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by shakow 6y ago
> Or at least laws passed that make the publication of research more open. Sci-hub was created under Obama, I don't remember neither him nor the party making anything to help them, quite the opposite actually: Elbakyan has been judg
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by shakow 6y ago
SpaceX was neither affordable nor on schedule. If you wanted someone up there cheaply and on time 5 years ago, you should just buy a seat on a Soyuz. However, #39 doesn't say “don't ever develop new launch vehicles”, rather “don&#
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by shakow 6y ago
Hyades ( https://hyades.info/ ) I wanted a not-too-intrusive Github notification system that would give me a broad overview of what happened in my starred repos ( i.e. repos for which I'm only a consumer), as some kind
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by shakow 6y ago
> Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Orchestre Lyrique de la RTF? Thanks, AI.
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by shakow 6y ago
Don't get me wrong, I rather agree with you on the conceptual side of things; I just wish there was a pretty syntax to do it practically. As you mention them, pipes, for instance, get close to that, and e.g. Elixir uses them to a gre
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by shakow 6y ago
But then it's not pointfree, it's just anaonymous variables instead of named.
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by shakow 6y ago
The problem with currying is that I don't know of a nice syntax to curry on a random access argument rather than on the first one.
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by shakow 6y ago
IME, the limitations of this recommendation appear when one needs to combine multiple functions taking multiple arguments, some being fixe and some other not. Although they are mostly syntactic, they hamper the readability of the resulting
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by shakow 6y ago
I see. Thanks!
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by shakow 6y ago
1. Why do I have to do that; what is the underlying bug? 2. How comes such a bug is still in production for months?
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by shakow 6y ago
Speaking of Twitter UI, am I the only one having to hard refresh every other Twitter page to get rid of the “This is not available for you” message?
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by shakow 6y ago
I'm afraid the only thing such one-sided actions will do is to throw them in the arms of Russia and China.
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by shakow 6y ago
I'm curious to know what people find to be missing in the Rust/C interop? I only used it for a few simple functions, so I could not hit any hard points.
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by shakow 6y ago
> nobody needs With Rust and WASM being funded and pushed by MS, Amazon, Google, Nature, and many others, I'm afraid you're dead wrong.
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by shakow 6y ago
There's a thin line between schoolboy/dark humor and bullying. I'd argue that playing with a bot belongs to the first category, but that's a subjective take.
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by shakow 6y ago
> incels who hate women. I highly doubt that hate towards women (and even hate towards anything) was a facto in the Tay “attack”. It looked much more like they saw a big open door from MS and just exploited it with the most over the top
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by shakow 6y ago
> I was hoping to distribute it as a single executable file I don't know of any applications whose scope would require to use Qt to come as a single file. The installer (be it dmg, exe, pkg, whatever) will, but then it's not a
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by shakow 6y ago
> It’s really not abnormal to have to include parens after a method name in a language That's not what he means. Assuming some pseudocode with a more common syntax to prune the parentheses question, Common lisp is doing this:
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by shakow 6y ago
> "walled garden!" This is only true when the centralized store is the only way of installing software. That's why iOS is called a walled garden, but not Android.
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by shakow 6y ago
Emacs, for instance. Now ~35 years and still going strong.
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by shakow 6y ago
It is definitely an adequate base spec. What would the random MacBook user fill 16GB of RAM with?
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by shakow 6y ago
> What an I missing? Identity function means that f(x) = x, not f(x) = 1.
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by shakow 6y ago
> You just string words together and hope it makes sense. I beg your pardon? Messing the word orders in French or German will definitely mess up the sentence. The German would be something like “Im New York sind Ratten, die größter als H
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by shakow 6y ago
Vectors can already be printed. Vectors types are only dependent on the contained elements, whereas Arrays types depend (until const generics come) both on the size of the array and the contained elements. So whereas a generic implementatio
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by shakow 6y ago
> but most languages do not have "list comprehension" by post-description. "New York has rats bigger than a dog" comes to mind. « New-York a des rats plus gros que des chiens »
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by shakow 6y ago
> their recent games cannot generate enough popularity I wouldn't be so sure. Sure, they are not GTA or CoD, but Prey, Dishonored or Doom have all sold rather good.
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by shakow 6y ago
> Meanwhile, C is still the absolute best binary interop language devised by mankind. You're mistaking the “C” ABI with the C language. The so-called C ABI should actually be called the UNIX-derived ABI, as (i) C doesn't define
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by shakow 6y ago
Most probably Remote Code Execution, as in bad guy remotely injecting code to be run on target emacs instance through a putative xwidget-webkit vulnerability.
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by shakow 6y ago
It depends on what space you're working on (e.g. the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line define an order on the real field union {-∞, +∞}).
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by shakow 6y ago
Why wouldn't it? Assuming that Nigera was never colonized, there is no reason to assume they wouldn't extract the resources on their soil for their own economical development.

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