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by ainar-g 7y ago
I've been experimenting with OpenBSD, and it's been pretty nice. The code is beautiful, and a lot of stuff just works. Not sure how it will behave on a laptop though.
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Go Code Analyzer Staticcheck: 2019.2 Released(github.com)
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by ainar-g 7y ago
The Waifu one is so realistic that it's uncanny. It's almost like we're just a few years away from whole seasons of deep-dreamt anime and whole tankoubons of procedurally generated manga.
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Dominik Honnef's staticcheck tool for the Go programming language will probably warn about these as well[1]. [1]: https://github.com/dominikh/go-tools/issues/516 .
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by ainar-g 7y ago
Would it be better to ask the mods to change the title to something like “US Living Wage Calculator”? I clicked expecting a worldwide view, and was a bit disappointed.
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Holy Hell, I love Settlers II! Thanks for pointing me there!
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Great news! Now if only we could get FreeCol [1] 1.0.0. Or at least 0.12.0. If you like free strategy games or loved the original Sid Meier's Colonization, this is a must-play. [1]: http://www.freecol.org/ .
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Why doesn’t this category of bugs exist for Rust programs? Simply because you cannot write a program that contains a null-pointer error. Hate to be that guy, but this is strictly not true. Observe: $ nl -ba nulltmp.rs
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Honestly, that speaks more about the teacher's personal issues than it does about the similarities between logic and purely functional programming. I'm sorry that you had to experience that.
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by ainar-g 8y ago
That's a peculiar opinion. Usually, whenever discussion comes to parsing and codecs, people like to mention how the problem P could be solved with a purely functional language L so much more elegantly. And yes, logic and purely functio
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by ainar-g 8y ago
We can’t get rid of it because we have a commitment to not breaking users’ code. There will not be a Rust 2.0. This is interesting. The C Standard people have, for example, removed “gets” from the C11 standard. Go, too, has except
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Font link: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/din-next . Very nice indeed, very “German”. I can see how an engineer would find this font lovely.
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by ainar-g 8y ago
This is especially frustrating, considering that Sir Tim Berners-Lee himself has said, that “Web 3.0” should be about Semantic Web[1]. That does mean that it should get easier to build distributed and interlinked systems, but that seems t
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by ainar-g 8y ago
This was answered in a sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19608696 .
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by ainar-g 8y ago
True. But how many actually do that vs. how many just slap a “fonts.google.com” link because “meh”.
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a graphic designer. I am merely a programmer with an interest in well-crafted, understandable, and readable text. So, read this as an outsider rant rather than an informed opinion. Black text on a white background c
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Fun fact: you actually can! Or at least used to be able to. About seven years ago I was on vacation in Turkey, somewhere close to Kemer. Besides the Lira, the Dollar, and the Euro, many vendors and cafés accepted Russian Roubles. The exchan
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Um, no. I am Russian, and I live in Russia. Whether I like it or not, I hear the state propaganda every day. I probably should have mentioned that. Putin and his, erm, colleagues constantly use “multi-polar world” and “prevention of (implie
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by ainar-g 8y ago
I used to play with an idea of a science fiction novel, where the united Earth's currency is essentially kcal/kJ. The problem is that if you have a flammable and radioactive material, do you count the energy you get from it by bur
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by ainar-g 8y ago
This might be simply Russian state propaganda working, but wouldn't the diversification of the world's currencies be a good thing? Remember how everyone were afraid of the collapse of the US Dollar back in 2008, and then the simil
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Didn't know about Lua[1], thanks! Although I think I would prefer an explicit syntax, like Tcl's “tailcall”[2], Perl's “goto &sub”[3], or “become”[4], with the compiler checking that this is actually a tail-call. [1]: ht
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by ainar-g 8y ago
That is assuming that your compiler knows about such optimisations and can apply them in non-recursive situations. As far as I know, Go doesn't apply tail-call optimisation. Haskell probably does. Not sure about Rust. Either way, depen
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by ainar-g 8y ago
One question I almost never see addressed with monads is the question of the stack. The stack is not endless, and may actually be quite small on some devices. How is that fact reconciled with the fact that do-notation is essentially doS
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by ainar-g 8y ago
I probably would if I was a US or EU citizen. I live in Russia, and our aerospace industry… has issues, to say the least, and I've heard that US companies tend to be vary of Russian nationals. Thanks for the advice though, and good luc
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by ainar-g 8y ago
You aren't involved in the design or architecture (that is done several levels above you by "System Engineers"), you are given a highly detailed spec (sometimes so detailed it amounts to pseudo-code) that really d
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by ainar-g 8y ago
The aerospace industry OTOH, I don't miss. At least three people ITT have said something similar to this. Can you elaborate about what is so bad about working as a software developer in the aerospace industry? Or would that req
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Ada has always had a reputation for being a more secure system-level programming language, and thankfully security is very much in right now. I think Rust has played a significant role in this mini-resurrection of Ada.
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Thanks for the write-up. It pretty much mirrors every thought I've had while reading the same tutorial, except that I personally find That_Funny_Ada_Case weirdly appealing. And, since you're here, you probably have a typo: “GNATT”
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by ainar-g 8y ago
Among other things, Oracle has been… not very friendly to people and organisations working with the JVM[1]. A standard with many implementations that isn't controlled by one corporation is desirable. With that said, I kind of wish that
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by ainar-g 8y ago
99.9999% is almost 5σ, right? Have we finally discovered New Physics? Edit: The CERN[1] article says that it is in fact 5.3σ. [1]: https://home.cern/news/press-release/physics/lhcb-sees-new-f...

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