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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I rollerskated to this song when it was the #1 song for many weeks in the late 70s. What a banger! How do you think I'm gonna get along Without you, when you're gone? You took me for everything that I had And kicked me o
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"It used to be simple: vote for the guy you liked the most. Then it became vote against the guy you disliked the most. Now it's vote for who you dislike the least." --A Whitney Brown I remember seeing that on SNL in the 80s;
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Or just very stupid, hateful losers.
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Concerning truthsayers: It is absolutely the truth that a liar will automatically have a difficult time knowing when another person is being truthful. They will both automatically tend to believe the person is lying and not know how to reco
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Ha! That's truly funny and obeys some kind of comedy rule about taking the story one way and then veering in a different direction. Well done, indeed. Our daughter used to say "yesterday's yesterday" when she was 4ish an
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Thanks for the fantastic explanation for how ints are handled in OCaml, but I've got to say that having the low bit be the flag is a strange design decision, IMO, but I understand that aligning the pointers will make the low bit or two
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The second version of F#, where they implemented generics, before they got into the type provider stuff.
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> The library is something like 15 years old. It's not clear from the docs, but, yeah, I suspected that might be the case. Thanks. > I'm not sure what you mean by this - they're signed integers. Maybe you just mean that
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The docs say, "one bit is reserved for the OCaml runtime", so doesn't that mean that one of the bits (likely the high bit) are unavailable for the programmer's use? I mean, I understand "reserved" to mean eithe
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How can you access the full 64 bits if "one bit is reserved for the OCaml runtime"? (the link is in the my original post's thread)
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Thanks. They're not in the basic-data-types, but you are correct, they are available in the stdint module, which has a pub date from Oct 19, 2022. It can be found here: > https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/stdint&#
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It's my understanding that OCaml does not allow its programs to specify the size and signedness of its ints, so no 16-bit unsigned, 32-bit signed, etc... Being a huge fan of F# v2 who has ditched all MS products, I didn't think OC
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saying it can be explained <<< actually explaining it
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Well, now you know you're confident about an utter falsehood. Every day our beloved, but flawed country, is descending into further ruinous idiocy, depredation, and cruelty. Callous fools voted in by callous fools, callous to the cruel
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He also said, "There is much that you cannot bear now, but when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will lead you into all things." Love is the rule. The Great(est) Command(ment) of all. And, Jesus, of course, manifested such love
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In Turkiye, they have unflavored gum. I couldn't believe it! Now I know, now I know. Interesting new fact of the day. I wonder how it affects the teeth? Perhaps it helps strengthen them. Perhaps it wears them down more quickly. I could
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But adult Jesus says, "Whatever you do to anyone, you have done to me." Fakeass Christians don't understand that means undocumented folks, non-white folks, non-Christian folks, women, and folks of other sexual preferences and
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I guess that the nature of their writing system has either driven both their artistic expressiveness and excellence of their writing accessories, or vice versa, but, regardless, their craftsmanship is outstanding and admirable. I, too, was
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I know this post is about old-school wooden pencils, but, as a dedicated pencil pusher, I've got to tip my hat to my favorite pencil for the past, at least, 12 years: the Pentel Twist-Erase III mechanical pencils, in 0.5 and 0.7 (they
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Isn't that really just "hush money", i.e. non-disclosure and non-compete? And yes, to my fellow commenters, "something big is (indeed) wrong" not just there but all over the world, because most everyone has the same
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well said. One quibble, however, is that python environments are a mess (as is any 3rd party software use in any environment, in my limited experience), and I refuse to use any such thing, when at all possible. If I couldn't directly
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You must have replied to the wrong post, because I never said anything about myself being "unique" or otherwise differently talented than others, though that is possible. I don't measure myself against others; if they have a
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> I would say printf debugging is the functional equivalent of "guessing the next token". The output of the code print statments, as the code is iteratively built up from skeleton to ever greater levels of functionality, is ana
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40+ years of successful coding with only print debugging FTW! A tool that helps you by iteratively guessing the next token is not a "developer tool" any more than a slot machine is a wealth buidling tool. Even when I was using V
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> This is no different from any other enabling technology. Coding is unique. One can't replace considered, forward-thinking data flow design reasoning with fancy guesswork and triage. Should anyone build a complex brick wall by just
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Maybe they taught it that a) it doesn't work, and b) not to tell anyone. Lying will goad a person into trying again; the brutally honest truth will stop them like a brick wall.
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I would argue that designing and implementing a working project requires human reasoning, too, but that line of thinking seems to be falling out of fashion in favor of "best next token" guessing engines. I know what Spock would sa
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The evolution of a codebase is an essential missing piece of our development processes. Barring detailed design docs that no one has time to write and then update, understanding that evolution is the key to understanding the design intent (
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Lebron had $100M before he was even drafted into the NBA, in 2003. These are two generational world personalities in a utterly uniquely brand-new modern technological era. I saw Diddy's rise in mid-90s radio hip-hop, so by the time Leb
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So why won't people listen to me that compassion for all human beings is the only excellent choice for us, both personally and in our cultures/societies/groups? The side that takes pleasure in the misery of others does so bec

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