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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The company didn't abandon, Microsoft bought them out indirectly and killed the competition. Nothing to see here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

ANTLR is for writing parsers. You don't need a new custom parser, just use an existing XML parser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There are IDE extensions that show the diff of the entire PR locally without having to squash anything. So yes, it's weird to reinvent a square wheel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am currently writing a C compiler, with my own backend (and hopefully, frontend) in OCaml.

But why write your own C frontend? It's much more of a pain than people imagine. I maintain a C frontend implemented in OCaml (the project itself goes back 25 years) and it's still not on par with GCC or Clang.

For any other language, sure, but C has so many "wonderful" features, starting with the lexer hack. Your grammar conveniently overlooks this issue but it's something you'll have to deal with to actually implement it. So it simply won't be as nice as theory suggests.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, but with things like syscalls it's easier to do this than require every high-level thing building on the syscall to be modified and recompiled. Very few people need to use such low-level APIs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that just drafts for that comment's reply?

Because I just saved a comment draft, went looking at something else and wanted to go back. The problem was that I couldn't find the right post/comment where I saved the draft.

I thought Boost saved that because going to reply to the same comment would automatically bring up the draft.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

keep mum about energy use

Whose mum?

 

Am I blind or is there no way to view comment drafts? I recall this being possible in Boost for Reddit.

If I search settings for "draft" two things come up:

  1. The "Save drafts" option that I have enabled.
  2. Some "Drafts" under Lateral menu. But when I look there, there's no "Drafts" option anywhere to be found.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sometime HSP just stopped working so now I have to do calls with my laptop built-in mic.

Also, some programs like Zoom just fail to use the right output device no matter what I choose in settings. I just have to make headphones the fallback device for anything to work.

But the most annoying thing is Linux somehow stealing the playback when my headphones are connected to multiple devices. Even when nothing plays on the computer but does play on the phone, there's no audio. I have to disable/disconnect my computer to use headphones with phone when my computer is in range.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Visit takeout.google.com and select Google Podcasts to export your Google Podcasts data in OPML format.

I wonder when that became a thing. I migrated at the beginning of the year and had to manually add all subscriptions because Google Podcasts had no way of exporting anything.

I guess someone made a GDPR complaint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The proof of work is the commit content itself! Unlike some arbitrary brute force task of no value.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This is the crucial detail that everyone is missing.

It's the same as with the Linux kernel GitHub mirror.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Now we know how much they're making with tracking and ads per user.

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