std::list illustrates the difference

Bleh. An older version of dpkg had a loop like [...] And yes, sysconf() got called in the loop there

That's nice. The point being a 10 year old, self-confessed 'opinionate mission statement' which has in the intervening years seen some notable pushback (and perhaps progress in the opposition) should not be trotted out as the grandparent did and presented as a case of cadit quaestio.

Perhaps one day the OpenBSD folks will figure out how to completely prevent user programs from making syscalls.

LLVM

In an ideal world, people who write code like that should receive a permanent ban from promoting Rust.

This is so C++! There is no course called ”mastering Go modules”, you read a quick tutorial and move on with your life 😂

RAII, shell-style

Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++) is the best language designer. Many language designers will create a language, work on it for a couple years, and then go and make another language.

Here is the formal spec in the most formal and precise way to describe non-trivial stuff: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

Thinking of literally starting a Linux maintainer hall of shame. Not for public consumption, but to help new kernel contributors know what to expect.

That people are still writing lots of new C code in the Linux kernel, that we all rely on, is a huge scandal.

I refer to a lot of tools as knives, but Sublime Text is the chopping block.

The adoption was weak enough that we actually decided to un-open source it.

Tailwind gives CSS a "place" in the codebase.

tl;dr: OP was using a Lisp and they were looking for a different Lisp. Probably the only reason why anyone would ever pick Common Lisp for a new project in 2025.

I had fainted and hit my head on the floor. Shortly after, I woke up the first thing my wife said was: “The alerts are clear; the servers are up.”

Hmm, let's see

This experience has unfortunately made me reconsider my support for curl, and I no longer feel enthusiastic about using or advocating for it.

At the scale where it matters, we will work it out

GitHub Action that automatically closes issues opened by non-stargazers

I just read through the code. I think I'll hold out for Justine to release a crypto library.

You’re actually talking about compiler hermeneutics rather than semiotics.

Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

Show the candidate a basic schema, ask them to write a reusable sql query for paginating over it. If they use “offset”, end the damn call