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jhgb
5y ago
To run adequately, Java most likely needs a better collector than Go in the first place because Go has sparser object graphs. A triangle with three XYZ points would be four contiguous objects in Java (if implemented as a class with three
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5y ago
> Electron killer! Easily kill electron processes. You could even call it 'Positron' or something like that.
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jhgb
5y ago
> It will have delays, they may be small, but there is know way to know when they will come. It was my understanding that C4 doesn't do pauses.
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5y ago
The main page does say "C (not ready for usage)", though.
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5y ago
> For one Julia needs an humongous runtime. To be fair, Julia needs that runtime precisely to generate compiled versions of polymorphic functions at run time, so as not to cause a combinatorial explosion of n-ary functions. Also, for int
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5y ago
> I needed a core that was basically a cleaned up C Why didn't you consider D in 'Better C' mode? ( https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html ) Not only does it already exist but with very high likelihood is
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5y ago
> you just want a sort of "modern fortran" that compiles and runs fast Well...if you want Fortran, you know where to find it? Fortran still compiles and runs fast. Just use Fortran, then? It's a perfectly fine language. &g
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jhgb
5y ago
> You can also just capture by value, rather than by reference. Those things are misnomers anyway. Having access to an enclosing environment via a free variable in a lambda expression is completely orthogonal to values vs. references. I
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5y ago
I like the MOP in Common Lisp but I would never suggest that C++ should have a MOP, too. No language has to have everything.
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5y ago
They don't either, it's just that PMG turbines are somewhat more preferred if you can build them. If you can't, nothing prevents you from building turbines with induction generators.
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5y ago
Coal gas contained significant amounts of molecular hydrogen (~50% or so) and it had been used for decades. What magic did those people know back then?
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5y ago
> If you think lambdas with GC are a good idea then you would not use C++ Lambdas with GC are an extremely good idea, because of the silently shared environments and what not. Whether C++ should have lambdas if it can't guarantee GC
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5y ago
> There are not many places left to build them ...unless you go radical? https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-finds-530000-potent...
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5y ago
Even if you didn't have loss of knowledge or increased security measures, unless future French nuclear power can lower its costs, it will inevitably have a lower share in the French energy mix.
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jhgb
5y ago
The problem with PHP in this case has nothing to do with types. So their reasoning was wrong from the very beginning. I suspect that no amount of "catching up" will help here, just like no amount of development will turn future ax
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5y ago
Rocket engines are to jet engines basically what paper utensils are to porcelain. But with transition to reusable rocket stages, chances are that the "disposable" designs will get more complex if that extra complexity gets justifi
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5y ago
> Spoiler alert: the first array is the answer array for even future wordles. That's presumably the reason why I wouldn't want to view the source.
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5y ago
I actually have several such lists already, but if the actual list of candidate words in this game is a subset of the ones I have, I imagine solution can be arrived at quicker by excluding guesses that couldn't possibly lead to the sol
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5y ago
But that's one of the differences between faith and knowledge, namely justification. You'd be correct to claim that it's non-arbitrary if you happen to know that this justification was how it was arrived at. Randomly arriving
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5y ago
It would seem to me that 50-50 would be the "biggest reduction" since presumably you're judging the pruning based on the worst case. In the latter case the worst case is that you're still left with 90 options. Maybe I&#x
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5y ago
You have a list of legal words? Where is it available?
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5y ago
More like thirteen. Apparently I misread the comment I was responding to as "for two years some time ago". Now I'm not sure why someone would have chosen PHP for such a task two years ago.
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5y ago
Basically Mastermind. We had Logik instead: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logik_(hra) But in Mastermind, you for example aren't told which pins are in correct positions, whereas in Wordle you are told that.
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5y ago
So you switched from a language X not designed to do Q to a language Y designed to do Q, presumably because language Y didn't exist when you started doing Q. I imagine that happens all the time, but seldom is it a fault of X. But what
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5y ago
But you're still arguing about perfectly following a set of arbitrary rules. The very fact that they're arbitrary means you'll get people who'll make up arbitrary religious rules for themselves (and they will perfectly f
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5y ago
That is not a presumption -- it's a statement of fact.
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5y ago
But the operations in individual countries are legally separate companies, aren't they? Plus they still have to obey local laws in every country.
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5y ago
You can rationalize all you want, but you can't reason religious people out of things they didn't reason themselves into. If these people can be convinced that they shouldn't be doing thing XYZ on the order of an omnipotent b
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5y ago
That would be a good argument in a general case but the premise of all Russians present at the diplomatic gathering being secret agents is clearly stated.
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5y ago
If you combine a shibboleth with a secret, how do you call it? Shibbecret?
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