Because no way could I dislike modern PHP. Maybe you just have low standards when it comes to programming languages?

That’s a good point about the synergies, something like eg. a type system that’s expressive enough to be Turing-complete is going to have some effects. You’re right that it might just feel like a “kitchen sink language” due to complexity of the features it has, but then again I suppose it’s sort of one and the same where a language’s complexity comes from.

But it’s no Swift, at least; now that language really does have everything and the kitchen sink.

The guy in the blog says mb (millibits)

a) does anybody actualy use that? How many people reading this thread can say they’ve actually seen that in real use or used it?

b) I’m fairly convinced you knew what was meant because it’s not like it’s uncommon to use a minuscule m for “mega” in colloquial usage

Weird performative pedantry or a joke that flew over my head? I give about a 0.5 probability for both

I mean, wouldn’t it essentially have to be storing every possible move (well, state) for as many rounds as you want for the player to be able to play at most? And I’m not sure he can take advantage of the fact that you can end up in the same state from multiple other states, which would remove a lot of the redundant ones

I think it’s the PHP, makes people doubt your soul’s status that you’d subject yourself willingly to it

“Sufficiently powerful” is a bit of an understatement when it comes to Scala. Honestly may have a bit too many features for my taste, it’s not a small language

I’ve been meaning to give F# a go but I never seem to get around to it. Seems like an interesting language

INTERCAL

Mach/BSD 🤓

The actual kernel of XNU (ie. what’s under the hood in macOS, originally by NeXT) is Mach which is a microkernel, and a chunk of FreeBSD is used to provide userland(ish) stuff like POSIX APIs, a UNIX process model on top of Mach, protocol stacks 'n shit.

Yeah the term “shrieking heebie jeebies” springs to mind.

Good point about the personality though, somehow the hyperlibertarian scammer thing they have going on makes them feel less threatening, although I guess that should probably make them even more horrifying?

… did they ever actually show the “CPU” of the ship’s computer? Maybe it was a bit squishier than we’ve assumed

This is hilarious, but… is it just me or is Rom’s face a bit of a nightmare fuel scenario? 😅

I wholeheartedly support this goal

git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space.

(source)

Edit: but to actually have content in this comment, I’m not sure the mental model is the problem. It’s not that alien that a good explanation wouldn’t help, but it took a long time for git to start paying any sort of attention to “human readability.” It was and still is in a way “aggressively technical” and often felt like it purposefully wanted to keep anybody but the most UNIX-bearded kernel hackers from using it. The man pages were rarely helpful unless you already understood git, the options were very unintuitively named, etc etc. And considering Linus’ personality, I’m not exactly surprised.

With a little bit of more thought on how to make it more usable right from the start, I’m not sure it’d have such a reputation as it has now. The reason why I think this endofunctor joke is so funny is that that sort of explanation to “simplify” git wouldn’t have been at all out of place – followed by the UNIX beards scoffing at the poor lusers who didn’t understand their obviously clear description of what git branches are.

I said “argh” out loud, which means this is is perfect

Yeah, if there’s one thing Risa’s known for, it’s “coloring inside the lines” 😄

lol and here I was thinking I had a gap in my Trek trek meme knowledge.

Also, don’t be too hard on yourself: considering the frankly ridiculous amount of information that we modern humans cram into our craniums, tripping up on an actor’s name is prettty minor 😀

I, uh… what?

Humans, Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans are descended from Jeffrey Combs