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by trealira 3y ago
The scheme of there being a retirement age when you get older relies on there being a lot more young than old people. If, hypothetically, there were a 50/50 split between the retired and the working, the living standards of the working
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by trealira 3y ago
What advantages do you have in mind? Why not just use C++, Ada, or Rust?
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by trealira 3y ago
It's true, not everyone has the same priorities, and Rust may not provide the right set of tradeoffs when one is deciding which language to use. I don't believe that C is strictly inferior to Rust. There are cases where it's
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by trealira 3y ago
You make some good points. I definitely understand where a non-native speaker would have trouble following American cultural references and phrasings; I was more confused by the people saying that they're also native speakers, but that
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by trealira 3y ago
I had never read Patrick McKenzie's writing before, but the linked article contains a link to a popular article of his from 2012[1], which I read, and his substack[2], a few articles of which I skimmed as well. The salary negotiation a
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by trealira 3y ago
> 99% of the Steam library is trivial to pirate but that's doing just fine. I think part of it is that Steam offers more than just games; it's a platform for mods, you have friends, there's the Steam community, early acces
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by trealira 3y ago
It's more like "let's improve on C by catching errors C compilers don't check." Rust took a lot of inspiration from Cyclone, which was meant to be a safe version of C. Writing C makes certain classes of sloppy assem
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by trealira 3y ago
I'm sure legacy C and C++ will be around for a long time, but their process for authoring new standards also seems somewhat unsustainable. It seems like people making contributions to the C and C++ standards are also at risk of getting
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by trealira 3y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Could you specify some page numbers as examples? (There's only one version of the book, so the pages are all the same.)
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by trealira 3y ago
It could have been true the whole time. Perhaps software has been getting slower, and it's gotten so much slower and more bloated that 1995 software seems lean and fast by our modern standards, when by 1980s Wirthian standards, it wasn
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by trealira 3y ago
Functional programmers have long worked to improve the compiler optimization of functional language implementations. This is how we got innovations like the continuation passing style (first used for compiling Scheme), deforestation, defunc
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by trealira 3y ago
That's fair. I haven't yet seen a car with only a touchscreen and nothing else, but I wouldn't be surprised by the existence of such a car. I don't actively keep up with new cars.
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by trealira 3y ago
TV remotes do still have buttons. Also, there are still on/off buttons and volume buttons on phones. Video game controllers still use buttons. Car radios and car A/C and heaters still use physical buttons.
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by trealira 3y ago
The majority of them probably aren't interested in trying BeOS as a daily driver, either. More likely they'd use Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Maybe a BSD.
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by trealira 3y ago
What are the typographical errors? I didn't think it had any. It does use features of C89 that may not compile after C99, but those aren't weird. But, as someone who actually did try to use K&R to teach themselves to program,
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by trealira 3y ago
C-- is like a lower-level, more primitive variant of C designed for code generation, hence its name. There aren't separate pointer types; everything is just bitsN, where N is the number of bits in the integer or pointer. Tail recursion
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by trealira 3y ago
Just so you know, those in charge of this project aren't going to port it to PC, though someone else could do that. I'm saying this in case the reason you want to donate is because you expect a port to come out of it. > PC Port
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by trealira 3y ago
For Lisp macros, there is a macrostep plugin for Emacs that expands a macro within the text of your source code one step at a time until there's nothing left to be expanded. This is temporary, so after you exit the macrostep mode, the
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by trealira 3y ago
> The gaming industry has hijacked human play. Instead of an evolutionary learning and relaxation tool, it’s so immersive now that people get sucked into spending hundreds of hours playing games that don’t teach them anything valuable ab
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by trealira 3y ago
Not all work is fun. I don't really like washing the dishes or vacuuming the floor where I live, but it's necessary work. A lot of jobs are the same way. Even when a job consists of a fun activity, doing it 8 hours a day, 5 days a
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by trealira 3y ago
I think it'll be hard to ever move away from flat design, because everyone else does it, and it's associated with modernity, while skeuomorphism is associated with old software. I don't have hard numbers, but I think flat des
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by trealira 3y ago
To some extent, graphics are important because with extremely primitive graphics, like the graphics of the NES, it can get difficult to tell what things are represented by the image, and the limited color palette presents a challenge in mak
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by trealira 3y ago
That seems a bit too loose. Doesn't that apply to IDEs that implement the language server protocol, since they spawn language servers and communicate with them? And servers like Apache that spawn child processes to handle requests?
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by trealira 3y ago
Lite XL, although I usually use Emacs
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by trealira 3y ago
Some other Unity games that are fun, and which others haven't mentioned: Cuphead Escape Academy Overcooked Monster Sanctuary Lunistice
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by trealira 3y ago
> and still don't is! "isn't," not "don't is" You're right, though
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by trealira 3y ago
Hey, maybe you should consider writing fanfiction to satiate these urges and analyses. Not joking. I don't write fanfiction, but I read it, and whenever I read the author stating their motivation for writing, it's something like t
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by trealira 3y ago
It's interesting for me to have this pointed out. I've read posts from English speakers trying to learn Japanese complain about Japanese culture being very indirect and subtle, but the same complaint can be applied to our own cult
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by trealira 3y ago
I don't understand what you're implying, and I'm a man. You're trying to be rude to demonstrate something, but I don't know what. What is it?
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by trealira 3y ago
Speaking as an American: I think it happens if you have kids. Parents make friends with their kids' friends' parents. "Soccer moms" and other parents whose kids are enrolled in sports make friends with other parents of t

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