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Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:32PM (#50108127)
I mean they were evil from the beginning; my point is that she has has had plenty of time working at a non-evil company to not be dragged down for it. One could serve less time in prison for armed bank robbery
Re:More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:23PM (#50107980)
The author hasn't worked at Meta for eight years
Re:Southern Olive Oil on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:57AM (#49993745)
I learned this recently while doing an olive oil tasting in Greece: the bite in the back of your throat is caused by polyphenols - antioxidants. The bite is indicative that the olive oil is providing something healthy
Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:44PM (#49929621)
honestly that seems like a great way to spend public funds
One of the main designers of this has a lot of flutter projects and no JSX projects on their github so I have no idea what you're on about. They also have a YouTube channel dedicated to their C++ voxel game engine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDye5hFy14hdQGohhqpY6LQ
This is pretty easy to understand if you have a cursory understanding of Rust and HTML.

I won't get into the HTML part (I think it's obvious), but the

  $(|_e| count.increment())
part is a rust closure. |_e| is the argument to the closure, which has a leading underscore because it's unused. I imagine it's some context about the event (thus the e). The rest is the body of the closure. It increments the count.

pretty simply

Re:PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:54AM (#49642962)
People don’t talk about quite much, when they talk about MGSV they talk about how insanely good of a stealth action game it is.
It can't do these things because it's not wanted. Say you have the following:

  enum Value {
      Float(f64),
      Ptr(*const T),
  }
Do you want the compiler to disallow certain bit patterns in the Float variant simply so that it can implement NanBoxing?
Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @05:44PM (#49189447)
What I'm saying is that Hurd is just a kernel in the same way that Linux is also just a kernel
Re:GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2 on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:32PM (#49188605)
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux, is in fact, just Linux.
Re:Announcing Box3D :: Box2D on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @11:20AM (#48748348)
Don't get your hopes up, it'll be used in deadlock's volleyball game mode
I wish they would re-release the HP50-g, I had one somewhere but it got lost and I _loved_ that thing!
Not to distract from what is undeniably a pretty cool thing, it's hard to even call these "games" as there's absolutely no decision making going on. I absolutely loathe games like these because you're not actually doing anything.
Re:Flipper One Tech Specs on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:25PM (#48213625)
I plan on using it to create a backup password/2FA device... eventually
Re:Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:18PM (#48195381)
These glasses look absolutely stunning
I can't speak for the parent but I have a 5090 and it works perfectly fine
Re:Cartoon Network Flash Games on Friday May 08, 2026 @05:50PM (#48069206)
There’s on called “sonic boom: link and smash?”
I'm not really sure what position you're taking but taking a rake can certainly change the legality of an activity; in California, playing poker in private is considered a social game and is legal, _except_ if party is taking a rake.
The cops from the John Woo HK action flicks I've seen would love this
Re: on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @04:31PM (#47328443)
I'm not really arguing with your point, I'm correcting your incorrect description of what I'm saying.

To argue with your actual point: I don't really care about the overall context, actively disallowing tests in a codebase is a _bad decision_. Look how it worked out for them.

> it's time for you and I to bug out conversationally

Fine with me

Re: on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:58PM (#47328052)
> He edited his reply to me multiple times...

I got the sense from your reply that some extra clarity would be beneficial.

> This is unnecessary. OP came out with "AUTHOR IS INSANE" even on the most generous of interpretations.

I did not actually call the author insane, I called their decision to explicitly disallow testing insane. It's an insane decision. I am not _literally_ calling the author insane.

Re: on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:19PM (#47327658)
> Did you edit the wording of your original comment slightly to emphasise the "actively disallowing them" in every situation?

I did not.

Re: on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:02PM (#47327483)
Did I say that my way was the right way? No: what I said was actively disallowing tests in every situation was the wrong way.

There is no ability here for the cost benefit analysis to change over time. There is only no tests

Re: on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:26PM (#47327011)
Having a culture of not ever writing tests and actively disallowing them is so insane I can't even imagine why there's anything else in this post
A dictatorship? Are you being forced at gunpoint to talk to people?

Perhaps more unsurprisingly, at the mere suggestion that socializing is good for you (it demonstrably is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11403199/), you went and wrote a comment that I can only imagine someone who is deeply unhappy would write.

Re:How to talk to anyone and why you should on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:36AM (#47219330)
Talk about Poe's law.

I know what ECDSA is and if you brought it up in a random conversation unprompted I'd try to find your spaceship so I could escape the conversation on it.

Re:I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:52PM (#47008335)
That is linked literally in the first sentence of the article
Re:I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:35PM (#46996828)
They don't. They will probably get added in R7RS large. They're available in scheme-rs regardless: https://scheme.rs/Standard%20Libraries/prompts/
Re:I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:05AM (#46990499)
I think people underestimate how pragmatic meta programming can be because there are some obvious downsides. Arguably one of things that made Rust so popular was its inclusion of procedural macros.

But beyond that the thing I don't understand about the modern hate towards macros is that they are simply very fun.

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