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by wk_end 3y ago
If the code passed in a null value before, it was violating the contract the function provided. A component isn't responsible for what happens when you operate it out of spec. If I were a hardware designer and some changes to an IC I&#
872.
by wk_end 3y ago
Why do you think this was a "typical" case, as opposed to atypical one? Do you think that "typical" outcomes these days are better?
873.
by wk_end 3y ago
> We know this because of a series of leaked and FOIAed emails and Slack messages that have been reported on by Public, Racket News, The Intercept and The Nation along with other small, independent media outlets. You can find a detailed
874.
by wk_end 3y ago
Silver isn't arguing for-or-against the lab leak hypothesis here. > To be clear, I’m not sure how COVID originated either. I’d “buy” the lab leak at a 50 percent likelihood [...] and sell it at 80 percent, which still leaves a lot o
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Who knew about radiation sickness, and when?(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
27 points by wk_end 3y ago|2 comments
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by wk_end 3y ago
HtDP isn't really mind-blowing the same way SICP can be. It basically just tries to give you a mental framework and tools for breaking problems down into simple, composable, testable pieces - in terms of the work you're doing it&#
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by wk_end 3y ago
Even Diablo 2 felt a little bloated to me - it's so much longer, and I burned out on all the click-click-click way sooner than most people. It felt like slog. But the original Diablo...man. What a game. It feels "perfect" to
878.
by wk_end 3y ago
SICP is a great and mind-expanding book; but I came to it fairly late, at a time when (I think, I hope) I was already decent at "elegant" programming, so it's hard for me to say if it'd help you program elegantly. Probab
879.
by wk_end 3y ago
Go comes out, some Go cheerleader describes its decidedly not-state-of-the-art type inference engine as "state-of-the-art", I point out that it was hardly state-of-the-art, the Go cheerleaders come along and say "why do you e
880.
by wk_end 3y ago
In ML-lineage languages (including Haskell) you almost never need any type annotations whatsoever, at least not unless you’re poking around at the fringes of those languages (GADTs, various GHC extensions). Type annotations for top-level de
881.
by wk_end 3y ago
“Programming Language Theory”
882.
by wk_end 3y ago
> Again, it shows how things have changed that I praised Go’s type inference as an advance in the state of the art, but now the Hacker News crowd considers Go’s type inference to be very limited compared to other languages. "You eit
883.
by wk_end 3y ago
I'm not sure how I'd title it if I were the American distributor, to be honest. It's not an adaptation, but 君たちはどう生きるか is the name of a book for young adults that the Japanese audience might be familiar with; the reference wi
884.
by wk_end 3y ago
Everything is subjective, there's no bad opinions, but this comes close. To cast so wide a brush as to paint Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles, Wilson, Mandelbaum, and other renowned modern translators as lukewarm and boring... If you have
885.
by wk_end 3y ago
AFAIK the construction of new kanji is a novelty, not something of any real importance in communication. Japan has embraced UTF-8, and before that they embraced Shift-JIS - a homegrown encoding that also didn't support constructing new
886.
by wk_end 3y ago
For one thing: because as soon as some piece of data leaves the typed world, all of your guarantees about its integrity go away. This is, in some sense, even worse than a situation with no types at all - in that case, you have no guarantee
887.
by wk_end 3y ago
Assuming that you're the same idlewords who wrote this [0] blog post in 2005: It's funny - as someone seemingly a little bit younger than you, I'm pretty sure your top recommendation, The Master & Margarita, did replace
888.
by wk_end 3y ago
Oof. You’re really underselling it. It’s more complex than you’re giving it credit for, I think - it’s not just a cynical “nothing means anything” kind of nihilism. Some of the characters hold a philosophy like that, but not all of them, an
889.
by wk_end 3y ago
This is a feature some (experimental) programming languages have - look into dependent types. The long-and-short of it is that it adds a lot of power, but comes at an ergonomic cost - the more your types say about your code, the more the ty
890.
by wk_end 3y ago
In North America, the Genesis was actually more popular than the SNES until near the tail end of the 16-bit era - 1994 or so. By that point the Genny's paltry colour palette (64 on-screen 9-bit colours) was starting to look really date
891.
by wk_end 3y ago
Not necessarily in disagreement, but some points to consider: * The nice thing about free software is that FreeBSD can benefit from Dragonfly's innovations! * Dragonfly certainly would benefit from FreeBSD's (relatively) large u
892.
by wk_end 3y ago
What time zones would you consider for remote work?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Don't miss Part II [0], which (not to discount the quality of Part I) is much less elementary and much more interesting. [0] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~plragde/flane/FICS2/
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by wk_end 3y ago
I think you may have misread the comment you're responding to.
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by wk_end 3y ago
I suppose I should've said they not intentional ladder-kickers; quite the opposite: they genuinely believe that their policies, and only their policies, will actually lead to more affordable housing. This is in comparison to more con
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by wk_end 3y ago
Why would you expect anything different? Left-NIMBYism is a real - and unfortunate - thing, especially among older members of the left, and Chow's been in politics for 30 years. I'm a pretty boring social democrat in most regards,
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by wk_end 3y ago
Supposedly the tech industry here is pretty significant, but there aren't a lot of "HN-y" companies...I think Workday has an office here but that's about it. There's a few bespoke software shops and mobile game make
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by wk_end 3y ago
Sure am. Lovely here, despite the doctor situation.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Yes, but that's an unacceptably low standard. Canadians (myself among them) spend way too much time looking to the US to feel better about themselves and way too little time looking to the world to see how they could improve. It's
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by wk_end 3y ago
This [0] thread on EAB has a bit of an explanation, though I don't really understand it. [0] https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=109962

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