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by jhgb 1y ago
Kennedy's speech is hardly "a schedule". There were definitely delays in the Apollo project, like the Apollo 4 launch that was delayed by (almost?) a year.
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by jhgb 1y ago
To be fair, there's no claim being made that this was supposed to be a from-scratch implementation of Javascript. Just an equivalent to Deno/Node which don't have their own implementation of Javascript either.
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by jhgb 3y ago
You have to be at least 41 years old to remember that bc exists in the first place.
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by jhgb 3y ago
Is it a rewrite...or a completely new piece of software that simply takes the NginX experience into consideration when designing its features?
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by jhgb 3y ago
Economy is not a zero sum game. There's no reason why both sides can't benefit from it.
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by jhgb 3y ago
"Giving away the novel to a national university for academic discussion" Except a national university will almost certainly buy a copy, so your desired academic discussion will be unimpeded.
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by jhgb 3y ago
You mean the "major shareholder" who intervened in the Starlink division when progress was going nowhere, and suddenly progress was going somewhere? On that note, it's funny how some people attribute results to different peop
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by jhgb 3y ago
> their word, their rules That strongly reminds me of "it's spelt Raymond Luxury-Yacht, but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'".
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by jhgb 3y ago
If you specifically target Ghostscript, you do get alpha blending as an extension though, right?
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Except Oberon doesn't have generics. ...which could plausibly be fairly easily fixed by Zig's comptime feature, which would seem to fit the language very well.
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by jhgb 3y ago
8-bit CPUs typically have a 16-bit address space though.
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by jhgb 3y ago
In what way is that "hypocritical"? Maybe "disloyal" would be the applicable term, but "hypocritical"? I just don't see that this is "characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to beli
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by jhgb 3y ago
We know that SpaceX told us that the incremental cost for a Falcon 9 launch is around $28M. So clearly they're not priced below cost.
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by jhgb 3y ago
In my country, "engineer" is an academic degree and therefore not "validated by the engineering organization" but conferred on you by a university. Having said that, "software engineer" is NOT understood as hav
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Simplicity is usually achieved by dividing tasks into small, manageable subtasks. There is even an extreme nanopass compiler design used for studying compiler topics in education. ...and production compilers: https://andykee
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Low-level languages like Rust and C++ tend to have more complex syntax and symbols because they provide finer-grained control over memory management and what not Modern Pascal provides basically as fine-grained control over memory mana
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by jhgb 3y ago
So you "learned how to read and use maps", and that's a reason to not use GPS, but you won't visit a time zone website despite not having learned to do time zone conversions? I could see how the former is justified rat
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by jhgb 3y ago
The launch pad is as much in development as the vehicle itself, so it's not at all clear what is "a proper launch pad" for this vehicle. And even once it's clear what it is, I've even seen some estimates that buildi
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by jhgb 3y ago
> the recent environmental disaster accompanying the 4/20 launch "Environmental disaster"? A bit overdramatic, isn't it? The amount of "debris and dust" was absolutely minuscule compared to regular human act
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Hate-based, terrorist, and criminal organizations attempt to use online platforms to spread their ideology, recruit new members, and coordinate existing members That can't possibly be a definition since many, if not all types of o
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by jhgb 3y ago
What you're seeing here is absolutely English written by a German. In German, restrictive clauses are separated by commas. This language feature seeps into English written by Germans by means of interference.
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by jhgb 3y ago
Is it any more insensitive than watching any video in public without headphones? Myself I wouldn't ever do that with any video to begin with, so no need to do it for specific videos. Seems just like plain common courtesy.
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by jhgb 3y ago
Reddit apparently ran away from Lisp primarily because all the servers ran on FreeBSD while development ran on Macs and because at the time they were forced to use different Common Lisp implementations (OpenMCL on Mac and CMUCL on FreeBSD)
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Another reason you won't find people using string templates to produce HTML in Lisp is that no one uses it for web development ...how does this change conditional probability? If of those people who use Lisp for web development, n
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by jhgb 3y ago
I believe that Chez should support Windows very well, even to the extent of supporting COM calls.
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by jhgb 3y ago
> Say that you’re looping through an array of pairs of 2D vectors and calculating the dot product of each pair. In C++ you can use your 2D vector class without any additional cost. In CL you either need to remove that abstraction (and de
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Ukraine is not going to care about terms of service Well in that case they won't provided that service. That's how it usually goes. If it creates a significant legal liability to the service provider (which is the reason for
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by jhgb 4y ago
> while rest of the world kinda moved on So "rest of the world" negotiates with terrorists nowadays?
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by jhgb 4y ago
They're already working on a military offshoot for the US government. But these limitations on Starlink are not anti-Ukraine; they're just anti-federal-prison because Starlink is a consumer product and not a weapons part allowed f
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by jhgb 4y ago
> GC just increases your energy bill How? GC does its work in large batches once in a while, whereas for example Arc (the only serious alternative to what GC brings, which is the ability to have arbitrary graphs of objects) does its work

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