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That's a feature to the bill's sponsors.

Matt tried to extort money from WP Engine, then blocked their users from receiving updates, stole their plugins, and banned their developers. The filing in WP Engine vs. Automattic gives the details.

He threatened to sue the person behind bullenweg.com (https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134), so if you're really interested you could revive it. The repo is at https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io and there's another mirror available at bullenweg.org.

Matt controls the WordPress foundation, owns and operates wordpress.org, is CEO of Automattic, and votes 84% of its stock (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657150). AFAICS, there's no one who has the means to remove him.

If you're using C++ 20, you can mark functions consteval to force constant evaluation.

There used to be a couple holdouts, but all major C++ compilers have supported it for years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once).

That doesn't justify an extortion attempt, preventing users from receiving security updates, stealing their plugins, unfair competition, or banning their developers.

Trump previously threatened to imprison Zuckerberg for life on trumped up charges (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-warns-mark-zuckerberg-c...). He said in an interview that's probably why Meta changed their policies (https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lf66oltlvs2l).

Sheesh. My 6 year old niece has better control of her emotions than Matt Mullenweg.

clang has -Wpadded to warn about added alignment padding, but it's really noisy.

It's the same reason that companies within Nazi Germany had to make nice with Hitler.

There's an authoritarian in charge who will use all capabilities of the government to harass his opponents. The Supreme Court said that Trump can do whatever he wants, so you can kiss the ring or watch him seize or shut down your business.

How do you handle breaking out of a nested for loop without goto?

    for (…) {
        for (…) {
            if (…) {
                …
                goto found;
            }
        }
    }
    found:

This is straightforward with goto and may even be vectorizable. I guess you could move the loop to a separate function or add additional flags to each loop, but neither of these seems like an improvement.

I wouldn't do it. Many rarely used TLDs have flaky registrars and there are a lot of people who mistype their own email let alone someone else's.

No system is perfect, but Japanese healthcare administrative costs are under 2% as compared to 30+% in the US.

> I cannot understand why seems it was bad for him…

There are many poorly designed libraries, and DSL design is no easier. While I haven’t personally encountered any, I’m sure there are numerous half-baked DSLs out there.

You might also like Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

Trump and his supporters don't care about legalities. The only question is what they can get away with.

The author thinks that musl, Alpine, and Linux are right and everything else is wrong.

* https://ariadne.space/2022/03/27/the-tragedy-of-gethostbynam... - musl's DNS resolver doesn't support TCP lookups, but it's your fault for expecting the standard DNS lookup functions to work. You should change your program to use a third-party library for DNS lookups. This post is a couple years old; musl now supports TCP lookups.

* https://ariadne.space/2021/06/25/understanding-thread-stack-... - Alpine has a stack size that's substantially smaller (128k) than other widely used OSes (512k+). Your program may work everywhere else, but you're wrong to assume a reasonable stack size. Here's how to jump through a hoop and make it work on Alpine.

I think they're joking about Chomsky's work with formal languages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy).

There's nothing objective about your personal preferences. It's an eyesore.

> I think we need to be honest about the low merit of appealing to how well the average person's brain works.

This is the architecture equivalent of blaming software usability problems on the user. If the average person can't use your product or appreciate your building's design, then the design is flawed - end of story.

They're also available for purchase by bribing the justices, as seen with Clarence Thomas. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-un... I don't see any reason to regards the court's verdicts as legitimate, especially since they invented the immunity ruling out of whole cloth.

It's a de facto ban on small forums.

There's no reason to take Trump or Musk at face value. DoGE is an excuse to weaken or abolish government departments that Republicans dislike.

> However, I say that with not fully understanding the seperation of actions between Automattic the company and Matt in his own personal capacity.

Automattic and the Wordpress Foundation are both Matt's to use as he sees fit. There isn't a meaningful distinction between him and his organizations.

Judge Lopez was appointed by Trump, so I'd assume that he's acting under instructions. Why would Trump have appointed a judge who wouldn't do favors for him?

All of Musk's companies are run in accordance with his whims, so there isn't a meaningful distinction between them.

I wouldn't bet on this. Trump can use a punitive executive order to pressure the state until the governor pardons Alex Jones.

They chose the partner, so it's still their problem.