maybe we removed the last n characters

    (LT(PL * 5,DO) ERROR('079','USER IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY POLITE','1'))
    (GT(PL * 3,DO) ERROR('099','USER IS OVERLY POLITE','1'))

Finally, we know how polite to be.

If you want to have a library that can also be a standalone executable, just put the main function in an extra file and don’t compile that file when using the library as a library.
You could also use the preprocessor to do it similar to python but please don’t.

Just use any build tool, and have two targets, one library and one executable:

LIB_SOURCES = tools.c, stuff.c, more.c
EXE_SOURCES = main.c, $LIB_SOURCES

Edit: added example

To my understanding, the original meaning of object oriented is more similar to what we call the actor model today.

In reference to the modern understanding of OO, js uses prototypal inheritance, which some consider closer to the original vision.

That boolean can indicate if it’s a fancy character, that way all ASCII characters are themselves but if the boolean is set it’s something else. We could take the other symbol from a page of codes to fit the users language.
Or we could let true mean that the character is larger, allowing us to transform all of unicode to a format consisting of 8 bits parts.

That requires some form of self describing format and will probably look like a sparse matrix in the end.

It might also introduce spurious data dependencies

Those need to be in the in smallest cache or a register anyway. If they are in registers, a modern, instruction reordering CPU will deal with that fine.

to store a bit you now need to also read the old value of the byte that it’s in.

Many architectures read the cache line on write-miss.

The only cases I can see, where byte sized bools seems better, are either using so few that all fit in one chache line anyways (in which case the performance will be great either way) or if you are repeatedly accessing a bitvector from multiple threads, in which case you should make sure that’s actually what you want to be doing.

C/C++ considers an nonzero number, as your true value but false is only zero. This would allow you to guard against going from true to false via bit flip but not false to true.
Other languages like rust define 0 to be false and 1 to be true and any other bit pattern to be invalid for bools.

Ups, my attention got trapped by the code and I didn’t properly read the comment.

Now do computation in those threads and realize that they all wait on the GIL giving you single core performance on computation and multi threaded performance on io.

https://xkcd.com/1718

(a→b)→(¬b→¬a)

Going of memories:

Didn’t he write a codebase that was so bad, that paypal throw it out when they realized what they had bought.
Also did he finish his physics bachelor?

Before nix was used as the name of a dependency manager and linux distribution it was used to describe unix style operating systems.

Prolog is not suitable for any problem domain, although this is more readily apparent for some domains than others.

For real, for real.

I agree with the sentiment but …

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

A yes, the two genders of binary file formats: renamed sqlite file and renamed zip folder.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

What is the methodology called where you:

Plan to go to orbit, blow up seconds into the flight, and declare it a success.

Plan to refuel in orbit, make it minutes before the rocket brakes. Fire the FTS, it fails, the rocket blows up a minute later und declare it a successful test of the FTS.

Argue to NASA that you are not the limiting factor to the moon mission planed for the end of the year, despite delivering none of the milestones.

FTS = flight termination system