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by wnoise 7y ago
As others have pointed out, I did mean b*(a/b) here.
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by wnoise 7y ago
That doesn't help: mathematicians have two definitions for "the natural numbers", one starting at zero, and one at one.
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by wnoise 7y ago
This used to be unspecified behavior. C99 then codified this wrong behavior. Assume positive b for a moment. We want a * (a/b) + (a%b) = a. If a%b is to always be within [0..b), then a/b has to round toward -infinity. C99 inste
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by wnoise 7y ago
Every single ones of those things can be done when using scripts.
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by wnoise 7y ago
If you weren't dependent on the vehicle to be able to travel, sure. Or as a backup home if you get evicted.
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by wnoise 7y ago
[citation needed]
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by wnoise 7y ago
The python interface usually would take bytes, and if it did would also return bytes. But there were a lot of things that didn't take arguments, so always returned Unicode strings. Instead of e.g. getcwd(), you would have to use ge
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by wnoise 7y ago
Yet another anecdote that toxic tech culture is really toxic finance culture.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Including good suggested fixes is certainly better than not. But no suggested fixes are better than bad suggested fixes. Finding problems is a different skill set than proposing solutions. Letting people with these complementary skill se
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by wnoise 7y ago
Stet. The comment wasn't particularly unfriendly at all. It didn't contain any personal attacks or contentless bashing. Indeed, the comment did something valuable: identified a problem, and thoroughly described why it was a prob
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by wnoise 7y ago
snprintf() may not be C89, but fgets() sure is.
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by wnoise 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
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by wnoise 7y ago
From your link: > Second, we found no evidence of political intervention. We found no evidence that anyone at the White House above the level of [National Security Council official] Richard Clarke participated in a decision on the depart
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by wnoise 7y ago
Put "$@" at the bottom of the file. Then type ./filename function. You can extend that to a fancier function dispatcher, argument checker, etc, if you want.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Conversations, even in a foreign language have a different feeling than monologues with pauses.
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by wnoise 7y ago
That solves the slightly different problem of having too many bad tenants.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Doesn't satisfy "synced history across any device".
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by wnoise 7y ago
https://theoldreader.com/
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by wnoise 7y ago
> France already has laws covering exceptions like caricatures and quotations. That's why it's not detailed in the new article, it already exists. Why and how would the provided exceptions to other laws do anything to this law?
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by wnoise 7y ago
I think they're closer to Nazi internment camps (which rather quickly transitioned to death camps) than the various US internment camps, yes. Are they death camps yet? Well, perhaps not. But there are none the less a hell of lot dehu
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by wnoise 7y ago
> I'm just saying it is nothing like the holocaust and it is pretty absurd when people do those kind of comparisons. It's clearly not exactly the same as the Holocaust. But it's disingenuous to say it's nothing like
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by wnoise 7y ago
There are still some modern laptops with three buttons built in -- primarily ThinkPads, but that's not a bad choice. For the rest, external mice work quite well.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Doctor is capitalized there as a title, not as a profession.
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by wnoise 7y ago
> At big companies I've worked at, we coached interviewers to do at least 5 minutes of small talk For some people that causes anxiety, the exact opposite of comfort.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Copyright is not deleteright.
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by wnoise 7y ago
Would this work with the Boehm Garbage Collector given the "pointer to the middle of the object" trick?
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by wnoise 7y ago
Both/And
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by wnoise 7y ago
Even assuming the study holds up, that doesn't mean that only the girls picked up the fear. It means only the girls were affected by the fear, by overly generalizing from this one example.
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by wnoise 7y ago
They did: 42 USC 1983. ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983 ). It technically only applies to actions by state by state (or local) officials, not federal, though SCOTUS created an equivalent for
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by wnoise 7y ago
One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens.

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