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by cygx 10y ago
I'd imagine the situation for the average Muslim (or at least nominal Muslim) and foreign travellers that toe the line would be somewhat similar to the experience in the German Democratic Republic. I suspect the situation is rather dif
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by cygx 10y ago
Tabloids have a long history of fabricating stories. Will they be held accountable? Tabloids are held accountable through the justice system and can be sued by victims of defamation or hate speech. The issue at hand is that in contrast to
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by cygx 10y ago
Some details about the measures under discussion: http://www.dw.com/en/500000-euro-fines-for-fake-news-on-face...
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by cygx 10y ago
You can trade some safety for syntactic convenience by using pointers to the subarrays instead of a pointer to the multidimensional array, eg void do_with_array(size_t m, size_t n, int a[static m][n]) { ... } int (*a)[n] = calloc
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by cygx 10y ago
According to which timezone?
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by cygx 10y ago
If that fails, the PSF has no choice. It's use it or lose it. Or license it.
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by cygx 10y ago
If the goal is to match math notation then wouldn't (^) or (+) make more sense? Not necessarily. & is the ASCII symbol associated with logical 'and' that most programming languages have settled on, including Perl6, so f
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by cygx 10y ago
What's the non-Unicode version of "∩"? Obviously it's "(&)"! I find that pretty obvious, actually. After all A ∩ B = { x ∈ A & x ∈ B }
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Perl 6 Books – The Time Is Ripe(perl6advent.wordpress.com)
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by cygx 10y ago
Your for loop works, whereas the one in the parent comment would run forever, correct? The other way around: size_t is an unsigned type, so decrementing 0 will wrap around to SIZE_MAX, a value that is positive as well as greater than 9. T
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by cygx 10y ago
this can lead to bugs with values greater than 2^sizeof(ssize_t) The range of indexable array elements is not only constrained by the unsigned type size_t, but also by the signed type ptrdiff_t, so you could always go with the latter inst
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by cygx 10y ago
I would not let that line pass code review. Obviously. However, it is an appropriate example if your goal is to teach the intricacies of the C language. You're right that if you provide such an example this early, it could perhaps us
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by cygx 10y ago
The C standards kind of have a main theme, eg numerics (aka eating Fortran's lunch) for C99 (_Complex, restrict, variable-length arrays, type-generic math functions, ...). While C11 is indeed to some degree a polishing of C99, its them
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by cygx 10y ago
Would anyone choose C for a new systems project with no legacy baggage or dependencies, in a world with Rust and Go? Note that Go does not entirely compete in the same space, and Rust is only starting to gain traction.
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by cygx 10y ago
Being based on a language revision that is only 5 years old instead of 17 or 27, for one.
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by cygx 10y ago
Emscripten[1] comes with SDL support (cf its test suite [2]). Not sure how complete it is. [1] http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/ [2] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/mas
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by cygx 10y ago
As did the OPERA guys, and yet a fiber optic cable attached improperly slipped through.
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by cygx 10y ago
The Papal condemnation of June 22, 1633, eg available at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/condem... in another translation. Also of interest, Galileo's recantation: http:/
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by cygx 10y ago
Even the idea that theological disagreement would land you on the pyre is flatly wrong. So why exactly were, say, Giordano Bruno or Jacob Hutter burned? It might not have been as widespread as some people believe, but it clearly did happe
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by cygx 10y ago
Bruno actually was questioned on terrestrial motion: Firstly, I say that the theories on the movement of the earth and on the immobility of the firmament or sky are by me produced on a reasoned and sure basis, which doesn’t undermine the a
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by cygx 10y ago
The audacity of a layperson to quote Augustine!
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by cygx 10y ago
Perhaps you might be interested what Ernest R. Hull, author of Galileo and his condemnation [1] had to say about that? > Thirdly, to Catholic Apologists : > (1) Avoid the mistake of minimizing the official action of the Church autho
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by cygx 10y ago
There's a fallacy in our history textbooks that Copernican astronomy was so obviously superior to Ptolemaic astronomy. The truth is, it wasn't. Not on astronomical grounds, but on philosophical ones. His observations (mountains
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by cygx 10y ago
As far as I'm aware, the unhealthy mixture of theology and astronomy was basically just him arguing what Augustine did, cf https://www.pibburns.com/augustin.htm
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by cygx 10y ago
Please enlighten us, then, how should we take the official charge brought forth against Galileo? We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo ... have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, th
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by cygx 10y ago
That site lists the things Bruno was accused of, not the ones he got convicted for - a rather important difference, don't you think?
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by cygx 10y ago
Actually, one of the eight propositions that got him executed was terrestrial movement, at least according to [1]. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20120615050646/http://www.bruno-g...
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by cygx 10y ago
_O_pen _S_ource
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by cygx 10y ago
*Haiku OS [1] [1] https://www.haiku-os.org/
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by cygx 10y ago
German here, I don't find that translation odd at all Just as another data point, I do. I'd only use it sarcastically, like Und, wann ist denn der kleine Scheißer fällig?

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