Hm, this one intrigues me: what is commonly referred to as a website, without actually being a website?

Eh, please tell me how you’d implement a heuristic that doesn’t work either through magic or an algorithm.

So how does that neural network perform that task? There I can see only two possible options:

• magic
• an algorithm

Is sort by upvotes an algorithm?

Any sorting at all can only happen through one of the following:

• luck
• magic
• divine intervention
• an algorithm

I’d love to back up my phone locally, if there was an option, but AFAIK there isn’t, so I’m stuck.

Can you not use Syncthing?

There’s also a whole lot that’s just C/C++ exposing a Python interface, without any wrapping.

What I’d like to know: For anyone using some app other than AntennaPod: Why? How is it worth it?

Even more real scenario: The first real visitor isn’t even a customer but a bored teenager who says nothing at all and instead takes a piss on the floor. (Anyone who ever published anything on the internet knows this scenario.)

Already with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there’s more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.

[…] now that the US is directing their usual behavior towards white Europeans.

That’s nothing new, that’s happened before.

Hm, no, I can’t imagine that I’ve ever experienced a worse purchasing regret than the one you described there with the pizza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwide_Assembler

👆 This.

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

Casablanca

Geolocation is an accurate way to predict the user’s language.

Now that’s a pet peeve of mine, a bizarre belief surprisingly often held by people, who must be oblivious to the existence of tourism.

Jada, jeg har bodd og jobbet i Norge i et par år, så ingen problemer med å forstå norsk. 😉

Danish. (Not a very useful language, but quirky and quite charming.)

Yes, I did.

This is often done for backward compatibility, as stdbool.h which provides true and false wasn’t standard before C99 and even though that’s more than 25 years ago now a lot of old habits die hard.