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Re:The Contract on America on Friday September 18, 2026 @11:30PM (#49763038)
The idea that the point of government is to somehow make a profit seems absurd to me. Any money the government makes is by definition money wasted.
By functional do you actually mean impossible to use?
Re:Apple wants to train AI on your private personal data on Saturday September 12, 2026 @09:34PM (#49679034)
I don’t think that counts as an automatic opt-in, given that it’s presented to the user directly during the setup process.
Re:Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:40AM (#49622742)
I’m so glad they got rid of the moon. The new Gerudo emblem is so much cooler looking.
Re:LLMs as a Cognitive Virus on Saturday September 05, 2026 @06:08PM (#49581184)
> They weren’t trying to solve aging or bring everyone to the highest standard of living, they didn’t care to connect the world, explore it, and find others.

What are you talking about? Those are absolutely issues that are being worked on right here, right now. This framing is obviously false.

Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:14AM (#49487968)
It’s a cute idea but I found it to be exceedingly unpleasant.
Who cares if it’s ludicrous? It’s a fun idea!
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:32PM (#49404075)
Given that a lot of people use it in the wild I’m not sure where you’re getting that from.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:31PM (#49404072)
It used to be the official logo. The project was called PLT Scheme at the time.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:31PM (#49404061)
C, python, java, Fortran, ruby, Common Lisp, Haskell, go, zig (I think), forth, swift, cobol, pretty much any language that doesn’t directly descent from Scheme.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:01PM (#49402698)
> Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules?

Given that most languages don’t have syntax rules or anything like it, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that most language introductions/overviews/tutorials don’t mention it.

Re:Hister – private, self hosted search engine on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:56PM (#49402654)
What’s the safari story look like right now?
Re: on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:39PM (#48954676)
I think you’re missing the point…
Re:Why Write Code in 2026 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:29PM (#48887535)
I feel like this question doesn’t need a blog post to answer.

Why write code in 2026? Because it’s fun.

It’s difficult to interpret his position as being in good faith given the organisation that controls and represents.
Re:Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:11AM (#48669997)
Gods I feel old…
Re:Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:24PM (#48482917)
I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that I don’t think the author has any troops anywhere, let alone in Ukraine.
Re:macOS Container Machines on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @03:13AM (#48472615)
Those issues could have been fixed…
So it sounds like you don’t get the exact version you want because metadata is thrown away.
Re:Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:27AM (#47984193)
I think the law is wrong…
Re:GitHub Stacked PRs on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @04:41AM (#47762919)
I definitely miss Darcs. I still use it very occasionally, but only with very small repos.
Did you read what this does? Because I get the feeling you didn’t…

This isn’t a library, you don’t include in your application, and it doesn’t try to replace an understanding of floating point issues on the programmers part.

Is this comment written by AI?

Re:LFortran Compiles Fpm on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:20PM (#47224240)
I guess when you’ve been calling it that before everyone else you’re allowed. Sort of how Common Lisp calls threads ‘processes’.
Re:From Noise to Image – interactive guide to diffusion on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:11AM (#47205362)
Ha, I was going to say the exact opposite. My first thought was that the website was broken.
Re:om on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:06PM (#47159334)
To be fair, the examples are extremely easy to overlook. They are also, to put it delicately, not the most helpful.
Re:I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer on Saturday February 21, 2026 @03:00AM (#47098535)
That feels fundamentally broken. How can you expect an organisation to respond appropriately if you don’t provide them any kind of proof?
Re:HackMyClaw on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @06:41PM (#47055080)
Well my first testing of the waters was classified as a misdirected love letter.
Re:TextMaze on Saturday January 10, 2026 @04:33AM (#46564211)
It looks like there’s a download link that contains the source code. Presumably you untar it, follow any necessary build instructions, and then run it.
Re:Dissecting a C64 Autoboot Program on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:37PM (#46562204)
I love to see modern analysis of these machine!
Re:Logos Language Guide: Compile English to Rust on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:47AM (#46495965)
Ah. So we’re recreating COBOL in 2026 I see.

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