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by ebg13 6y ago
> why can't it be used? It's not Lua. This is not a thread about things missing from C. It's a thread about things missing from Lua. Suggesting to just use an entirely different language is bizarrely mishandling the issu
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by ebg13 6y ago
> as usual, Lua-users provides some incite into... (insight) It makes me sad that Lua's refusal to standardize good ways to do things led to the language's primary resource being a community message board filled with back-and-f
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by ebg13 6y ago
It would still be lightweight and embeddable with common sense pure Lua functionality like classes and major utility methods like string.startswith/string.endswith/string.trim/string.split/table.deepcopy. You don't
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by ebg13 6y ago
Do you also carry a table deepcopy with you? What about string.trim? And LuaRocks is a trash fire that doesn't integrate well with Lua's primary role as an embedded plugin engine and leaves you to waste your time in endless discov
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by ebg13 6y ago
Lua will never be more popular without a proper standard library. Leaving everything up to the user so that you have to manually implement (or hunt the web for) even the most basic features is mega annoying. How many millions of people need
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by ebg13 6y ago
> functools.singledispatch works with type annotations[2] Only for the first argument. "Note that the dispatch happens on the type of the first argument, create your function accordingly". Making delegated kwargs transparent
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by ebg13 6y ago
State requirement vs federal requirement. A better question I think is how did the US Supreme Court get the decision so spectacularly wrong?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Ah. It seems unreasonable to me to consider the 2080 and 2080Ti as different generations when they were released at the same time. Also I think we should factor that the 3080 at $700 costs _half_ what I paid for a 2080Ti in December (The AS
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by ebg13 6y ago
I missed a step here. How is the 3080 3 generations newer than either the 2080 or the 1080Ti?
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's an interesting visualization, but, to reuse a phrase that I heard here recently, these scores are a Ouija board based on entirely arbitrary choices made by an entirely arbitrary group of people. The US has not met the alleged crit
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It's not at all clear that everything relevant to the mind is found in the connections rather than the particular biochemical processes I wouldn't expect anyone to consider the connectome to be absent the processes inside e
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by ebg13 6y ago
It seems obviously fabricated that a pile of phones hang from a tree and not one person turns them off, smashes them, or takes them.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I lived in the center of Paris for years on a few Altairian dollars per day, and you're being ridiculous. Rental prices in Paris proper, not even the banlieue, are about the same per foot as Cambridge/Somerville/Boston while
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by ebg13 6y ago
> no way to go anywhere (no parking, no meaningful transport, because 'everything we'd let you have is a short walk away') It's news to me that the Paris Bus, Tram, Metro, RER, SNCF, Velib, and the venerable scooter
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by ebg13 6y ago
> in a Parisian... Having occupied a 120 square foot chambre de bonne, I agree with your sentiment but I'd say it depends on a few qualifications. Like for instance not having basically plumbed closets as a large percentage of ava
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by ebg13 6y ago
> a tire that acts stiff at high speed, but still grips while cornering and braking Having a higher PSI rating and an air pump + brake-controlled deflate valve could do this.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I'm stoked about eliminating parking mandates and restriction on homes per lot, but not thrilled by binding that to floor area maximums.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> and doesn't make my eyes bleed from the brightness Some of the frequencies used in the audio do make my ears bleed though. :\
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by ebg13 6y ago
I wonder. Have humans managed as a collective to do anything responsibly in their entire history?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Not sure why you're getting downvoted It was downvoted already before I got here, but I personally loathe "obligatory simpsons/xkcd/etc" and "does/did anyone else <irrelevant thing>?" mem
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Why do you think fighters carry a bunch of “drones strapped with explosives” (air-to-air missiles) for air-to-air combat? They don't typically carry _hundreds_, though. Carrying capacity for air-to-air missiles is pretty low. Yo
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Provocative, but covered Feet; Any gender What, uh, exactly are "provocative feet"?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> If you dig into the data, you'll see it's closer to "100 marriages this year, 50 divorces -- omg half of marriages end in divorce!" This is only true if there were zero existing, previous marriages before this year
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by ebg13 6y ago
Is it a giveaway if the codes didn't work?
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by ebg13 6y ago
Text is readable for me in the viewer. Did you use the magnifying glass icons in the bottom right to zoom in?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> This is not relevant for URL or search bars since they need to be displayed horizontally Need? Has anyone tried?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Sometimes logical fallacies get a point across A fallacious point. That's the point.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Reddit itself has no means of monetization. This is a classic confusion about the nature of currency and networks. Direct monetization is one kind of success but not the only one. For one thing, a hate prophet doesn't need money
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I don't think “places to be hateful on the internet” are in short supply. Neither are ways of committing suicide, and yet stopping people from accessing _obvious_ and _easy_ options does reduce the number of people doing it.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> pushing people further into the fringes doesn't do that. Citation needed. Tautalogically, making things harder to discover literally does make them harder to discover.

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