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by patrec 4y ago
Well, there is luajit at least (the GC isn't very performant, but people who care about this sidestep it). Maybe Chez or Gambit scheme as well.
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by patrec 4y ago
> The first thing that pops into my mind is "Abenomics": I don't think you get assassinated for economic policies (unless you really impoverish a large section of the population). I think it's more likely he got assas
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by patrec 4y ago
> Mononoke is obviously Disney/Hollywod compatible, but Totoro not so much. My preferred example would be Pom Poko and clubbing police officers with hypertrophied testicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPaSIy--5
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by patrec 4y ago
> In my opinion, it's because new programmers find C scary due to the prevalence of Python. A professional programmer who does not find C scary is about as confidence inspiring as a nuclear engineer who does not find plutonium scary
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by patrec 4y ago
Here's what a regexp for a C-style identifier looks like (ranges are inclusive): [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]* Here's what the same regexp would look like if regexp ranges were end-exclusive: [a-{A-[][a-{A-[0-:_]* Do yo
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by patrec 4y ago
> The argument for 1-based indexing with inclusive upper bounds is that binary heaps are easier to write this way. Nope. The argument for 1-based indexing with inclusive upper bounds is that, to express ranges, exclusive indexes require
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by patrec 4y ago
> The existence of a Chrome-based iOS browser would quickly lead web developers to drop Safari and Firefox support (“just install Chrome bro!”) Yeah, that would totally happen because websites that force people to install some massively
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by patrec 4y ago
> Polish Jews were targeted as Jews, but non-Jewish Poles were not targeted in the same way (i.e., the Germans were brutal occupiers, but Catholic Poles were not targeted for extermination). What are you talking about? The Nazis absolute
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by patrec 4y ago
> In the US at least, any spying is illegal when both parties are within the US And no doubt it must be even more illegal to then perjure yourself in front of congress about not having engaged in such illegal spying, when in fact you hav
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by patrec 4y ago
Judging by a 3 minute browse of some of the articles of conservapedia, Schlafy seems to be a dimwitted crank. So I'm actually amazed at what must either be his intellectual honesty or delusion that made him post this humiliating and de
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by patrec 4y ago
Make, cmake, cargo and npm are all examples of popular build tools that require you to manually "clean" to correct build problems. Make and cmake pretty much all the time, IME, cargo less so, but it happens. Bazel/Blaze and d
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by patrec 4y ago
> Extraordinary claim. If you think this claim is extraordinary and CMake is a counterexample, I don't know what to say. Have you really not have had to manually fuzz around with stale builds (by e.g. issuing "clean" comma
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by patrec 4y ago
> I don't know any build system that doesn't. Sure you do. Any build system which has a "clean" command that you'd use for anything other than freeing up space.
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by patrec 4y ago
> I disagree, and there is a huge philosophical gulf of understanding between my view and those who feel differently. Let me ask you two simple questions: 1. I work on a project in a git repo and do a git pull to get the latest changes t
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by patrec 4y ago
> questionable tools (with large shadows) such as Bazel and gRPC, Bazel and gRPC, whilst both saddled with problems stemming from Google's inwardly-focused engineering culture (and also just some sub-optimal historical decisions) ar
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by patrec 4y ago
Worth reading only if "because ignorance" is useful knowledge to you. In any case, you'd be better off starting at http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/04/you-knew-id-say-somethin... , which tries to cle
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by patrec 4y ago
Exactly, this depends a lot on jurisdiction. I seem to remember that there are some places where you could basically spend the rest of your life in jail if you forget (with or without scare-quotes) your passport.
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by patrec 4y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted, I think in an industry that is rife with crime and theft of enormous sums you would indeed hope that some mature player like Coinbase restricts access to sensitive customer information to a really small
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by patrec 4y ago
Not that this excuses false promises, but: why should expatriates who left a country decades ago get any say in pivotal decisions on its future? That seems like a really dumb idea. > But Brexit was different. It directly affected my righ
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by patrec 4y ago
Google is a great name -- easily the best name among the top 5 tech companies. It's unique, short, can be "verbed" and is easy to memorize and pronounce for English speakers and many non English speakers alike.
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by patrec 4y ago
> You provide anecdata of your experience but no evidence of substance really. If you are a brilliant programmer in the US what short of a crippling health/personality/relationship issue would prevent you from landing a highly
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by patrec 4y ago
And a lot of this multi-threaded software that previously worked fine on single-core machines, required urgent fixes as multi-core CPUs became more common.
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by patrec 4y ago
> It's hard for a person in the throes of addiction to last as a whale for long. They don't have to. Repeatedly unearthing cow-clickers whom you can milk for $10'000 before sending them into financial ruin sounds like a mu
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by patrec 4y ago
> I wonder why so many free-speech advocates are hell-bent on enabling fascists to spread their propaganda. Do you also wonder why so many cryptography advocates are hell-bent on enabling not just fascists but also pedophiles and terrori
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by patrec 4y ago
> This is not correct at all. A quick glance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial suggests that you may have made up the public advocacy requirement: > (3) Whosoever publicly or in a meet
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by patrec 4y ago
> For those that have used it, how useful it is for debugging multithreading heisenbugs? Not that useful, because as it says on the page (under "Limitations"): > emulates a single-core machine.
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by patrec 4y ago
The upper end looks to be about the average monthly developer salary of a poor country with many highly educated programmers (such as Belarus). There will also be a pool with talented individuals who are not yet on an average monthly develo
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by patrec 4y ago
> Of course. But I have to tell you, they skilfully sidestepped it by blaming an firing a TA, who I happen to know was entirely innocent. The actual culprit is still a senior professor at that university. Would you or your friend still n
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by patrec 4y ago
You are obfuscating. The distinction that matters is if there is an intent to threaten people into compliance with a policy position of yours by creating a piece of legislation you know to be unconstitutional or not. It seems pretty clear t
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by patrec 4y ago
> Alternatively he thought it was a worthwhile policy and hoped the constitution would be amended by the time it took effect, if not, then he had multiple years of his preferred policy in place. So if I believe something I know to be bla

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