maxlybbert

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by maxlybbert 8mo ago
The people who wrote the constitution had plenty of experience with the First and Second Continental Congresses, and the Congress set up by the Articles of Confederation. And Parliament, and state legislatures. They both loved and feared de
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by maxlybbert 8mo ago
I know what Colbert said, and what Colbert claims CBS said. But I feel like something is being left out. The equal time requirement wouldn’t prevent Colbert from interviewing a political candidate. And it wouldn’t require Colbert to send in
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by maxlybbert 8mo ago
Yes, this comes up, but the Court tends to say things that didn’t exist are covered by constitutional rights. I can’t imagine think of any time they asked “could the founders have imagined this?” Television, radio, and the internet are all
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by maxlybbert 8mo ago
I have a copy of https://archive.org/details/gerard-metral-gun/ on my bookshelf (by a European, too!).
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
For what it's worth, the only company where I posted Dilbert art (two animation cels that my wife bought for me from eBay) was nothing like the Dilbert world. It's just that I loved Dilbert and I thought it was a funny decoration.
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
I'm positive he was trolling.
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
Personally, I think most Americans don't give Venezuela much thought. I think Trump is hoping to get a short popularity boost the way George Bush did with the capture of Manuel Noriega, but people cared more about who controlled the Pa
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
Even though the military was involved, I think this was officially a law enforcement action, much like capturing Manuel Noriega and sentencing him to prison. Nicolás Maduro was indicted for various crimes in 2020. I have a feeling the &quot
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
Economists often talk about substituting capital for labor. It's certainly common in countries, such as the US, where labor is relatively expensive. I think it's perfectly reasonable to change the tax system to make sure there&#x2
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
Newer versions of C++ (and C, apparently) have functions so that the cast isn't necessary ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/memset.html ).
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by maxlybbert 9mo ago
I agree. I don't like toll roads, but I recognize that they only charge me for using them, because my use isn't necessarily good for everybody else. Gas taxes also work (ignoring electric vehicles), but paying a specific amount fo
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by maxlybbert 10mo ago
I know Google’s styleguide discourages auto, but other C++ places I’ve worked weren’t scared of it. The type deduction rules usually do what I expect, unless I have a weird pre-C++11 proxy type that somehow hasn’t been updated in the last 1
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by maxlybbert 10mo ago
It so happens I went to high school in California. My math teacher mentioned how much interaction she had with the state universities, and also lamented the fact that universities offered remedial math courses. She felt that if somebody nee
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by maxlybbert 10mo ago
Colleges need to figure out how to advertise those benefits, and the colleges' role in providing the benefits. The fact that they've been flat-footed for a decade tells me either (1) they're incredibly bad communicators, or (
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by maxlybbert 10mo ago
I'm not sure American universities are still issuing things similar to 1990s 4-year degrees. They issue documents claiming to be degrees, but the quality has dropped, and they aren't what they used to be.
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by maxlybbert 10mo ago
It starts about twelve seconds into https://youtu.be/tcHNHRGPkkw .
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
I remember being very enthusiastic about helping people on, say, Stack Overflow. It didn’t take much extra effort to be nice and made me happy. But I also burned out relatively quickly. I’d happily answer new questions nicely, but the third
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
I don’t think Google was ever a Perl shop. eBay and Amazon were, apparently. Netscape wrote Bugzilla in Perl. I’m sure there were others.
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
Correct, this is a discussion of which language version the compiler should follow if the programmer doesn’t specify one. It’s not about which features are acceptable when implementing the compiler.
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
> [Original, emphasis added]: the only reason we have school lunch programs in the US at all is because the Black Panthers started a free breakfast program for black children in the 70s > [Response, emphasis added]: The first school
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
Oops, I meant IEEE-754.
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
Well, for one thing, IEEE-757 was a significant improvement on the vendor-specific ways of handling floating point that it replaced ( https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754st... ). I wasn'
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by maxlybbert 11mo ago
Looking at the C 2011 standard, it looks like "_Bool" is implementation defined ( https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf , pg. 57 of the PDF; the page labeled 39 sect
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I actually find that a decent argument, but I believe it’s already been shut down. When police used thermal imaging to “observe” a house, without doing anything they thought required a warrant, the Supreme Court decided it was too intrusive
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
The first book I read on Java managed to explain "public static void main(String[] args)" by the end of the first chapter. It wasn't a long chapter, either. I don't like Java, and the excessive boilerplate is a big part
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
I think the ACLU’s advice (which I linked to) is pretty clear about how to organize a legal protest. Sometimes the goal is to get arrested, but if you want to avoid that, then it’s not hard to do.
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
The fact that Americans have a right to peaceful assembly doesn’t mean that every non-violent assembly is legal ( https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-7-3-1/A... , last sentence): “the governm
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
Maybe "doesn't work" is the wrong phrase. Usually, it does what people expect (except that the library ignores any "operator==" or "operator!=", which surprises people who went through the trouble to defin
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
When the STL became part of the standard library ( http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html ), there was a question of how to handle algorithms that sort containers, or that perform a binary search, or in som
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by maxlybbert 1y ago
That was my first thought, too. I guess the condition's name is pretty memorable. It's been almost twenty years, so it shouldn't surprise me that new research means that people who died in the past maybe could have survived l

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