munch117

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by munch117 5y ago
https://www.ordlig.se/
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You may be right on the main point, but I have a quarrel with one of your arguments. > Put that in a non-proportional font, and the asterisks on the first line probably won't line up with the rest. So lose the redundant asterisks.
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The CS answer: bottom, bottom and bottom. The static typing answer: type error, type error and type error. The dynamic typing answer: exception, exception and exception. The philosophy answer: category error, category error and category err
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Sure. Fossil fuels are valuable to society. They made the industrial revolution possible. If they were to disappear tomorrow, much hardship would ensue. They are, however, overused, because the negative externalities are not properly acc
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The 'positive externalities' of fossil fuels are already accounted for in our economic system: When mining for raw materials, the price that the miner is paid in the first sale is payment for that. And ditto in every subsequent s
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You mean deca, not deci.
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The Keys to the Kingdom(queue.acm.org)
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I suggest you talk it over with your doctor first.
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Also Mark Twain: "I never write metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city."
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If you ignore the compiler warning. This is trivial for the compiler to detect.
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> cpp -I. src/foo.cc | grep '^# ' | sed 's/^[^"]"//;s/"[^"]$//' | sort | uniq | grep -v \< So how would you change that incantation to accommodate C++
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It would be nice to see something like that standardised so you could use it in portable code. It doesn't solve the problem though. You still need to write some code for what to do if there's an overflow, and you need separate han
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You're right, that wasn't well phrased. What I meant is that make doesn't have special code to handle "gcc -MD" output. gcc is adapted to the needs of make, not the other way around.
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The reason I've always preferred unsigned is that it's easier to write code that is correct for the full input domain. Consider for example: extern void g(int); void f(int x, int y) { g(x - y); } The function f
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Make doesn't understand gcc -MD output. Make has stayed basically the same for half a century. There's nothing language-specific in make. For example, when C++ was invented, nothing needed to be added to make, because the gener
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If the compiler and the build system is an integrated product, then right, this shouldn't be too hard. But that's not usually the case. If they're not, what's the interface for the initial build step? Is it still somet
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That is very easily solved by not using modules for those things that cause issues, or by using a module facade over traditional C++. For your example, you could make a 'foo' module that pulls in an implementation from a traditio
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It doesn't have a CPU emulation layer, but that doesn't mean it's not a emulator. The name always stood for "WINE Is Not an Emulator", I'm with you on that. Self-referential acronyms were extremely fashionab
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> It's not; the ship has sailed (to the moon!). May I ask you how you know that? Language is very much dependent on context; social groups, fashion etc. Your experience might not be as universal as you think. Note that I'm n
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The "crypto" part of the word "cryptocurrency" is short for "cryptography". If instead "crypto" is short for "cryptocurrency", then it would follow that "cryptocurrency" is short f
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The type of carbs matters. I wonder how much of the carb demonization here is really code for high-glycemic stuff like cereals and bread, in particular sugary American bread. If the carbs you eat in the morning are slow carbs, then there&#
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by munch117 5y ago
Your idea doesn't solve the problem. By the time the lock acquirer is pre-empted and the kernel has a chance to do something clever, a significant fraction of a timeslice has already been wasted.
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s/tty/repl/g
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It's not the same algorithm: That code completes all 200 iterations unconditionally. For some parts of the input domain, the numpy speed-up is enough to compensate and make it faster anyway, but for other parts it will be slower.
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Much of the difference is due to rewriting complex numbers into pairs of floating-point variables. Probably because Lua doesn't have complex numbers? The same rewrite in Python would not speed things up, it would slow things down. It&
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Means and ends. If your means are complex, but the ends you are achieving are simple, then you're not getting good value for money. If I am to abide complex syntax then I'd better get sophisticated, powerful semantics in return. H
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I don't understand how you can say that. Markdown is massively more complicated than the equivalent HTML. HTML syntax is simple: Every gizmo is expressed as a <tag> and optionally an end </tag>, there are escapes for
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This is why I only ever run PyLint with the -E option, which makes it focus on diagnosing actual bugs. I am concerned about the trend in Python open-source projects to consider any deviation from their machine-checked coding style a bug. T
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Pfizer-BioNTech has been approved in the EU since December 2020. Fully approved that is, not experimental, not emergency use. That it's still on emergency use in the US is puzzling. But as anyone who's been through a formal appr