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I really have no idea where comments like yours come from. I‘m baffled each time I read it. You must be really, really far removed from any commercial browser development process.

pwdisswordfishqon Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

So much trouble to avoid introducing the optional monad.

pwdisswordfishqon Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

> Knowing nothing about it this particular movement, the main danger I foresee is essentially hubris.

One of them selfawarewolves.

pwdisswordfishqon US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech

For a second I was hoping that the bubble was already bursting.

pwdisswordfishqon Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked

This just shows the command line was badly designed to begin with.

If CLI programs received already-opened file handles instead of pathname strings, most programs would have no need to have the concept of a "current directory" at all. It could be something purely internal to the command-line shell.

It would also be more fitting for a capability-based OS instead of one where every program has an ambient permission to access anything in the whole file system.

pwdisswordfishqon We won't "just hang out"

It does not last, though

pwdisswordfishqon Requests, Please

Though in this case, it would be: escape, don't sanitize. "Parse, don't validate" applies to taking inputs; this is about generating outputs (like SQL queries or HTML markup).

pwdisswordfishqon Requests, Please

Why not both?

pwdisswordfishqon NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto

As we all know, beginners love Emacs keystrokes.

pwdisswordfishqon The tragedy of losing your Wikipedia page

> Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?

How entitled must one be to assume they are owed a page in Wikipedia?

pwdisswordfishqon Nietzschian Debugger

Indeed, my first thought upon seeing the premise explained was "I would have chosen a different philosopher".

pwdisswordfishqon Rewriting a Commercial Engine in Jai

> C++ on the other hand is highly opinionated, [...]

> A lot of the C++ community doesn't use these features

That they even have the possibility shows how un-opinionated C++ is.

pwdisswordfishqon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

> The 1g object is more dangerous because it's able to actually pierce you.

Why?

pwdisswordfishqon C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

It surprises me it was even implemented.