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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Depending what you mean, but simple compilers are very straightforward. The output might make you want to cry, but they're still compilers. There's less magic than you think. There are also lots of books out there about writing th
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> and pretending it "can be faster than a mouse". Jesus. I use mouse and keyboard as what's best for the task of that moment. In some cases it's a faster to do some complex things using a keyboard, at others, I pick t
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Dick comment. I'm talking from experience that keyboard is sometimes faster, and I actually say (clearly you didn't read to the 4th para) that a mouse is better in other cases. Try reading an entire post before responding.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Well, look at that! Thanks
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
It actually depends. I'm an emacs user and C-h will select the current 'paragraph', repeated C-h will select the next one down, repeatedly. Moving by paragraphs can be very quick. If you want that, it's almost instant. A
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
So that's what that was... Was trying to do something legit, MS gave me a puzzle to solve, it was unsolvable in the time given, it wasted maybe 20 mins. Can't remember what it was, I think create an account for visual studio (you
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
The keyboard may make things easier, I grant. Then the word is 'easier'. and 'faster'. I do use and like emacs BTW. Then again I have RSI, do you reckon that's easier/faster for me? > Another benefit is that
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
You've never hit the wrong key on a keyboard and made a mess, ever? I have.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Thoughtful reply and it is much appreciated dude, take care!
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Good question, 'power' I reserve for turing completeness (some aren't, such as SQL before recursive CTEs were added, and... well, here's a list https://iq.opengenus.org/non-turing-complete-programming-lan
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Make me happy and point me at some of these because I have something and can find no-one to even look at it, and I believe it has actual cash value.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> but saying that a physical keyboard is a more "powerful" way to enter text seems reasonable to me No. It's faster and that's all. So call it by that word which is very precise. If you say 'power' = &#x27
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Powerful? you mean it can do more than is actually possible to do with a mouse?
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Poor and smart can be extremely toxic - unnecessary complexity that's hard for everyone else to understand OMG yes, had one of these once. A simple application because a dog-slow matryoshka of virtualisation and containers stitche
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Mental agility is mostly found in young people IME that isn't true. I'd like to know if you've any evidence of this at all. It's a trope too easily repeated but never seen any evidence presented. I do agree that cyn
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Have you a link for this? Never heard of this requirement (but not an elastic user so no surprise).
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Depends what you mean by a database I guess. I take it to mean an RDBMS. RDBMSs provide guarantees that web searching doesn't need. You can afford to lose a pieces of data, provide not-quite-perfect results for web stuff. It's jus
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
You're right but I'm just making the point that machine arithmetic ain't number arithmetic and you can't rearrange freely. His example included SUM(b + c) and SUM(c + b) as equivalent. As such it probably is[1] but exten
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> Mmm... Or maybe she was... an artist?! Or liar. Works for me.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I read 'go ask alice' as a teenager and even back then i found it blatantly fiction, watching a pretty-with-curls little darling degenerate into a sweary brat wasn't plausible. I don't like being lied to, not like this a
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Sorry to hear about the unwanted attention and awkwardness, and having it push you onto a different path.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
You're the expert, thanks for the pointers!
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
PEGs are ambiguous, just that that's resolved by rule ordering. From the wiki page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar#Amb... ) "A PEG parser generator will resolve unintended ambiguities
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> If you choose to specify your language using a class of grammar which permits ambiguity, then you have to resolve that ambiguity. I added an edit after which you may not have seen: even context-free grammars have ambiguity, eg. th
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Well, first you don't seem to understand what 'ambiguity' means in the context of parsing "Nobody writes a parser that has a random decision..." which is weird. It's a very establish meaning here. Then you say
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
for someone who is the founder of TruffleRuby (I've checked, and you are < https://docs.oracle.com/en/graalvm/enterprise/21/docs/refere... >), you sure have made some very odd comments and
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
Oh god yes. I wanted to do a simple check, a tiny regex would have been perfect. I think it took me over 1/2 hour to do thanks, and only thanks, to the godawful mess that is MS's documentation.
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
I guess a word to the wise, or others who may not have your experience, be careful about assuming natural stuff is safe. Some essential oils are irritating, and some can be bad for you unless carefully handled (eg jasmine oil should be well
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> I also loathe their desire to listen to the BNF maximalists insistence on not having any “ambiguity” from Odd that you put ambiguity in quotes. I guess it's not real ambiguity then. Ivory tower academics, as you see them, actually
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by zasdffaa 4y ago
> but if it works, why care? Let me rephrase: "but if it seems to work, why care?". Welcome to the new world of crap built upon crap.

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