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by nn3 8y ago
That implies that Persian is changing slower than other languages? Or is Germanic/English/Latin the outlier?
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by nn3 8y ago
It appears to be extremely bare bone. For example the TCP socket is like UDP with hard coded IP addresses. It won't handle any packet reordering or lost packets. I haven't checked other parts, but if they are like that it would be
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by nn3 8y ago
The mammal mentioned in the article was a marsupial, so not in our ancestral line. Marsupials have split from the eutherians (to which we belong) long before the C-T boundary. At C-T there were already early primates, which is our closer fa
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by nn3 8y ago
You are right of course. If nothing works anymore that is by definition most secure.
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by nn3 8y ago
Updating openssh has been a frustrating experience recently because of their constant breaking of old clients. I hope this one doesn't continue this worrying tendency.
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by nn3 8y ago
In the 90ies there was more a "move away from Ada movement" to avoid that language that the dod forced on the industry and for which it was hard to hire programmers for. Today it would be likely different. Also to stay pure Ada t
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by nn3 8y ago
At some point maintenance was taken over by a startup, and they moved to POSIX as the primary API as a industry standard (over "RTEMS classic" which was purely Ada). The move to C was part of that I believe.
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by nn3 8y ago
Yes early versions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS were written in Ada. I believe modern versions are large in C with just an Ada API though.
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by nn3 8y ago
All animals sleep.
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by nn3 8y ago
Nobody is thrown in jail ever for a airplane failure analysis. Every human failure is considered a process failure, that gets fixed by improving the processes or the machinery
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by nn3 8y ago
I thought it still had some tax advantages. The lawyers benefit from it at least. Otherwise it's a lose / lose situation for everyone.
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by nn3 8y ago
There are also icon and txr. I always liked the icon approach where backtracking is fairly explicit, but still tightly integrated into the language. Txr is more for text analysis.
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by nn3 8y ago
>Together with survival-of-the-fittest There are actually many more mechanism in evolution, such as genetic drift or geographic separation. You're merely focusing on one special aspect of evolution here. Biology in practice is a qui
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by nn3 8y ago
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. " (Larry Ellison) Right now LLVM is fashionable and gcc is not. Little details, as in actually generating better code, are minor in
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by nn3 8y ago
Isn't that something that Haskell programmers use to obfuscate their programs?
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by nn3 8y ago
And even worse, it's generating worse and ridiculously bigger code. So they spend a lot of effort for worse result. And apparently they don't catch serious problems in their build system on their own (profile feedback pass timing
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by nn3 8y ago
Curious about the "energy impact" metric. It seems to be just runtime. Fairly lame, had expected some kind of real energy model. This will be quite misleading in many cases, e.g. GPU usage or heavy floating point. /&#x2
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by nn3 8y ago
Yes URL should be replaced with the rbth article. So they developed a portable lie detector for dogs? And it works better than human lie detectors because the dogs don't understand it? I wonder if a smart enough dog can figure out how
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by nn3 8y ago
Everything that calls itself "paradigm shift" in the first paragraph isn't.
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by nn3 8y ago
Appears to be just l = readline() print l while True: n = readline() if editdistance(n, l) > 30%: print n l = n The simple tool doesn't appear to handle interleaving? Normally uniq handles that b
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by nn3 8y ago
There are lots of tamed wild animals around. For example tamed tasmanian devil's. Or tamed birds like parrots. But they haven't been especially bred for tameness, just they are naturally tameable.
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by nn3 8y ago
If they are packed how can they be losing money? Perhaps I'm wrong but its clear you are not right either.
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by nn3 8y ago
So is population dropping? Or just ridership? Or did Greyhound suddenly have higher costs? None of that is answered in the article, unless I missed it. <speculation:> I assume operating such a bus line is not all that expensive, and c
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by nn3 8y ago
Only if you never eat out.
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by nn3 8y ago
On SUSE Linux a few versions used Makefiles for parallelizing init scripts under sysvinit before they switched to systemd. I've been using make to drive test scripts myself recently, although i often regret it because other people edit
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So, you want to become a cosmonaut? Inside the 2018 cosmonaut selection process(thespacereview.com)
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by nn3 8y ago
It can be also useful for social contacts. I recently rode the bus in a small american city I was visiting. The main users were teens and old people. The old people mostly knew each other and chatted pleasantly during the whole ride. Given
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by nn3 8y ago
Yes no opinion on the bar itself. I guess it's ok as far as protein bars go. I personally just mix some powdered whey protein in a yoghurt. Beats any of those bars easily and is trivially easy to do.
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by nn3 8y ago
The simple ingredient list of the protein bar is amusing. The bar is blueberry flavored, but there are no blue berries on the list, and no sight of artificial flavors in the list either. And none of the other component taste of blue berries
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by nn3 8y ago
My understanding is that a lot of undefinedness in the original c89 standard came from a desire to support non 2 complement machines like Burroughs. Of course in hindsight that was a total mistake. Yes would be a great idea to come up with

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