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by pmr_ 13y ago
I think it is important to point out that no one has been declared guilty of "waging war" at the Nuremberg Trials but for waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties and conspiring for such a war. (T
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by pmr_ 13y ago
In my experience the motivation to use a particular SCM scheme is tooling. That makes some of the choices non-obvious to developers that aren't familiar with the tools and their quirks. A lot of people developing those schemes forget t
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by pmr_ 13y ago
One interesting thing I learned from this article is that the US does not have a VAT, but a sales tax on a state level. It took me a while to understand this as most countries in Europe usually have only a VAT on the nation state level. I g
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I'm perfectly aware of that. I was just saying that it doesn't aid readability of the code (rather the opposite). There even have been proposals to solve this problem (scoped macros being just one of them) so this is acknowledged
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Please read carefully: "for educational purposes". I'm fully aware that such a library wouldn't be fit for production but it maybe would be useful for people learning generic C++ programming. Currently you have to look a
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I mostly live in C++ land and the story is different there. The standard library implementations are a place of magick, mystery, and obscure defect reports. They provide plenty of insight what can go wrong if you are writing a generic libra
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Funnily, this is one of the freedoms granted by the standard which neither gcc, clang, or MSVC actually make use of.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Exactly this. I'm not a US citizen and I can not remember the last time someone spoke about the United States as something we should emulate or as a country we should support. Political panels with topics like "Are the US still ou
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I really like your argument (probably because you make a point that is important to me), but I think we also have to accept the realities of methodology. The variables which you (and I) would like to measure are much harder to get at. They
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I think the problem is refactored code that still compiles but fails in subtle ways now. Of course testing should catch that, but we have to accept that the reality of most testsuites is very different from the ideal.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
I think they are the only thing relevant in the article. The introductory example is just one example of how not knowing about sequence points leads to bugs. There are many more and it makes for a much more interesting read to first learn a
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by pmr_ 13y ago
No. You might be right if we were talking about "proper use" in English as a spoken language, but "undefined behavior" is a technical term defined by the C and C++ ISO standards.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
You get 5,000 if you complete the design phase, not the qualification phase. For that you need to complete the qualification phase AND be selected to go there.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Are you suggesting that Europe is not capitalist already? I think it is and despite this we have still managed to maintain greater equality (as measured by Gini coefficients after taxes and transfers) than the United States by having more s
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by pmr_ 13y ago
You said that both things ('importing new people and replacement breeding') contribute to overpopulation. Importing new people can only contribute to overpopulation if you consider it locally. If you consider it globally moving X
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by pmr_ 13y ago
But there is no overpopulation in Europe in terms of land availability or food supply (Europe's population density is 72 person/sqkm, the last famine was during WWII and not even then widespread). Sure, population density is very
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Can you provide a source for the first statement? It seems unlikely to me that a language implementation is going to be fast on text processing which is essentially a aggregate task of what most benchmarks try to profile individually, but I
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Constness is a really useful concept especially since it has been extended to also mean thread-safe (at least in the standard library), but has a bunch of design flaws that make it very difficult to use correctly. 1. It is not the default.
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by pmr_ 13y ago
For some people Emacs acts like a maelstrom for everything you do on a computer. In the beginning you use it to code in one language, then in another language, then you use it for (La)TeX, then you use it as an organizer, then you use it to
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by pmr_ 13y ago
The exact part struck me the most. I was expecting some technique that tries to figure out the maximal error during the calculations and provides enough space for an exact floating point presentation in advance to avoid the usual problem of
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by pmr_ 13y ago
This is very far from exercise but it might feel to you as exercise and an increase of movement because your perspective on the physical abilities of the average human is skewed. One astonishing thing I've learned while becoming more a
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by pmr_ 13y ago
There is a common distinction between Human Rights and Civil Rights. All of them vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but the former are granted regardless of citizenship and the later only to citizens of a state. To foreigners and law la
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by pmr_ 13y ago
Yes, or everyone that said something is simply getting arrested, barred from speaking about his charges, and possibly thrown into one of those cozy off-shore facilities with unclear legal status. There is an understandable fear that a large
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by pmr_ 13y ago
There is a different perspective on the frozen APIs. Using an API from the stdlib gives you the certainty that your program is not going to break with a minor python version bump. This might not matter for all software but is crucial for ot
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by pmr_ 13y ago
You were explicitly talking about testing sentience (which does not require "moves around" or "communicates"). Sentience is simply a concept we have come up with to differentiate organisms. It wouldn't seem surprisi
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by pmr_ 13y ago
> It's [sentience is] very easy to test for. Isn't that only true if you assume that our definition of sentience is universal or that there is no higher development of consciousness? It seems to me that it doesn't even req
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by pmr_ 14y ago
And this is probably for the best, because you probably aren't the right kind of user for the distribution and community. If you take a look at [1], you will see that the wiki provides a lot more than just commands to type in, but also a ra
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I think this would be the right place to bring this up: Is language support backed in or can everyone write a plug-in for his language? Implementing highlighting, completion and repl for all the different languages users could want seems li
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by pmr_ 14y ago
I have a problem with honesty as the redeeming quality problem of the article. Honesty is certainly one of the most important traits of a journalist, so is understanding bias and preventing bias as much as possible. Broder was honest in rep
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by pmr_ 14y ago
At the same time I have seen autovectorization to fail on things that would look like obvious candidates or to generate still sub-optimal code. I would prefer autovectorization over hand-written SIMD code everyday but that key here is relia

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