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by puffoflogic 4y ago
And if in the meantime they turn their supporters against the rule of law, why, that's just a bonus to them!
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> It is commonly stated that freedom of speech doesn’t equal freedom from consequences, Like many commonly stated things, this is completely wrong. Freedom from consequences is the only possible thing that "freedom of speech"
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
It's only an invalid patent if you manage to get review before SCOTUS. Otherwise your road ends at the federal circuit which has yet to meet a patent it doesn't like.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
As long as Kant's would-be defenders defend counterfactual positions only, then I suppose there's no reason the debate would ever end. > If you're born tabula rasa There's lots of evidence that just isn't so. If
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
We'll be stuck with UTF-16 as long as we have Unicode, it would seem. The character set itself has to have a hole in the middle of it for the sole purpose of working around UTF-16 limitations.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Except, as you'll find people in these very comments arguing, if you don't implement utf16 anyways then you're not a compliant LSP. Don't forget that utf16/UCS2 is Embrance, Extend, Extinguish at its finest. Liter
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
It is, but the media will never cover it so you won't hear about it.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Okay, but what other social justice goals are the math teachers achieving? That's far more important than preparing students for success and advancement. If the teacher is using all the right pronouns and engaging in active gender just
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Notice that we have zero evidence that the recent objects were Chinese in origin except the admin has said so. And we know they never lie about anything.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Admiral Cloudberg et al. have spoiled me; this info is boring without analysis.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
When discussing the fossil record it's astonishing that no one ever mentions the possibility that an advanced species would intentionally remove all geological and archaeological traces of its existence. Why would they do that, you ask
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Ah, but you see, if this theory were right, then the US government would in effect be pushing a certain religion as a state religion and banning competing religions. And that certainly can't be right, because look, no one is even filin
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Isn't it obvious? Legalize MAPs.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> All these phony paper entities that you can "move" your stuff into in order to pretend to the government that it's not yours anymore You make it sound like this was something invented by tax -dodging capitalists getting
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Even this is unnecessary. I'd say 99% of people using PCRE-like regexes have never read the documentation and realized `(?x)` exists. We can write the regex like this, including all whitespace: (?x) ^\w+ # mandator
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Now you're getting it.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
This is completely irrelevant.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
It means I don't need to know what a monad does before I can begin to characterize what it means to, say, traverse a data structure with that monad. Then once I do know what a monad does, the problem of figuring out what it means to tr
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
"Value in a box" remains a misleading and unmotivating visualization/example of functors. The train visualization for lists is particularly egregious[1]. Parsers and delimited continuations[0] are monads, and there is manifes
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> Leaving aside the impossibility of comparing one person's burnout to another's Imagine using this to dismiss the lived experience of, say, a PoC, and not getting instantly banned. But say it about autistic people and you will
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
People are enabling serde codegen on every type, for no reason. That's it, that's the whole story. Those of us who don't do this will continue to read these "rustc is slow!!1!" posts and roll our eyes. Rustc isn&#x2
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
You know what is commonly specified with abstract machine semantics now? Assembly language. See e.g. the ARMv8 Architecture Reference Manuals, where code for an abstract machine is listed right there in every single instruction listing, a
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> Why do we not see any of those reports. Because the bad cop goes to jail and now he's no longer in the department, so the department falls out of the news cycle. I'm not sure what else you'd expect... Here's a possi
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
The history of the c specification is irrelevant to the question of the abstract machine. Other languages developed this way are rust, scheme, and... yep, pretty much every single other language spec in existence.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Food is regularly irradiated to make it safe. You are regularly irradiated at the dentist, the hospital, in a plane, and in the produce aisle. You have no idea what you're talking about, and you are the problem.
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
> spreading radiation everywhere they go. Radiation is not "spread" in the manner you are suggesting. The only affect on passers-by would be transient exposure - less than ideal, but not a fatal risk. If the capsule were breac
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Let's just wait and see whether (should I say, "when"?) LTL mysteriously breaches the terms of, or simply renegotiates, that very funding agreement. Not until after appeals options are exhausted, of course, but soon thereafte
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Under this abuse of terminology, a pocket calculator is capable of becoming a package/dependency manager. Or any other technology which conceivably could be put to work toward the package management problem, but has not yet been adap
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Nix is not capable of becoming a first class dependency manager because it does not manage dependencies. It does not attempt any version or feature resolution. Besides, saying Nix could become a package manager is like saying that C could b
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by puffoflogic 4y ago
Anything at all which inhibits the virus's spread will do this. That is extremely basic evolutionary theory. Speaking of theories, I have a theory that most people don't actually believe that evolution is real, because they questi

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