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by bhaak 4y ago
I'm not sure it's the same chamber. It's certainly not any of the spaces that the Upuaut bots explored. You also seriously underestimate the political landscape about the archaeology of the Pyramids. As the article states, th
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by bhaak 4y ago
We have Cucumber tests and Rspec tests in our repository. They are not mutually exclusive but complementary. Cucumber tests are integration tests and usually test only the happy path. In our case, a customer never sees those tests. OTOH for
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I update the year reference so my users know that the project is still in development.
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Maybe because it’s better? (:
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It's as if they are different games with different design philosphies. :-)
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And Discord. Some of the NetHack IRC channels are bridged with the RL Discord. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Libera#.23.23nethack-discord
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The source for his latest story is nothing like the sources he used for the stories that earned him his reputation. So I wouldn't call it a knee-jerk reaction when I consider what he says as basically being "trust me bro". I
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by bhaak 4y ago
The proof by authority criticism is for the implied "I've been right in the past (I even got awarded for that) therefore I must be right now as well". > What’s next - Einstein’s Nobels are also proof by authority? If you
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by bhaak 4y ago
> I won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for that work Proof by authority? > I’ve been told my stories were wrong, invented, outrageous for as long as I can remember That doesn't mean that every story by him that is c
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by bhaak 4y ago
It might be there already for distributed version control systems. https://pijul.org/ I always wondered if git would have been as popular if it wouldn't have come from Linus.
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If you are in a place full of assholes how likely are the chances that you aren't also one?
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by bhaak 4y ago
Banned from Reddit alltogether, banned from a subreddit, or banned by Reddit because you were previously banned on this subreddit and were ban evading? There are so many possible reasons for being banned in a subreddit. Mods on Reddit are p
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by bhaak 4y ago
I have a hard time believing that bots were using the free API and Twitter wasn't able to shut them down easily. Even a mediocre programmer could do that. Anyway, almost nothing Elon Musk has said about Twitter seems plausible and this
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The historical distribution of lions is quite surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_distribution.png I never would have thought that lions were native to Africa north of the Sahara and even in Greece.
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That's the super power of statistics though. Getting accurate enough numbers from unreliable sources.
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I was at Wirth's farewell lecture and the topic of the Laudatio was a friendly roast on how Wirth failed to bring in lots of money by creating very efficient solutions which weren't commercial successes. I think it certainly wasn&
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Wirth was initially on the committee and resigned after being dissatisfied with the direction Algol 68 took. So we can't be sure if there really is no next Wirth around.
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> I remember reading one Oberon and one Modula 2 paper. I didn't know anybody using them to build anything real. FWIW there was a huge following for the Wirth languages on the Amiga. I don't quite know how that came about but a
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by bhaak 4y ago
The title of the article is quite clickbaity. Neither is the performance of Oberon-2 discussed nor how it compares to C++. But you are wrong if you think that Oberon-2 wasn't considered a competitor to C++. I'd say 1997 was early
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> (because it only supports a fraction of the C++ features) I'm pretty sure that both Mössenböck and Wirth would consider this a feature, not a bug.
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> There is a school of thought that you should use the right tool for the job But there are often real world constraints that influence the choice of the tool. For example if you have a Rails app already, going with more Ruby code might
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by bhaak 4y ago
The TAB character is not any different from the separator control characters. It is as non human readable as the other ones. It's just that it got more support historically. If e.g. Microsoft had used the separator control characters f
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When ASCII was designed teletype like applications were still prevalent. Lots of printing instead of outputting to displays. Nowadays, it's of course a bit wasteful that of the first 32 characters of the most used character set only ab
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by bhaak 4y ago
Hell, no. I was just wondering if there was an even better product of a design by committee. ASCII is pretty good for its time and how it was created.
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Is ASCII the best product we have coming out of a "designed by a committee" process?
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Yes, that's the problem for plain vi(m) which only supports single character braces. matchit/matchup extends this to language specific delimiter words. This animation https://github.com/andymass/vim-matchup#sc
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> To be fair though, my vim-memory of using % to bounce between start/end brackets doesn't work in Ruby because of the begin/end words instead of matched symbols :( Put "runtime macros/matchit.vim" into your
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Oh, I didn't realize until now that Guido worked there. So we got at least two major contributions from the CWI. One is Python and the other one is the game of Hack. :)
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IME if ActiveRecord is not sufficient, you go directly to SQL. find_by_sql gives you enough freedom to get everything out of the db into a ActiveModel object.
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> Why not make a self-sufficient base on the moon first, where literally everyone on earth would be able to see it almost with a naked eye and it would inspire countless generations of people to pursue science? Yes. This. I hope that we

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