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by knome 8y ago
> A 0 byte is perfectly acceptable in a utf8 string (or any unicode string, really) What? My understanding was that utf8 was crafted specifically so that the only null byte in it was literally NUL. That all normal human language describe
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by knome 8y ago
Is this one of those purposeful sorts of policies where the government decided artificially ensuring too much food being produced is better than letting the amount of food produced naturally bounce between too much and too little, preferrin
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by knome 8y ago
But it takes more than a simple mistake to be able to bring a suit against a doctor, doesn't it? If they misdiagnose, but reasonably, or if complications occur but the doctor was following reasonable medical methods, then they aren&#x2
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by knome 8y ago
http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#understand > I was very surprised when Jeremy Siek first showed my the compile-time if that later became std::conditional, but I had aimed for generalty (and gotten Turing completene
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by knome 9y ago
DNSSEC adoption would prevent a hijacker from manipulating responses.
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by knome 9y ago
> But Language is fluid and changes with time, so at this time "Software Engineer" is the term so it's no good fighting it. But language being fluid, fighting it seems perfectly reasonable.
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by knome 9y ago
Implementation defined behavior is not the same thing as undefined behavior. Undefined is out of the scope of the language entirely. Using a non-existent index into an array, for example. While you might reasonably expect the program will j
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by knome 9y ago
I apologize for being so gung-ho in my attack on your original comment. The criticism really wasn't worth the paragraphs I poured into it. I think it struck a chord because I somewhat recently read Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene&
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by knome 9y ago
The harm is just misunderstanding. Attributing a interest in dying "for the good of the species" shows a breakdown in usefulness of the metaphor, as attributes not associated with the process of evolution are being applied to it b
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by knome 9y ago
Evolution isn't "interested" in any outcome. There's no need to anthropomorphize it. There doesn't need to exist some conspiracy in a species to explain death. The new compete with the old for resources, mates and a
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by knome 9y ago
Computers will understand language like boats swim.
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by knome 9y ago
I hope someone does a write up. While I do not play, I've enjoyed a few well written essays on various events in their game universe.
463.
by knome 9y ago
Such an ultimatum would falls afoul of modern JIT compilation, however.
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by knome 9y ago
Passing at great speed very close to a star? Outer shell or entire thing becomes superheated and malleable. Extreme tidal forces as the object passes the star and gets churned through the high gravity stretch it out. What if it passed close
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by knome 9y ago
But once started, life will spread quickly and consume the resources needed for sparking life again, making second sparks less likely.
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by knome 9y ago
I thought at first glance it might be a reference being swallowed by the browser thinking it was an html entity ( &whatever; ). I don't see anything in the page source either though. So if it was something swallowed as an entity it
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by knome 9y ago
> where they're not as worried about global competition Because, in general, it's difficult for 99% of customers to drive to another part of the world for care. It does happen, of course, for those with such resources. > hav
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by knome 9y ago
Yes, templates are turing complete. https://github.com/knome/metabrainfuck/blob/master/bf.cpp Does attempting to autocomplete such a template cause issues for IDEs? I used emacs when writing it, so I&#x2
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by knome 9y ago
perl works fine, and you aren't going to unexpected trigger an infinite loop due to some bug in the language definition. What you can't do is tell how to parse a piece of perl without running the program. http://www.per
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by knome 9y ago
It's been a while since I was looking at how google's crawler worked. For items that had multiple ways of navigating there, I remember using the link rel="canonical" to let google know where the page would have been if n
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by knome 9y ago
> The researchers calculated that just storing information about a couple of hundred electrons would require a computer memory that would physically require more atoms than exist in the universe. Well, our universe appears to have found
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by knome 9y ago
Probably something like this : http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ An interesting article about a bug from various features interacting in unexpected ways http://www.pcgamer.com/how-cats-get-drunk-in-dwa
473.
by knome 9y ago
Both would consider themselves to be me, as both would be a legitimate continuation of the pattern of consciousness that is me. The divergence would create something of an ethical dilemma in the case of marriage, property ownership, rank, e
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by knome 9y ago
Never. "I" am a pattern of self awareness. The constituent parts are irrelevant. So long as the parts support the self awareness, "I" am.
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by knome 9y ago
The only part of the flesh which is "you" is the nervous system. Everything else can be hacked off or replaced without a loss of identity.
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by knome 9y ago
It isn't a matter of your not being a native speaker. The statement is ambiguous.
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by knome 9y ago
emacs' makefile-gmake-mode, loaded automatically for makefiles, also hides this. I've set indent-tabs-mode to nil in my .emacs for years, but the mode knows it's needed, and will indent the line with a highlighted tab ( until
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by knome 9y ago
Reddit's builtin images always seem very slow compared to imgur's. They would have done better to integrate imgur instead of rolling their own, I think.
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by knome 9y ago
This sort of reply seems so ludicrous to me. It's a bug. How can you guys use the net, knowing what spider-related metaphors lie hidden in its tangled web?
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by knome 9y ago
Absolutely not. The response to censorship should not be to make things easier for the censor. Anyway, the idea is unworkable as the user's client could simply lie about what URI it's going to send after the encrypted connection i

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