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871.
by xigoi 1y ago
At least I want to know that it’s a summary and not the actual content of any article.
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by xigoi 1y ago
“C++” and “good syntax” is a contradiction.
873.
by xigoi 1y ago
> C++ has a philosophy of not doing anything with the language if it can be done in library. Except all the OOP features, which absolutely needed dedicated syntax even though they could have been a library.
874.
by xigoi 1y ago
Rust syntax is ugly because of C++. They didn’t want to “spend their innovation tokens”, which apparently means copying the worst existing design just because it’s popular.
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by xigoi 1y ago
The articleesays that it optimizes just the inside of the loop (the loop jump can be optimized via unrolling, which the compiler may do automatically).
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by xigoi 1y ago
Saying that AI is good because it produces 90% of code is like saying that newsletters are good because they produce 90% of e-mails.
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by xigoi 1y ago
> With the kitchen sink approach of design I’d not be surprised if these get into the language eventually. Based on the history of C++, they will, but with extremely bizarre syntax. Instead of a.foo(b), it will be something like a@<fo
878.
by xigoi 1y ago
> Does it matter? Yes. An algorithm must be unambiguosly specified for all possible inputs.
879.
by xigoi 1y ago
Presumably there is a separate directory for every year.
880.
by xigoi 1y ago
With ASCII lexicographic ordering, photo01 would come before photo1.
881.
by xigoi 1y ago
Markdown is not standardized, so every browser would render the page differently and you’d get the same problems as with pre-standard HTML.
882.
by xigoi 1y ago
It’s been about two thousand years since the number of months in a year has been increased. I don’t think we’re getting 88 new ones anytime soon.
883.
by xigoi 1y ago
> Treat any consecutive sequence of digits as a number when sorting. Based on this description, I have no idea how the following would be sorted: • photo.jpg • photo1.jpg • photo01.jpg • photos.jpg
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by xigoi 1y ago
The Janet community uses Zulip and it works well.
885.
by xigoi 1y ago
Doesn’t Pandoc just use LaTeX under the hood?
886.
by xigoi 1y ago
What else would you use to generate PDFs from a text-based template?
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by xigoi 1y ago
> I trust the privacy of social media than some mailing list where the admin could secretly grep the contents of it with no over site. This will only allow them to find the text of the messages, which is public anyway, so what exactly ar
888.
by xigoi 1y ago
There is a lot of “culture war battlefield” stuff on Bluesky too.
889.
by xigoi 1y ago
They will only see the data you post publicly. You know, like with a personal website or with any other social media platform.
890.
by xigoi 1y ago
> Twitter has/had character limits. Instagram was primary for photo sharing. if you try to cram a long political rant in an instagram photo or description.. it is fighting against the app format and limitations. This sculpts the app
891.
by xigoi 1y ago
Unfortunately Bitcoin has strong ties with the planet-burning-coin community.
892.
by xigoi 1y ago
> We should pick a platform that is federated, where you have ownership and autonomy over your identity and your audience. Social media should not be own-able by a single group or person. Social media is serious business. It ties directl
893.
by xigoi 1y ago
Gemini is way too simplistic. You can’t even white math articles in it.
894.
by xigoi 1y ago
Can we please not switch to a format which is simultaneously more complex and less capable than HTML?
895.
by xigoi 1y ago
Bars are like 3:1 men to women, so not much chance there. Church is not an option for atheists. Cafés and libraries are not places where you go to talk with random strangers. Clubs and sports are expensive.
896.
by xigoi 1y ago
What you’re describing is more like MSD radix sort.
897.
by xigoi 1y ago
> But surely there are other contexts where people mingle? Well, what are they?
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by xigoi 1y ago
You can check the source code.
899.
by xigoi 1y ago
I’d rather ask, why are desktop environments continuing to use the horrible UI convention of stacking window managers? In a tiling window manager, there is no reason to waste space on a draggable window bar.
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by xigoi 1y ago
Depends on what you use it for. Out of the last 20 e-mails in my academic inbox, 17 are human-written and the remaining 3 were generated as a result of a human action.

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