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901.
by choeger 6y ago
Out of curiosity: What happens with messages that are never received? Do they just pile up until the (not-so) receiving process OOMs? How does one debug such a program?
902.
by choeger 6y ago
University is, at least in the classical form, a scientific institution. And science is communicated in writing . So at least in principle, exercising the writing of papers and essays under time pressure is completely natural. In practic
903.
by choeger 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I must have misread that part.
904.
by choeger 6y ago
Thank you very much for this clarification.
905.
by choeger 6y ago
You are certainly right in that observation. But there is slightly more to it. The "generic" concept from Java and C++ is more akin to the functors of the ML family. In that view, the question is not how to efficiently compile fun
906.
by choeger 6y ago
If your dad should still be alive you should ask him how he managed to get his P51 shot directly above a friendly airfield. I have a hunch, there's a story behind that.
907.
by choeger 6y ago
Still, they are correct. I can tell you from first-hand experience that this is what happened to many east Germans. Mass unemployment, deserted cities and rural areas, general loss of perspective lead to many social problems, right-wing ext
908.
by choeger 6y ago
I remember fondly that I was toying around with the level editor of Duke Nukem 3D as a kid. Now I understand why it wouldn't really work out the way I assumed it would. Not only did I not understand much of english back then, but it wa
909.
by choeger 6y ago
I said this once and I'll say it again: To counter such threats we need a healthy heterogeneous ecosystem. According to the article, the attack would have been prevented by using Firefox, (because it relied on a Chrome CVE). It also di
910.
by choeger 6y ago
I did use rust and I never came across a template system ;). However, rust makes certain design choices that C++ leaves open. They aren't too dissimilar in many aspects, and rust definitely is the sound of the two languages. But what I
911.
by choeger 6y ago
These companies should come up with a practical version of the AGPL or, if they don't find a need, just use it directly. Cooking up your own license ala Mongo is not going to help you amongst the professional users. Companies that ta
912.
by choeger 6y ago
a) (hopefully) comes from an analysis of standardized and published contracts ("short positions"). Presumably, a hedge fund has to publicly announce which such positions they hold. So in theory, you should be able to dog through t
913.
by choeger 6y ago
You are right in the observation that it will save some lines of code to be /written/. Whether or not that's an essential improvement for the writers of code, I don't know (one must weigh the cost of knowing the feature&
914.
by choeger 6y ago
I don't think so. Before: "You got a const value /here/ because you called /this/ function which is declared to yield a constant /there/.". Now: "You got a const value /here/ becau
915.
by choeger 6y ago
IMO, this article shows what is wrong with C++. 1. The problem statement is well-defined and C++ is the language that cares about these details (compared to, e.g., Java or even Rust). 2. The author correctly identifies a feature in the la
916.
by choeger 6y ago
> but it seems like a hedge fund can just buy the shares from the people they borrowed from That's not how it works. A short position is basically the contract to deliver a stock regardless of its price at that point, so neither the
917.
by choeger 6y ago
I strongly suggest a container or VM for building because of hygiene. A Golang binary is not completely standalone (do a ldd if you don't believe me). Just copying might lead to bizarre runtime errors. And if course, if you are tru
918.
by choeger 6y ago
That's only part of the story. Current house prices are so high that only the absolute top of the income class can afford to pay off a mortgage. Just an example: In Berlin you will pay around 850.000EUR for a newly-built single family
919.
by choeger 6y ago
Not everywhere. There are many professions that do not take part in the growth of productivity. Medical Doctors for instance (even though some radiologists try hard to) are limited by interactions with their patients. The same holds for emp
920.
by choeger 6y ago
At some point the language becomes so small that the true featureset is hidden in libraries or extensions. Prime example: Lisp. The language has the smallest possible syntax, but its semantics are mostly in special forms. If you don't
921.
by choeger 6y ago
With the proximity of legal text and computer code, I always wondered how big a market lawyers are for pretty standard programming language tools and services. At the same time I am not so sure whether we should bring said tools and service
922.
by choeger 6y ago
Don't forget the people that use it as an excuse to not do what they simply don't want to do. "Sorry, we cannot contact you via email, GDPR, you understand? You have to come to us and have an awkward sales talk in order to
923.
by choeger 6y ago
Ah, you caught me there ;). I was hoping someone would spill their secret quantum gravity theory on Hackernews.
924.
by choeger 6y ago
Maybe of interest in that context: https://github.com/ModiaSim/Modia.jl The authors of that tool have a strong background in modeling and simulation of differential algebraic equations. Not so much in designing DSLs, t
925.
by choeger 6y ago
Maybe I am missing something, but how could a quantum theory of gravity explain curvature of spacetime? If a photon follows a curve around a large mass, it does so because that curve is the shortest path through spacetime, if I am not mista
926.
by choeger 6y ago
Documentation sucks because nothing is used very often anymore. In the good old days (TM), software was used for much longer in pretty much the same shape. Think of GNU coreutils. In contrast, your API or your frontend code or your Amazon L
927.
by choeger 6y ago
Your numbers are not quite accurate. A real world example in the suggests more like $7.5B / Gw for a new nuclear plant and a whopping total of $27B. Gigafactory construction was finished after two years. A nuclear power plant takes at
928.
by choeger 6y ago
Nuclear power (in its current form) is extremely impractical compared to wind and solar. 1. It is obviously dangerous, requiring extreme safety measures. 2. It requires large amounts of water. 3. It is unpopular. 4. It is so complex that bu
929.
by choeger 6y ago
Is it the added sugar or sugar in general? Is a glas of (pure) orange juice the same as a glas of coke?
930.
by choeger 6y ago
Actually I think batteries will be the cheapest option for a very long time. They can be produced at a much higher scale than today (I wouldn't be surprised if we see 10x the production in the next five to ten years and consequently pr

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