX…

It’s fantastic they were able to find these issues! That four new CVEs (two high-severity!) were found in a mature and well-tested library like png reminds me how non-trivial and u…

A few months have passed and I might not remember everything correctly, but there was a series of problems: - I use several symbols as Greek letters (α, β, γ…) and mathematical ope…

Xdotool and Xmodmap are the two main reasons why, after a few months running Wayland+keyd+dotool I went back to X11. I found really hard to have the following things working at onc…

As others have commented, this trick alone cannot ensure truly "reproducible" builds. We used the same trick (git hash + git diff to monitor uncommitted changes) in a Python simula…

I believe they are really referring to the default mode used by GCC when no standard is explicitly stated. The email mentions that the last time they changed it was 5 years ago in …