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by jhgb 4y ago
And not treating relationships as sets has costs of its own -- for example it breaks relational formula equivalences that could be used for query optimization.
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by jhgb 4y ago
One of the reasons why SQL is crap: there should be no distinction between the two in relational algebra. A set of {A, B, C, B, C} is the same as {A, B, C}.
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by jhgb 4y ago
I wonder, why would you go for a "pipeline" of relational operations, when it's strictly weaker than allowing for a tree of operations? The way the examples seem to be written, a stack machine would subsume the existing synta
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by jhgb 4y ago
I'm not sure that relational databases are "unable" to model something like this, since I recall from years ago Date describing how to do something like this. Don't remember the details, but you might want to look into D
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by jhgb 4y ago
> drywalling is notoriously a stoner job in north america I thought dry masonry was a stoner job? (OK, I'll show myself out...)
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by jhgb 4y ago
> float default is NaN, why... just WHY!!!!! > char default is 0xFF.... Invalid values, perhaps? Other than making initialization mandatory, this seems like a reasonable way of catching them. For integer types it's not really pos
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by jhgb 4y ago
Why would you vent it? That's what ballonets are for.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> and only UTF-32 systems (which are very few, Python is the only one I can think of offhand) FLOSS Lisps such as SBCL (unless you use 8-bit strings) or CCL use 32-bit characters. Some Schemes such as Chez Scheme do the same thing.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Isn't there a bit of a sunk cost fallacy there? You can't influence the past but you can influence the future. That's why we care more about the future than about the past.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> I need to express an insert into a text document - eg, "Insert 'a' at position X". The obvious question that comes up is - how should we define "X"? Perhaps using a cursor/rider/however-you-call-
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by jhgb 4y ago
It would seem appropriate, but important thing is that bamboo is branchless and can easily grow in parallel to other bamboos.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> branchless programming On that note, why aren't we calling it "bamboo code"?
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by jhgb 4y ago
Sadly I'm not that much of an optimist.
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by jhgb 4y ago
You need only nitrogen for explosives, but nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium for fertilizer. Therefore guano (which contains all three) is overkill for explosives but great as a fertilizer, while synthetic nitrogen compounds are insuffici
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by jhgb 4y ago
Sounds like a category error to me.
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by jhgb 4y ago
Corporations and accountable? Those things all too often don't belong into the same sentence in Western societies. Individuals get into prison all the time for transgressions much more minor than what corporations can get away with jus
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by jhgb 4y ago
Not quite sure where the document says anything about women. While Benedictines couldn't include women, I strongly doubt that there is any such insinuation here.
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by jhgb 4y ago
That's a really bad analogy because I'm really not being asked to identify as a Benedictine here. In fact in order for your analogy to be more correct, the exact opposite -- "they could just say they don't identify as
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by jhgb 4y ago
Why not? If you're, for example, irreligious, then the best of your ability obviously doesn't include religious observations (and in fact, one could even make a solid argument that "interactions with each other, with their cl
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by jhgb 4y ago
> makes it seem like Christianity is a prerequisite for getting hired or contributing ...how could one possibly get this impression, when it literally says "No one is required to follow The Rule"?
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by jhgb 4y ago
He must have some sort of weird US interpretation of communism because "most code of conducts [sic!]" say absolutely nothing about proletariat-bourgeoisie relations in society. If anything, they're an instrument of capitalism
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Right to be forgotten, isn't GDPR https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ : "Art. 17 GDPR Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')" ...seems like it is?
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by jhgb 4y ago
Even if they wouldn't need permission to gather and process that data, does this circumvent the right to ask for your personal data in the possession of someone to be deleted? I know there are several listed exceptions to an entity&#x2
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by jhgb 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6niS9
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by jhgb 4y ago
Please show us where GDPR excepts publicly available information about a person from requirements for processing.
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by jhgb 4y ago
> Right but now it’s also raining and a full moon and the goblin is a werewolf and wands also have AOE spells that hit multiple opponents, except when those opponents are blocking What exactly does this change? In a well-written program
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by jhgb 4y ago
> the book I used to learn recommended asking permission to link to a website. I thought that was weird You thought correctly. You should have read a book written by someone smarter. Imagine a world where you'd have to ask book writ
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by jhgb 4y ago
> I was the only one who bothered to ask. Was it necessary to ask? Unless C++ is patented and you live in a place where software patents are actually a thing, what could prevent you from writing your own implementation of something?
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by jhgb 4y ago
Surely you could design one of your own? The complexity seems low enough for a hobby project, it's not like trying to recreate a IBM Z CPU.
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by jhgb 4y ago
If there's Core Haskell, surely there's some Core ML as well?

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