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> Its usually advised to carry both It really isn't. In the class for a concealed and carry permit, they told us not to carry anything other than a gun. The rationale being that if you have something less lethal than a gun on you an
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4y ago
That's entirely fair, but shouldn't other types of plants be expected to do the same things? My understanding is that they aren't currently (could be different in Germany).
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> FAANG, unrestricted, is far more dangerous and toxic to innovation than any government. That's a pretty high bar. I mean, Google/Facebook/etc have done some skeezy stuff, but there have been a lot of REALLY bad governmen
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4y ago
> The issue is the word argument. You have the technical idea of it in mind or at least something colored by it; he chooses to misinterpret it more akin to anger and fighting. Hmm, I suppose that is possible, or at least I can see how th
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4y ago
> I realized you were just having fun arguing, rather than having a good faith discussion. I object to this characterization. The discussion was entirely in good faith on my end, and it was about exactly what I discussed in my first post
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4y ago
> Not for me. Then why do it? Do you feel that commentary on social media has some sort of weight?
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Maybe, but it seems weird for it to be completely unreasonable for operator overloading to be a thing, but also expect the user to have a working knowledge of basic data types.
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> You seem to spend a lot of time presuming that someone needs a counterargument. Nope. I even said explicitly that just finding an argument unconvincing was enough. > When someone explains to you why they aren't very interested
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4y ago
> So, if you have `1234` in A1 and `5678` in B1, `=A1+B1` should by default produce `VALUE ERROR` rather than `6912`? If they were text, I'd expect it to end up as `12345678`, personally. + being reasonably commonly overloaded to me
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4y ago
> They might tell me that "it's legal isn't a counterargument," but actually, it is. The difference here is that this is a category argument, that is to say it's an argument about what is, whereas the argument ab
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> I admit I never seen a use case that justify the complexity of usage. Let's say you have a native app and a web app. I don't see these 2 changing that much in terms of data so a an API middlelayer is just simpler. It has some
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> just because you choose to assign it some other emotional value doesn't change that the core purpose is illegal The comment you're replying to is an argument that it should be legal. It's current status as illegal is not
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Any sort of violence that the people in power don't like
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Java's? Or at least it used to be.
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> Updating an element in a mutable array is O(1). Yes. Yes it is. The structures have different performance characteristics for different operations.
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> It's literally not possible for this to be true. The most obvious operation that's much faster for an immutable data structure is cloning. Cloning, say, an array in a mutable system takes O(n) time. Cloning in an immutable sy