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by bhaak 2y ago
Another problem that would be trivially solved 100% correctly with proper data tagging. Pareto solution: look up that person’s Twitter account which often also include pronouns if they care about that.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Small nitpick. In both chains the attack happened. But in one chain the whole community decided to disown the attacker by injecting hard coded transactions that would send the Ethers back to their original owners.
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by bhaak 2y ago
So nobody will be able to recover them if you are hit by a bus or develop dementia? This problem is harder if you want to pass on your crypto after you can't use them anymore.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Not to Reddit? I hardly ever saw adult content on Twitter.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Great read. Thanks!
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by bhaak 2y ago
Any special LaTeX packages you are using?
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by bhaak 2y ago
The proper support is still very limited. You can still do "bool b = 10" or "int i = true". C being C ("everything is an int") this will be coerced to 1.
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by bhaak 2y ago
I remember a 2 hours debugging session when I started learning Objective-C. I don't remember what I did wrong but I somehow tripped over Objective-C's boolean which isn't a proper type but just a macro of an int value like it
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by bhaak 2y ago
Neither on SE nor here I could find a mention of dead keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key I can't claim I know how they relate exactly to the accented characters being encoded in character sets but they
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by bhaak 2y ago
I didn't comment on the character sets but on the claim that text being drawn as bitmaps instead with a fixed character mode was "a very new development". At least 40 years is not very new.
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by bhaak 2y ago
It's not "only". A similar question is why does ASCII have a control character for ringing a bell? The answer is that the character sets were designed with specific hardware in mind and often with backwards compatibility. The
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by bhaak 2y ago
> Having an OS drawing characters on a bitmap display, a prerequisite to composing, is a very new development, way more recent than the character definitions leading to above encoding. New? Some computers of the 1980s could already do th
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by bhaak 2y ago
Why? Back in the day you could output a text file directly onto the printer and it would print, possibly interpreting control characters like backspace or carriage return to overwrite existing characters. For that, the printer would also ne
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by bhaak 2y ago
I asked the same question years ago. :) The probable answer is that he thought about modeling the rectangle with rounded rects with a single mathematical expression. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15073696 That's
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by bhaak 2y ago
It's fortunate for us that kangaroos and sled dogs don't hunt us. We didn't need to be the best distance runners. It was enough to be the best distance running hunter of the local area.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Better than before is not necessarily good. There are still lots of warts and gotchas. In that regard JavaScript is a lot like C++. You can write pretty good C++ if you know what you are doing but the old ways are still possible and haunt y
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by bhaak 2y ago
I mean to send out their own DCMA notices. Not receiving them. At least that's how I understood OP.
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by bhaak 2y ago
What kind of IP has "a physics-based sandbox game" (quote Wikipedia) that warrants DCMA notices? I mean to send out their own DCMA notices. Not receiving them.
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by bhaak 2y ago
Pretty harsh words for an issue that is not really language specific. Numbers are not as easy as they seem. Computer numbers are not the same as the numbers from mathematics. Is "0.5" supposed to be a floating point number or a ra
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by bhaak 2y ago
I think there is also a gotcha there as you get a ratio in Common Lisp and not a floating point number. > (print (format t "1 divided by 2 is ~a and its type is ~a" (/ 1 2) (type-of (/ 1 2)))) > 1 divided by 2 is 1
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by bhaak 2y ago
> It seems to encourage highly dynamic code where even identifiers are dynamically created, so often you'll find an identifier, and try to search for its definition but get zero results. I wouldn't say it encourages it explicit
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by bhaak 2y ago
Does any of the programming languages Guy Steele worked with do the former and not the latter? Java certainly doesn't: https://godbolt.org/z/b847KeaGv There's a good reason for this. Computer numbers are not
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by bhaak 2y ago
One of the central arguments for Ruby is that performance is not everything (it was always slow compared to other programming languages) but programmer satisfaction is more important. I'd say Ruby is the programming language I want to
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by bhaak 2y ago
You don't seem to have any knowledge about the history of programming languages. There have been several lines of PL syntaxes since the 50s. You are crazy if you think that a C style for loop is good designed. It's way to powerful
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by bhaak 3y ago
This. I have a project that has the additional problem that during building some generated Windows binaries have to be called. On Debian with wine-binfmt the build can call the crosscompiled intermediate binaries and have them executed with
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by bhaak 3y ago
My personal experience with CMake is contrary to your claim. CMake based compilation breaks far more often for me than with Autotools and because of the crappy documentation I can rarely fix it myself. Cargo and other modern package manager
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by bhaak 3y ago
Standards are good. Replacing standard autoconf with handedited Makefiles is going back to dark practices from the 20th century when this tool actually wants to "throw away the 20th century".
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by bhaak 3y ago
I'm a regular GeoGuessr player and I use the meta stuff mainly for getting quickly out of boring locations without losing too much points. For example South America and Africa are huge and it's really no fun getting dumped somewhe
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by bhaak 3y ago
F-Droid allows to install development versions but it seems there aren't any for VLC. But there are nightlies on VLC's site itself: https://nightlies.videolan.org/
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by bhaak 3y ago
Because I didn't know about it. Although if I look at its documentation, it's already a somewhat complicate invocation with unclear effects (lots of commandline options). Git seems to not be able to do KISS. git ls-files and tar i

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