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raverbashing··on The 'else' keyword is probably a literal translation from German (2020)
Also, one thing that has been happening without much awareness in the history of computer languages: shorter identifiers win over long identifiers

Why not { } instead of begin and end?

def or fn over function/lambda (or just () => now)

Symbols are confusing at first but become practical after a bit

About TFA: Also 'if/or' would make people confuse logical or with bitwise or, so I guess that's why it was eschewed

raverbashing··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
Another reason why CoPilot seems more "honest" than CC
raverbashing··on Rising rates of colorectal cancer found in nearly all age groups
Measured rates are not as straightforward as they seem

It's always a mix of the "true rate" vs screening/detection rates vs "dying of other things before detection" rate

raverbashing··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
> all you need is physical access to the network

Yeah that's not so much "trivially easy"

raverbashing··on Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
On the Tour de France I'm not interested as much in the bikes, rather than the pharmaceutical companies behind it
raverbashing··on Is my data used for model training?
> it's basically standard A/B testing right?

Of course not. It might be if all you know is A/B testing, but no

If an LLM is giving a bad answer you need the question and the answer. Period

raverbashing··on Is my data used for model training?
Well, again, how did people expect that to work

> - just track the metadata of the conversation

This is useless

raverbashing··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
What's the status of 'Faster CPython'?

I wouldn't be surprised if they all went nodejs instead :/

raverbashing··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Yeah

I'd prefer to think someday supercapacitors before the inverters can take that inertial need, but in the meanwhile the spinning heavy thing solution works

raverbashing··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Well, yeah

If the power company is going to annoy me (too much) for that, then tough shyt when they need my battery to compensate for peak hours

raverbashing··on I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
Very interesting and I think it makes sense to teach it, though I'd prefer something that works on MacOS

(what I don't get is why this page is breaking pgUp/pgDown)

raverbashing··on What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us
Yes but a company only needs 1 CEO while they are paying for 100x or 1000x of SDEs
raverbashing··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
"Algorithmic transparency" sounds good on paper but it is bound to be as disappointing as people were when shuffling songs was truly random

And you can always claim it's biased towards one side. So, which one is which then?

raverbashing··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
Yes, the threshold of tolerating illegal immigration and of tolerating infinite handouts for retirees
raverbashing··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Most of the "algorithmic transparency" people are activist members of big NGOs

The truth doesn't matter, what matters is getting more government money, and more regulation to get more financing, etc

NGOs are big business, and be assured, they don't care about fairness one bit more than Meta

raverbashing··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
Pensions outspend every other social expense in France

The retirees have greater disposable income than the young people (read, most people in the labour market)

And of course the number of retirees is going up every day

raverbashing··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
Honestly senators probably don't have the time to answer everybody directly even if their concerns have an impact on their decision
raverbashing··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
They are protesting against the same things that would make their situation better (like increasing the retirement age)

But they're too stupid to realize that

raverbashing··on Quad9 to exit France
Tomato sauce companies?

Or companies that sit between tricky legal and technical questions without having f-you money but especially lacking on f-you legal advice

(One thing about these founders is that they also have a hard time understanding context and follow-up questions)

raverbashing··on Quad9 to exit France
Obviously

The problem is that these types of companies are started by naive idealistic techs who only know how to play by the rules and can't figure out why people would misuse their products

They were very well described by the "rubber hose crypto" XKCD

(Not that I don't think a DNS company stays at the same level of complexity - both legal and technological - as a VPN company, but still)

raverbashing··on Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site
> a teenager lost their hand to a stun granade in protests near Paris

Yes, because he was dumb enough to pick it up with his hand

raverbashing··on PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
I'd say pass through any other AI that doesn't talk like someone filled with self-importance
raverbashing··on Wine ported to OpenBSD
I wonder what's the state of 3D/OpenGL support on OpenBSD or if the games run into too many problems here
raverbashing··on Linux 7.3
Wait so Time Machine works over SMB? Huh
raverbashing··on Anthropic's Valuation Collapsed by $500B
Sounds like there should be a formula for these AI companies

    Valuation < num params of their best model
Or something like that
raverbashing··on Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses
And that's why "purely procedural" languages don't make much sense to me

It's more natural to write

    x.h().g().f()
raverbashing··on Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Cool, that's why open source projects get left behind. The attitude
raverbashing··on Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request
This is easily searchable and we can see several left-wing groups calling themselves antifa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)#Contemporary_...

Pulling the "does not exist" card might work with uninformed people, not here

raverbashing··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
Is it just me or Google has a lot of those silly bugs, where it seems nobody is thinking for 2 seconds on what they're actually doing?
raverbashing··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
"There's also a documented authentication bypass:"

Amazing

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