TheMonarchist

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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. -- Tacitus, Annals That is, a corrupt republic needs more laws. As I would put it: d(lawcount)/d(depravity) > 0
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Presumably vaccines affecting babies in the womb. Can't recall concrete examples.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I'm glad to hear that all of you don't wish that the plot had succeeded.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> Royals become royals by mass murder, then oppress the people they rule over. That way they wouldn't remain royals for long. At minimum they must keep their army loyal. One would imagine that they would prefer a good cause to fight
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Thanks! I see it now. I couldn't picture it in my mind as it is so contrary to what I know. > an equally oppressive government (just towards a different group of people). Could you expand on this? I contrast the then contemporary go
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
The short description of the incident in the article makes it sound like he removed mask to catch breath and happened to cough. People must be on their toes in Canada if that's true. How do you distinguish deliberate coughing from unco
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> I do remember as a child having a lot of sympathy for Fawkes and the others! It would surely be interesting to hear what could justify blowing up the parliament and murdering royal family in a child's mind.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Why would Hungarians succumb to a totalitarian system that benefits a small minority (as it is painted in the article) so soon after the yoke of Russia broke? There was an uprising against even it in the fifties and Hungary was the first pr
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Of course it should have distinctive look compared to a call where order matters, but I actually like your idea as it would require reordering just once. I think the order should be fixed in the source code too.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
You can submit a paper to ISO WG21 concerning adoption of your favorite units library, but it won't ever be baked into the language, because it can be done as a library. Meanwhile a randomly picked library can either roll its own solut
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Many of your design aims sound a lot like what Java was supposed to be. In particular: > Something dead simple. > I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. -- no manual memory management or custom operat
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
There are multiple C++ libraries for just that. Search "c++ units".
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
C++ has user defined literals, so you could write 12_inch.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> I find C++ and Rust hard to grasp quickly. That's a direct consequence of them aiming to be usable for anything .
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I guess both, like C++ does it.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I would either disallow using it when two parameters have same type, or assume that their order is irrelevant: using the feature promises that it won't make a difference. Edit: Found terser expression.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I think most of those languages need a GC, excluding them from some niches. Rust is probably closest to C++ in this respect. Most notable difference is that Rust restricts the programmer to ensure correctness, whereas in C++ anything that c
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Is that not Scheme? I don't know what libs it has, but surely that's only a matter of creating them.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
From the top of my head I would do 2 features no other language (to wit) has: - request reordering arguments to find a match for when you don't remember the right order. I think this is better than named parameters and other hacks. - T
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Is that not just what C++ aims to be?
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I think the increased traffic is due to something more popular now depending on OP's library. Their users won't come to its repository for documentation.
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I don't mind being slow early on when I'm doing something new, because I know that I will get muscle memory for things I repeat a lot and become faster. I also use an editor that supports mapping keys (currently vim). Besides, onl
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I agree in a way, but for different reasons. The Internet can host public debate where everyone can participate equally well in a way that was never before possible, whereas mainstream media is mostly a relic from a time when writing was in
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
Bubbling can be avoided with something like DuckDuckGo or Startpage, albeit SEO gamed content is still an issue. Marginal search engines may be better at avoiding it, as optimizing for them wouldn't be that profitable, but I haven&#x27
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> I seem to have collapsed down to checking 5 to 6 sites. I check about 20 sites regularly even when I have other interesting things to do. > Where would I even go to find other sites that might be of interest? Search engines? > Wh
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
It was a melting pot of the British, the Irish, the Dutch, the French etc. In the old world all nations lived relatively isolated, save them whose profession involved travel, that was expensive and painstaking.
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Language statistics from open source projects(openhub.net)
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
I think the numbers given are the all time stats; they are used for sorting. The graphs are of recent activity, and clicking on one takes you to a tool where you can compare languages of your choice by the number of active contributors, rec
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
> I feel like I am solving problems in C++ the way that I want to, I guess, in a very opinionated way. And I don't like to compromise on the design. Me too! I'm glad that Rust has managed to champion extensive static analysis f
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by TheMonarchist 5y ago
For a few months now C++ has had the biggest share of active contributors in open source projects tracked by Open Hub. Each contributor is counted once for every language they have contributed in in the last month. C++ has also most commits

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