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Re:Project Euler on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:07AM (#45912574)
This will become a practice of implementing bignums in your language of choice, which is a valuable exercise itself.
Re:Dead Framework Theory on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:38AM (#45845765)
The LLM owners also don't like to burn the knowledge into model weights or prompts, sharing some concerns of the post, e.g. freshness. RAG is the new hotness.
Re:Nobody Cares on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:57AM (#42708138)
Reading the original article I reflected: "I can totally see how this can happen, but for some reason it doesn't happen where I live"

I moved to Switzerland 9y ago. People care. I believe this is due to high trust society which evolved not that long ago from small, poor, tightly woven communities.

Re:Bottles of OOP now available in Python on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @08:28AM (#42193763)
I have the book and don't speak Ruby at all. Nevertheless, is so we'll written, that you can take the lessons and apply them in any language with virtual polymorphism. A Python version of the book means bigger audience, to the benefit of the trade.
Re:Duolingo Sucks, Now What? on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @02:44PM (#39374253)
That's their official mobile client and main source of revenue, isn't it?
Re:The D Programming Language Conference '23 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:45AM (#37304186)
Having two competing standard libraries didn't help with the adoption.
Re:Railway Oriented Programming on Friday August 18, 2023 @03:28AM (#37172348)
This is exactly how LabVIEW implements error handling.
Re:The Simpsons Hit and Run leaked source code on Thursday July 13, 2023 @02:13AM (#36705575)
Can anybody explain the existence of all*.cpp files which include other source files?