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by johnday 5y ago
From the (extremely readable) Haskell Report, §6.4: > The results of exceptional conditions (such as overflow or underflow) on the fixed-precision numeric types are undefined; an implementation may choose error (⊥, semantically), a trunc
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by johnday 5y ago
Nothing visibly broke - in particular, Steam seems to chug along just fine in the absence of its own checks.
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by johnday 5y ago
One thing I have recently tried out is to prevent all outbound traffic headed towards a port 80. This doesn't necessarily block all HTTP traffic but it blocks any standard http setup. My expectation was that this would break a lot of
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by johnday 5y ago
> you are ready to deny your own conscious experience of reality No, I just don't agree that it qualifies as truth.
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by johnday 5y ago
Use the page-down key?
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by johnday 5y ago
> deep down we are keenly aware that it is not. I'm afraid I disagree with that. > Yet, if you are like most people, you know for a fact this is not true Likewise, I do not know for a fact that it is not true. I'm not sure t
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by johnday 5y ago
That's a response, but it's certainly not an answer to the question that was asked. Unless your suggestion is that it's because people are acting illogically, and there is in fact no reason to ask the question in the first pl
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by johnday 5y ago
Not to register an account, but any video flagged as any kind of explicit, suggestive or problematic content requires age verification. There was some flack recently as YouTube was requiring age verification for LGBT+ support videos.
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by johnday 5y ago
This isn't referring to housing. Rent-seeking is a broader term related to charging people for something that they have no reason to pay for and no ability to avoid. I see why the confusion arose though, "actual" housing is a
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by johnday 5y ago
To be precise, colleges are usually sixth-form colleges for 16-18 year olds.
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by johnday 5y ago
> We're not more than 5-10 years away from a time where travelling by car could mean sleeping (or working on a laptop) in the back seat until the end of the trip is possible. There is no reason to think that this is true beyond mark
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by johnday 5y ago
Reminds me of the old joke "He was imprisoned for 12 years for killing his wife, but let out early for not doing it since".
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by johnday 5y ago
I was using the singular example from the parent comment. If it would convince you more, I will provide others - though I'm sure you could think of some yourself, if the mood took you.
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by johnday 5y ago
The point is that "mayors of San Fransisco" does not have a single answer, and therefore any answer WikiData provides will be glossing over a mountain of nuance and important distinctions in terminology. The same is true of a mill
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by johnday 5y ago
It still does what you want! This is an issue of syntax, not semantics. Avoiding unbounded lookahead is not "premature" optimisation - if introduced, it would never be possible to remove due to the algorithmic complexity involved.
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by johnday 5y ago
The taskbar for me is the thing which makes Windows 11 completely ruinous: 1. No drag and drop support, so you need to drag + alt-tab in order to find the right window to dnd into. 2. Windows in the same program always collapse into the sam
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by johnday 5y ago
If you had read the sibling comment to your own posted four hours previous, you would have seen that that will also be true of the Pine Note on general release.
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by johnday 5y ago
> $400 might be cheap compared to, say, a remarkable2 A reMarkable 2 costs $399 brand new, so I'm not sure what you're on about.
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by johnday 5y ago
The value of MXN is going down relative to BTC and to USD at the same time. There is no arbitrage opportunity, beyond the obvious slow drip of money moving between the two and maintaining this balance.
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by johnday 5y ago
I find this article to be extremely concerning. It paints "mainstream gay and lesbian culture" as mercenary, regressive and right-wing. The thesis seems to be supported by naming a few particular wealthy individuals who are themse
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by johnday 5y ago
I agree - the author's use of "framework" here betrays the article a bit, and "inversion of control" is a much more accurate portrayal of what they're actually getting at. Of course this is a natural side-effec
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by johnday 5y ago
I have to say, any definition of "framework" that claims the general concept of higher-order functions is a subset of frameworks, does not seem particularly useful in the day-to-day. In this case, `map` is given as an example of a
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by johnday 5y ago
> The Windows 11 Taskbar sounds pretty bad from your description. Alas, it is. There's a short thread on Twitter about it here: https://twitter.com/dixonary_/status/1409852434609020933?s=2...
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by johnday 5y ago
The person you're responding to has changed the defaults. For what it's worth, Windows 11 supports none of these things, which is incredibly frustrating. I have the icons set small, which is good because the taskbar is smaller -
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by johnday 5y ago
> Julian Assange would disagree with that. For all that he has suffered, I'm not sure he would. The bar is low. > It is cheap, but it sure isn't as effective as private healthcare. The UK also has private healthcare. > Th
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by johnday 5y ago
Ah, but you can lose your car much quicker than that, if you make an error in driving.
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by johnday 5y ago
The UK has a favourable human rights record compared to almost everywhere else in the world. It is a significantly better place to live than most countries on earth if you are in any minority category. Civil amenities are also significantly
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by johnday 5y ago
It's current $1.37, which isn't too bad. Depending on how the next couple of years go, it may go either way. Sadly (for me), I think it's going to head towards $1 rather than $2.
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by johnday 5y ago
The prime numbers are critical in cryptography. Almost all of our current digital security infrastructure is based on the concept of multiplying large numbers together modulo suitably big prime numbers. Any major step towards understanding
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by johnday 5y ago
Perhaps what we need is a dialect which compiles to typescript and supports (or better, enforces) the immutability you suggest.

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