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931.
by ufo 6y ago
> The guard statement allows for a library implementation. Foregoing the possibility of a library implementation, a possible design choice could be to eliminate the guard statement as it would eliminate the need for an addition
932.
by ufo 6y ago
Starting in page 16, there is a section called "Do we want a guard keyword?" that talks about this. They give an example showing that deferring to the end of the containing block is possible without the guard keyword, although it&
933.
by ufo 6y ago
Reading the PDF, I got the impression that the main thing in favor of using a guard keyword is that it would allow it to be implemented as a library. That way it wouldn't require changes to compilers and it might also be possible to ad
934.
by ufo 6y ago
The original statement of the problem talks about a horse. I wonder when it changed into a goat.
935.
by ufo 6y ago
Those noncitizens mentioned in the article all happen to receive social security payments from the US, due to having worked there in the past. > Asked about this by NPR, the IRS acknowledged it mistakenly sent checks to some noncitizens
936.
by ufo 6y ago
The two people mentioned in the article still have ties to the US because they receive social security payments.
937.
by ufo 6y ago
I kind of is, if you squint. The payload of the adenovirus vector is DNA.
938.
by ufo 6y ago
The article doesn't say much about how he thought the magpies to use the machine. Does anyone know where I can find more info about that?
939.
by ufo 6y ago
Unfortunately, I think the article is saying that the telescope is now at a point where decommissioning it in a controlled manner is the only safe option.
940.
by ufo 6y ago
There is one important part of taxonomy that is not arbitrary, however. The classification should be hierarchical, reflecting the evolution of the tree of life.
941.
by ufo 6y ago
I'm aware of that. The problem is that you have to manually add all the keywords yourself. AFAIK, there isn't an easy way to import a large list of curated keywords like the DDG bang list.
942.
by ufo 6y ago
One thing I always wished for is if there were a way to use duckduckgo bang searches in my browser without sending them through DDG. But apparently it's harder to implement than it sounds.
943.
by ufo 6y ago
For recent versions of git I'd suggest using "git switch" and "git restore" instead of git checkout. It avoids much of the confusion from the checkout command, which does very different things depending on what flag
944.
by ufo 6y ago
I'm not sure I see what is the problem here. Gluing together pieces of C code is one of the main reasons to use a scripting language like Python.
945.
by ufo 6y ago
> There are a bunch of other buttons, but I didn't bother since I don't use them anyway. Last time I asked my friends which of those extra buttons they used in their microwave, I found it amusing that each one responded with a
946.
by ufo 6y ago
I love this example. I have a feeling that I'll be borrowing it often in the future.
947.
by ufo 6y ago
You can still give a name to the interface. However, interfaces apply to modules, not to types. In Ocaml you'd say "this module implements the Comparable interface" while in an OO languague you'd say "this type is a
948.
by ufo 6y ago
It's not exactly the same thing because, for example, there is no subtyping or inheritance. In Ocaml you don't say that "type T1 is an Orderable". However, it does serve a similar purpose. For example, if you want to cre
949.
by ufo 6y ago
Thanks! Turns out that this setting is hidden unless you first check the "Require status checks" option.
950.
by ufo 6y ago
Do you know can I enforce that a PR must be up to date with master before it can be merged? I don't remember seeing that option in the branch protection settings.
951.
by ufo 6y ago
Thanks, but I don't think that is quite what I want. What I mean by "cactus" history is that the feature branches have a linear history that starts at the tip of the master branch but when we merge them back into master we st
952.
by ufo 6y ago
Two fun facts about Pico-8: * Pico-8 "cartridges" are PNG images with the source code hidden inside the low-order bits using steganography. If you see a picture of the cartridge that picture is also the game! https://pi
953.
by ufo 6y ago
The Pico-8 version of Celeste is still available online, in case anyone is curious: https://mattmakesgames.itch.io/celesteclassic
954.
by ufo 6y ago
Does anyone know how to make this "cactus" workflow work better on github? We use it in our organization and between us we know to always manually rebase before merging. However, when we receive an external PR from someone else it
955.
by ufo 6y ago
Apparently the company only received the information yesterday. It actually came sooner than expected, because of the excellent results. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/09/business/pfizer-covid-vac... &g
956.
by ufo 6y ago
If you squint, this is basically what a JIT compiler such as PyPy does. The compiled code has a fast hot path that assumes that every branch and dynamic dispatch will work the way you expect it to, and if it doesn't then it falls back
957.
by ufo 6y ago
Or 6 years, if you also count the 2016 primaries.
958.
by ufo 6y ago
> Those data structures + those functions are kind of "an object" And in this setting, the type of that datastructure containing the functions can act as an interface. A trap that OO programmers sometimes fall into with Haskell
959.
by ufo 6y ago
I think what they were talking about is that before Rudy Giuliani approached the NY Post he tried to get Fox News to publish the story but they refused it.
960.
by ufo 6y ago
I don't think this is the sort of code that people tend to write. But it does a good job of succinctly explaining how Tcl works.

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