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by ainar-g 7y ago
A very much related article, which can even be considered a response to the articles like OP of sorts, is “I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore”[1][2] by Dave Bennett. I seriously recommend reading it. [1] https://www.bennett
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I see your point, but FROM-first SQL would provide better support for autocomplete. Right now in e.g. psql when you write "SELECT " and press <Tab>, it can't help you with the columns. But if you could write "FROM
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In general, I love SQL. It's one of my favourite languages (or rather, language families) to play and tinker with. But the fact that SELECT comes before FROM has always ground my gears. Thanks to this article, I now finally have a be
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MERGE[1], hopefully. If I understand correctly, it would allow us to do upserts while checking against multiple conditions. It's also standard SQL, unlike UPSERT, INSERT OR REPLACE, INSERT … ON CONFLICT, and all the other names differe
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Completely forgot about it. Yes, it does improve readability for me.
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I am a partially vision-impaired man, and I really can't stand the dark-grey on light-grey texts that a lot of modern web pages have. They are essentially unreadable to me. In order to comfortably read this article, I had to go to Fi
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I like the flow of your question: “who is using any of these”… “except for the ones people actually use” :-P On a more serious note, in my personal experience, the GCC and the LLVM back-ends are generally much better at math- and computatio
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What? Go? gccgo: https://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo gopherjs: https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs tinygo: https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo gollvm (aka Gollum): h
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E-Mails typeset in TeX sounds amazing! Right now you'd have to compile your TeX code to PDF/PS/DjVu and send that, which is far from perfect.
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Plaintext? Is that a new CSS framework? /jk Very few enterprises these days provide a “Text only, please” option in their E-Mail subscription options. Jira is, by all means, terrible software, but at least they do have this feature. I
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Uhm, no, they cannot be mutated. If you use a structure with two integers as a key and then change one of these integers, then you have a new value, and a new key, just like with integers.
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AFAIK, “undefined behaviour” is not a thing in Go The Language (there is some undefined behaviour in the Go The StdLib). The Go Specification[1] doesn't even contain the word “undefined”, and only has two instances of “unspecified”. I
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I see now, thanks. Existing maps will probably remain that way forever, but the new Generics Draft Design[1], if implemented, should allow people to easily write a wrapper that will work on anything. [1]: https://go.googlesource.
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Genuine question: What does Cargo do that Go 1.11 modules can't?
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. Map keys in Go can be strings, numbers, pointers, some structs, etc. And that was the case since at least Go 1.0.
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See here[1]. From what I've gathered, you should set GOPRIVATE appropriately, otherwise the Go Module Mirror(s) and the Go Checksum Database(s) may know that you have a private repo called “github.com/you/very-private”. It co
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Go Compiler Intrinsics(dave.cheney.net)
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Why not use a “stream” of objects? {"cmd": "git checkout", "when": 1234} {"cmd": "vagrant up", "when": 4567} Not sure about other languages and libraries, but Go supports
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by ainar-g 7y ago
The best Romance IAL I've seen so far is Latino Sine Flexione[1]. As someone who knows Esperanto and some very basic French, it's really easy to understand. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_sine_flexi
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Russophone here, I can understand most texts, although some words require me to take a few seconds to “parse”.
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A link can be both a suitable-for-tab link and a JavaScript thing. They simply didn't bother.
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Experiment, Simplify, Ship – The Go Blog(blog.golang.org)
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I think those Psychonetics people were also inspired by Heinlein's ideas about Speedtalk[1] from “The Gulf”. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedtalk
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I've been anticipating this comment :-) There are a few reasons: 1. I personally think that Loglan is a much more human language. You know, with capital letters and no overuse of the apostrophe. 2. I've been a somewhat active memb
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After all those years, he's still at it! I remember a long time ago, when I was still in school, I've sent Mr. Quijada an E-Mail proposing some simplifications to the then-upcoming Ilaksh's phonetics. My English was much, muc
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If you found Ithkuil interesting, you might also enjoy: * Loglan, a human language with a regular grammar. * * Site: http://loglan.org/ * * Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan * Toki Pona, an ex
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I severely dislike public facial recognition systems, but wouldn't it basically be the same if a police officer mistook her for someone else based on a sketch or a composite? The scale is obviously different though.
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Very interesting. Funnily enough, Wikipedia doesn't seem to know anything about quantum trajectory theory. It's always amusing to find something that isn't on Wikipedia.
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Re. performance. Did you use SSH's “-C” switch for data compression? The first time I used X over SSH it was lagging as all hell, until I used this switch, and after that everything ran much smoother.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
> Possibly more interestingly, so are its trait objects, the trait object pointer is a (vtable, > instance) rather than (instance*, length). The Go interfaces are the same. See https://research.swtch.com/inte

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