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5y ago
Normally if nothing else changed you'd expect prices to go down since the most expensive providers (= those with highest costs of doing their business) pulling the price up leave the market.
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5y ago
That's a category error. Ruby is not a framework.
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5y ago
> String is a pointer/slice type under the hood, even if you don't see the asterisk. So when you are passing v, you are passing a reference to a slice which gets updated by the loop. Since the goroutines can run in parallel, yo
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5y ago
What does this have to do with values or references? They are orthogonal to scopes, and this example is an issue of scoping. A closure finds free variables in one of its enclosing scopes. If the for loop creates one mutable binding for its
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5y ago
So this "inverted triangle CSS" is normal CSS as intended, then?
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5y ago
> and a bike path Why do you want to kill so many cyclists?
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5y ago
Upvote for P&D&V; a top-notch free (CC BY-ND 3.0 CZ) Czech algorithm textbook ( http://pruvodce.ucw.cz/ ) was based primarily on their book (because it's excellent!).
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5y ago
> I'm actually doing a VRP using genetic algorithms for a final project right now Don't forget to compare it with simulated annealing to find out if Skiena was right about GA in The Algorithm Design Manual when he said that h
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5y ago
St. Vitus cathedral in Prague: constructed between 1344-1929. That's not "centuries" -- that's a better part of a millennium.
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5y ago
Yestepad.
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5y ago
Hundreds of millions of years is a long period for trees to regrow...a period which we don't have.
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5y ago
Xie is not Xi which in turn is not the 'xi' consonant.
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5y ago
> But it's significantly more common as a last name than any of the other greek letters. Mu ( https://forebears.io/surnames?q=mu ) is more common than Xi ( https://forebears.io/surnames?q=xi ).
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5y ago
Nothing at all; everyone needs a hobby. ;)
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5y ago
> But who are you to tell someone that can afford (*) the lifestyle (*) Externalities not included
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5y ago
I'm pretty sure that you can safely say that you're a Flat Earther, too. No harm will come to you in either case.
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5y ago
"suppose for all sets of n horses, every horse in the set has the same color." But that is clearly not true if I have a set of n horses, n-1 out of which are black and one is brown. So the premise is already wrong.
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5y ago
> object initialization is not a thing anyone needs to pay much attention to So it's perfectly fine for me to leave objects uninitialized because of lack of attention?
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5y ago
I find it amusing that RISC-V allegedly creates "fragmentation risk" when platform fragmentation in the ARM ecosystem already exists and it's painful enough -- at least that's what I recall from some comparisons with the
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5y ago
Isn't the obvious solution to the problem of overflows to define the behavior like pretty much all newer languages did it (presumably because they learned from the errors committed by C)?
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5y ago
> Intel and AMD > monopoly Pick one?
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> I have never really understood what 'modern' means Well, to me that means things from the 1980s, when those ideas from 1960S and 1970s got sorted out and we got systems like St-80 with a small numbers of pervasive concepts, u
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5y ago
> therefore your entered KatLang code is not sent to the server But that's not something that even client-side code supplied by HTTP should be capable of ensuring, considering that somebody could have intercepted it somewhere on the
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5y ago
> it takes longer to learn the basics of Rust compared to C++. Does it really? For example I'd think that initialization of objects is a topic that should be in "basics", yet initialization of objects in C++ seems dispropo
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5y ago
> “Business” referred to industrial-scale activity. (Before the industrial revolution, “commerce” was the broad term including trade merchants and shopkeepers.) That sounds very weird to me because OED has plenty of meanings not related
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5y ago
A square centimeter is a very small surface, though. Scaling it up for the worst case is hardly a problem. The board in the picture has dozens of square centimeters on its own, so wherever that board can be used, clearly a much larger PV
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5y ago
Oh, fake data generators it is, then.
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5y ago
> How is this relevant to the conversation? Presumably in the "how large do you want the salt grain to be?" sense?
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5y ago
> for which the app suppliers want: my location and access to my microphone, camera and contacts - and the app won't install or run if you start denying access Could these things be virtualized? And provide a fixed location, silent
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5y ago
Sounds almost like an ideal use case for Oberon to me - perhaps with remoting the UI or something like that. Chances are that a full environment would still be smaller than this micro-py thingy, whatever that is.
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