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Put the systems level programming in year 1, honestly. Either you know the material going in, or you fail out.

That's part of the challenge. It's interesting being able to unwind the stack from both directions.

Are ECharts safe for untrusted user input?

Phenomenal game. Great job. In response to those complaining about the intermediate stages, it'd be too easy to complete the entire puzzle otherwise.

It's already flagged me as a tech influencer because I mostly make PRs to existing projects, which doesn't seem to be pulled into the AI summary. I love the concept though. Banning people fr…

Its feedback is more poignant than most humans. Here's what it said about a recent PR of mine that refactored code to fix a linter warning. > Ah, the grand theater of code review—where humans …

The Girl With the Pearl Earring is considered a masterpiece because of the technological limitations of the time. Blue was one of the most expensive colours because the ultramarine dye was derived fro…

The rudest and most aggressive LLM I've used is Deepseek. Most LLMs have trained-in positivity bias but I can prompt Deepseek to tell me my code is shit very easily.

If you had such a model you could arbitrage between Polymarket betting on wars and stock prices. There's not much of an incentive to release such a model publicly.

Could you explain how your "hierarchical documentation system" works? Does the tree parallel the code? Is there a particular tool that you use?

It makes more sense if you consider the baseball player as a multimillion-dollar factory that cannot be brought down for maintenance.

From my perspective as a C++ developer, every attempt to use `const` for compiler optimization appears to be stymied by the existence of `const_cast`, because modifying a `const` value is only undefin…

Wikimedia sponsors librarians at various universities to share their knowledge and improve content. But that's in collaboration with the institution more than the individual. https://m…

Wikipedia's policy on paid editing is that it's acceptable so long as you disclose it. It's also suggested that you don't directly edit articles and send them through Articles for …

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The Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) does not directly pay editors for content. oka.wiki is a non-profit organization that funds editors, mostly to translate articles. Their top 3 articles …

There isn't as big of a boost as you'd think, since for a templated function you have to #include the entire definition of said function in whatever source file is using it.

That's what a PO box is for.

Biologics are phenomenal for this. Especially the selective ones. Sadly, they are also inaccessible to people of lower socioeconomic status.

The "wellness" industry is a way to scam rich people. You want to believe you can spend your money to opt out of environmental toxins by shopping at Erewhon. But you're still going to…

Yeah, but then it no longer replaces human artists. Controlnet has been the obvious future of image-generation for a while now.

If you want to reuse memory in C++, you'll either have to modify the string or return a string_view because strings must be null terminated (string_views are not). If you just chop off the last n…

The first two years of my degree where I learned most of my university-level math/physics were online-only. There are likely millions of students who learned entirely from videos and PDFs.

I still like the blogpost, because NixOS bills itself as a technical solution to prevent build artifacts that are decoupled from the source code (i.e. not reproducible), and the xz backdoor was hidden…

Are you willing to take US$60k/year starting salary for roughly the same COL as Austin, Texas, but with a 40% income tax rate? The Canadian govt has decided our economy needs to specialize in ver…