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Comment · 2 months ago
I'm not a fan of f-strings.

I feel like 90% of new Python features in the last 10 years just increased language complexity without any benefit.

Comment · 3 months ago
The sole reason for that rewrite was Zig creator announcing he won't be accepting AI contributions. It hurt Anthropic's feelings.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I don't think it was written by AI but rather edited with help of AI. There are just a few obvious AI lines in the text. Not great, not terrible but it immediately caught my eye.
Comment · 5 months ago
Competition is for losers.
Comment · 6 months ago
It seems like Qt went from red-black tree to skip list in Qt4 and back to red-black tree in Qt5.
Comment · 9 months ago
Should be:

    ul.threadlist li.origin a {
      display: block;
      background: rgb(205, 216, 216);
      font-weight: normal;
      padding: 1px 6px;
      margin: 1px -6px;
    }
Comment · 1 year ago

    LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
    LC_CTYPE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IE.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=
Comment · 1 year ago
The script works just fine on real Linux, it creates 2048 files and ls command lists them all with different names.

    ls -l win32/
    total 0
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\277\237''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\267\213''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\240\220''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\274\273''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\251\205''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\255\223''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\272\257''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\264\207''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\261\246''.exe'
    -rw-r--r-- 1 dawid dawid 0 Feb 26 12:13 ''$'\355\254\266''.exe'
    ...
Comment · 1 year ago
All lowercase text is so hard to read.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Are we still getting excited about new smartphones? What year is it? 2012?
Comment · 5 years ago

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