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by waltpad 6y ago
I don't know Forth, Perl, or even Rust enough to discuss them on that basis, but having other languages allowing it doesn't mean that C should be lenient about it either, or does it? Now, don't get me wrong, I do not dislike
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by waltpad 6y ago
Indeed, anyone can also write code over-abusing lambdas in a functional language, but lambdas are also quite useful in the majority of cases. On the other hand, can you point out a single situation where swapping int and typedef in a ty
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by waltpad 6y ago
That probably shows (once more) that the C language really needs an overhaul, with a stricter grammar disallowing that sort of tricks. Or maybe not.
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by waltpad 6y ago
How is that supposed to work? I understand that it possible to pull the plug on packages which are not ready at time T, but it also means pulling the plug on all the packages that depend on it. So if libreoffice depends on package P, and th
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by waltpad 6y ago
> my arch installations tend to be quite lightweight. That may explain why you don't get that many problems. If you start pulling in many different components, the set of potential interactions grows exponentially. And if you add to
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by waltpad 6y ago
I thought Debian also moved to a fixed schedule release policy? Doesn't it make it harder to stick to a "release when ready"? Personally, I don't think that Ubuntu is less perfect that Debian wrt. upgrade quality, it&#x2
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by waltpad 6y ago
Debian unstable follows more or less that "CI/CD" approach you're describing, but it is called unstable for a reason: sometimes, a significant change is necessary, which may lead to significant breakage as well, but most
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by waltpad 6y ago
So clearly, if llvm is used as a backend for js, this feature will come in handy. On a side note, apparently, it will also be useful for the rust folks, which has user implemented libraries to emulate C-like bitfields, and implement bigints
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by waltpad 6y ago
First of all, I suppose that it will be possible to make them unsigned (just like for standard types). Is this correct? Also, what's the relationship between standard types and the new _ExtInts? Are _ExtInt(16) equivalent to shorts, o
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by waltpad 6y ago
I love Yann Lecun's eyeglass rim arching in one of the demos from the first-order-model code repo[1]. 1: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model
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by waltpad 6y ago
I totally agree; there's a world of difference between laws impossible to enforce and laws impossible to break.
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by waltpad 6y ago
Has any of these talks been published?
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by waltpad 6y ago
> That said, "meaning" is not statistical. Are you sure of that? After all, we don't have all the same interpretation for every word in the dictionary. Ask a hundred person in the street - well perhaps not these days - the
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by waltpad 6y ago
slight nitpick It is not a grammatical error: such an error would mean that the sentence is not constructed according to the grammatical rules (of English), when clearly it is. What you probably meant is that it's a semantic error: the