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541.
by smcl 3y ago
Oh dear, that sounds quite painful!
542.
by smcl 3y ago
"It compiles so I don't need tests" is IMO more likely to be seen in relation to Haskell or Rust. Now with C# (and other popular languages) you may encounter big applications that don't have any kind of automated tests,
543.
by smcl 3y ago
That's kinda interesting - I imagine a lookup table was introduced as as an optimisation in the first place. I'm at work and I've had meetings so I haven't seen the linked video (or one of the ones where Kaze patched som
544.
by smcl 3y ago
It's a bit more social - the local bars I go to I know loads of people who go, I know the bar staff. There's little-to-no risk of fighting and this is true for most bars here unless you really wanted to find trouble (i.e. you soug
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by smcl 3y ago
I'm not sure that posting the population growth figures over four years and adding a snarky remark about babies owning houses proves anything whatsoever other than your own ignorance and disinterest on the matter in hand. You'd ne
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by smcl 3y ago
Do we know for sure that absolutely no further action is being taken? I really don't know processes, so I dunno if this is it or if this is just one of the consequences, and that the bar association (is that the right org?) they&#x27
547.
by smcl 3y ago
If they followed exactly the same processes (showing a screenshot of a text conversation saying "Is X a real case?" when challenged about the nonexistent cases) then I imagine they would have have been treated the same way. Howeve
548.
by smcl 3y ago
Wait so if you have a "backup" card in case of emergency, the chances are it'll fail anyway? I kinda hate this stuff where we have to guess at how some company's internal mystery processes work to actually use their serv
549.
by smcl 3y ago
Yeah naming things and off-by-one errors - the three most common bugs in CS ;)
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by smcl 3y ago
That would introduce a bug. See the following: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("%lu\n", strlen("_shutdown")); printf("%lu\n", sizeof("_shutdown")); r
551.
by smcl 3y ago
Oh yeah, don't worry we have all been there :)
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by smcl 3y ago
Looking back at the change after lunch it does seem like it was a rename without realising the strings were a different length. Actually changing "operator" to "shutdown", confirming the length was the same and didn&#x27
553.
by smcl 3y ago
It's a long-shot but I wonder if OpenBSD has specified that groups are only unique up to 8 characters. Like it certainly looks like a bug to my eyes too, but my default when I see something like this in OpenBSD code is "maybe I ju
554.
by smcl 3y ago
Ahh so maybe the expensive or difficult titanium work is the really high-end stuff like SR-71? I just recall from Skunk Works that they had a tough time working with it.
555.
by smcl 3y ago
Is Titanium not famously quite hard to work with? I imagine that it would be hard to sub in for stainless steel, so for normal white goods I don't know if it'd be worth it.
556.
by smcl 3y ago
It's a good read, but I always wondered how much is embellished. I don't know if the pizza ovens anecdote being present there confirms its authenticity, it could be that Ben Rich had just heard about it through the grapevine or ev
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by smcl 3y ago
Their wine is also really worth checking out too. They use a few grape varieties aren't really used outside of Georgia and some of the wine is still stored/aged in big earthenware things called "kvevri" which are pretty
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by smcl 3y ago
Yeah this is an interesting one. We don't really have a good English equivalent for "guten apetit" or "dobrou chuť" but bon appétit feels like the most well-known loan phrase that could stand in. "Enjoy your
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by smcl 3y ago
As the post I was replying to said - at least they were honest with their intent. They knew their audience and set out to target them. But there are far more people playing games nowadays, so when you're planning a game nowadays you&#x
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by smcl 3y ago
Then a few sections later > Babes: Think babes. Then think more babes. Slightly different times :)
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by smcl 3y ago
It's the second largest country in the world. It has half the population of Germany and ~28x the land mass. Their problem will be actually building houses and making them affordable, not "sparseness"
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by smcl 3y ago
In front of congress ? Why?
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by smcl 3y ago
In terms of execution the development and release of Perl 6 was undeniably a flub. What eventually got released was ultimately a fine language, but it was years late, largely incompatible with existing Perl code (hence the rename) and a s
564.
by smcl 3y ago
Yeah the super-strong ones are fun to try every now and then, but having >2x the alcohol of a normal beer is not something to be taken lightly. I've found myself favouring lower ABV recently - I like drinking beer but I don't r
565.
by smcl 3y ago
BrewDog is a sad one for me. It was nice to see a brewery in the region I'm from (Aberdeenshire, Scotland) becoming a worldwide success. But their "punk" aesthetic is a bit cringe for a big corporate company, and the owner tu
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by smcl 3y ago
Here's the HST piece in question - "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" - http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf I agree with the parent, it's a great piece and iirc it's where Thompso
567.
by smcl 3y ago
Well yeah given that some people are still talking about issues from a software release that happened 15 years ago, it would be incredibly unlikely that they'd want to repeat that. What has me a little bit confused is that we're
568.
by smcl 3y ago
My feeling is that if you're the sort of org who will update the Python version you use, you're going to be switched-on enough to handle this somehow. From the sounds of things it it's a bit of an inconvenience for you that y
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by smcl 3y ago
Ahhhh sure, no worries!
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by smcl 3y ago
The criticism is that the Python team will deprecate and remove functionality as it's not needed? Boy, you're gonna hate PEP-594. Also Python 2->3 transition was a one-time thing that developers had over a decade to perform, it

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