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BatmanAoD

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  • The Language That Never Was | Celes' Ramblings

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  • There is only one mention of Python being slow, and that's in the form of a joke where Python is crossed out and replaced with "the wrong tool for the job." Elsewhere in the post, Python is mentioned more positively; it just isn't what's needed for the kind of gamedev the author wants to do.

  • Which of these javascript expressions is false?

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  • I'm addressing the bit that I quoted, saying that an interpreted language "must" have valid semantics for all code. I'm not specifically addressing whether or not JavaScript is right in this particular case of min().

    ...but also, what are you talking about? Python throws a type error if you call min() with no argument.

  • Which of these javascript expressions is false?

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  • Without one, the run time system, must assign some semantics to the source code, no matter how erroneous it is.

    That's just not true; as the comment above points out, Python also has no separate compilation step and yet it did not adopt this philosophy. Interpeted languages were common before JavaScript; in fact, most LISP variants are interpreted, and LISP is older than C.

    Moreover, even JavaScript does sometimes throw errors, because sometimes code is simply not valid syntactically, or has no valid semantics even in a language as permissive as JavaScript.

    So Eich et al. absolutely could have made more things invalid, despite the risk that end-users would see the resulting error.

  • Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

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  • The user who submitted the report that Stenberg considered the "last straw" seems to have a history of getting bounty payouts; I have no idea how many of those were AI-assisted, but it's possible that by using an LLM to automate making reports, they're making some money despite having a low success rate.

  • Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces

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  • Every single time I've tried to work on a file using tabs, I've had to configure my tabstop to be the same width the original author used in order to make the formatting reasonable. I understand that in theory customizable tabstops is preferable, but I've yet to see it work well.

    (For what it's worth, I think that elastic tabstops, had they been the way tabs worked in text files to begin with, would have been far preferable.)

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    Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit bordering on addiction

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  • They explained pretty clearly that they use Linux exclusively for work.

  • Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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  • So...like an old fashioned camera iris?

  • Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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  • All the others are not very butthole-ish, though.

  • Pain

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  • There are definitely more experienced programmers using it. I can't find the post at the moment, but there was a recent-ish blog post citing a bunch of examples. [edit: found it: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/they-all-use-it ]

    Personally, I don't use AI much, but I do occasionally experiment with it (for instance, I recently gave Claude Sonnet the same live-coding interview I give candidates for my team; it...did worse than I expected, tbh). The experimenting is sufficient for me to recognize these phrases.

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • It's not in C, if that's what you mean.

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • It's a "stream manipulator" function that not only generates a new line, it also flushes the stream.

  • The Wizard and His Shell

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  • None of the features discussed are aesthetic only.

  • The Wizard and His Shell

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  • Nope. It links to an explanation of what that poster is:

    This is the UNIX Magic Poster, originally created by Gary Overacre in the mid-1980s and published by UniTech Software.

  • Typst is hiring

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  • I feel like we're talking past each other. My impression was that 30% towards your living situation is a pretty decent target; what would you expect the percentage to be?

  • Typst is hiring

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  • Okay, what I meant was, is rent taking 30% really indicative of a low standard of living?

  • Typst is hiring

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  • Rent eating 30-40% of your income is extremely normal, isn't it? Or is that only true in the US (where it has recently become much more than that for many people)?

  • Adopting the FLS

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  • Lots of acronyms no longer stand for anything due to losing their original associations. LLVM, AT&T, SAT (the test, not the programming problem), etc.

  • Do any of you here use Programming socks?

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  • Probably moreso for expressing the opinion so strongly without actually knowing any of the three languages.

    Edit: I'm just guessing why a different comment got downvotes. Why am I getting downvotes?

  • Do any of you here use Programming socks?

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  • Doesn't the first edition use K&R style parameter lists and other no-longer-correct syntax?