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541.
by bcoates 11y ago
That's clearly trace code intended to be defined away by the build system. It's idiomatic to make such things macros. Also, your way forces unnecessary verbosity onto the caller; passing unit by name was not a typo.
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by bcoates 11y ago
I've already made this rant so I'll just link to it but WebGL is an atrocity and the sooner it dies and is replaced by something useful the better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4845889
543.
by bcoates 11y ago
The drivers don't generally personally own the medallions. The medallions are owned by companies who mortgage them to banks. The medallion collapse means these companies almost certainly have negative value, and if the owner isn't
544.
by bcoates 11y ago
Are any of those except maybe 802.11 born of a standards committee? off the top of my head: HTTP came from CERN and w3c was years later; TCP is the alternative to the stillborn OSI standard; POSIX is a relatively recent AT&T UNIX-
545.
by bcoates 11y ago
This is one of the things I love about CoqIde compared to other REPL-environment IDEs. You basically play your input file like a movie: scrubbing back and forth, rewinding to edit the past, skip to the end, etc. Half the screen is dedicated
546.
by bcoates 11y ago
busybox + filesystem access + a way to raise events for other applications (Android intents equivalent) + a way to install CLI tools with CLI-appropriate sandboxing (python, for example) would be incredibly useful. Done right it'd be t
547.
by bcoates 11y ago
It's literally not a general purpose computer, you can't compile and execute code on it. DOS at least came with an assembler-debugger and a linker.
548.
by bcoates 11y ago
Is it common to have washing machines in rooms without floor drains?
549.
by bcoates 11y ago
I've had issues with other registrars revoking certificates for questionable reasons (i.e., any reason other than obvious loss of control of the private key). Is there a "bulletproof" registrar that doesn't revoke? If my
550.
by bcoates 11y ago
Strong agreement. As a kid I learned more programming skills from my HP-48 (a forth/scheme hybrid REPL posing as a calculator) than from the PCs I mostly used for video games.
551.
by bcoates 11y ago
This is more of a one swallow does not a summer make situation
552.
by bcoates 11y ago
The tax is so extreme that it actually inspires illegal bookmaking operations -- doing a pick-3 with a 20-30% cut instead of the 50% the state takes is as good a way as any to raise capital for your criminal enterprise. https://w
553.
by bcoates 11y ago
Just because you don't understand what they do doesn't make them useless ornamentation.
554.
by bcoates 11y ago
You can, but the existence (and use in libraries!) of Maybe is still bad for the same reason having 'null' is bad. It's an anti-feature that would enrich the language by not existing.
555.
by bcoates 11y ago
Not completely. non-nullable by default is nice, ignoring possible nulls is nice, but Haskell's Maybe still suffers from premature generality by conflating all forms of absence. A 'Maybe T' is fundamentally, context-sensitive
556.
by bcoates 11y ago
That's not what a market order does. It buy/sells at an unknowable future price.
557.
by bcoates 11y ago
If you're running Chrome, you've let all the people who can update Chrome into your system. If your security software hasn't detected this, it's snakeoil and won't detect more serious threats either.
558.
by bcoates 11y ago
A lot of the value of the settlement can't be transferred to the new owner, so it's unlikely that the deals would happen if someone wasn't getting screwed. In particular, structured settlements are usually protected from bank
559.
by bcoates 11y ago
Circuit breakers are only needed to help people who are the victims of bucket shop scams (a deal where the victim loses money based on the price of a trade to which they were not a party). There's no other reason to care about what pri
560.
by bcoates 11y ago
I think he's saying "Consumerism is bad, Disney is evil, advertising is dishonest" is by-literally-I-mean-figuratively "nothing", as in this is not a relevant current concern. When you think "evil corporations
561.
by bcoates 11y ago
Not really, is just sounds like you have a legal interest in what results from searches for your name. Google is running a de-facto background search service and they're being regulated like one.
562.
by bcoates 11y ago
Even in the rare cases the law applies, the maximum penalty is two month's pay minus whatever severance/notice was given. It's not much of a restriction.
563.
by bcoates 11y ago
Unfortunately software of all sorts has a pathological enthusiasm for adding defaulted, wrong metadata to everything. (look into medical charting and drug-dispensing software sometime if you're looking for a cheap scare). Character-set
564.
by bcoates 11y ago
The rare earths comparison is probably more apt than the peak-oil one, but yeah. 100 years reserves is more than we have of all sorts of things and represents a non-scarce resource.
565.
by bcoates 11y ago
It's odd how much novice programmers are asked to work on blank-slate exercise projects, which strike me as inherently advanced work. Building up from "hello world" to something with interesting learning-experience challenges
566.
by bcoates 11y ago
Couldn't you just use lard?
567.
by bcoates 11y ago
This is how I use uBlock, by disabling all the built-in filter selections and blocking ad providers when I notice them doing something shady/annoying, or going down in a way that hangs site loads. Spoiler alert: you wind up blocking al
568.
by bcoates 11y ago
There's still some magic involving the symbol properties being automatically non-enumerable, right?
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by bcoates 11y ago
Yeah, it seems like kind of an odd choice to introduce a whole new type and extend the kind of values that can index an object, when extending object indexing alone would do everything symbols do anyway.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Both Botulism and E. Coli make you sick due to potent toxins produced by the bacteria, not due to them taking over your gut flora. The bacteria doesn't even need to be alive to make you sick if it's already colonized your food.

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