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by lou1306 3y ago
Well, a language that allows something like "On Error Resume Next" is not that great by any definition of the word... Having said that, I must also say that I started coding on VB6 and if I had to show some elemetary programming t
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by lou1306 3y ago
Uhhh, aren't native GUI toolkits "responsive" by definition? I remember in VB6 you could have elements take up a given % of its container, and I am pretty sure you could even make them appear/disappear programmatically (
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by lou1306 3y ago
Of course the AI posse weeps about copyright.
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by lou1306 3y ago
I'll likely start diving into probabilistic formal methods in a few months and this seems like a good place to ask: How does Storm [1] compare to PRISM? It looks like a promising alternative and the academic pedigree seems top-notch, b
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by lou1306 3y ago
Or, in case you need both `i` and `iterable[i]` within your loop: for i, item in enumerate(iterable): ...
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by lou1306 3y ago
Of course, as long as the network is truly isolated, that's a non-issue. But the basic premise is that a machine that can access the Internet will self-replicate everywhere to preserve itself. After all we've already seen that mal
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by lou1306 3y ago
I really hope the next Next Generation EU package will be entirely funded by the fines we will inflict on Google for its blatant abuse of market dominance
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by lou1306 3y ago
HACF is probably the most criminally underrated show in recent television history. Yeah the basic premise might be a Mad Men tech rehash, and yeah you kind of have to endure season 1 before you get to the good part, but the characters are s
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by lou1306 3y ago
Astoundingly, there are non-technical households out there.
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by lou1306 3y ago
Not really. Doctor means "teacher" in classical Latin.
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by lou1306 3y ago
> This is targeted at law abiding smallholding farmers where roadside transactions are often done in cash. Most EU nations are setting up instant payment systems for these and other "informal" use cases. In Sweden you can buy s
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by lou1306 3y ago
With RSS you are at the mercy of the server, though. The content creator may only syndicate an excerpt of the whole article, remove pictures or formatting, yada yada. But yes the Web would be so much nicer if more websites provided at least
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by lou1306 3y ago
> curated by NASA. Er, it's actually maintained by CERN and funded by the European Union. NASA does somehow participate in it as part of its "Transform to Open Science" initiative.
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by lou1306 3y ago
Well there are entire areas of CS research tangential to PLs (say, SAT/SMT, software verification, program synthesis) where the fundamental problems are known to be NP-complete/exponential/undecidable. So it is pretty hard to
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by lou1306 3y ago
> Everything should be at least double precision by default, and extended precision serves as an additional safeguard Honestly I don't understand how this would constitute a "solution" or even a "safeguard", real
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by lou1306 3y ago
At the same time, Reddit entirely depends on these people to keep these segments of website safe and decent (not to mention ad-friendly). And these people depended on efficient 3rd party tools to carry out this form of free labor. It is a m
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by lou1306 3y ago
> The Church is not a country and never was? The Papal states were literally a country, although surely not the largest in Europe. Galileo did not live there but rather in the Duchy of Florence (later Grand Duchy of Tuscany); however, as
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by lou1306 3y ago
> Not sure that Extinguish part is going to work though, considering AP/Mastodon are open source protocols/platforms and easily forkable. That's not really a safeguard against "extinguishing". When you become the
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by lou1306 3y ago
Well, the balloon dog example simply boils down to the fact that your work will only be seen as a rip-off. > There's a whole subset of the art market that is valuing on provenance not the physical object. Subset? I believe provenan
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by lou1306 3y ago
I'll have "cannot immediately use shiny new thing from faceless soulless tech giant" over "have to live under constant threat of identity theft and personal info leak" any day of the week, thank you.
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by lou1306 3y ago
"Complying costs are >0, hence incompatible with late-stage capitalism tenets"
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by lou1306 3y ago
Maybe. But by reading the article one does get the impression that GCC devs (and C2X proposal authors) really like C++: the language is mentioned 16 times, and easily half of the features are lifted more or less as-is from there.
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by lou1306 3y ago
> As long as they fully pay taxes Yeah about that, you may want to look into the Duchy of Lancaster. A huge holding whose owner (aka the sovereign) only pays income tax because they want to , and which has not been subject to inheritanc
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by lou1306 3y ago
Most Brits still dig bathroom sinks with separate faucets. It's an uphill campaign.
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by lou1306 4y ago
The "world model" is still completely, utterly syntactic -- the machine may very well learn that the word "sun" is related to "warm", "light", "day", but cannot ground these words into reali
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by lou1306 4y ago
(Just for the sake of nitpicking: the term is "liveness") Short answer is no (seemingly). From the docs it seems Fault only supports assertions. Finding an assertion violation is a reachability problem and is immediately usable to
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by lou1306 4y ago
I'm afraid this analogy doesn't hold much water: facial features inhabit a continuum with very nice smoothness properties, whereas program behaviour changes dramatically when you perturb its source code, even minimally (this is wh
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by lou1306 4y ago
I bend my pinky onto the palm of my hand and hit the Ctrl (or Shift) key with its 3rd knuckle. Sometimes I stop and think about how deranged that is, but it seems to work!
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by lou1306 4y ago
My remark was about social networking software. Besides that, and luckily, any journalist worth its salt can instantly classify rms as someone you don't want to feature on mainstream media. With new folks it's not as easy.
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by lou1306 4y ago
> The name didn't seem to be prominently reported until the Twitter exodus lately But that kind of proves my point now doesn't it? When "his" platform became popular he got featured on the national press. I can totall

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