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zilti··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
> (they no longer teach that in "computers" at school, by the way, iPads only)

I swear, some decisionmakers deserve a brutal punch in their face. I don't even care anymore about being civil in such matters.

zilti··on Show HN: Community-written abstracts for research papers
Has that abomination of a title also been generated by one?
zilti··on Hitting every branch on the way down
"But it is littering the commit history with useless commits!" is what I always hear
zilti··on Only9Fans
Angry fruit salad
zilti··on Only9Fans
That hasn't seen so much as even a patch in years
zilti··on Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
Just set up a simple VPN with nginx and upload the page, done. Stop overthinking and overengineering everthing to smithereens.
zilti··on TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
We have something similar in Switzerland called FairTiq
zilti··on World Wide Web (1991)
Technically, there was DSSSL already though. It is missed dearly.
zilti··on Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists
I guess one neat feature is that every gist is actually also a git repository, but that's about it...
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
Or Guix
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
Thank goodness, someone with a decent distro
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
Ah yes, when using your package manager is too cumbersome...
zilti··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
We're doomed.
zilti··on The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
>Demotic then mixed with the greek alphabet by the Coptic community into the Coptic script!

At that point, it already was a looong time since the greek alphabet evolved - via a few other cultures in between - from hieroglyphs, so it went back to egypt the long way around

zilti··on No one buys books
At least as long as you manage to find an old, not-yet-mutilated version...
zilti··on No one buys books
Most Harry Potter fans have never even read the books, but just seen the films, further supporting your argument
zilti··on Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to break copyright law
You need a really warped view of reality to see these three phrases as "meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less"
zilti··on LLM-powered automated software testing
So, generative testing.
zilti··on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
Since when does Python have proper static typing? Also, why grep in the age of lsp?
zilti··on Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
Having a full numeric tower and stuff like having 1/2 evaluate to 1/2 (like in Scheme) definitely is the language designer's responsibility.
zilti··on A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection
At that point, just render a globe.
zilti··on The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee
> Getir they use different algorithms with artificial intelligence to find the shortest and fastest route

Were they that desperate for funding that they had to come up with some AI stuff for an already solved problem?

zilti··on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
Oh, yes, I used to use gdb just a small handful of times a few years ago, but Emacs' gdb mode is very powerful. But I assume there is a gdb DAP as well by now?
zilti··on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
And same for Emacs, great LSP and DAP integration.
zilti··on I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
Emacs
zilti··on On the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, two new books
Sci-Fi, but what's the second?
zilti··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Aaaagh, make it stop!
zilti··on Why did software become worse lately?
It is getting worse and worse due to CV-driven development, hypetrains, and moving further and further away from standards. It is horrible and frustrating.
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