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That's correct, "directly query the authoritative nameserver yourself" is precisely what dig +trace does. > You still only will know that other resolvers will receive the desired answer eventually. That's also correct
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Language is important. "DNS propagation" is another one of those instances of jargon or thought terminating cliches where, if DNS resolution isn't working for some reason, it can be chalked up to this poorly understood, ill-d
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That's right: you can either run your DNS query against a (frequently automatically configured) resolver that will pursue the query on your behalf up to the authoritative nameserver declared in the NS record and have that resolver cach
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It's a good point. `Promise::resolve()` "flattens nested layers of promise-like objects (e.g. a promise that fulfills to a promise that fulfills to something) into a single layer." [0] The example was meant to be more of an i
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I had a caveat in my original post re. the implicit wrapping of the `Promise.then()` callback's (pure) return value in a new Promise, and how this differs from Haskell's monadic bind; I had hoped to make a loose analogy while poin
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> "Functional Programming" doesn't have a precise definition at all as far as I know, so it is likely it doesn't refer to a real thing. Most of the paradigms are similar as they don't seem to actually mean anythi
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It's worth noting that both languages cited (Python, C++) are multi-paradigm and therefore contain aspects of both OOP and FP; there are very few languages that are exclusively object-oriented or functional. The naming of the functools
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This is the statement/expression distinction; `echo "hello world"` is a statement that, when evaluated, has the side effect of printing "hello world" to stdout (or wherever), and has no value (for the purposes of th
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It's arguable that SQL is "basically applying and composing functions," given that its mathematical underpinnings lie in the relational algebra (hence relational databases). Further, while it's maybe technically correc
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This is borderline nonsense.
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Consider async-await a syntactic sugar over Promises (from JavaScript). Then, Promises constitute an instance of the Monad typeclass where monadic `bind` or (>>=) is `Promise.then()`, and `return` is `Promise::resolve()`. Here is a tr
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The classic dichotomy drawn between functional programming (FP) and object-oriented programming is the "Expression Problem" [0]; in the former approach you optimize for extensibility of the number of operations in your model, at
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I have a number of thoughts regarding this article. First is the idea of "dangerous gifts" and of a mind that is oversensitized to making (perhaps spurious) connections and correlations between otherwise unrelated phenomena - rela
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Would you make this same statement regarding those suffering from gender dysphoria? Why or why not?
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One of the key takeaways from Jaynes' work for me is the idea that our minds and "selves" are not singular but in fact a constellation of subsystems all working in concert with one another to form the totality of our phenomen
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Another linguistic confusion here. The author doesn't seem to clarify what exactly he thinks "agile" even means, which is not really surprising given that the original formulation [0] of "individuals and interactions ove
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This idea was discussed in "On the Practice of Esotericism," 1992. https://doi.org/10.2307/2709872
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Rome: Total War was probably one of my top three favorite games growing up as a kid. The House of Brutii was probably my favorite faction, even after trying a couple mods like Extended Greek Mod which tried to round out the non-Roman factio
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> it was psychological hacks: that people are mostly holding themselves back from what they want, one just needs to align their unconscious desires with their will, and it will happen. This is the correct understanding of magick, at leas
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> "right is right, even if nobody thinks it is" is something that people have recognized since ... oh, Socrates? Something recognized since Socrates, whose death was foretold by Nietzsche, and finally rendered obsolete by the p
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Case of where the language affects (and can clarify/obscure) your model of the system and its behaviour: C++'s copy-assignment operator [0], which makes these semantics explicit. [0] https://en.cppreference.com/w&#
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It can be argued that some languages or technologies are superior to others in expressive power [0]. Some languages or technologies are easier to learn, but the solutions they produce are more complex, less simple, and/or less elegant;
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I understand that this link is authwalled (by accounts that can be created for free), but it's telling of the medium how the actual paper itself is downvoted while the majority of the rest of the comments appear to either be tangential
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Yes, you can also chisel information into cave walls in a similar fashion. The novelty here is that the indented information can be "erased" by uncompressing/unsqueezing/removing external stresses from the sponge (or oth
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> We present emergent behaviour of storing mechanical deformation in compressed soft cellular materials (a network of soft polymeric rods). I don't believe aluminium foil is cellular or polymeric in structure.
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Indenting with a metallic indentor gives a quite distinct response in both of these phases. In the elastic phase, the sponge regains its original shape following unindentation over a timescale t given by the relaxation ti
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Right; "the surgeon" in Brooks' proposed team structure has the responsibility of maintaining the "theory" of the program as described by Peter Naur in 1985.
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> lacking the necessary information, may either come up with a suboptimal solution or need further communication with the original architect. > Others might advocate for better design diagrams and documentation to capture all the rele
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> Some 69% of people with a diagnosis of oral or throat cancer will survive five years or longer after their diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute. If the cancer metabolizes, however, that rate drops to 14%. Metastasizes,
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The section on "THE INTERFACE CULTURE" is critical to understand in today's digital media landscape. Disney's Animal Kingdom is to the written works of Lewis Carroll and J.M. Barrie as the GUI is to the command-line inte

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