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by couchand 3y ago
Suspect this was posted in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38875551 I'd love to read an article with an overview of libraries like these. There seem to be many and it would be neat to see them compare
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by couchand 3y ago
Ok, so I've been taking a crack at this. Can you help me understand something? On page 8, figure 5, the production for the entire program starts '.SYNTAX' .ID .OUT('ADR' *) ... but I'm having trouble
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by couchand 3y ago
It's an extended metaphor... the harpischord is the author's blog, the church is the community of readers and other bloggers.
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by couchand 3y ago
To add to what others have said, a big part for me is that you're asking folks to come. For the most part the social expectations of guests are pretty light: watch this quietly, light mingling and chatting, clap when it's time.
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by couchand 3y ago
It's hard, and many of us (myself included) and not great at it. That makes it seem easier to reach for the simulacrum. But at what cost? Homo sapiens's superpower is social cooperation. My concern is that these systems will ab
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by couchand 3y ago
I agree there are difficult coordination problems that our society has failed to grapple with, let alone solve.
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by couchand 3y ago
> I don't need to bother some Torch expert to do it for me. This is, indeed, the core of our disagreement. You seem confident it would be a bother to others to ask for help. I'm confident that there are many who would value t
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by couchand 3y ago
Perhaps you've omitted some important context here, or you're using an extremely restricted definition of "works"? The interesting and hard question with software is not "did it compile" but rather "did i
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by couchand 3y ago
This post is absolutely devastating to me. Salvatore is surely one of the most capable software engineers working today. He can lucidly see that this supposed tool is completely useless to him within his area of expertise. Then, rather t
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by couchand 3y ago
The stereotypical buy-a-gym-membership-use-it-once resolution doesn't encompass the whole of the thing. Another line of thinking that goes into things like New Years' resolutions is the idea that significant change can only be int
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by couchand 3y ago
That's covered on page 8 of the field manual [0]. Most of the words are real, some are not, and those are called out specially. Also, there are rules for ignoring letters. Generally, the journalism glosses over much of the detail.
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by couchand 3y ago
> Modern Singers, however, are bottom-of-the-market plastic chunks of crap, their reputation running off the fumes of a bygone century. This is very true. The one exception that comes to mind is the 44S, which is notable for being a sol
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by couchand 3y ago
It's on the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are paywalls ok? > It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
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by couchand 3y ago
Infinite precision is just analog's version of an infinitely-long tape.
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by couchand 3y ago
I mean, maybe? The New York Republican Party is such an utter joke I'm not sure it would matter.
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by couchand 3y ago
I believe you said > any nontrivial program will have unsafe somewhere, and unsafe can cause failures arbitrarily far away from the incorrect code But the point I was trying to make is that this claim is facially true but misses the crit
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by couchand 3y ago
Please show me where in that citation is any reference to an LLC being "exempt from the normal responsibilities of debts and liabilities". As the discussion there indicates, limited liability is a totally normal thing, and despit
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by couchand 3y ago
> If Rust doesn't give you more and better support in doing that than C does, then it's not really making a difference. It does and if you've been missing that you've misunderstood this whole discussion. Rust allows
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by couchand 3y ago
> exempt from the normal responsibilities of debts and liabilities I'm sorry, what are you talking about?
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by couchand 3y ago
As you've identified this is not the rational application of checks and balances, this is settling scores and executing vendettas in machine politics. Welcome to New York, baby!
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by couchand 3y ago
That is, unfortunately, the recent normal in New York Democratic politics. The machine politicians who reach leadership positions have little incentive to advance popular priorities, and instead use every opportunity to strike back at memb
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by couchand 3y ago
Those don't describe New York politics in the slightest. New York's governor has been a Democrat since Pataki gave up the job in 2006. The state legislature has had a Democratic majority since 2011, though for many years a small g
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by couchand 3y ago
I don't know, to me it seems ahead of its time...
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by couchand 3y ago
> the District of Columbia's local laws are technically federal laws. Cannabis has been legal in DC for 8 years. See Initiative 71.
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by couchand 3y ago
I'm currently getting nginx 404s on the git of Thesueus links, fyi.
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by couchand 3y ago
Good luck filing an insurance claim for damage caused by the use of a non-UL-listed appliance.
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by couchand 3y ago
The legal question is discussed in the fine article. > Disney has also started using this logo before some of its films. > If you make your own Mickey cartoon, can Disney use trademark law to interfere? Trademark law is all about prev
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by couchand 3y ago
I suspect the parent meant to ignore the downvotes, which, incidentally is also one of the rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by couchand 3y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/526/
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by couchand 3y ago
Not the OP, but they appear to use the classic change-making algorithm "Dimes are Best". It works like this: give dimes for change, they're the best coin (highest value density).

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