al_form2000

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by al_form2000 7y ago
Hate to nitpick, but 'deont' in deontology does not come from the (latin) root "deus', rather from the Greek root 'deont' - that which pertains to duty.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
The halting problem bit is a shower thought with no supporting evidence whatsoever, so your complexity lowering scenario may well be doable. However, paring complexity is a strictly developer-side measure of goodness (that is assuming that
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Serena Vs.the Drone(blog.xkcd.com)
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by al_form2000 7y ago
We know a great deal about dynamics,kinematics, thermodynamics and generally the physics that governs car components, yet we are a long way from an algorithm that applied to a car will produce a better car. My guess is that doing that for s
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Thumbs up.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
And terrible it is indeed, but I cannot find it specified - the strings eval, exec, command, statement do not even occur in the official specs (shallow doc perusal, I know)
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by al_form2000 7y ago
This is not going to make you many friends in the server community (think apache, mysql...)
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by al_form2000 7y ago
As an ansible user, I hate YAML and its broken parsers with a passion, but the security objection does not make much sense. It does apply verbatim to any parser of anything if the implementation decides that a given label means "eval t
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Except ftp is alive.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Yes, that's in the specs. But what I meant is that there is nothing intrinsic to the format demanding unordered behavior.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Granted, it came from there, but that was back in the days of map=eval(json) and they're gone. There is nothing in json the format (as opposed to json the language construct) to impose the unordered behavior.(Or, for that matters, the
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Agree. Except that the sheer number of questions about this spell "missed use case" - to my eyes at least. Sort of like the "How do I push a local branch to remote?" question in GITland.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
That's a way. A way that, IMHO, vastly diminishes its expressive power on the reader's side, which I do not consider a very good thing. Most solutions to the issue are of this nature. Consider serialized JSON already has a natural
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Uh, "no good reason" in this case means "I unchecked the box and nothing bad happened right away" which amounts to shallow analysis, to put it gently.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
"Why would you care what order we were sending the name value pairs for this?" The article makes it sound like it's somehow IBM's fault. However, questions about preserving order in hashes/associative arrays/ma
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by al_form2000 7y ago
Somewhere there is retribution awaiting our species for this. Think of it, maybe this reset procedure is part of it.
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by al_form2000 7y ago
'There is no doubt that AI may one day become much more intelligent than humans' Really?
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by al_form2000 7y ago
The title giveth, the body takes away. Articles like these have been making the rounds for maybe 6 ears now, and I cannot see how this brings even a moderately non-stale perspective to the fray .I checked the date, it's from today. Mus
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by al_form2000 8y ago
Tl;dr: The world and the web suck; Tim Berner-Lee was a clueless Pollyanna; We're gonna solve everything with DECENTRALISATION that will come to pass by (makes vague hand gestures, draws ballon shaped objects). What a bunch of useless
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by al_form2000 9y ago
And just to be cute, this uses 2 pipes and is shorter (but I would not write it this way). #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use English; use autodie; sub f { open(my $h,"/bin/ls $_[0]|&
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by al_form2000 9y ago
I tried not to make it too golfish, but dispensed with niceties such as error detection and somesuch (which aren't there in the bash version - still autodie will catch most snafus). I also joined a few lines to make it closer to what&#
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by al_form2000 14y ago
Just another attempt of the (liberal, regrettably) media to morph the story in something that is not. The incident name (by consensus) is not "Female activist is exposed to techies' hate" but "Grandstanding blogger doxxes fellow developer,