colejohnson66

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Comment · 4 days ago

Not just that, but on Windows, they're bypassing the actually guaranteed stable Win32 API in favor of linking directly to the lower-level components. Completely destroying any forward compatibility!

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131

It's the kind of change that makes me read Zig as not trying to be a serious language. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the way Zig positions itself is at odds with the completely bizarre takes they do.

Comment · 5 days ago

There's a lot of languages in plane 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Supplementary_...

Comment · 5 days ago

It's because JavaScript was created in 1995. At that time, everyone believed UCS-2 was "all you'd ever need". Well, Westerners believed it. It's why Han Unification existed; to try to perpetuate that lie. It's why Windows is UTF-16 at its core.

Comment · 5 days ago

Why use that when a "simple" dictionary structure mapping codepoint to language exists? It's called Unicode.

Comment · 10 days ago

It’s the goomba fallacy: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

Comment · 20 days ago

Yes they do, but they hide it. On the plans page,[0] if you click "see all plans", a true monthly subscription option appears. But the prices are unreasonably large to force you into the "annual, billed monthly" trick. For example, the full creative suite (Creative Cloud Pro) is $35 "a month" with the annual contract, or... $105 on a monthly contract!

[0]: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html

Comment · 20 days ago

PowerShell

Comment · 21 days ago

Makes sense; the iOS filesystem isn't exposed to the user, but macOS' is.

Comment · 22 days ago

It's impossible not to; We don't even have high resolution depth maps of the entire ocean.

Comment · 23 days ago

Not necessarily. One can walk into a bank, slide a note and a bag, and (hopefully) walk out. No threats involved. Still a federal crime.

Comment · 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

Comment · 1 month ago

Paying taxes is a tad different than being a DoD contractor.

Comment · 1 month ago

I used to. In the "golden days" of "there's an app for that", I would peruse the App Store looking for new games. I spend hundreds of dollars on games doing that. Now, the only games you see really are shovelware or subscription garbage.

Comment · 1 month ago

Even German has issues with "letters surrounded by spaces". They love to smash words together to get one giant word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8niIHChc1Y