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by scj 4y ago
There's a related "What if Netscape went with Scheme as it's scripting language?"
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by scj 4y ago
I'd solve the complexity transition problem by producing a header & linkable library so traditional languages can interact with the "no-code". Of course, for profit companies probably don't want to implement an off-r
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by scj 4y ago
I still associate the smell of cigarette smoke with doughnuts.
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by scj 4y ago
In the brief period when they were still baking in store and indoor smoking was banned, it was a pleasant experience to go into a Tims, even if you were just getting a coffee.
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by scj 5y ago
C's greatest feature is that it trivially maps onto .so files. Linking to and creating .so files isn't just cheap, it's effectively free. Most higher level languages I've worked with seem to focus on using .so files rat
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by scj 5y ago
From what I'm reading, L5 would need to handle the annual meeting of the summer tires club... Assuming that's a problem in NY or Chicago.
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by scj 5y ago
Even if the behaviour is defined, relying on defined non-obvious behaviours means relying on subsequent programmers to have read the spec.
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by scj 5y ago
A legislative staffer donating to an organization outside the jurisdiction of Canada which vowed to ignore Canadian finance laws... By population, we're a small country. If this becomes a regular occurrence, Canadians are going to nee
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by scj 5y ago
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." - Pierre Trudeau, 1969 When trying to gr
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by scj 5y ago
IANAL, I'm pretty sure the only question that matters is if Section 1 of the Charter [0] is sufficient to meet the government's goals. If not, Section 33 certainly is. Since 1986, the Oakes test has become the way to determine Se
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by scj 5y ago
Appointed by the Federal Government.
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by scj 5y ago
Chretien was instrumental in the authorship of the Charter, signed the Proclamation of it alongside QE2, and is still alive. The website's way of phrasing that is misleading, even if partially true. And to further illustrate your point
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by scj 5y ago
If they were accidentally infringing licenses, this scattershot approach may result in snitching on their own company. That's how a log4j security audit becomes an Oracle licensing debacle.
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by scj 5y ago
More problematically, in a character set you don't know! Iconography is required.
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by scj 5y ago
IANAL... Coles Notes version: Unless someone can point out a specific abuse, given the current State of Emergency declared in Parliament, the government could just make a semi-coherent argument and a judge would let the people decide in the
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by scj 5y ago
I'd add to his argument, that the problem with software and uptime is that every time we add a layer of abstraction or library, the five 9s factor may apply. Math.pow(.99999, 1) - One dependency. Math.pow(.99999, 2) - Two dep
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by scj 5y ago
The word hoax isn't correct. This is satire. A parody based on Stroustrup's many defenses of C++. It makes me laugh every time I read it. Some day, hopefully many years from now, I suspect someone will write "Bjarne's
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by scj 5y ago
"The peripheral drivers team needs to increase it's revenue."
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by scj 5y ago
I think a reasonably priced RISC-V psuedo-retrocomputer that boots directly into Lisp / Scheme on simple to use hardware would be a great computer to learn programming on. Should be just as understandable to a newbie as a 6502 / B
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by scj 6y ago
IANAL: Merger Doctrine is closest thing I'm aware of.
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by scj 6y ago
One note I have about numbers like these... Is the question phrased in a way that distinguishes between "working remotely as you have during COVID times" vs. "working remotely post-COVID" I think it's important to d
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by scj 6y ago
Rational self-interest of wanting commodity software for infrastructure / tooling. A clear winner means more companies use it, increasing demand for it. Which makes it more valuable to master. If the commodity software is open source,
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by scj 6y ago
It likely forces an inflection point for existing MIPS users: 1. Stick with MIPS for as long as possible. 2. Follow MIPS into RISC-V. 3. Or go to some other camp.
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by scj 6y ago
There's a difference between a stowaway and taking the ship. One's infringement, the other is piracy (or theft in the more general case).
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by scj 6y ago
Scientists thinking like scientists! I'd presume an advanced culture that can traverse the galaxy has many resources. Like humanity, I'd assume that with abundance, entertainment would be prioritized. We might be nothing more tha
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by scj 6y ago
A species on a planet with low gravity or the ability to hibernate might have a different tech tree than humanity. That being said, my bet is on the side that most species send AI to different solar systems before biological ones arrive.
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by scj 6y ago
Whatever the limits may be... The heart of the problem is that the answer should be derived through the local democratic process. Not imposed on you by foreigners (and that means Americans in the German and French cases).
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by scj 6y ago
You can't yell fire in a crowded theater... Can you incite a riot, or hatred? What about representing fictions as fact in the news? What are the limits of satire? The American answers to these questions aren't the same as they
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by scj 6y ago
I'd suggest that any new voting system in Canada would lead to very different results given time. Parties that aren't in contention for a given riding will be replaced by parties that are (think evolutionary niches).
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by scj 6y ago
"The usage of pork broth in an otherwise vegetarian dish is vegetarian in spirit." I can't help but wonder if they're using the phrase "open source in spirit" to leech the branding of open source (while ironica

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