Actually, you make a pretty good point there.

Whence the skepticism?

Ok i doubt anyone is going to be willing to have this discussion, but here i am.

You’re right; here I was enjoying a silly comic–written in 2011–about computers turning programming into human daycare, and someone had to turn it into yet another excuse to start talking about AI, as if we didn’t have enough of that!

What did you think it stood for?

You missed the part where the reason why they are doing this is because the person who started XLibre had previously committed so much bad code to XOrg that needed to be rolled back that the git history is now a mess that is hindering forward progress. The goal of the new release is to start over from 2024 and cherry-pick the commits they want to keep in order to clean the history up.

You have the same ideals as the artist; why do you want to be their enemy?

That’s not a fair representation of our society; a lot of them end up in the street or incarcerated as well.

So in other words: the artwork is bad, and the artist should feel bad for making it. Got it

No half-measures: use Dillo.

What kind of article and/or competition is this that tells us how wonderful these responses supposedly are and expects us to get all excited, but does not show any part of them?

I will give you the benefit of the doubt that of course you would split the profits from the ticket sales; you just left it implied.

I really wish that my parents had mentioned much earlier in my life that mental illness runs in the family and what the signs were so that I could have started getting treatment right away, rather than wasting years of my life confusing feelings of depression for proof that I was a terrible person. (Just to be clear, there was no malice involved; my mom just felt really self-consious about it, so she did not want to bring it up.)

The blood of our enemies.

I will eat lasagna every year for Christmas dinner until I am in the grave, and I am perfectly fine with the fact that I was bullied into this by all the Italian ancestors who came before me because lasagna is delicious.

Forth is arguably an example of a truly untyped language.

The good news however is that the FDA takes Listeriavery [sic] seriously […]

…so far.

The whole reason why an entire instruction was added to ARM to facilitate conversion to integers is because people need integer semantics from their numbers and so the language has to support this efficiently. Thus, in practice there already two number types, it’s just that they have been merged together in this incredibly messy way so that you have the worst of both worlds.

It is the 0-th element after the start of the array. 0-based indexing is very common in both mathematics and computer science.

What does it mean to access the element at index π of an array?

Thank goodness there was nothing more useful we could have done as a society with all of the tens of billions of dollars that was spent on this project, or it would have been an incredible waste!