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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> The kid in me wants to see Concorde fly as an aircraft Maybe once or twice. After that it was super annoying. It would set off car alarms it was so loud.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Caffeine on net suppresses stress systems and improves many cellular level functions. Reams of epidemiological data strongly indicate the equivalent of four or five cups of coffee a day is good for you. If caffeine makes you jittery or caus
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Direct election of senators was a huge mistake that has dramatically restructured the balance of power. There were originally four branches. The state governments were way more powerful.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> If the FQA said, "Here are some problems with objects As I recall it actually spends a load of time bitching that C++ isn't garbage collected and more like lisp, which is multiple levels of stupid.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
My first use of the marpa parser was one of those rare occasions where you are pleasantly stunned at the quality, speed, and flexibility of a library.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
For 1300 years the gateway to great status in China was the imperial examination. That must have left a mark.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> "yup, this is the spot that I need to worry about optimizing first". This almost never actually happens. In practice slow software of any size and complexity is sprinkled with many small inefficiencies that add up and no sing
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
PCRE is a set of extensions to RE to enable parsing of nonregular grammars. This is just RE. It's like calling some hypothetical language C++--. It doesn't make sense.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
woosh
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
What was wrong with the GNU basic regex? If you're going to write a stripped down string matching syntax more strictly for "regular" text then why bother mentioning perl?
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
This is such weird atomized view of a human life. Dare I say autistic. "Knowledge" and skills is not really the fucking point. You are built to serve here as part of a generation.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> upside is effectively infinite Shambling about like some lonely museum piece come to life sounds pretty worthless to me, personally. The value of a human life is in its context of family and society.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Yes it is. Sane people are comfortable with death. It takes a weird sort of narcissism to pursue cryonics. Dying in the jungle in pursuit of the fountain of youth or bathing in the blood of the young rightfully comes off as bonkers to healt
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> brain injuries and the muscle-mass maximizing arms race The huge players and huge hits are a direct consequence of the modern changes to the game. Just go back to no separate defense/offense/special teams. Everybody runs the
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> I also have a sneaking suspicion that the raw statistical analysis of such a test from the U.S. in 1975 would show a lot of intrinsic racial, gender, political, and age biases. Of course. Public institutions in America are a total joke
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> doing foreign affairs This isn't about diplomats, it's all government jobs.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
The USA abandoned the Civil Service Exam in the 70s and it's mostly since that time the popular understanding has developed that government agencies are invariably slow, wasteful, and ineffectual.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
"Deliberate Practice" is a stupid lie. The claims about it are completely unfalsifiable. If practice doesn't show results then you just say it wasn't "deliberate".
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
A lot of them do. And the white majority doesn't find the discussion around that point unreasonable. Like I said, you're just out of touch.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Trump has no extreme positions that I've heard. Totally mainstream populist. People are downvoting me, but if you don't realize that any policy comments Trump has put forth poll great you are just out of touch. You would be by def
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Jesus Christ, you don't even know tcl. Why are you blathering on here? No, tcloo objects are not garbage collected. That's the whole point here.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
perl: sub do_stuff { my $thing = Thing->new; # no need to manually destroy thing. Its DESTROY method will be called at the closing brace. }
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Not for tcloo objects, channels and file handles. I don't think you get it. In sane languages like C++ you can expect a destructor to call itself no matter where a function exited.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Many scripting languages in practice do reference counting GC that will reliably and deterministically clean up resources other than memory.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Still leaks on an exception. That's also an annoying construct to be forced to use.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
A huge, seriously annoying problem with TCL is lack of deterministic cleanup for resources. If you don't manually close a filehandle, for example, it will leak. Doing this sort of bookkeeping in 2015 is infuriating.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
That's an unusual assertion. Perl has much better facilities for working with unicode, and many other advanced facilities for parsing and so forth.
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Voice quality on mobile phones is crap. I can't believe you haven't noticed. Landline to landline calls are crystal clear. On cellphone calls I find myself often having to ask people to repeat themselves. I think this is one of th
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
Just use the cilkplus stuff? edit: thanks for the downvotes, but please explain why you wouldn't use cilkplus for this stuff? You do realize it's built into gcc and available for the other compilers?
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by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
American producers are bankrupt. The fields are worth pennies on the dollar. Wake up. It's over.

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