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by yakubin 4y ago
> Bethesda has such a reputation for releasing ambitious-but-buggy games As far as I know, I've only played one game by Bethesda - Doom Eternal. It was also the only game I haven't found a single bug in. I'm more used to
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by yakubin 4y ago
Rust isn't any less "free" than Debian. If you forked Debian, you also would need to change the name, due to the trademark.
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Scotland 5.46 million people, 6.83 million sheep.
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> In ML syntax, you don't know how many arguments a function will take, because of currying, and it's a (useful) feature, not a bug. Currying doesn't change the picture here from the situation in, let's say, C. If i
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by yakubin 4y ago
If b is declared to be infix by default, then it will be an application of function b to arguments a and c though. So you need to know the symbol table anyway it seems.
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by yakubin 4y ago
> But this is true for ML syntax too, isn't it? And ML-likes are widely considered to be readable. I don't see how that's true for ML. Could you give an example showing the ambiguity? Edit: I think I can see how the pres
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by yakubin 4y ago
And now I want to see a broadway play narrated by David Attenborough.
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by yakubin 4y ago
I associate it more with Perl. A quick search reveals Perl to be older than PHP by 7 years, so I'd guess it's a Perl idiom borrowed by PHP.
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by yakubin 4y ago
I don't understand Piped. It's marketed as a faster frontend for YouTube, but more often than not, for me it's actually a lot slower (buffering-wise) than normal YouTube, gives me lower video quality and I end up switching fr
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by yakubin 4y ago
You can opt into lexical scope for a script by starting it with: ;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; lexical-binding: t; -*- You can then opt into dynamic scope for single variables, when it makes sense: (defvar variable)
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by yakubin 4y ago
A bit offtopic: is it publicly known what sort of software stack camera manufacturers like Nikon, Canon and Sony use in their cameras?
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by yakubin 4y ago
FWIW I got 30%+ Asians. The rest was White.
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by yakubin 4y ago
As a European, to me US online banking and payments look like Stone Age technology.
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> No offense but you need to level up your empathy/reading skills then. Can you deduce what went wrong from what he wrote? > Your user feedback isn't going to be coming from the lead developer on a major product or a Comp
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All I can take out from his complaints is that he doesn't understand settings. I don't know what he doesn't understand about them, what exactly is wrong with them. I'm not sure I would call that constructive. Constructiv
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Makes sense.
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The author of the mail did not provide constructive feedback. It's just a personal attack.
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Except ^W performs a completely different action. I can't count the number of times after switching from a terminal to Emacs within a couple of seconds, my muscle memory still not updated, I hit ^W only to discover I've just delet
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by yakubin 4y ago
When I code, I usually don't listen to music. I rarely listen to music generally. But when I do code and listen to music, I often sing along. Typing lyrics into code? Never happened to me.
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by yakubin 4y ago
Fair enough.
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> It's generally easier to try and force the equation in favor of doing exercise rather than eating well. That's the first I'm hearing this opinion. I'd expect the opposite. It's definitely the opposite for me,
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by yakubin 4y ago
Yes, by "fit" I meant "not fat". And if a person doesn't lose weight from the exercise, then I'd say it's a strong indicator their exercise isn't an Olympic level Michael Phelps training, which would
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by yakubin 4y ago
Also, there is a group of people who decide to get fit by going crazy with exercise, but continuing to eat junk food. Diet is several orders of magnitude more important than any exercise, yet some people go to the gym everyday, followed by
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by yakubin 4y ago
I would love that feature for cooking! It's such a no-brainer. Edit: it seems there exists an app for that[1]. Gonna try it tomorrow. [1]: < https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-cooking-timer/id492224774
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by yakubin 4y ago
If you want to build web services, I'd go with Go. It has an http library in its standard library. It generally has a bigger standard library. Rust has a bigger stdlib than say C++, but it's still pretty anemic by the standards of
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by yakubin 4y ago
gay and queer are not offensive even outside the community. It is acceptable for other people to use them. I haven't heard fag used non-offensively even inside the community, but maybe that's what needs to happen. Personally
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by yakubin 4y ago
Adobe used to be such a behemoth. They didn't switch to subscriptions due to unprofitability. They just wanted more and more. Same with Microsoft. They're a behemoth switching to subscriptions now. But that's not because they
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by yakubin 4y ago
Other companies which sell (only) software based on one-time payment model: - ACD Systems (ACDSee) - Serif (Affinity) - Freron Software (MailMate) - Sublime HQ (Sublime Text) I use them all. Wouldn't pay for a subscription. I don'
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Also, when you change trams/buses along the way, any delay by a vehicle in the middle of the chain gets compounded instead of just being added to the time of your arrival, since it makes you miss subsequent vehicles. With a car, if you
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by yakubin 4y ago
iOS 10 hasn't been receiving security updates for 2 years now. The last iPhones which only got updates up to 10 were iPhone 5 and 5C. They were released in 2012. iPhone 5S (released in 2013) got updates up to iOS 12, but about a year a

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