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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I suspect you are going to repeatedly move the goalposts to keep the human in. Perhaps that's right, perhaps not but perhaps also ask yourself why you feel the emotional need to.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Those pictures are a whole heck of a lot better than much art I see produced by people, including some professional artists. I'm quite happy to look at them, and that it's produced by a non-human changes nothing. I guess this, in
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Thanks but regexes I know pretty well, the regex object docs just were horrible.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Capture pattern [edit: I meant capture brackets] extraction. Could get one of them (?!) or nothing at all, but... never again. MS doc examples = no success, not SO, not various blogs.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Christ, the mess that are the docs. And the complexity. Just lost well over an hour trying to get a non-trivial regex working (that would have taken me 30 secs in emacs). Gave up and just used split() and it just worked. Never again, I swea
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
This has never happened to me or anywhere I've worked (except see below) because we always had reasonably defined goals, maybe at the high-level only, but they were clear and we could work on them. Except for research projects you shou
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Speaking as a veggie... > why go through the extra trouble to make the food taste like something it isn't? ...because meat tastes a lot better is why, and is often more protein-, fat- and calorie-dense. Vegetables are pretty boring
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
The author seems to take confidence as being hubris even though he quotes the definition as 'excessive self-confidence and pride'. They are not the same thing but he writes as if they are. Just because you have the confidence to s
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
These requirements of much testing of inherently multithreaded code with a lot riding on not destroying user data suggests a model checker would be an essential piece, perhaps someone more knowledgeable can opine.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
That pagination issue isn't one I realised. That's very valuable, thanks.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
This is getting badly OT and I don't know how we got here. My original top post was saying if you don't need exceptions, why are you using them. They weren't necessary there so they should not have been used there. That is al
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> always going to be something threatening us even if it's mainly ourselves It's always "ourselves". We as a race are our primary enemy and your desire not to see the problems we create for ourselves here and now make
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Thanks. I have a lot of time for those who are willing to admit their mistakes.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Exceptions are typically understood to apply to exceptional events that just shouldn't happen. The only language I know of that treats them as control structures is Python (ok, lisp as well come to think of, but they seem to be very di
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Sometimes I wish for a 'debug' version of PG which adds an "order by random()" to all queries interesting! I like it. > or appends a "random()" clause to an existing "order by" clause That one
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
It's a failure of the optimiser. AS a DB guy (MSSQL, not postgres), there's always a risk of this, you always have to be aware of this, and don't assume. MSSQL's optimiser is pretty good but I've also seen slowdowns
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> A key gotcha that tripped us up: when querying with a list of primary keys, Postgres will not return the records in the same order as the IDs provided in a “where … in” clause. That's frightening they don't know that. So, bur
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Read this paper before and don't buy it. // c++ if (condition1) throw my_exception1 (); you throw an exception because you can't handle it locally. But then he says // C if (condition1)
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
What?? Could you go a little deeper into the complex numbers thing, it sounds so nutty.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I use DDG 100% of the time and maybe 5%-10% after I have to add !g to get better results. But maybe 1%-2% of the time I find DDG's results seem utterly unrelated to what I was looking for, like it randomly rolled a dice. I do mean comp
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
"Expect" or "I want"? Comes across like you want him reduced to mediocrity.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I've known autistic people and there was a strong tendency to reject what they don't want to hear. I've also met a very autistic/aspergers person who would listen and consider (and there may be more than one, I just can&
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Thanks, I'll read your link but I must dispute your enthusiasm: "It took me two weeks to figure it out" Leaving a no-documentation time bomb for your successor is not to be celebrated, nor IMO is it a hackerish thing to do.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
"if" It doesn't say they do.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> irrelevant adverb "sadly" you added to your parenthetical aside fair point. > Money has many properties Hmm. Never thought of this. Can you provide a link discussing these? I have no idea, economics is not my background an
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Point is, isn't all money 'hard earned' for us who don't inherit it (sadly the greatest majority of the population), I mean that's the point of money in capitalism, about allocation of scarce resources, so why even
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Odd that you had to throw 'hard-earned' in there like it adds anything (unless it does but I can't tell) A quick search gets prior discussion https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=drm%20free%20printers
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I'll bet if this was an accurate quote, what was being said is technically correct but far less mind-blowing than as it was presented.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Would those who downvoted me care to mention what upset them so about "simple compilers are very straightforward" and where I was wrong saying compilers are comprehensible things, not etheric miracles beyond the ken of us bipedal
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
This looks really good but "Build your own ... SQLite" is a bit amazing, does that mean a full SQL interpreter right down to the B-trees? That is a looot of work, too much really. Unless you pull stuff off the shelf like apache ca

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