mannschott

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   by mannschott 8y ago

   Yes. Most obviously Modula-2 is is case-sensitive, while (Turbo)Pascal is not. Also Modula-2 addresses the danging-else problem in Pascal, while TurboPascal does not. It wouldn't surprise me if TurboPascal addressed some of the same de
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   by mannschott 8y ago

   I'm not seeing "significant liability" in how even major data breaches have been handled in the US so far. Where are the fines large enough to be noticed for gross negligence? Where are the prisons terms for the captains of i
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   by mannschott 9y ago

   > can social media kill you though? I assume you're aware of this: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/un-says-facebook-is-accele...
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   by mannschott 9y ago

   > Heinlein's point was that one's vote is a huge responsibility, and that privilege must be earned: by demonstrably placing the needs of one's country above individual wellbeing. I find the unspoken assumption that the &qu
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   by mannschott 9y ago

   We had a pair of Paternoster in my place of work (in addition to two pairs of elevators) until a year ago. They've since been replaced by a small pair of elevators, which work fine, but the paternoster just had more character. Power us
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   by mannschott 9y ago

   This is reminiscent of the technique used by some versions of ETH Oberon to generate native code on module loading from a compressed encoding of the parse tree. Michael Franz described the technique as "Semantic-Dictionary Encoding&quo