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by knome 3y ago
>I think the killer feature of QBasic and even more so QuickBasic was the help and reference without any internet access in the 90s, I taught myself QBasic largely out of that help reference in order to write little games and simulations
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by knome 3y ago
I hate this kind of disingenuous bullshit response.
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by knome 3y ago
The native peoples of north american were not a contiguous group. Plenty of first nations were allies of the US. Of those that were variously at war with the US, conflicts resolved in treaties dictating new borders, not some form of abject
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by knome 3y ago
Yes, I meant only that if it was foremost intended to be C++, one might expect one of the more idiomatic i/o libraries to be used.
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by knome 3y ago
It is C. Otherwise, they would have used `<cstdio>` or `<iostream>` rather than `"stdio.h"` However, it is written in the common parts of the languages, so it will compile under either gcc as a C file or g++ as a cpp f
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by knome 3y ago
this is either not for the v1 apis, or not for all users. :( I got excited, but gpt-4-32k still isn't available for me from https://api.openai.com/v1/models
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by knome 3y ago
>“what makes WASM different” As I understand it, it's just difficult to efficiently implement GC because of the stupid decision to abstract the call stack within WASM, making it painful to get at stack pointers during collection. On
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by knome 3y ago
>Also there's no guarantee whatsoever that /proc/123 is going to refer to a specific process does using openat solve that or is there some kind of directory inode reuse occurring?
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by knome 3y ago
sqlite calls it an amalgamation build. Whole program building certainly exists. It doesn't explain where the quoted poster got the idea that headers were intended to save space rather than allow for independent compilation.
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by knome 3y ago
>"As far as I know, header files came to be because when C was built disk space was at a prime and storing libraries with their full source code would be expensive. Header files included just the necessary to be able to call into th
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by knome 3y ago
There's no reason to be glib. If patients' brains can reconfigure following trauma such as strokes [1] or having our entire visual field flipped [2] there's no reason to assume one couldn't reroute around having nerves h
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by knome 3y ago
Are you using the paintbrush tool instead of the pencil tool? A pencil with the brush size turned down to one shouldn't bother any of the other pixels.
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by knome 3y ago
a save button is still good, as it allows you to keep specific checkpoints. but the save button could simply tag specific save points in a larger table. if the format can roll up changes to compress them, they also indicate where which vari
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by knome 3y ago
a partial cryptographic quine, perhaps?
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by knome 3y ago
>writeText >writeTextDir >runCommand this is not looking particularly more declarative than docker
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by knome 3y ago
>And I haven't yet figured out how to disable drop-offs that don't need anything look into your circuit networks. you can make them quite complex if you want
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by knome 3y ago
My most complex train system had every train carry a single item type, and a large central trainyard. trains won't leave without an active destination. so all of the destinations for dropping off a type had the same name, and similarly
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by knome 3y ago
>I am not sure what you are hinting at with your side comment about .local They are probably referring to its special status and special handling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local >The Internet Engineering Ta
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by knome 3y ago
sure, but bubble sort is trivial to write. they may have figured they'd replace it when they needed to. they may have figured the particular usage was so trivial they would never need to. grabbed the source and git blamed the file befo
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by knome 3y ago
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gravitational-waves/en/ Gravity waves also travel at the speed of light.
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by knome 3y ago
Isn't it fairly probable that nobody remembers folks with as many deadly or serious reactions simply because kids just died of them? Like the WWI "helmets cause more head injuries" kind of thing, where it's true head inj
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by knome 3y ago
It would be nice if manufacturers always had to provide a "whole package" calorie count on the label.
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by knome 3y ago
cpython caches the small integers, and this is just grabbing a reference to 8 and 9 and then altering the value of the integer held in each cached reference. The author could have skipped the c library and used the ctypes module to munge th
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by knome 3y ago
the author mentions in a note that bash was complaining and that they might put the labels in comments to dodge the issue. They might also be able to change the label format to `: label`. `:` just returns true regardless of what parameters
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by knome 3y ago
parents have never had control over what media their kids can get at outside of the home.
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by knome 3y ago
"[a program] is never finished, only abandoned"
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by knome 3y ago
dash is only allowed in the middle. labels can't start or stop with it. so it wouldn't affect the command arguments. The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names. They must start with a letter, end with a let
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by knome 3y ago
I was actually just using `grep .` to discard empty lines. The `grep -v '^;'` would have only left lines with answers after it discarded lines starting with `;`. That and the empty lines. I could have combined `grep -v '^;&#x
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by knome 3y ago
>I don't know what the semicolons before the lines are supposed to convey but they're only making things confusing all of the lines that aren't part of the query answer are prefixed with semicolons. so it's basically
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by knome 3y ago
I expect they'll aim for a system where people looking to control others will use it as a bludgeon to force their self-righteous moralizing on everyone else. They could as easily just require phone manufacturers to lock the phones of m

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