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by mathw 7y ago
The purpose of W3W not having nearby locations have similar words is because of transmission errors. They're pushing it in the UK at the moment having got several emergency services on board, and in that context if you say to, say, Nor
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by mathw 7y ago
That's basically why we're doing it, and we're seeing some really good costing implications from implementing various things using Azure Functions. Not perfect, but an extremely capable system, and there are things some of ou
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by mathw 7y ago
Welcome to exactly what's wrong with the system! We view somewhere to live as something you have to save for, work for, invest in when it should be a fundamental right. What's wrong with the housing market is that a housing market
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by mathw 7y ago
Other than some accessibility concerns for some people, it's a purely aesthetic preference. I find my eyes are quite comfortable in light mode, and it's easier to read... but I do turn my screen brightness down quite a lot. My wor
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by mathw 7y ago
If Google had provided details of what the violation was, he might be able to tell us about that part. One of the big problems is that they don't.
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by mathw 7y ago
It's a well-known brand but Microsoft have dragged it through the mud since they acquired it and among those I know it now has a reputation for being extremely unreliable. They might want to retire it rather than fight to rehabilitate
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by mathw 7y ago
If that's the case, you can solve FizzBuzz using a declarative style in JavaScript, surely? It's pretty trivial in Haskell, which is declarative all over.
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by mathw 7y ago
Progress, I just hope nobody here in the UK takes this as an excuse to get complacent.
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by mathw 7y ago
I broadly agree, but this article is really poorly written. It takes every downside of OOP to extremes which make it really hard to take the author seriously. Yes there are problems with mutable state, even if you think you've encapsul
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by mathw 7y ago
I concur. I used to work with C++98 (roughly, we had some weird levels of compiler support for some of it) and it was utterly foul. The only reason to use it was that there weren't really any better alternatives at the time. We needed
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by mathw 7y ago
I guess it depends what you think is the real core of Rust - for me, Rust's primary innovation and primary differentiation point is giving you safe memory management without a garbage collector. Anything that steps away from it (so ste
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by mathw 7y ago
I'm unfamiliar with a convention in the updated ingredients list - what's "3 T rosewater"? I'm guessing it's probably tsp - teaspoons - but one doesn't want to overdo the rosewater! Clearly this is somethi
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by mathw 7y ago
Trimming the sharp end of the claw is possible, but very temporary because the claw sheds its outer layer periodically to expose a new sharp one underneath (this is one of the reasons cats scratch - it pulls off the old ones when they'
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by mathw 7y ago
They can still climb, scratch, defend themselves and generally move around just the same if they're castrated. They cannot do these things if they're declawed. Sure you could argue that we don't have a right to castrate them
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by mathw 7y ago
It felt like we had the means for a peaceful future this century, but then everyone starts acting like toddlers who aren't allowed unlimited sweets.
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by mathw 7y ago
I wouldn't have said it's irony, it's a response to the US banning Huawei and the other shots fired in Trump's war on global trade.
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by mathw 7y ago
Someone has to pay for all this stuff. Adverts are a means to do that. Don't like them? Start paying directly. That would admittedly be an easier argument if online adverts weren't hideous, intrusive, slow, distracting, bandwidth-
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by mathw 7y ago
Not just compatible, the game mechanics aren't even the same :( I think the end of the line for Java Edition will come at some point, but I also think they know perfectly well that they cannot do that prematurely, and we're very m
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by mathw 8y ago
In part, physics happened. Pesky universal laws! I want my faster-than-light spaceships and decreasing entropy!
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by mathw 8y ago
Or we live in the timeline that leads to the invention of time travel, not the one the time travellers are visiting. Maybe the universe allows time travel but it always creates a divergent timeline when you use it.
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by mathw 8y ago
That is exactly how I always feel when working in Clojure. Constant "what is this? What's in it?" You can't just say "it's a map". Sure, it's a map, but there's data in there I want so can you at
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by mathw 8y ago
Autoplay was always terrible and I'm happy to see it die. I don't think I'm alone in this.
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by mathw 8y ago
Cows eat grass which grows on land which used to have rainforest on it but which has been cleared, wiping out thousands of species, to make more cows. (Okay not all cows, but rainforest clearance for pastureland is a big problem where there
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by mathw 8y ago
No, because a lot of artists can only earn enough to survive because of copyright law. A new songwriter can only get their royalties because of copyright law, otherwise you can bet the big studios would just lift the songs and record them h
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by mathw 8y ago
So, how do you turn a bomb into a practical source of power that doesn't destroy the surrounding area the moment you turn it on?
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by mathw 8y ago
I like Slack's threads. I'm in a couple of Slacks which use them quite effectively. I'm not quite sure how though, it just happened.
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by mathw 8y ago
I'm sure I remember Chrome not preserving session state as its default setting either. It's been so long since I configured either of them though...
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by mathw 8y ago
Might just be "figure it out for yourself". I doubt it's that hard if you're using a language with a reasonable cross-compile toolchain. That will probably influence choice of technology for new things aimed at this kind
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by mathw 8y ago
It's probably more now - that stat was from years ago when they first turned off the ability to add annotations.
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by mathw 8y ago
I like the positivity of the introduction - this is stuff we can't do now, but maybe the borrow checker can be enhanced to allow more scenarios in the future. Especially as the first few are all slated to have solutions or partial solu

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