Why I prefer C++ over C
August 20th 2026 (week 34 of 2026)Mostly because of the improved type system giving me more power and control.
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A concerning lack of vitality of VitalSource ebooks
August 19th 2026 (week 34 of 2026)VitalSource ebooks are anything but. Regrettably, this means that Routlege's ebook catalogue is almost useless.
Appleseed (1988)
August 9th 2026 (week 32 of 2026)A woman and a cyborg working at a special police unit try to stop a terrorist from destroying a utopian city.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
August 9th 2026 (week 32 of 2026)An example of kitchen sink realism genre, it is a film about nothing and about everything at the same time.
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[$] Representing Python paths using pathlib
August 19, 2026At the outset of his PyCon US 2026 talk, Trey Hunner said that his goal was for attendees to stop representing filesystem paths as strings and to use pathlib instead. That's kind of a tall order, at least for longtime Python users, since string-based pat…
via LWN.netParticle Physics Equipment
August 17, 2026 via xkcd.comGenerated by openring