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Comment · 2 months ago
How would a docker container do anything for a web component?
Comment · 5 months ago
Can you share some credible sources on "schools banning calculus"? Googling seems to primarily show up Quora and indeed HN discussions, and no actual policy proposal or news article.
Comment · 5 months ago
Check out the Adafruit Fruit Jam, its got pretty much everything you need.
Comment · 5 months ago
Most US insurance has very strict guidelines about what is diagnostic vs preventative for a colonoscopy. And its almost certianly diagnostic.
Comment · 6 months ago
The plugin directly adapts code from GNU Grep, so they MUST release it under the GPL, as far as I understand.
Comment · 6 months ago
All you really need is a copy of "The Unix Programming Environment", where you can implement `hoc` in a couple hours.
Comment · 7 months ago
What do you mean by that? bad support for what?
Comment · 7 months ago
Swift too, in 6.3!
Comment · 7 months ago
The blog started publishing in 2017. Why do you think this?
Comment · 7 months ago
That is what raincole is asking about. Do you have a source for this, in the Uk context?
Comment · 7 months ago
As of very recently, the entire stdlib (i.e. "Foundation") is open source and available on all platforms Swift targets. For a while, the Linux builds had a much smaller/limited version of Foundation, but it's fully supported now.
Comment · 7 months ago
I was looking for something that allows easy access to direct memory, with a syntax thats a little easier to explain than C. Frankly, zig was not actually a real viable option based on that syntax requirement but I still wanted to explore it.

Nim really is clean and simple.

Comment · 7 months ago
If it weren't for the 11k process fork bomb, I wonder how much longer it would have taken for folks to notice and cut this off.
Comment · 7 months ago
I spent last week (with Opus, of course) porting the xv6-riscv teaching operating system to a bunch of different languages. Zig, Nim, LISP, and Swift.

The improvements in embedded Swift have definitely made it one of the most enjoyable/productive languages to work on the OS. I feel like I can build useful abstractions that wrap raw memory access and make the userland code feel very neat.

On the other hand, the compilation times are SO bad, that I'm really focusing on the Nim port anyway.

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