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by trealira 3y ago
Mainly because - There's so much existing software for Windows on x86 computers that it may not be feasible to migrate to MacOS or Linux. - Windows does improve sometimes, and security updates are important. There's nothing forcin
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by trealira 3y ago
> Point-free means you have all that wiring in your head, without assistance from the notation. I completely agree. It fatigues me to read unnecessarily point-free programming. I have to translate it into a point-ful style in my head to
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by trealira 3y ago
The people who don't know what an even number is probably won't vote. It's already a challenge to get people to vote in national elections as it is, let alone local elections (in the US).
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by trealira 3y ago
Everything depends on infrastructure that releases a lot of carbon into the atmosphere: oil, cars, beef farming, etc. This is despite the fact that climate change is exacerbated by releasing carbon. No individual or company wants to be at a
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by trealira 3y ago
You can search for parsing techniques that were available and practical in 1965: recursive descent, the shunting yard algorithm, and operator precedence parsing[0]. LR(k) parsing was described by Knuth in 1965, but I don't think it was
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by trealira 3y ago
> The point is that your goto cannot avoid this, if your local variable scopes close at the end of the function, due to not using nested blocks. If you jump around those variables, you're jumping into a region where they are still
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by trealira 3y ago
> If you write a goto which goes around these encapsulated scopes, that goto does not jump into a region where the variable is uninitialized. That's true when you write a goto that goes around scopes, and doesn't jump into them
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by trealira 3y ago
It sounds like something the author exclaimed out loud and then wrote down. A more formal of writing what they said is "It—that is, Delphi—is 29 years old." Edit: The title read "It's 29 Delphi, I mean" at first. No
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by trealira 3y ago
I agree. It seems like the wrong way around to say that it's rude to tell guests how to act; guests are supposed to be polite to the hosts and follow their rules. It's why you might put your feet up on the table at your own house,
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by trealira 3y ago
It should be part of their pricing model. If USPS gave minimal service, and you were informally expected to pay the delivery driver(s) more (some unspecified amount) to get better/faster service, I would also call that bribery.
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by trealira 3y ago
What makes the US seem so much more conformist to you than other western countries? I didn't think it was more conformist than countries like Spain, France, Germany, etc.
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by trealira 3y ago
In another thread about Apple's compliance with the DMA, people were arguing that the locked down nature is why they bought from Apple. They believe it's beneficial. I guess it's the same kind of person who, in other circum
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by trealira 3y ago
BurntSushi has an account on Hacker News, too, under the identifier burntsushi. This person isn't them.
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by trealira 3y ago
Yes, it's highly possible that it happened and I just didn't witness it. Though I had a couple friends, I wasn't very sociable, and mostly kept to myself when I wasn't eating with my friends. I was on the track team, but
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by trealira 3y ago
Maybe they just have kids who go to a nicer school than they did. I think this may have happened with me and my mother. She went to high school in a poor area of the US south during the 1970s, so her school probably wasn't good. She&#x
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by trealira 3y ago
The idea is to accommodate apps that just didn't handle the exception, or handled the exception by crashing, probably because they only tested the app on a PC, where printing was always available. > Well, the wrong thing to do is to
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by trealira 3y ago
C has a fair amount of overcomplicated-ness. For example, I can never remember integer promotion rules, or other implicit conversions [0]. It's like a Rube Goldberg machine of rules. I often end up looking it up. I would rather it were
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by trealira 3y ago
It is a regular, but not universal, occurrence for people to elide the extra possessive 's when the word already ends in s. For example, although adding a possessive suffix 's to the nane "Jordan" would result in "J
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by trealira 3y ago
> Also, that definition of a circle as an ellipse via locus points (which you mentioned) still requires defining ellipses by an imaginary, ideal circle--even if transcendental (and I've mentioned elsewhere, the circle never appears)
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by trealira 3y ago
> QBE is a new optimizing backend much simpler than LLVM; cproc and cparser are two of the C compilers that target it, in addition to its own minic. I thought cparser targeted libFirm. That's what their GitHub page says [0]. "I
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by trealira 3y ago
I'm not who you replied to, but the reason circles are ellipses is because the definition of a circle is equivalent to the case of an ellipse where both foci have the same x, y coordinates. You can read about all the definitions of an
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by trealira 3y ago
Thank you, that's good to know. Apologies for linking an old version of the page; I would edit my comment, but it's too late for me to do so now.
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by trealira 3y ago
That's fair. Dictionary literals aren't really any more concise than a-lists. A-list: (("the" . 50) ("be" . 25)) Dictionary literal: {"the": 50, "be": 25 }
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by trealira 3y ago
> Really? Yeah, Lisp can be verbose due to the lack of built-in syntax for things other than lists. Take the Common Lisp syntax/library functions (there's not really built-in syntax) for hash tables: https://cl-cookb
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by trealira 3y ago
> normalizing divorce Because of progressive/feminist legislative activism. Feminists have been advocating for no-fault divorce since at least the 1950s. The National Association of Women Lawyers were advocating for it during that d
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by trealira 3y ago
> Divorce courts are very anti-men. Why do you say that they're anti-men? > Many men get lifes destroyed due to insane "child support" payments which are totaly out of bounds for what "child support" should be
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by trealira 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Are you implying that depopulation will spur the next economic upheaval (again)? It seems plausible, but I'm not sure if I fully understand you.
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by trealira 3y ago
Interestingly, something like this was proposed by a group of radical feminists in the 1970s [0]. You'd have to pay a lot of individuals to have babies and then become full-time parents. Not only is that expensive, it seems inefficient
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by trealira 3y ago
That makes sense; good point. With rising class-based inequality and disparities, some sort of push back is likely.
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by trealira 3y ago
Perhaps with some sort of score that rewarded accomplishing things more than just talking about them. Then you could look at someone's score and trust that they've accomplished more. Seems meritocratic, but also somewhat dystopian

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