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by damienkatz 10y ago
"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme LateBinding of all things." What he's describing is the essence of Erlang.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
If you can quit your job for any reason in an at-will state, then it seem logical you can quit before actually starting.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
ICU would still be necessary for collation and case conversion.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
Joking? BOM is completely unnecessary in UTF8, only useful to losslessly preserve UTF16 text when converting back and forth.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
Are they the baddies?
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by damienkatz 10y ago
He'd trade it all away for just a little more.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
You got to provide more info than that! Was it suddenly regrown? Or grew in spurts? Slow and steady? At what point did they decide it was regrown? How well does it work? Or is this like some joke I would tell my kids how my leg was chopped
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by damienkatz 10y ago
Give me a concrete definition of free will. This is where such discussions fall over, inadequate definitions.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
I'd guess it doesn't really prevent cancer so much as boost your immune system so it can eliminate early tumors.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
1998. Lotus Formula Language Runtime engine. Completely rewrote the original written by Ray Ozzie. GA released in 1999 in Lotus Notes/Domino R5.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
Sarcasm? Handling brush can give you a nasty rash regardless. Some types can literally cause your skin to fall off if you're strongly allergic.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
I wonder what if he legitimately doesn't remember the passwords? How can you possibly prove or disprove such a thing?
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by damienkatz 10y ago
And massagers. For massaging.
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by damienkatz 10y ago
In 1973 the US mandated all new cars require unleaded gasoline. They had smaller filling ports so leaded pump nozzles couldn't be inserted. So no, leaded fuel wasn't banned then, but it's usage decreased rapidly from that ye
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by damienkatz 11y ago
A simple explanation for products using existing tech is be s full service vendor instead of just a few profitable niches. But that would imply them being a real business too, which doesn't seem to be the case.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Still there for me.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
For therapeutic use the drug has to work reliably and predictably. For criminal use it only has to work sometimes. Though I agree the whole thing sounds made up.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Right. And therefore rather pointless as the reason to capture these drones is because of safety issues.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
If you used tor then your IP came out of a Tor exit node, which is almost certainly associated with someone else's concurrent bad/spammy behavior. How could they know your aren't the bad guy?
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by damienkatz 11y ago
So if a convicted murderer moves in beside me, it's partially his fault if I attempt to murderer him in his sleep
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Agree. The unstated conclusion is nothing is close to being a C replacement. A good analysis of the languages anyway.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
The obscure part is relying on a side effect of the first clause in the second clause.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Rust prevents races but not deadlocks, which is one of the bigger problems in multithreaded GUI code.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Indeed. Predators can just camp out on the bridge waiting waiting for prey. No idea what that means in the bigger picture of balance.
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Wondering how/if they ensure the animals use the bridge rather cross the highway? Fencing? Natural selection (Animals who prefer bridges more likely to pass their genes down)?
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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)(talyarkoni.org)
81 points by damienkatz 11y ago|25 comments
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by damienkatz 11y ago
Thanks. Going to figure out tweaks for the audio. Still learning.
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by damienkatz 12y ago
Former serious Erlanger here. Lots of comments about performance and scaling in this thread. If you are writing a system for internal use, it's simple scalability and robustness make Erlang an excellent choice. Engineers are expensive,
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by damienkatz 13y ago
Posting out of turn? That's a banning. Posting from the wrong browser window? That's a banning. Staring at my post? That's a banning. Post about banning? Oh, better believe that's a banning.
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by damienkatz 13y ago
I believe it's only for stats, which means the stats might not be accurate, but shouldn't affect the proper functioning of code (assuming nothing relies on stats being accurate).

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