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by _kst_ 9y ago
Dijkstra is alleged to have said: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." but that's disputed. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Computer_science#Disputed
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by _kst_ 9y ago
Perhaps so, but in this case the solution is one that's already well known (that you can express trig functions exactly when you're dealing with right triangles with integer sides). If you want to do some computation involving a g
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by _kst_ 9y ago
"For these reasons, the GNU project is not going to use Tcl in GNU software. Instead we want to provide two languages, similar in semantics but with different syntaxes. One will be Lisp-like, and one will have a more traditional algeb
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by _kst_ 9y ago
You should ROT-13 them twice for extra security.
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by _kst_ 9y ago
Which "add" instruction? Integer (signed or unsigned), floating-point? How big are the operands? What if the operands are of different types? What if the CPU doesn't have an "add" instruction? Or, perhaps more plaus
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by _kst_ 9y ago
I can still access http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ I can't currently access the article at https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2017/07/21/a-million-squand... [Insert joke about i
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by _kst_ 9y ago
It turns out it's a different "99" language: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/47588/write-an-...
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by _kst_ 9y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see my own joke language 99 in the list. https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/99 I would have been even more pleasantly surprised if it worked.
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by _kst_ 9y ago
How are gendered nouns useful? (I'm referring specifically to assigning genders to nouns that refer to objects that aren't intrinsically gendered.) My native language is English, and I never have to remember whether a "keyboa
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by _kst_ 10y ago
This isn't something I'm likely to use (I'm a command line person), so take any suggestions from me with a grain of salt. But ... Most GUI file managers show a popup menu when you right-click on an item. fman doesn't.
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by _kst_ 10y ago
A theoretical question. There seems to be some question about whether any passwords were actually leaked, but in principle some password data could have gotten out. What would actually have been leaked, a cleartext password or the encrypted
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by _kst_ 10y ago
> The "trap values" concept is interesting. That's what the article calls them, but the Standard uses the term "trap representations". The point is that a trap representation does not represent a value. (A repre
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by _kst_ 10y ago
bash(0)> pwd Internal Server Error
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by _kst_ 10y ago
I just bought these. My only complaint is the same one I had last time I bought one of these bundles: I had to download each of the 51 files (17 books, 3 formats each) manually, one at a time. An option to download a zip file or tarball wou
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Wow, that's disturbing. Perhaps I should say that my first pet's name was "mellower retry audited grieves" rather than "esrhciaiyzhkj". (Both are random, and both have very close to the same information content
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Some coal can be "cleaner" in the sense that it has, for example, less sulfur, and therefore creates less of certain pollutants when burned. But the real problem is the carbon, which when burned produces CO2. If you take the carbo
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by _kst_ 10y ago
I map Caps Lock to Control.
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by _kst_ 10y ago
I thought it was "wreck a nice peach".
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Depends on what you mean by "goes against the will of the voters". There have been close elections where one candidate won the popular vote and the other won the electoral vote. That hasn't led to the electoral college being
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by _kst_ 10y ago
It's not entirely clear from the article, but I don't believe the PDP-11s are running VMS. As far as I know VMS has never been ported to the PDP-11.
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by _kst_ 10y ago
The ftpput and ftpget commands might not be available even as arguments to the busybox command, depending on how it was configured at build time. # type ftpput -sh: type: ftpput: not found # busybox ftpput busybox: applet
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Bash 3.2 is distributed under GPL Version 2. Bash 4 is under GPL version 3. (I'll let others discuss the differences and how they might interact with the App Store.)
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by _kst_ 10y ago
I haven't used nvi in several years (mostly because, unlike nvi, vim has become universally available on the systems I use), but it's not minimalist. nvi has a number of features that the original vi does not. Perl integration an
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by _kst_ 10y ago
The Senate passed it by a voice vote. Did nobody vote "nay"?
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by _kst_ 10y ago
That may be true in older shells, but in modern shells [ $x == "" ] is valid, and "" is a single token whose value is the empty string. But I've seen old code that does things like if [ x$x == "x" ]
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by _kst_ 10y ago
What if someone has an "artist's name" and a "religious name", and they're not the same?
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Is there a way to download the entire bundle as a zip file or tarball? (I probably should have asked that before downloading each file individually.)
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Except that the C standard explicitly makes no distinction between explicit and implicit undefined behavior. If a "shall" or "shall not" requirement that appears outside of a constraint or runtime constraint is
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by _kst_ 10y ago
I think you mean 200 million, not 200 thousand.
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by _kst_ 10y ago
Does the e-mail (appear to) give you a way to contact the person who sent it? I'm not saying you should or shouldn't, but several comments have suggested contacting this person; it's not clear that that's even possible.

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