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by cygx 9y ago
Not everything that's theoretically unsound is a problem in practice (eg a 128-bit address space would clearly be large enough - there are only so many atoms on the surface of the earth, and the number of glyphs written by humans is qu
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by cygx 9y ago
Correct. I should also have clarified that my comment applies to Rakudo Perl6 running on MoarVM. As far as I'm aware, other backends are still behind in implementing proper Unicode semantics.
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by cygx 9y ago
For what it's worth, I disagree and was a bit annoyed that you've re-opened that particular Pandora's box again ;)
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by cygx 9y ago
Perl6 extends (NFC normalized) UTF-32 with autogenerated 'synthetic' codpoints for grapheme clusters. This yields an upper bound for the number of unique multi-codepoint grapheme clusters a Perl6 program may encounter (something l
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by cygx 9y ago
While I do think it is a stupid idea, whether or not it's make or break will of course depend on what else the laguage has to offer and what the alternatives are. I've used JavaScript and PHP in the past (and even enjoyed it!), ne
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by cygx 9y ago
Implicit declarations also mean the compiler is less likely to catch typoed names. From the perspective of language design, attempts to improve upon explicitly declared block-scoped lexical variables generally fail.
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by cygx 9y ago
Not sure if bees might do it this way - but just looking at pictures of early stages of nests such as [1] or [2], wasps apparently don't: It looks as if they do construct proper hexagons from the get-go. [1] http://www.local
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by cygx 9y ago
prefixing variables with "my" to create lexical scope I strongly disagree: From a languge design perspective, block-level lexical scoping with explicit declarations is superior to all alternatives I'm aware of.
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by cygx 9y ago
Winxed was NotFound's brainchild, though I believe Whiteknight did push its usage. The way I remember it, the issue was that later versions of NQP moved towards greater backend independence and no longer mapped directly to Parrot VM se
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by cygx 9y ago
2? It's 5 now! https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484228982 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920065883.do https://deeptext.media/perl6-at-a-glance/ https:/
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by cygx 9y ago
Parrot was implemented in C, and to my recollection implemented various iterations of bytecode syntaxes, notably PBC PBC was the bytecode format, the human readable low-level syntax was called PASM and the slightly higher-level synax was
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by cygx 9y ago
At constant force, Musk's statement is exactly true: s = W/F v = P/F
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by cygx 9y ago
Not necessarily. Case in point: Its language regarding patents is what made the OSI reject CC0 (or discuss it to death until its application was withdrawn): Without an explicit mention of patents, it's up to the courts to decide whethe
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by cygx 9y ago
'auto' means 'automatic storage duration' and does not carry type information.
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by cygx 9y ago
Higgs boson == inertial mass is very misleading. Mass is essentially rest energy by another name. The presence of a non-zero Higgs field gives certain elementary particles that would otherwise be massless such a non-zero rest energy. In c
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by cygx 9y ago
there seems to be a misconception that a geodesic is a "generalized straight line". That is not remotely true. Geodesics, in mathematics, are "shortest paths". Geodesics being generalized straight lines is exactly true
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by cygx 9y ago
Another interesting anecdote: Those who recover memories of alien abduction will have positive or negative experiences depending heavily on which 'therapist' they visit: The memories probably get created (or fleshed out based on u
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by cygx 9y ago
https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/
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by cygx 9y ago
The gender gap in the open source world is notoriously bad (worse than in the idustry as a whole), and this goes beyond women not being able to pull their weight. There are fun statistics such as that women who are not immediately recogniza
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by cygx 9y ago
It's an effort to make the programming community more accessible to currently underrepresented groups. Expanding the base is one way to improve a meritocracy.
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by cygx 9y ago
Today.
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by cygx 9y ago
Just like JavaScript, PHP used to be slow. Then, large amounts of effort and/or money were spent into making them not so.
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by cygx 9y ago
Daemon managing daemons, actually. Also note that Guix is technically just the package manager - the distro is called GuixSD.
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by cygx 9y ago
I am just stating that more pollution per square foot will destroy that part of earth more and therefore damage environment more. CO2 does not care about which piece of land it gets emitted from: As far as the main subject under discussio
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by cygx 9y ago
Meanwhile, wind energy accounted for 14.2% of net public electricity production in Germany in 2016. Here's the breakup[1] according to the Frauenhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems[2]. [1] http://i.imgur.com/Xi6Zpi
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by cygx 9y ago
That doesn't really affect your rights: You still own the program, you may still use the program, and you may even still sue the software vendor if the program doesn't work as expected. What the disclaimer is supposed to achieve i
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by cygx 9y ago
In what sense? You can still use the software, you just can't expect its use to yield a particular result and sue the programmer if it doesn't live up to that expectation.
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by cygx 9y ago
there's load work to do from the eff FSF
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by cygx 9y ago
That's a question that has to be answered by lawyers and judges. Personally, I doubt that blanket disclaimers really do much of anything in my jurisdiction.
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by cygx 9y ago
Premise: You have legally obtained a copy of some software. Status quo: You can use the software. You're not allowed to redistribute copies or modified versions of the software. EULA: You may only use the software if you agree to addit

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