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Re:1D Chess on Saturday April 11, 2026 @02:14AM (#47727938)
Even in the winning line black can force stalemate in multiple ways,how is it a forced win?
Re:Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase on Friday March 20, 2026 @08:23AM (#47453571)
site is totally broken on mobile, just because cursor can vibe code a nice rolling scrolling shithole, chances are it will break on some platform/browser
Re:Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:31AM (#44897038)
How does it stack up in terms of security? To me the idea of hackability is a bit conflicting with all the security features of modern browsers. The web is basically the main attack surface today, so I wouldn't use a niche browser engine.
Re:4-7-8 Breathing on Friday June 06, 2025 @04:24PM (#44204634)
I have been holding back my breath for 2 days now, it still shows hold.
Re:How Gemini Figured Out My Nephew's Name on Thursday May 22, 2025 @01:17AM (#44058993)
The post seems to be unreadable on mobile, the sides are cut off.
Re:The practical (Unix) problems with .cache and its friends on Saturday February 08, 2025 @10:33AM (#42983598)
I really like ncdu, which helps interactively detect and delete big unused directories.
Re:Test on Saturday December 14, 2024 @01:55AM (#42415195)
My favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the home row.
The TPB Afk is a really good documentary about this IMO, not sure how this series will compare to that.
Re:What Do You Visualize While Programming? on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:28PM (#41883651)
There is a free coursera course I am doing, where exactly this phenomenon is explained as diffuse vs focused thinking by neuroscientists.

Here is the link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

I spent way too much time playing it and I also consider it as wasted time. I guess it's because we had an option. He didn't really have ...
Re:Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:59AM (#41392185)
OTOH the list and struct types allow lots of complex operations, e.g with `.eval`, which run blazingly fast.
Re:Leaving Neovim for Zed on Monday August 19, 2024 @06:01PM (#41294917)
"Just works" is fine... Until it does not, and you have a hard time finding the issue. I prefer more control over my editor.
Re:Algorithms for Modern Hardware on Saturday March 16, 2024 @03:26AM (#39723976)
Std::set is using red black trees, did you mean std unordered set?