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by tzahola 9y ago
“use very strict”
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by tzahola 9y ago
>The language design is absolutely flawed, hence the push to make that less so. But a flawed language cannot be made non-flawed while keeping backwards compatibility... E.g. JS has now two different ways to write functions, with slight
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by tzahola 9y ago
Because these constant "improvements" usually mean two things: 1. The language design is flawed. That is, the desired functionality requires changes to the core language, because it can't be made from existing building block
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by tzahola 9y ago
LISP
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by tzahola 9y ago
Classic!
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by tzahola 9y ago
No surprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_event_upset
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by tzahola 9y ago
Ok, here's one with T-cells from Cambridge University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntk8XsxVDi0
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by tzahola 9y ago
I hope this is not like those vaporware revolutionary battery technologies we see time to time.
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by tzahola 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1jaBGwoT8
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by tzahola 9y ago
“top notch twenty-something” LoL
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by tzahola 9y ago
No, because the GC is free to move objects around to compact the heap.
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by tzahola 9y ago
“Apple shifted from AFP file sharing to SMB2” * SMB2 with undocumented Apple-specific extensions ( https://www.mankier.com/8/vfs_fruit )
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by tzahola 9y ago
“At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is broke, all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will sprea
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by tzahola 9y ago
>and metaprogramming in D is much nicer, because it was designed from the ground up instead of the bug elevated to feature that metaprogramming is in C++ Yet neither of them are as elegant as LISP macros.
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by tzahola 9y ago
>What I expect it also means is that you'll get inconsistencies when doing inter-process communication, since they'll be using different libraries with potential mismatches. That's why you should restart those programs tha
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by tzahola 9y ago
It has nothing to do with chaos theory. They’re just trying to co-opt “chaos” as a buzzword for fault-tolerant systems.
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by tzahola 9y ago
>making sleeping impossible https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Night-Eye-Shade-GNES/dp/B009V0...
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by tzahola 9y ago
>You have a steering wheel, and turn it to the right. There’s no such thing as a wheel turning to the right . It’s clockwise or counterclockwise.
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by tzahola 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs
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by tzahola 9y ago
Or working in a banana warehouse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
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by tzahola 9y ago
People will be listening lossy crap from Apple Music anyways. Why bother with such technicalities?
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by tzahola 9y ago
Please elaborate!
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by tzahola 9y ago
Nope. See my comment above.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Nope. This determines how the image is rendered within the img element. The img element itself won’t be constrained in its aspect ratio. E.g. try adding a border or drop-shadow to the img and you’ll see the problem.
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by tzahola 9y ago
T-topologically w-what?? I mean yeah, that was the point of my remark. To write something on topic as well: There was a fun little challenge on puzzles.stackexchange I think, which relied on the same construction as this article. I couldn
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by tzahola 9y ago
Nope. This would not fit a skinny image to a fat container. But yeah, HTML is like lightyears ahead of anything else :^)
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by tzahola 9y ago
>and I hold a small amount of XEM. *held :^)
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by tzahola 9y ago
> and IMO HTML is light years ahead for UI LOL. Last time I checked you still couldn't make an image fill the available space while keeping its aspect ratio :D
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by tzahola 9y ago
Now do it with a mug.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Thank you, for saving me the time I would have wasted reading this article.

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