samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
Influenced by DJ Kool Herc more than any of those, I would wager. I was AFK all night after posting this, but I actually regret not acknowledging international contributions to techno music and culture, which was and is huge. But I can&#x27
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You have gotten the history here dead wrong: > The techno scene originated in Germany, reached the UK, and it was later associated with the Chicago & Detroit EDM scene in America. Techno was invented in Detroit, house music in Chic
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> what if Putin gets a terminal illness No, this is a hypothetical.
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It seems you have no understanding at all of the goals of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . It's worth reading up on.
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That was a hypothetical, not a claim. Unless you want to argue that Putin is immortal, he'll die of something. Unless that something is very sudden (possible) it will be fairly described as a terminal illness.
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Japan also has 7-11s, they're in fact the largest brand of konbini. GP was clearly saying that 7-11 in the US is only junk food, and Japanese konbinis offer food comparable to that of specialty gas stations like Buc-ees. Which I consid
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by samatman 2y ago
> digressions into discussing Perl Changing the name to Raku doesn't obliterate Perl 6's history as Larry Wall's successor to Perl 5. I don't know why you would expect people to pretend that they're unrelated.
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I seem to recall at some point that that old Twitter banned the account of the sitting President of the United States. Later, Twitter banned a comedy account, the Babylon Bee. That pissed Elon off enough to buy it. Both are back on Twitter
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How much realistic battery life do you get? Can you hear the fans spin in a typical week?
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Yes this is correct. Maybe in 50 years Mexicans will be honest and Europeans will be corrupt. I don't think anyone honestly thinks that corruption is inherent to anyone's genetics. But today? It's simply the case.
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I expect we would discover that almost all of that is improvements in car safety though.
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So your theory is what, malice? Apple makes AirPods the cheapest hearing aids by a long shot, except for some customers that they hate? The problem is simple: hearing aids are regulated products, and countries tend to insist on individually
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https://archive.ph/VJKSE
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There needs to be a term for the cognitive fallacy that, just because two endeavors are conceptually adjacent in your mind, that puts them in competition for resources in any real way. That isn't how it works. Conserving megafauna and
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by samatman 2y ago
Looking forward to the Crab language, with its excellent package management system, baggage.
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Those mean different things. f(.{}) is calling a function, which takes a struct, using an in-place constructor which provides the default arguments for the necessary struct type. f({}) is passing an instance of `void` to a function with a `
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by samatman 2y ago
One will quickly become accustomed to the .{} pattern learning Zig. It's used for struct constructors: const a_struct: StructType = .{ .foo = "baz"}; As well as union initialization. So .{} is a struct constructor f
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by samatman 2y ago
There's an issue tracking that: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3806
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Well yes, but if it's someone else's library, realistically you're not going to change it. Zig is a static language without variadic parameters, so you can't make it optional in that sense. You could make the options a `
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For the same reason you can't pass a Python function expecting a list an empty list with foo(), you have to use foo([]). They mean different things.
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This comment might be valuable if you added some elaboration, and an example of what it looks like.
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I'm glad I read the last line, for those who may not have gotten that far: this is about to become a much less prevalent pattern in Zig code, replaced with declaration literals. The new syntax will look like this: var gpa: std.me
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Very nice, I've been looking for something like this since completing a port of DiffMatchPatch. I'll going to give it a spin right away, thanks for sharing your hard work! As a bit of feedback, you might wish to put a section show
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You do not understand what a sum type is. At all. There are innumerable ways you can rectify this lack of understanding if you want to.
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There's absolutely a difference between an enumeration and a sum type.
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Pascal enums are not sum types, because they are not the sum of multiple types. They are an enumeration of discrete values, which is why they're called enums. Sum types in Pascal are called variant records: type FooKind = (Fo
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Cognitive cost is the most important cost to minimize. A Rust project's cognitive cost budget comes out of what's left over after the language is done spending. This is true of any language, but many language designers do not dis
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I'm fairly sure he's referring to enumerations actually. Pascal doesn't require case matching of enumerations to be exhaustive, but this can be turned on as a compiler warning in modern Pascal environments, FreePascal /
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> I'm working on implementing continuations in the interpreter You might find this paper (and everything else on the site) interesting and relevant. https://okmij.org/ftp/continuations/ZFS/context-OS
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Ok but the Republicans will have full control of both houses, and can also put aside the filibuster if they would like. Are you saying it's therefore ok for Trump to pack the courts? That does appear to be the logical extension of your

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