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by bregma 2y ago
Just think: AI is being used to train doctors too.
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by bregma 2y ago
Most days I'm in bed (and asleep withing 5 minutes) at 22:00 and awake at 05:30. I'm over 60, 7.5 hours sleep is just right for me. I have a one-hour commute each way and usually leave home at 06:45 and arrive back around 18:00. I
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by bregma 2y ago
That should be an optional minus sign, not an optional hyphen. Also, the radix character is locale-dependent so your should use a character class for it.
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by bregma 2y ago
I've been writing C++ for well over 30 years. I'm currently employed full-time maintaining the C++ toolchain, runtime, and standard libraries for a major commercial embedded OS. I see a lot of C++17 being used by my customers ever
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by bregma 2y ago
To be fair, the GNU implementation of std::regex has to conform to the API defined by ISO/IEC 14882 (The C++ Programming Language). If you don't have to provide that API purely in a header file, it gets pretty easy to write someth
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by bregma 2y ago
Because there has been significant academic infighting over whose theory it is, and whether the evidence comes from a faked source.
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by bregma 2y ago
That's exactly how QNX works today, except all drivers (eg. block device access, storage space) are just userspace processes, as is the database layer. But in that case, the OS is not layered on top of the database, they're all pe
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by bregma 2y ago
By 'invert the computing paradigm' they seem to mean 'reinvent IBM MVS and CICS from the 1970s'. Of course, it's still around and dominates some industries, but hey, where's the marketing spin in that?
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by bregma 2y ago
To be fair, it does have a certain flow.
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by bregma 2y ago
Of course, there's an emacs command to do that.
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by bregma 2y ago
Why would you want to use a cartoonish GUI for a text application like email when using a terminal interface is so much easier?
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by bregma 2y ago
I need to know where the cave is that holds these Platonic emotions. I keep reading about EQ, and feeling the "right" emotions, and "mental health." Unfortunately, I feel what I feel when I feel it even when I get told w
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by bregma 2y ago
Filter tip only, I hope.
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by bregma 2y ago
A toaster is normally filled with dessicated carbohydrate particles, which are an explosive fire risk. I would think going through dishwasher would significantly reduce the fire risk.
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by bregma 2y ago
That's where I learned he was a self-righteous pompous prick who was probably shunned by his peers and never invited to the good parties. Kicked out of his own family when he was a young self-righteous pompous prick and never reconcile
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by bregma 2y ago
Yes. And C can also be used with Python and Rust. That does not make this a Rust library.
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by bregma 2y ago
With 64 kilobytes of core memory to run in (and no swap), linkers were usually limited to 6 or 8 character symbol names. Compilers could let you name your variables anything but "my_value" and "my_valence_count" would st
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by bregma 2y ago
This is when the doctor leaves the ER examining room for a minute and you glance at the notes. "No abuse suspected at this time" is all you have time to make out before his swift return with the prescription for the antibiotics an
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by bregma 2y ago
Now do cabling. No, not the server cabinet kind, the kind where you cross groups of knit stitches over each other to make 3-D columns from flat rows.
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by bregma 2y ago
Butter cookie tins. Some have sewing supplies. Some are stuffed to the brim with Canadian Tire money. Some may have cookies.
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by bregma 2y ago
> No clue how they would have harvested and disposed of the tainted flax. It's flax. Harvest it before it goes to seed, ret it, break it, scutch it, spin it, weave it, make it into expensive garments. Unless you eat your shirt it&#x
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by bregma 2y ago
Very true. Then again, if you don't need to tear down anything (ie. run destructors) during error handling you're either not doing any error handling or you're not doing any useful work.
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by bregma 2y ago
That's a beneficial side effect, not the purpose of having tests. It's like saying the purpose of eating is to fill your senses with wonderful flavours and texture. No, that's a beneficial side effect: the purpose of eating i
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by bregma 2y ago
If you're on one of the platforms with sane exception handling, it's a matter of emitting different assembly code for the landing pad so that when unwinding it calls std::terminate instead of running destructors for the local scop
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by bregma 2y ago
There was a selective breeding program during World War II to make rubber from the milkweed latex. I swear the annual crop from my back forty could have supplied the entire allied war effort but evidently the quality of the rubber was poor
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by bregma 2y ago
Tests are just a way of providing evidence that your software does what it's supposed to. If you're not providing evidence, you're just saying "trust me, I'm a programmer." Think back to grade school math class
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by bregma 2y ago
POS terminals and electronic billboards are not desktops, though, so arguments about desktop software is irrelevant. These are all dedicated application appliances with known, controlled hardware and software constraints. Using a general-pu
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by bregma 2y ago
> There's Olympic gold medals on the line. People are going absolutely as hard as they can. They don't have to outswim the bear. They just have to outswim the silver medalist.
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by bregma 2y ago
Well, we didn't start the FIRE. It was always burning since the world's been turning.
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by bregma 2y ago
There's a bunker outside of Ottawa Canada, intended to house a select core of the federal government during and after a nuclear horrocaust, that is (at least) 10 storeys of underground on a sprung foundation. It's now a museum to

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