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by jhgb 5y ago
There's a major difference between drafting and manufacturing.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Yes, in fact I frequently make that argument about JSON and XML. I'm definitely being consistent on that one.
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Normal, cambered wings work because of the Bernoulli effect, where pressure is lower above the wing because of the way airflow is designed. Wait a minute. I thought this was debunked quite some time ago? > Lift is not generated by
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by jhgb 5y ago
An S-expression file with a newline after each top-level expression has the same property. So that's not really a problem.
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by jhgb 5y ago
That's like a file with S-expressions, only worse (because those already existed, whereas this had to be made up as a new thing, without offering any improvement).
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by jhgb 5y ago
So...what is your favourite color?
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by jhgb 5y ago
I suspect that this is like arguing that if the Latin alphabet is more practical than the Chinese script, we should just jump straight to binary symbols. The fact that binary symbols would make writing impractical again doesn't negate
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by jhgb 5y ago
Not even that -- it's a souped-up version of Oberon with these features. (Although of course, out of those, Oberon had already had a module system and automatic memory management.)
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by jhgb 5y ago
> I'd say on that front Go is unparalleled honestly, I can't think of any other compiler that can produce binaries for various targets that easily. Its cross-compilation is simply excellent. Zig, perhaps? My impression is that
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by jhgb 5y ago
> We have named this optimization 'PartialExecuter', the key idea behind it being taking advantage of known function parameters to find inner code blocks that cannot ever be possibly executed. I'm wondering, what exactly a
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by jhgb 5y ago
And Steve < Woz, perhaps?
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by jhgb 5y ago
Even if the SMR itself were to have a 60 year lifespan, you'll find that the steam turbines attached to it are not really better than the wind turbines. Comparing an SMR with a complete wind turbine is like comparing apples and apple t
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by jhgb 5y ago
> at £120(current price is £240) £120/MWh is a rather terrible price. That's basically Hinkley Point C level rate, which is something many grid operators would never accept. So much for "export potential"?
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by jhgb 5y ago
> C is the most mature and proven language out there You mean, aside from Fortran, COBOL, and Lisp?
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by jhgb 5y ago
That's cool for anyone who has AVX-512 enabled CPUs. Is there anything that works on CPUs supporting only up to AVX2?
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by jhgb 5y ago
> /s/today/30 years ago: SQL-92 describes them in chapter 4.18 - which at the time was just standardizing something almost all vendors already had in some form or another, for example, I'm pretty sure even the first r
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by jhgb 5y ago
Well first of all this wouldn't be the cosmonauts' job to begin with. They're not in control of the GNC -- the mission control is.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Well, it is, since "identities" of things (which from the language point of view are just designations of a referent, really) are significantly less fixed than a grammatical category. So changing it tends to be much weirder.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Sounds like the easiest thing is to just...not include any pronoun? This has been a very old practice by now. Then there's nothing to switch, and you can use ordinary paper, which is much cheaper.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Apparently this is a work by Ivan Denisov, who also happens to work on the BlackBox Component Builder: https://blackbox.oberon.org/about
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by jhgb 5y ago
> his idea that Russia and Eastern Europe are neighbors (which seems objectively true) That's like saying that United States and North America are "neighbors". Is that "true"? Or is it a category error?
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by jhgb 5y ago
> the trajectory of the ISS doesn't go over Russia That is definitely a false statement, but admittedly my wish for the ISS to fall on top of Kremlin is unlikely to be granted given ISS' 51.6° orbital inclination and Moscow&#x2
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by jhgb 5y ago
> or Europe As long as it falls onto Kremlin, I'm OK with that.
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by jhgb 5y ago
And I imagine that many places would rather opt out of becoming another Chicago. "This is nothing, people elsewhere have it worse" can be applied to a majority of the world's population. It's a useless argument.
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by jhgb 5y ago
Possibly, but it records the complete information about actions to be performed on some system, which presumably is what the "fat events" were supposed to be about (unless I misinterpreted it somehow).
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by jhgb 5y ago
For example, I don't live in a country where "household cooking with coal or biomass-burning stoves" is even a thing. I have an induction stove. In fact the air outside of my house is almost certainly worse because of a nearb
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by jhgb 5y ago
> indoor air is significantly more polluted in MOST cases > indoors [...] concentrations of SOME pollutants are OFTEN [...] higher Those two statements don't seem to be the same to me?
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by jhgb 5y ago
Ah, apparently I didn't manage to connect the sentence I quoted with the preceding sentence. Now I get it.
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by jhgb 5y ago
I guess that depends on what exactly you mean by "this approach"? In case you mean running queries in a VM, Firebird/Interbase has had it since the 1980s (in form of the Binary Language Representation, or BLR).
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Every time a system responds to a create/update/execute request, drop an equivalent message into an event stream. Don't we call that just "a WAL"?

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