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SQLite 2021 status report [pdf](sqlite.org)
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by blacksqr 5y ago
It will work because the value passed to proc multiline within the curly braces is treated as a string without substitutions, that value is then passed to the regsub command which replaces all newlines in the string with spaces, then the re
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Re [1]: the libraries that delete an object when it goes out of scope use Tcl's built-in "trace" command, which lets you execute code when a command terminates or when a variable is deleted, among other events. So no, it&#x27
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by blacksqr 5y ago
In Tcl newlines only have special meaning at the end of a command -- at the beginning of a command they're just whitespace. So you can break up a long line as follows: set foo [ foofn bar [ barfn baz [ bazfn quz 1 ] ] ]
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Equal time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9102916
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Why is Tcl syntax so weird (2013)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
147 points by blacksqr 5y ago|100 comments
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Pdfsandwich(tobias-elze.de)
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by blacksqr 5y ago
In a democracy, voting.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
"The Safe module does not implement an effective sandbox for evaluating untrusted code with the perl interpreter." https://perldoc.perl.org/Safe
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A little backtracking Prolog interpreter in Tcl (2010)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Any thoughts on species Homo sapiens surviving?
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The chief problem with iron seeding is that it is one of many nutrients required. It may be the one most needed, but stimulating growth by supplying just iron depletes the ocean of the other needed nutrients, so you stimulate growth in the
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Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tackle climate change(chemistryworld.com)
79 points by blacksqr 5y ago|141 comments
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NIST Dataplot(itl.nist.gov)
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Combinator Engine in Tcl (2019)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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by blacksqr 5y ago
I was trying to respond to the claim that "intent is not law." Your point is valid but irrelevant. Even if intent to kill is not required in all cases to get a conviction for first degree murder, under the felony murder rule it is
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by blacksqr 5y ago
"The felony murder rule is an exception to the normal rules of homicide." https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/homicide/felony-mur...
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> Accidentally killing someone can still be a crime even if you didn't intend to kill them. Maybe, but the crime wouldn't be first degree murder. Try googling "mens rea"; e.g.: "A mens rea refers to the state of
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011847
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> the bottom line is that this summer in Florida, people did not do as well as they should have. Why? Because far too many of them died. The raw numbers alone are staggering. In all of 2020 — before vaccines essentially eliminated the ri
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The excellent book Ariel Like A Harpy, an analysis of the Shelleys' Frankenstein and Prometheus Unbound, includes a chapter on R.U.R., and draws explicit lines of influence linking them.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The word 'robota' is also related to the German word 'arbeiter'; both suggesting 'laborer' at the most basic level, and sometimes used as a euphemism for outright slave. Thus the ironic power of the word's
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by blacksqr 5y ago
According to my recollection and accounts of others I've read, a huge part of Python's early success was the maintainers' decision to support a comprehensive "batteries included" distribution of extension modules, i
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TCL: The Tool Command Language – Lisp for the Masses [video](youtube.com)
46 points by blacksqr 5y ago|40 comments
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Flask: A mini-flex/lex in Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
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Tcl client library for the NATS message broker(github.com)
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Article links to a preprint of a paper it describes as "the best study to date" to bolster its arguments. That paper contains the quote: "Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Funny that the article links to an AP story that refutes the judge's statements; e.g: "The Associated Press analyzed more than 300 criminal cases stemming from the protests incited by Floyd’s murder, showing that many leftist riot
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Document link goes to AAPS web site. Wikipedia: "The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association that promotes medical disinformation, such as HIV/AIDS denialism, the
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The Tcl thread library allows you to create multiple threads in a single interpreter, and use mutexes. locks etc. to manage them. In this case of course you only need to initialize your interpreter once. The library is most used in an &quo

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