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2022-02-05 22:07 #

I still have 57 RSS feeds out of 727 unread in my inbox. Work in progress.

2022-02-05 22:01 #
2022-02-03 21:39 #

  Whit Dickey, Nothingness.

2022-02-03 10:18 #

In December, in my article When dropping support feels like sabotage, I was complaining that Apple was limiting the support of security updates to just the two previous versions of Mac OS, and not extending such support to even older versions like High Sierra or Mojave given the amount of people that are still using them. But I was forgetting that on iOS the situation is even worse. — → No more security updates for iOS 14

Lovely, #apple. I’m still on Mojave and iOS 12.5 ;-)

2022-02-02 21:25 #

The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document. #lisp

2022-02-02 21:19 #

Mike Caulfield invented the term “a chorus of explanations” several years ago to explain why sites like Stack Overflow are useful. Where a lesson typically explains something once, SO and similar sites present several explanations with different levels of detail, different assumptions about the reader’s background, and quite possibly different solutions to the original problem. Most readers may be satisfied by the top answer, but others can scroll down to find one that’s a better fit for who they are, what they are ready to understand, and what they’re trying to do. — A Cacaphony of Explanations

2022-02-01 20:51 #
2022-02-01 20:49 #

Fundamentally I think C trusts developers while C++ trusts compilers. This is a massive difference that sharing the same native types or syntax for while loop cannot hide. — The problem with C