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by ue_ 10y ago
But Rust still won't warn about an out of bounds access (when accessing using a variable) at compile time, and your code will panic at runtime. This isn't the "safety" anyone ought to be expecting from a language billed
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by ue_ 10y ago
Do you have any idea where to? I was going to do the WCD interview a few days before it closed for good, not knowing this would happen.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I can't see the problem with having a select group of people maintaining the repository (i.e WCD users) and also distributing the content of the repository on the Internet for all. As another commenter mentioned, GNU/Linux package
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by ue_ 10y ago
Why? And that's even assuming that IP is property in the first place.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I don't necessarily agree with what GP is saying, but I don't see why we should be trusting people so much so as to require evidence of absence from people who simply doubt what's being said. GP provides some examples of case
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Please note that experiments with alternative societal models often have failure modes like dictatorships and/or a large part of the population dying in horrible ways and/or... It is not something to experiment with lightly. I
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by ue_ 10y ago
If I recally correctly, NIST recently issued guidelines specifically against password expiration/recycling and against forced limits on what characters you can have in your password.
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by ue_ 10y ago
Unfortunately it seems that maintaining the party line is more important than the "representative" aspect of the representative democracy. If you go against the party line, you could lose your job and status as an MP, if you go wi
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by ue_ 10y ago
Even Marx said that capitalism and its rapid use of industrialisation is better than the feudalism that preceeded it in many places. I do not however agree that it's somehow better for there to be cheap labour and low wages in the thou
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by ue_ 10y ago
>It's incredibly Euro-centric to sit here and complain about the perceived child/human rights abuses that happen in China when those very exact things are what industrialized Europe. It's also incredibly Euro-centric to be
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by ue_ 10y ago
Because that's capitalism in today's world. It's the "free market" at work. I don't think the focus should be on preventing people from using "bad labour" but rather on making it so that there would b
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by ue_ 10y ago
I doubt you could say much the same about C, which is not only older than C++, but with similar industry adoption (albeit at a different place in the stack nowadays).
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by ue_ 10y ago
What code did you use to make it print that error? I only get that error if I access the array directly with a subscript (i.e using the constant 4 instead of 4 stored in the variable 'a').
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by ue_ 10y ago
Can someone tell me how this language is supposed to be any degree of 'safe' when things like this compile (without warning, on Nightly rustc) and "panic"? Rust is about as safe as C. fn main() { let a = 4;
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by ue_ 10y ago
This is the main criticism of Javascript on the backend. People didn't have choice on the frontend (and largely still don't unless you transpile), and for some reason people thought it was a good idea to bring this "language
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by ue_ 10y ago
I generally dislike the little things that beautify things. I don't like the decorators for routing in Flask, for example. This is why I like CGI. I can make an effort to understand it.
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by ue_ 10y ago
They also don't offer or explain any solutions. I've found the 'falsehoods' articles are good for generating discussion and not much else. They make the writer feel clever, without having to do anything.
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by ue_ 10y ago
NixOS is missing some things for me personally, such as multilib support (I play a game that's only available using 32-bit libraries). Unfortunately I didn't read the documentation and arrived at a situation where I couldn't
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by ue_ 10y ago
Also don't forget that drawn representations of completely fictional people who even appear (the wording used is "predominantly conveys") a child engaged in any kind of sexual act, or a focus on the genitals, is illegal to
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by ue_ 10y ago
What sort of things could/can VMS do that Unix couldn't? I know almost nothing about computer history.
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by ue_ 10y ago
I think the case is different for languages that use the same script, such as a European language learner learning another European language. The learner must learn to switch "modes" and this is reinforced all the time by any kind
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Except romaji isn't used to teach pronunciation I know, but students will continue to treat it as a pronunciation guide anyway, unless told specifically how to pronounce otherwise. It's especially bad when the Japanese is supp
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by ue_ 10y ago
>Using a romanized scripts makes all these subsequent steps with grammar and accents much harder. This is the exact problem with learning Japanese using roumaji (rouma ji = roman character; ローマ字), because you of course start to read th
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by ue_ 10y ago
There's also the case of child pornography, which can't be reasonably defended against copyright infringement in countries where it is illegal to even possess. But there are other incentives (money, sharing with your neighbor) whi
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by ue_ 10y ago
As much as I would like to have this, in addition to your point about browser support, there are reasons I can think of from the top of my head: There isn't widespread support in image editing programs to simply add text to a jpg/
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by ue_ 10y ago
I missed the university entry requirements for CS in my mathematics qualification, so I was offered a place at the university to do EE instead, which I accepted.
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by ue_ 10y ago
How I wish I could spend all day filled with programming and continuing my language learning. Instead I'm doing first year EE at university and it's hard to find time to sit back and not worry that I should be working right now.
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by ue_ 10y ago
There's always been a disconnect between people who understand technology and people who write disclaimers and laws. Being smart doesn't protect you from doing something which is a violation of the law, even though there may be gr
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by ue_ 10y ago
It doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would be useful for programming. I'm under the impression that the best way to become familiar with a language is to just use it. It wouldn't really occur to me to have a flashcard
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by ue_ 10y ago
Out of interest, what prompted you to make such a trip? When I was 18 (granted this was only a couple of years ago) all I managed to do was stay with a host family for a few weeks in Japan :)

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