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New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:45:44 +0000

Wait, it's already past 10 thousand?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:34:00 +0000

I mean...

https://youtu.be/ISwRd_ee8Z4

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:48:53 +0000

Obsessed with poop?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)"

pwdisswordfishq — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:02:27 +0000

> Ǝx∋ℕ

"There is an x such that the set of natural numbers is a member of x"?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Ear Training Practice"

pwdisswordfishq — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:18:00 +0000

> Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "resume", MIDI.WebAudio.getContext() is undefined

Every other time I try to launch a test. Someone's bad at asynchronous programming.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:09:59 +0000

> “Hey, why do you use the unsafe old C-style void* pointer?

Exactly, one should avoid unnecessarily erasing pointer target types. Luckily, C++ gives much better tools for that than C. This should have been a tem—

> Use some safe explicit type like uint8_t, which clearly represents an 8-bit byte!”

Sigh. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Love systemd timers"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:12:01 +0000

That the same cannot be said of its maintainer is another matter.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Love systemd timers"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:06:00 +0000

The systemd dialect of INI is actually pretty well-defined though.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "If Windows were designed today, would the Registry exist? [video]"

pwdisswordfishq — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:54:26 +0000

Windows 95 has no registry.dat file.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:05:57 +0000

Disappointed that this is not about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8bQ2yxyotw

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:48 +0000

> Can you kindly consider the following problem and provide your answer.

That sounds kind of low-key passive-aggressively condescending rather than polite.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

pwdisswordfishq — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:34:26 +0000

Gun nut on the side, he had a rather ill-informed (at best) video on AI a while ago (before the current LLM craze), and has once done a pretty reckless attempt at repairing a unique IBM machine – as in, opening the PSU with a dremel tool and then then bridging a circuit with a paperclip.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:13:24 +0000

A forum records free-form conversations between specific people, where every post can be edited at most by its original author (if even that). SE sites are libraries of questions that may be generalized beyond the original author's circumstances, and if someone's post does not fit the rigid Q&A form, it may be moderated away.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:13:00 +0000

Eh, it's not like there are hundreds of emojises pretty much exclusively tied to Japanese culture.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:03:24 +0000

Does it need any additional code points?

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:46:52 +0000

For those like me, who have stopped following WMF governance for a long while and wondered "huh, I remember a Brion Vibber, is she related to him?", yes indeed she is as related as a person could possibly ever be: it's the same person.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?"

pwdisswordfishq — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:26:42 +0000

It would make more sense to compare the encyclical to other writings by Robert Prevost than to other encyclicals.

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "Neoclassical C++: segmented iterators revisited"

pwdisswordfishq — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:41:24 +0000

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention"

pwdisswordfishq — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:17:41 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjODY-PyJY

New comment by pwdisswordfishq in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

pwdisswordfishq — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:22:09 +0000

Just wait until you hear about std::hive.

The work of one obsessive author, who never gave a good explanation for why the thing needed to be in the standard library instead of an external one. The committee was apathetic about the proposal and kept bringing up various trivial issues, in a clear attempt to stall him, but he refused to take the hint. So eventually they relented. Outside coverage I have seen so far seems to be to the tune of "WTF is this weird thing?" and quickly glosses over it.

I wonder if it's going to end up like the export keyword.