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by bazoom42 7mo ago
Definitely not obvious to everybody.
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
> Except the proportion of paedophile priests is about the same as the proportion of paedophiles in the general population. I doubt you have any reliable statistics about this, given how many victims keep silent out of fear. But in any c
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
You can still buy “generic” lego sets if you want. Look for “Lego Classic” sets.
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
You can certainly set unsafe null dereferencs to be a compiler error in C#. It is just not the default for reasons of backwards compatibility.
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
> I don't trust humans in doing the right thing and being judicious with this. Language-level safety only protect against trivial mistakes like dereferencing a null-pointer. No language can protect against logical errors. If you hav
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
TypeScript actually supports nulls through type unions, exactly as Hoare suggests. It will not let you derefence a possibly-null value without a check. C# also supports null-safety, although less elegantly and as opt-in. If enabled, it won’
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
You misunderstand the “billion dollar mistake”. The mistake is not the use of nulls per se, the mistake is type-systems which does not make them explicit.
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by bazoom42 7mo ago
The mistake was not null references per se. The mistake was having all references be implicitly nullable. He states around minute 25 the solution to the problem is to explicitly represent null in the type system, so nullable pointers are
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
Sounds rather far-fetched. “Viking” only started getting used as an ethonym in the 19th century. In the sagas it it only used in the meaning of raider, pirate or outlaw. The etymology of “vik” (bay) is much more plausible.
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
No, vikingr is an old norse word meaning pirate, raider, or outlaw. Not everyone in the Nordics were vikings, just like not ever American were a cowboy.
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
Do we have any historical source of people referring to themselves as vikings?
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
If you are referring to the “Vikings”-show, you should be aware it is fiction and the roles sadly are played by professional actors, not genuine vikings.
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
The article is just really confused in its terminology. But historically, vikingr meant raider or pirate. It was only hereditary in the sense it might be a family tradition to go viking. But if you dont go raiding you are not a vikingr what
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
Don’t take “job” literally. It wasn’t centralized in any way. It just meant if you had the resources you could build a ship, hire some henchmen, and go raiding. It is not surprising Swedes went East, Nowegians Northwest etc - just look at a
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
The title is rather confused, because DNA cannot show how people understood a certain word. Historical sources like the sagas show how the word was understood.
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
He didn’t just copy the stories. He retold them with his own language and poetry and characterization, which is what he is celebrated for. Often his changes completely reframes the original story - but the basic storyline and the names of
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by bazoom42 8mo ago
Shakespeare tended to re-use existing stories or plays. As the article mentions, there are only two of his plays (out of almost 40) where we don’t know of a pre-existing source. Of course it is possible he made the story up himself after ge
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
Maybe best, but suerly not most influential.
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
The fundamental problem is XML was designed for textual markup formats but ended up getting used mostly for structured data. Many of the features like element/attribute distinction and mixed content is necessary for markup but unnecess
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
No, Denmark cannot do that. Denmark does not own Greenland. Greenland has a parliament and manages its own domestic affairs. Denmark manages some domains like foreign and defense policy, but Greenland governs its own territory.
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
It would also force browsers to implement multiple slightly different engine modes, vastly complicating the browser code. There are already a few cases, eg quirks mode vs standards mode and “use strict” mode, which was considered necessary
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
The monty hall problem is often stated in such a way multiple interpretations are possible. I don’t know how exactly you state the problem, but have you considered you might have stated it wrongly or ambiguously?
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
Syntax errors are not fatal in CSS. CSS has detailed rules for how to handle and recover from syntax errors, usually by skipping the invalid token. This is what allows introducing new syntax in a backwards-compatible manner.
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
Why did markdown become popular when we already have html? Because markdown is much easier to write by hand in a simple text editor. Original SGML was actually closer to markdown. It had various options to shorten and simplify the syntax, m
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
No. P elements does not nest, so this is parsed as:
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by bazoom42 9mo ago
But not closing etc has always been valid HTML. Back from SGML it was possible for closing tags to be optional (depending on the DTD), and Netscape supported this from the beginning. Leaving out closing tags is possible when the p
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by bazoom42 10mo ago
> but I'm afraid we got html5 and just stopped there. They dropped numbered versions. Now it is just HTML which is continuously evolved in a backwards-compatible manner. > And if there will be an html6 why can't we just stat
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by bazoom42 10mo ago
Stored procedures are great for bulk data processing. SQL natively operates on sets, so pretty silly to pass a dataset over the wire for processing it iteratively in a less efficient language, and then transfer the resultset back to the dat
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by bazoom42 10mo ago
As far back as we have written records, we have the notion that people in past were better and more honest and the present day is corrupted. Classical antiquity had the notion of a lost golden age and a heroic age in past, while later times
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by bazoom42 11mo ago
Why COBOL?

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