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by owl57 7y ago
Not the GP, but have protanopia. FEFE62 > D35BF7 > 005AB5 > DC3220 ≈ default.
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by owl57 7y ago
Of course you are always going to interact with N people. Your family consists of n₀ people, there are n₁ people in your office, there are n₂ people around you on the train, etc. Area calculations would matter if each infected perso
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by owl57 7y ago
A lot of people probably see more Facebook ads than Google ones. And Facebook knows a lot about users, probably including some things that Google knows less reliably. The relevant problem is, do they seem any less scummy?
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import qualified Data.ByteString as B import qualified Data.ByteString.Char8 as C main = do let x = 100 print (x * x) let y:_ = B.unpack (C.pack "foo") --let z = x * y return () If
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by owl57 7y ago
the lack of explicitness about casting exact types (Integer, Rational) to inexact types (Int, Float) has led to many bugs and confusions for me Matches my limited experience with Haskell. You get some bad bugs that you don't get in P
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by owl57 7y ago
Yes. I wrongly remembered (and even checked the out-of-the-box output of ":i Fractional"!) that it doesn't include Rational, but only different flavours of floats. The original point stands: Python's Fraction defines ari
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by owl57 7y ago
Are there known real-world examples of miscalculations (as opposed to crash or something like "None" printed) that would be prevented by Haskell but not Python 3? (Why "3"? Because the one thing that has bitten me is the
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by owl57 7y ago
1) This bug is a major one for a big part of the world. 2) It belongs to the part of GNOME that exists solely because GNOME decided to reinvent keyboard input. 3) Google shows lots of people aware of the problem (bugreports, stackexchange,
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by owl57 7y ago
When writing in Russian, every time when they switch between typing prose and typing equations or code. So, maybe about a dozen times per sentence. At first my jaw dropped on your comment, but then I thought, maybe we non-latin-writing peop
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by owl57 7y ago
GNOME isn't fine. See, on switching keyboard layout it switches focus from current window while it writes some file to disk. Yes, it's not terrible on SSD, and I bet whoever invented this monstrosity has an SSD. But needing an SSD
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by owl57 7y ago
Thanks for putting it that succintly. It got me thinking if that cost of change is always a bad thing. A lot of programs tend to fall into one of two ends of the spectrum: 1) Everyone is afraid to change anything. 2) The program is constant
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by owl57 7y ago
Farm meat causes its share of trouble, from swine flu to antibiotic resistance. Maybe it's time to go pragmatically vegan, that is, ban eating anything close enough to share pathogens?
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by owl57 7y ago
I suspect the best of those tools will be called Emacs and vim for some more decades.
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by owl57 7y ago
Well, AI in 2001, surveillance state in 1984… It almost seems like these are chapter numbers in something like the 1984's inner book about how the modern world works.
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by owl57 7y ago
Are you sure? Do people in some countries lose their money if they, for example, sold their car to a bad guy?
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by owl57 7y ago
As are PureScript and Elm. Maybe "lazy" is just no longer a good name for the branch as a whole, given that it keeps growing new eager leaves.
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by owl57 7y ago
Why did he choose celebrities of different races? Did more similar faces fall even deeper into the uncanny valley?
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by owl57 7y ago
you pay the full a'la carte price for everything you hadn't fully eaten I've heard of a game in university: two players take their meals in the cafeteria, the one with the more expensive lunch wins, the other one pays for b
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by owl57 7y ago
But your publishing tool had a bug, and it automatically inserted their illegal characters into your carefully and validly authored page, and now all hell has broken loose. I'm not entirely sure an XML-error-deface is the worst way t
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by owl57 7y ago
You can install vanilla kernel and firmware. It won't ever be in the official repos, but the needed configuration is relatively simple and easy to google.
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by owl57 7y ago
I'm curious if it is even more misleading. Does it count 3840x2160 with 2x scaling as "other" or "1920x1080"?
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by owl57 7y ago
You can just read "requires text when it shouldn't". But I don't recommend this terminology: in most modern computer programs, including Python 3 implementations, "text" and "Unicode" mean the same th
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by owl57 7y ago
isn’t a “real tty” because it has a metal backend I was at first confused. Of course "real ttys" have some metal in their back end! (I'm too young and my default mental image of a "real tty" contains a CRT, but th
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by owl57 7y ago
Sure. I thought a bit more about app stores and came up with the idea that Microsoft Store should be not that bad, because they probably have money to hire a lot of moderators. But search for "torrent" on microsoft.com recommends
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by owl57 7y ago
> Downloading random executables from the internet is not a good idea. OTOH, `apt search torrent` on Ubuntu probably doesn't recommend any malware. Though their GUI nowadays promotes snaps and I'm not sure how much that is bett
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by owl57 7y ago
Wow. If 20% of the ballots are rejected in our next election due to some invisible garbage, the opposition and Western media will cry "they stopped even pretending to count the actual votes". Seriously, opinion on systemd and choi
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by owl57 7y ago
Yes. I still don't understand why Wikipedia doesn't fall apart. But pretty sure it doesn't.
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by owl57 7y ago
Imperative loop, maybe. But list comprehensions are a sublanguage imported from Haskell and looking like Haskell, so it's somewhat natural to be surprised by mutable variables here.
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by owl57 7y ago
Checked my old site's rank. ~250000. One VPS, €4/month. Mostly static, but a decent part is served with a not so light Perl CGI script (!). I'm sure I wouldn't get away with that in top 1k websites, but 1m?
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by owl57 7y ago
Is it easy to use VCS for that? Last time I checked it wasn't [1]. In fact, that is maybe the main thing keeping me from learning IntelliJ tools more: I'm not comfortable with programs that I know I will want to customize but can&

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