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by gdwatson 10y ago
On the safety net, it's worth remembering that Christian societies have historically had other institutions than government into which to channel their collective efforts. The notion that all "the things we choose to do together&
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by gdwatson 10y ago
"At what point do you deem social behavior unacceptable? It's a fine line to draw and one that might be difficult for many communities to do correctly." This is key. A large part of contemporary American (and, as I understan
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Python has a much more complicated runtime system which assumes a lot of things that wouldn't be true for a driver. It could probably be adapted to work, but it's a square-peg/round-hole situation. By comparison, C's ru
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Customary semantics(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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Serious Eats has to structure its reviews differently to avoid offending advertisers. It insists that its product recommendations are independent of outside influence, but it avoids discussing its non-recommendations, which makes some arti
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by gdwatson 10y ago
Isn't the whole point of free trade agreements to prevent those sorts of tariffs? Does NAFTA not cover cheese?
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by gdwatson 10y ago
If the government will not release its claims or what evidence it has for them, how can you be confident the case has been misrepresented?
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by gdwatson 10y ago
Does anyone have references to more specific accusations against ITT? There are lots of vague claims in the article, but the only semi-specific ones -- misleading students about program quality and pushing them into irresponsible loans --
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by gdwatson 10y ago
I too wish he'd written about more than the façade, but this piece is only the first in a series. He goes on to talk about garages and columns, so perhaps he'll get to interiors.
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AWildDHHAppears' post is idiomatic English. It's not usual to avoid any mention of gender in English; some people avoid it for political reasons. But when you're translating a gender-marked word into an English equivalent wh
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by gdwatson 10y ago
Part of the problem is that Reddit even more than Twitter is structured as a meta-community, and so any standards which are imposed will be external to a given sub-community. That means that they will be perceived as, and may sometimes be
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Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error About ‘Psychoticism’(nymag.com)
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by gdwatson 10y ago
It's not just class politics. Different social classes have (broadly speaking) different values. If you consider yourself a cosmopolitan and a citizen of the world, the losses to local community that accompany increased mobility may
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by gdwatson 10y ago
It's the other way around on FreeBSD: csh is the default for root and sh for users.
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As to3m says, this is often done in programming language interpreters. If most objects in your language were heap allocated and you want to store a small integer you would allocate a new object on the heap with space for one integer, set up
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by gdwatson 10y ago
There was a time when PC vendors had preinstalled applications — honest-to-goodness applications, not bloatware — as a competitive advantage. For Microsoft to forbid this would probably be called out as anticompetitive with regard to those
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by gdwatson 10y ago
Twitter used to have RSS feeds, and then they took them away as they made their content more siloed.
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by gdwatson 10y ago
What about the level of hardware failure with floppy disks? CF cards seem pretty suitable. They're simple and well established; there's likely to be a supply of them for a long time, and it seems feasible to have a batch custom m
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by gdwatson 10y ago
That might be better, but it would still be misleading. "Denser" languages would have more bugs per line, but also fewer lines per program. I've never used APL and wouldn't want to debug it, but its bug-to-line ratio co
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by gdwatson 10y ago
Because it's a widely-used hack that predates optimizers' obsessive exploitation of undefined behavior, it's become part of the language's customary semantics and is supported everywhere I know of. C99 adds a feature cal
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Customary semantics of programming languages (2014)(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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by gdwatson 11y ago
Enriquto asked for closures which remain valid after the enclosing function has returned — upward funargs. If the closed-over variables need to survive the parent’s stack frame, where else would you put them?
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by gdwatson 11y ago
That would require implicit heap allocation, which is a lot to ask for in a language where malloc is a library function.
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by gdwatson 11y ago
Could you provide examples? I give to a couple of creators through Patreon, and I might want to reconsider.
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by gdwatson 11y ago
Socially conservative views often get downvoted, but it seems to depend heavily on the thread. Whether it's a function of a given thread's topic or its participants is hard to say. The discussions of Brendan Eich's appointme
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How much? On which applications?
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I assume it's because the standard doesn't guarantee a linear address space.
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I think this is the right spirit. C makes a lot of things undefined that could be implementation defined even on weird hardware. That would considerably reduce the gap between customary C and standard C for "normal" hardware whil
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by gdwatson 11y ago
One of my criteria for choosing a theme for source highlighting is that it not make keywords both bright and bold at the same time, which makes code harder to read and to scan. A startling number of themes do this. Judicious, typographic
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by gdwatson 11y ago
What would you have liked to see in a discussion of the subject?

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