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by shellac 3y ago
> Michael Polanyi's _Personal Knowledge_ pretty much killed logical positivism, because he showed that no scientist is in the fully objective position that was required to set up and evaluate the experiments. That's an unusual
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by shellac 3y ago
Got her own joke name in Blazing Saddles. No greater honour.
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by shellac 3y ago
> [...] my prediction is that in a few years it will be in the same state gcj has been quite some years now. You make it sound like GraalVM is just for ahead-of-time compiling like gcj, but there's more to it than native image. It&#
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by shellac 3y ago
'Access' copies are versions of originals intended for viewing, in contrast to the original ('preservation') video which may be impractically large to use, or in an unusual format. (At least that is how the term is used
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by shellac 3y ago
And it remains a stain on Elia Kazan's reputation.
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by shellac 3y ago
Which, ironically, is what ought to have been done in the example using join!(a,b).await.
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by shellac 3y ago
> It turns out the reason static typing seemed like a pain at the time is because we didn't have good tools. Java IDEs were certainly highlighting errors, auto-completing, refactoring etc in 2008. Admittedly IntelliJ (the most impre
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by shellac 3y ago
Doesn't CC 4.0 include database rights too (where applicable)? Not especially significant for wikipedia's content, but a useful addition.
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by shellac 3y ago
For many languages I absolutely agree: stackful coroutines are the way to go since the programmer experience is much smoother, with fewer hiccups like having different kinds of functions, or being unable to yield in loops. Lua, Go, and now
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by shellac 3y ago
> In England, Bar Hill’s ‘Skull Comb’ Is an Iron Age Mystery But outside England everyone knows what this is for. Why won't they enlighten the English?
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by shellac 3y ago
> What's "most modern languages"? Go is better than Python's native tooling (only Poetry and other similar 3rd party tools compare). Javascript I find unruly and fragmented. Exactly the scale I had in mind, thanks. Wh
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by shellac 3y ago
Ironically I removed my mention of the windscreen evidence. There are some citizen science surveys documenting the decline (e.g. a UK study found a 60% decline over 20 years, or something like that). But it's a good example of a strong
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by shellac 3y ago
> There are also quite convincing studies that show even worse declines for insect populations Has the evidence improved recently? About 3 years ago there were a few papers, including a meta analysis (-ish), which were suggestive but als
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by shellac 3y ago
> [...] you legally must notify the police of any march or protest. March, not protest. From your own source: > If there’s no march organised as part of your protest, you do not have to tell the police. On the few occasions I've
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by shellac 3y ago
I'm reminded of the funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real corpse. [1][2] Discovered while they were filming the Six Million Dollar Man. [1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dead-man-gawking/ [2] https
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by shellac 3y ago
The university I work at wanted to make a video archive of performance art openly available on the web. Some of this can be 'challenging' (their preferred term) so we wanted to ensure people didn't just stumble into it. On th
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by shellac 3y ago
This has changed quite substantially over the last five+ years. It certainly used to be the case that using certain cards that were very common in the rest of Europe (particularly credit cards, but also things like visa debit) required jump
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by shellac 3y ago
I spent 2/3rds of the article assuming 'Nick McGuffin' was a deliberately absurd pseudonym used to protect the real victim of this charlatan.
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by shellac 3y ago
I wasn't involved in SVG, but knew quite a few of the people involved around the working group. Seeing socket support mentioned certainly raised a smile: one of the team was quite keen on writing a pure-svg IRC client, I think. It wasn
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by shellac 4y ago
Additionally Sun and NeXT partnered to create OpenStep. [1] I thought the java library owed quite a lot to OpenStep. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep
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by shellac 4y ago
This response confuses me since goroutines and Erlang processes are really very similar to project Loom's virtual threads. The mistake is that async/await is not equivalent to virtual threads: the former can do only a subset of wh
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by shellac 4y ago
And pattern matching was started in java first (goes hand-in-hand with records to some extent).
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by shellac 4y ago
The java equivalent of task is probably Future or CompletableFuture, which have been in java since 2012 / 2014. In terms of running them, Executors have been there since 2014. (Obviously this would have been 1:1 with OS Threads)
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by shellac 4y ago
> popular on the early internet Popular on the early(ish) web. The equivalent for the internet would be .plan files, perhaps?
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by shellac 4y ago
> https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/directory#560 Shouldn't https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lh2s3 (Ediacara Biota) be in there?
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by shellac 4y ago
Because you get right answer that way. Why would you want the wrong answer?
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by shellac 4y ago
I don't know about this publisher, but it must be noted that academic publishing is notorious for having some of the highest margins on the planet. As a business they are as close to a magical pot of gold as you could hope for. Breakin
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by shellac 4y ago
Noted above, but mostly this with some support for authors who have no funds for APC.
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by shellac 4y ago
It looks like it's gold open access, btw, or even bronze AKA the worst one: > [...] supported by Article Processing Charges (APCs), with the infrastructure to ensure that authors continue to face no financial barrier to publishing t
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by shellac 4y ago
Might not be the best example since Python made quite a mess of dates and date times (in fairness, like most languages), and duck typing didn't help at all.

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