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Erlang/Elixir use "cast" method name when sending messages to their GenServer actor processes.

Having a garage sure does sound nice!

This is how the Daleks come about.

Freenode was smoothly recombobulated into Libera Chat, so the meltdown shouldn't have affected much.

Yahoo just feels less cluttered than the others, and that counts a lot in my book.

I have found google to be aggravating enough these days that I've experimentally switched my default search engine to Yahoo. It feels a lot like the old (good) google, though only having 5 results per page is a bit disappointing. So far so good, will probably stick to it for a while.

When Steve Jobs first announced iMessage on stage, he said it would later be open with a standard specification. Sadly, Apple never delivered on this promise.

The USA edition is/was over $2000

“Improvements”. Sure, sure.

Beaming desires directly to your skull is obviously the next step. Then we can make sure you want to buy a PlausibleBurger as soon as you get your paycheck.

No, but you could build a version of bootstrap widget library on top of tailwind, if that was your cup of tea.

They follow the “fail fast, crash early” design philosophy.

Or so you would think, but malformed or invalid xml is so commonplace, that most good feed readers use very lax or forgiving xml parsers. I’ve never seen such issues with JSON in practice.

Well yeah, the kids can’t easily use their smartphone while swimming. So they prefer not to swim.

System Shock 2. The evil AI, Shodan, still pops up in my thoughts from time to time. Triply relevant today as the game was remastered, and AI is a hot topic.

Like the boiled frog, perhaps we have not even realized that we are already cooked/doomed.

It’s a great time to start a moving company! People will increasingly start migrating away from the equator for more livable temperatures.

> a format that is great at everything

I too want a magical flying unicorn, and maybe we can make one in the next 40 years, but in the mean time I will happily accept to be stuck with a magical jpegxl unicorn that can’t fly.

Just like everyone knows Google but never heard of Alphabet

It’s not much of a choice when most available food products are all sugar laced, and the healthier alternatives are typically much more expensive.

The scam ones.

Bill G has said that this quote was misattributed to him.

No, it isn't clearer. Just different. Which one is clearer depends who is reading and the way they think.

Indeed, even C has caught up!

#define let __auto_type

Even C has a (simple) type system. The problem is that everyone (especially the standard library) take every opportunity to avoid it, instead casting everything to plain void pointers or char pointers. Thus the compiler can’t do much for safety checks.

The good news is that you can build typesafe alternatives on top of the underlying std crap. Would be nice to have a standard <stdstruct.h> that provides common typesafe structs for things like os paths, sql strings, html strings, etc. just like <stdint.h> did for sized integers.

I’ve rolled my own typesafe wrappers fo my current C project and it’s been great so far.

Haven’t tried it, but this seems like something you can customize ingame at any time with the builtin map editor.

See the “setting up research” on the editor wiki page:

https://wiki.factorio.com/Map_editor#Setting_up_research

Edit: you’d probably have to give yourself the necessary modular armor, roboport and initial bots.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

It’s been the default (only?) init system for Alpine Linux since forever.

Funnily enough, the web browser DOM is also an old boring retained mode pattern. Hence all the vdom diffing madness React does…

Yeah that’s not going to work on most mobile devices.