I saw a line of C that looked like this:

!ErrorHasOccured() ??!??! HandleError();
It compiled correctly and seems to run ok. It seems like it's checking if an error has occurred, and if it has, it

Zig lets you run code during compilation. What are the implications?

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package: - GitHub - schollz/croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :package:

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About Gzip And TarEverybody on Linux and BSD seems to use a program called gzip, frequently in conjunction with another program called tar. Tar, named from Tape ARchive, is a program which copies files and folders (

Update 2023-06-06: Go 1.21 is expected to support GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar as a way of trying out these new semantics. See #57969 and https://go.dev/wiki/LoopvarExperiment. We have been looking at what...

A lightweight text editor written in Lua. Contribute to rxi/lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Given an array of N numbers of type double, the standard way to sort it in C is to invoke the qsort function
qsort(array, N, sizeof(double), compare);

where compare is a function which returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the…

The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers.

Related thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186412
The Problem macOS ships with Z shell settings that do not find commands far back enough using the history command to be useful.
If you have a shell open and echo "test", then history | grep…

What is ‘git switch and git restore’

Comparing one of the most popular Postgres features against alternatives

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I’ve been doing this “reliability” stuff for a little while now (~5 years), at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. I’ve always cared primarily about the software elements I describe as living “outside” the application – like, how does…