neverartful

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by neverartful 2y ago
For large code bases, the team has to pay the piper one way or the other. Pay up front with static typing or pay later with nearly infinite test cases to prove that it all works. To be sure, just because you're using a statically typed
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by neverartful 2y ago
They didn't ask 'why does insurance exist'. I imagine they fully well understand the concept of insurance. The more relevant part of the question was 'private' I suppose. As opposed to what? I imagine 'public&#
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by neverartful 2y ago
I never said anything about me wanting to impose my religious belief on others.
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by neverartful 2y ago
I never said anything about imposing my beliefs on others. I merely responded to the question about whether there was any other course when things are terminal.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Accepting suffering as part of the human condition. In the Christian faith, Christians are taught that suffering is part of life and good things can result from it. Like what? Empathy, love, and compassion from caregivers, friends, and fami
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by neverartful 2y ago
Also from those who learned with Pascal. Traditional Pascal requires that all variables be declared at top of procedure/function in a 'var' section.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Yeah, I know about it. However every time I've tried to use it I ran into all kinds of problems.
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by neverartful 2y ago
FoxPro was a real treat! It was well polished and lightning fast.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Same here. I really enjoyed working with Clipper. The fun ran out when my application was bursting through the available memory though. It would be nice to have a 64 bit linux/macos/windows Clipper-like compiler.
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by neverartful 2y ago
In the case of United Healthcare's CEO the murderer could have just have easily used a knife. When someone is really intent on killing you, guns are not their only option.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Not a good place to be while Madame Defarge is still knitting.
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by neverartful 2y ago
A for-profit corporation will have financial incentive to screw over people when they're already down. This is why I don't understand why we don't have more mutual health insurance companies or not-for-profit corporations for
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by neverartful 2y ago
Concludes with "...some of us are wondering whether it will try again with Apple silicon" I wouldn't hold my breath. It's not for technical reasons, but rather cultural. I don't think Apple likes dealing with the en
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by neverartful 2y ago
I just visited Monument Valley and it was spectacular. Inside the Visitor Center they have a whole room devoted to the Navajo code talkers. I only spent a few minutes in it but it was very interesting and very nicely presented.
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by neverartful 2y ago
I don't view opt-in as a very good defaults for these.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Got it! Thanks.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Got it! Thanks.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Agreed! If I were to fork sqlite, that would be my aim.
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by neverartful 2y ago
If I were to fork SQLite, drawing users away from the main project would be a non-goal. The goal would be to get strict tables and foreign key constraints enforced 100% of the time.
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by neverartful 2y ago
What is meant by a 'hard fork'? Are there different kinds of forks?
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by neverartful 2y ago
Agreed! Rewriting in Rust (or any other language) is not required for those features. A fork and modifying the existing C code could also result in those features (and I might do just that if it doesn't come around soon).
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by neverartful 2y ago
Code quality is not the only thing to consider. Some people would love to see something like SQLite with 2 important changes: referential integrity that respects the DDL and strict tables that also respects the DDL.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Not all front-end development is done in html/js/css.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Yep, that all makes perfect sense!
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by neverartful 2y ago
Oh! I hadn't heard about this.
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by neverartful 2y ago
There was also a big flop with the 80860 (sometimes referenced as i860) RISC CPU back around 1990 or so. There was a lot of hype about it being a Cray on a chip. On paper, the CPU looked awesome. The problem was that there were no compilers
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by neverartful 2y ago
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a PRAGMA option for strict tables. Docs at following link say that 'STRICT' must be appended to end of CREATE TABLE statement to disable the flexible typing 'feature'. https:
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by neverartful 2y ago
Isn't it a bit early to say this? The motive is not yet known.
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by neverartful 2y ago
Because 1 executive is gunned down? How many poor unknowns out on the streets get gunned down routinely? Is his life worth more?
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by neverartful 2y ago
IBM also still sells Informix.

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