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by munch117 2y ago
I'm actually a little disappointed that he returned after a dress code change, because the way I see it, the problem was never the dress code itself, but how it was enforced. The rules say that you can be removed from the tournament i
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by munch117 2y ago
I remember Hikaru saying such things too, on livestreams (twitch or kick). More than once.
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by munch117 2y ago
To a Norwegian reader, blue jeans are definitely included in "pants". It's entirely possible to read 4.10.1.1, conclude that blue jeans are fine, and then skim over 4.10.1.3. However the Carlsens read it, after reading it, ye
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by munch117 2y ago
It would seem that swearing is correlated with higher skill. It may be premature to suggest that we should encourage increased swearing - correlation is not causation - but it seems the logical avenue to pursue. Further research is needed
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by munch117 2y ago
Just to be even clearer. In the time of the original use, there were only static types. Languages had very little in terms of UDT's. Even a struct in C was barely a type of its own. I don't recall the details, but there was som
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by munch117 2y ago
There's lots of programming languages still around with untyped elements to them. Javascript is one of them, with its string/number conversions and the way arrays are defined. Then there's all the stringly typed stuff. Make
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The cables are a lot thinner than you think. Such casing would vastly add to their bulk - and their cost.
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by munch117 2y ago
> Tax laws don't change that much. Not only that, but they obviously already have those laws implemented. How else are they going to charge you?
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by munch117 2y ago
But adding the cast doesn't make type checking stricter, quite the opposite - it destroys any hope of the compiler checking the assignment. C++ shot itself in the foot by removing automatic conversion from void* to T*, because it force
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by munch117 2y ago
Considering the steady stream of CVE's against Vim's C code, security is the last reason to choose Vim. I've often wondered why there were so many Vim CVE's, and meanwhile never really any Emacs CVE's. My thinking
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by munch117 2y ago
I understand and respect your position. Nonetheless, I use asserts that are deactivated in release builds. The reason I do that is not because I need the speed. It's because it frees me from having to think about speed at all, when w
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It's Time to Make Software Accessible(queue.acm.org)
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> You can't have free will without consciousness Sure you can. Being consciously aware of a having made a decision does not mean that consciousness was a prerequisite for having made the decision. And then there's all the dec
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by munch117 2y ago
I'm not a philosophy major, so the jargon is tough, but I can kind of read it. It's not nonsense. What helps me make sense of it is that I recognise the first sentence to be similar to my own position on consciousness: Cons
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by munch117 2y ago
Sure. But now you're talking about the policy you expect, not the policy you want.
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by munch117 2y ago
You were scanning a screen, which is perfectly flat, has no crumbling and no smudges. You are using a high resolution camera close to a high resolution screen, on a relatively large QR code. You have a best case scenario, and if that'
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by munch117 2y ago
Thanks for the info. Wikipedia describes uBOL solely as a reaction to Manifest V3, and that's what I was going by.
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by munch117 2y ago
We all agree that this case is a very bad outcome for Mozilla. What I don't agree with, is that a system that is based on higher tiers for entire accounts, is necessarily better. If such a tier exists, then all the big players will ap
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by munch117 2y ago
But this is not about a high profile plugin. The high profile plugin is "uBlock Origin", and this is about "uBlock Origin Lite", which is a big thing for Chrome, but not for Firefox. Why would anyone want to use uBOL,
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by munch117 2y ago
The problem here is that it cannot possibly work robustly. It does what it does by trampling all over the error correction codes and using out of spec pixel shapes. This is not the sort of problem that will go away once the technology matu
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by munch117 2y ago
Anything that makes cancellation decisions from the outside of a black box is unsound. You are asking the programmer of the thing being cancelled to program in such a way, that the impact on the world outside abides by all invariants no ma
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by munch117 2y ago
Unlike JVM byte code, CPython byte code is not a stable target. It can and does change from one minor version to the next. So far, it has remained recognisable from one version to the next - someone used to reading (disassembled) CPython 2
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by munch117 2y ago
Lisp is the original dynamic language; for decades more or less the only one. Dynamic languages have been incredibly successful. The code-as-data, self-similar aspect of Lisp, which is at the core of Lisp's macro features, hasn't
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by munch117 2y ago
Spending the money doesn't suck. Having to wrangle the payment system when you're in a hurry, that does suck.
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by munch117 2y ago
I was trying out different time periods (comparing 2003-2013 to 2013-2023, to see a rough trend), and I noticed that every click to change the year by one seemed to generate a refresh. Perhaps it would help to lower the load if you change
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by munch117 2y ago
Reading the example: template <typename... T> constexpr auto first_plus_last(T... values) -> T...[0] { return T...[0](values...[0] + values...[sizeof...(values)-1]); } it seems there are 5 different kinds o
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by munch117 2y ago
Please refrain from content-free meming on HN.
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by munch117 2y ago
Not at all. But when you come across 500 KLOC of C, then you say "wow this is big" and you're forewarned that this is going to be unwieldy. You may underestimate the 100 KLOC of Python. That's all I'm saying.
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Because you're doing more work per line. A 20 KLOC Python program is not more complicated than the 100 KLOC C program performing the same function. Quite the contrary. But if you're comparing 100 KLOC of C to 100 KLOC of Python,
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by munch117 2y ago
According to [2] 35.7 million tons of plastic waste is produced per year, and 0.61 million tons are exported. That leaves 35 million tons, and with only 5% being recycled, there's plenty of plastic left to go into 'rivers, oceans,

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