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by jibalt 4y ago
America is a democracy and a republic. Ask any competent political scientist.
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by jibalt 4y ago
The "gun nuts" and "tax maniacs" are in the same party ... see the recent GOP tax cut that transferred trillions of tax burden from the uber rich to the middle class.
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by jibalt 4y ago
"See liberals insisting that abortion be available even where large parts of the population have religious beliefs that are against them." As well everyone, not just liberals, should insist.
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by jibalt 4y ago
It massively benefits the GOP, which is why it will never change.
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by jibalt 4y ago
The article isn't well informed ... e.g., it says "In all the languages I know of, you can't break out of a loop from an inner loop" but you can do so in all the languages it mentions at the top: Rust, Zig, and Myrddin,
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by jibalt 4y ago
Without lots of things Zig brings to the table, like support for and cross compilation to every platform under the sun right out of the box. And Zig has generics.
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by jibalt 4y ago
All of the languages he mentioned (Rust, Zig, Myrddin) do. I ignored the comparisons to C ... any more modern language looks advanced in comparison.
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by jibalt 4y ago
"In all the languages I know of, you can't break out of a loop from an inner loop." You can in all the languages that the author says they're interested in (Rust, Zig, and Myrddin). I think comparing Hare to C in this da
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by jibalt 5y ago
doc and xls files have nothing to do with "C's data model".
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by jibalt 5y ago
A Commodore 64 can certainly read ASCII out of the box since ASCII is just data ... I'm not sure that person purportedly building a Commodore 64 understands how computers work. And the Commodore 64 display hardware expects PETSCII, whi
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by jibalt 5y ago
ASCII text is just byte data ... nothing has to be done to "teach" a Commodore 64 to read ASCII. Displaying it on the screen is slightly problematic because the Commodore 64 uses PETSCII, which is an older version of ASCII, so som
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by jibalt 5y ago
Markdown is "real plain text". Why not just use letters and avoid punctuation ... that's all Markdown is: punctuation. > Homer was able to write the fall of troy and Shakespeare Hamlet without bold text. Oh really? Have yo
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by jibalt 5y ago
Older Word (doc) and Excel (xls) files aren't "zipped" and aren't plain text files. > This definitely isn't true Yes, actually it is. > and it kind of misses the point that there's no such thing as "
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by jibalt 5y ago
Numerous modern editors support ASCII. There's no reason to want one to only support ASCII, and it certainly isn't required to deal with plain text notes. Where do you store them now? And 2 KB is 2 thousand characters ... "
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by jibalt 5y ago
cool = hip
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by jibalt 5y ago
It could also use some editing and running through spell check, like that comment.
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by jibalt 5y ago
"while he is trying to maximize the odds of a 2-guess win" You seem not to have read past the first few lines of the article.
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by jibalt 5y ago
I think "vapid" is generous. The author seems to have no grasp of concepts like encoding , representation , and medium . And the other responses to the critical comment (not troll) quite miss the point. I have a large amount of
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by jibalt 5y ago
Norvig's statements are mathematically proven.
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by jibalt 5y ago
Sound judgmental and rude to me.
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by jibalt 5y ago
They were picked randomly, before the game was ever put online.
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by jibalt 5y ago
It's not a competition--and all the answers are known--so there's no such thing as cheating. People are free to take whatever approach to it they want to.
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by jibalt 5y ago
Nicely put.
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by jibalt 5y ago
"while we don't know that "SALET" won't someday be an answer" Yes, we do ... all the answers and the day they will occur are known.
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by jibalt 5y ago
Everything I said was correct. I was a member of X3J11 (which was established in summer 1983), the C language standard, and was the first person on the planet to vote to approve it (due to alphabetical order) ... that was in 1985. It was se
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by jibalt 5y ago
Nice strawman and goalpost shifting. You said that it's up to "you", the programmer, whether unsafe code misbehaves, but this simply isn't true because "you" don't control all the unsafe code you execute.
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by jibalt 5y ago
That doesn't make Zig higher level than Rust. It doesn't have lifetimes because it's low level, on a par with C ... all memory management is manual and you can abuse pointers to your heart's content.
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by jibalt 5y ago
Yes, but that's the sensible part of your comment, not the part I was obviously disagreeing with. (And no, the troll is not the one who first uses the word.)
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by jibalt 5y ago
Nim is a far richer and higher level language that, like Zig, can run arbitrary code at comptime, but it also has templates and macros. But Zig does have a some things like "import a file imports a struct" which are unique to it a
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by jibalt 5y ago
Not "you, the programmer", any programmer. The Rust standard library can and sometimes does have UB, and that's even more true for other libraries.

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