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by bhaak 6y ago
What interesting opinions. Rust not being a candidate for designing a future language? But C++ being a candidate for designing a future language? Go having remarkably poor design? Ruby dying, but Python and Perl not? I would really like to
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by bhaak 6y ago
> This sounds to me like "having views I like, because only undecent people would think otherwise". Yeah, that's a sentiment you hear a lot in political discourse these days. But if you follow cryptocurrencies, you wouldn&
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It's the other way around. Just because somebody is good in one area that doesn't mean they have any authority in another, unrelated one. Putting people on a podest and excusing untolerable behavior is plain toxic. It is not wanti
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by bhaak 6y ago
Yes, there's not much that can destroy a legend easier than meeting them in person. But it in this case, the legend was a rather nice person. Getting this aspect of his personality destroyed would be a shame.
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by bhaak 6y ago
If you look at Szabo's twitter feed these days, I surely hope he isn't. Luckily, there is not that much that points towards him being Satoshi: https://archive.is/N3rYx https://davidgerard.co.uk/blo
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https://freesound.org/search/?g=1&q=meow&f=%20license:%22Cre... Wikipedia also has a list of list of pointers to different sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_sound_resource
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by bhaak 6y ago
Yes, many repositories use something else than "master" as their main development branch. But how many of those don't have a "master" branch at all?
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For all the possible reasons to hate this job, adding a RSS feed to anything is very low on my personal list. I'd even say I enjoy adding a RSS feed to anything. There are not enough RSS feeds out there.
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I would have preferred "default" as Mercurial does it. "main" suggests it is the main branch under development whereas "default" doesn't as clearly. But both terms are better than "master" if we
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You are technically correct. In reality though you can't expect programmers to code for eventualities that occur only in extremely rare cases (until now).
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I don‘t mind renaming the default branch. But I’ll see many tools breaking or bugs surfacing because they can’t find the master branch. One repository I used didn’t have a “master” branch but a “Master” branch. That was annoying. Git doesn’
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C code alone considered insufficient for determining runtime behavior(arxiv.org)
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Not confusing to a native speaker :-) But yes, that's exactly how you would say it in German. There might be some part of the brain reserved to parse that sentence as "I'm (one) (four and 80)" but this doesn't feel
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Are you sure? Intuitively I would have said, that "I'm one eighty tall" is an abbreviation for "I'm one [meter] [and] 80 [centimeter] tall". Thinking about it, if I measure something with a folding ruler, I wou
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There can always be things that trip the compiler. Without looking at the actual assembler, you never know that. Interestingly in your example, clang is able to resolve the first and the third line to the same assembler code. https:/&
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> secret numbered Swiss bank accounts BTW, that's quite a myth. There were never bank accounts where the banks didn't know who the client was. But not everybody at the banks had access to the info what account belonged to which
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> I've never found a packaging tool without an extensive and clear manpage with examples. That might be fine if you already know which packaging tool to start with. Debian has several and it's not clear upfront which one is the
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That still leaves the order of Math.min and Math.max undecided and will probably not help much if you get easily confused by the visuals of this code. I never thought about it but of course there must be code tongue twisters (or more correc
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by bhaak 6y ago
This reality is crazy. Every year we're thinking it can't get more surreal.
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OP already looked at Bitcoin but as that is moving slowly, I pointed them in another direction where more stuff is happening. "Finance" is much more than just payments or store of value. Bitcoin is way behind Ethereum in that rega
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I wouldn’t call “animating a piece of text” on a HTML page as “web development. 16 bit home computers could do this better 10 years before JS.
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That belief is summarized in the crypto scene as "the herd is coming". Last bubble they didn't, this time, we will see.
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Don't look at Bitcoin. That hasn't changed much and not much interesting stuff (besides some drama) goes on there. Look at the Ethereum space. That's where most of the action is these days. DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is the
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I can totally believe how Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest of the cryptocurrency space could go through another bubble (the last one was quite small if you compare it to the DotCom bubble and consider how much money is floating around nowaday
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He‘s not British but was several years at an English university. If I interpret this sentence with English understatement, then indeed, he hates templates.
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> ( ) planetary-scale engineering is impractical I find your lack of vision disturbing. Given that we likely need planetary-scale engineering anyway in the next 50-100 years, getting a few asteroids to nudge the earth’s orbit a bit over
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Timezones were introduced as a generalization of country wide time references. And those were introduced because trains became so fast that calculating train tables with local time was very confusing. That issue wouldn’t be solved with GPS
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> when language + standard library + vm reference (if any) land in dead tree form. I find that comment quite funny, considering that the Java specifications came out in dead tree form already for Java 1.0. :-)
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Just as a recommendation, if you're on iOS, also use the whitepoint reduction feature in the accessibility settings. That reduces the brightness of the device further, even if you are already on the lowest brightness setting. Also, dep
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You can't assume competence after such an hack. Before this has happened, you would have assumed that Twitter employees wouldn't fall for social engineering on this scale. I wonder especially how they could have bypassed their 2FA

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