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by bhaak 6y ago
For rare conditions that only affect one person in a million, you are very unlikely to find out about in the usual clinical trials. That's just a statistical fact. You can reduce that risk with all the testing facilities we have availa
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by bhaak 6y ago
You are ignoring that every one of that languages you're describing here have not only removed stuff but also implemented stuff differently. Also, Sun said "manual memory management is dangerous" and history proved them right
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by bhaak 6y ago
Nothing is that simple. We are complicate biological machines. This case clearly shows that. The problem is if you don't use the vaccine, you won't find out what problems there are. We are talking about single digits of cases for
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by bhaak 6y ago
There's a very good language in C++ trying to get out. The problem is that different people consider different subsets of C++ as good.
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by bhaak 6y ago
So what? Find out which contraindications there are and then no longer use it for people that are suspectible to those problems. Vaccinating with AZ is much more useful than it is dangerous. By several orders of magnitude.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Java was designed when C and C++ were still going strong and there was a feeling (or fear, depending on who you asked) that C++ would be as omnipresent as C was. Java tried very hard to fix the perceived errors of C++ and operator overloadi
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by bhaak 6y ago
Nobody denies that he was scammed. But he didn't lose anything but opportunity costs and because he cashed out his initial gambling money, he is not worse off than if he didn't gamble with Bitcoin to begin with. Coming out of the
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by bhaak 6y ago
I don't think that's a problem of the modern world. It just wasn't as easy previously to learn about all the stupid things people did. But note that the person in question has studied and works at a marketing position in the
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by bhaak 6y ago
Java saved me from having a C++ career. And that was the 90s C++, not the C++ of today. I dodged a bullet there.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Now that's a title I would like to have on my business card. It just states upfront that you don't give a shit. :-)
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by bhaak 6y ago
If by "warp drive" you mean a drive that would be contracting spacetime in front of the ship and expanding it behind, then this ship wouldn't be subject to time dilation. As it is not the ship that is exceeding the speed of l
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by bhaak 6y ago
I would have expected the former. Given that one of the rationales of HTML5 was "simpler parsing". I'm obviously not uptodate with the HTML5 parsing. But why should I? Who writes HTML by hand these days? The SGML heritage of
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by bhaak 6y ago
That's just HTML5 rewritten as a well formed XML document. HTML5 does not describe well formed XML. That you can put the same information of a HTML5 document into a XML document doesn't help much if most of the HTML5 documents out
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by bhaak 6y ago
Because of special relativity, it wouldn't even be 5 years on the ship. A massless drive would open up exploration of the galaxy within the life time of a human being. Even though on Earth, thousands of years would pass, so it's k
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by bhaak 6y ago
What kind of HTML parser? A SGML one or a HTML5 one? I'm really sad that they didn't go with a XML base for HTML5.
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by bhaak 6y ago
> Plus - Stack Overflow is about trying to generalize any given question to maximize it's wider usefulness. Since when? You don't get extra points if you write stuff that doesn't concern OP's problem. Most SO problems
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by bhaak 6y ago
But isn't that a consequence of D "mimicking" C to some extent? Disclaimer, my compiler background was the Java compiler and its bytecode generation but I would expect both gcc and clang/llvm to have lots of optimization
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by bhaak 6y ago
If you go down this road then you can always drop down to assembler to be even faster than C. I don't think this is a reasonable argument. Every Turing compatible language that gives you direct access to the metal, so to speak, provide
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by bhaak 6y ago
Extreme sports are dangerous. Who would have thought? I don't quite agree with the article that "normal" BASE jumping is not dangerous. It's just less dangerous than BASE jumping with a wingsuit. This is not new. Look at
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by bhaak 6y ago
Disable JavaScript and you can read the article without any problems.
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by bhaak 6y ago
Well, one of the oldest known systems was already very good. Alas, the Babylonian numeral system didn't completely make it down to us unfortunately.
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by bhaak 6y ago
> My desktop terminal prompt right now shows [金 19:58:22] - just a single character and as long as it's < 7d ago it's unambiguous what time and day a command exited in case I forget. You're a bit cheating there :) It&#x
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by bhaak 6y ago
It's ten thousand years before the assumed (but likely wrong) birthday of Jesus Christ, to have a positive date for all written human history (well, until we find the archives of Atlantis) and an easy round offset for the prevalent h
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by bhaak 6y ago
This came up in a r/AskEurope thread and at least some slavic countries use decimeters. But that's the beauty about easily convertable units. Even if other people use other conventions, the mental process to convert them is almost
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by bhaak 6y ago
I find it impressing that you can easily parse 20210226-00:01:25. The time is of course no problem but even with "20210226" standalone, I stumble and misread 10 and 22 before noticing that this doesn't parse. If there are mor
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by bhaak 6y ago
> I hate writing ISO 8601 dates, even though I know it is logical. Nobody forces you to write ISO 8601 dates but if you want your dates to be easily parseable by humans, why would you write them all in numbers? 3 Nov 2020, 3rd November 2
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by bhaak 6y ago
> The only workable solutions I've found are that the more focused a board on a select number of topics, the easier it is to effectively moderate in a humane manner, In my special case, we have a very heterogeneous audience because
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by bhaak 6y ago
Aren't we now seeing a reaction to this with the cancel culture? Getting rid of the assholes as vehemently as possible? Even though cancel culture is probably overreacting, I'm not sure if there is another way than to get rid of t
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by bhaak 6y ago
> Where there was a feeling of revolution and new beginnings, now there are people in suits talking corporate. I read both "Digital Gold" by Nathaniel Popper about the early days of Bitcoin and "The Infinite Machine"
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by bhaak 6y ago
> They've been _planning_ to move to PoS for ~3 years, with a much too optimistic timeline. PoS has always been on the roadmap even before their ICO. But yes, with a MUCH more optimistic timeline.

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