Because it's a special name, along with NUL, LPT, COM, and a few others, for old DOS special devices.

@C0D4 when I still did webdev, I aimed for sub-second to display. If it took more than a second to respond, I rewrote.

What ever happened to targeting sub-second page load times?

@scor more like 40, kid

Trouble is, there isn't anyone I want dead.

@non-bin sure: Cg, Cuda, GLSL...

And, I suppose, APL, K, J, Matlab, and a few others.

Because bog standard C doesn't know how to cope with highly vectorized massively parallel computation without doing truly unholy things to its syntax. May as well be a new language at that point.

There are safer vegans to hang out with that won't flash a pistol in your face.

Manjaro is basically Arch with a broken software repository and some broken custom software. You are better off using Arch, and even then, Arch is far from beginner-friendly.

Use an Ubuntu or OpenSuSE.

I suffer from severe misophonia.

I'd sue them for not accommodating my disability, collect the payout, pay my attorney and quit over the ADA violations.

@b3b3 no, AMD originally called it x86_64, and compiler vendors called it AMD64, then Intel called it em64t, then Microsoft called it x64.

@ScribeOfGoD x64 *is* x86_64

@lonelydev distros like Manjaro have weird breaks where something that works just fine on the original distro (in this case, Arch) will mysteriously break on Manjaro, with no sane fix. Most average users will just reinstall, only to run into a similar issue again.

Mint has similar issues where, because it mixes Ubuntu and Debian packages against the advice of both Debian and Ubuntu devs, an otherwise routine update renders the system unbootable.

Only if your motherboard supports it. Threadripper and Ryzen technically do support ECC, but it's not officially so, so motherboard OEMs don't have to enable it.

So make sure your motherboard has it enabled, and then go for it. Otherwise it's a waste of your time and money.

@loopback no, it has a broken installer and a broken repository that inexplicably catches fire if you accidentally install an arch package from the vanilla repo.

Java's relationship to JavaScript is exactly like the relationship between a car and a carpet.

Although it was intended to be more like steering to a steering wheel.

@Dummybugger it declares the HTML version being used. Browsers will tend to treat it differently based on the version, and HTML5 in particular imposes some strict guidelines for the browser to obey.

If you don't declare a doctype, it'll just treat it as "tag soup."

@tiberius1900 search "mother of all demos" on YouTube. A mouse *can* help you edit text, modern editors just do it laughably wrong.

Wow, I'd get in touch with the dean and tell them that this prof is doing a very bad job and should have the course reviewed.

If you're lucky, the course will be scrapped. Because that prof is clearly out of their element.

That's not how it works, but ok.

From what I've heard, it's worse and worsening.

@canonbolt oh sweet summer child.

Because they spent 6+ years in your position and then more time in a specialty, and feel resentful that they now have to deal with a younger version of themselves telling them that they are wrong.

@bcye "Today I Learned"

@hubiruchi pound symbol (from weight measurements and telephones), hash or hash mark (from hacker culture), octothorpe (from linguistic prescriptivism), or tic-tac-toe (from people who don't care anymore).

The one that works best for you and that also gets consistent and timely security updates without doing stupid things like holding back a critical security update from upstream.

Basically, don't use Mint, Kali, Manjaro, Solus, or Void, and you'll be fine.

@7400 anyone that does that needs to have their computer taken away.

Buying Apple is just trading one master for another.

Install Linux. Join us in Freedom!

It's called reversible debugging, and several debuggers support it. Google around. You'll be surprised.

If you're not continually learning and keeping up with the technologies you use, and if you're not continually putting your knowledge to work, you *can't* be a *good* developer.