Elrac

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by Elrac 5y ago
My biggest problem with Europe's mandatory cookie warning is that the solution is worse than the problem. I'm aware that once I enter somebody's site there's a gazillion ways for that somebody to get data about me. If co
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by Elrac 6y ago
I think there's just one lesson, a no-brainer, to be learned here: That any halfway competent author can make his character appear superior in whatever way he chooses, because he obviously and literally has complete control of the narr
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by Elrac 6y ago
I'm in a corporation currently "upgrading" from Skype to Teams. Let me put it this way: Since chatting with Teams, I no longer think quite as badly of Skype.
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by Elrac 6y ago
Yes, but that's irrelevant to your parent commenter's point. I'll explain that in simpler terms: If the object has the slightest bit of (linear) momentum then it also has a non-zero velocity, which will over time move it away
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by Elrac 6y ago
Am I the only one who thought this article was about Apache Tomcat?
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by Elrac 6y ago
You're right, I missed that. But that still leaves the ASCII tree diagram agreeing with the sentence "Phix has just five builtin data types:" while showing (and describing, in the following bullet point list) five data types
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by Elrac 6y ago
Looking at "Core Language" I was dismayed not to find any builtin floating point data type. In "Phix vs Conventional Languages" I'm told that "1/2 is always 0.5". And "Library Routines" &#x2
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by Elrac 7y ago
In the original article, the author claims that lots of repeated strings turn out to be beneficial insofar as they make compression (gzip or whatever) more effective. According to him, it doesn't make sense to manually de-redundantize
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by Elrac 7y ago
It's anticipated that at least millions, more likely hundreds of millions of humans will die to the consequences of climate change including effects of extreme weather, flooding and (especially) famine. This won't extinct all of h
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by Elrac 7y ago
The author's expressing a personal opinion, and not supporting it very well. That this low-value piece complains about disinformation reeks of unintended irony. Here's my personal opinion: blaming technology for failures of humani
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by Elrac 7y ago
At the risk of seeming an ingrate: Does LibKtx also do 3D?
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by Elrac 7y ago
Yes. In the opening paragraph there's a reference to a companion paper from April 1, 1998. I'd say that's a strong hint.
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by Elrac 7y ago
For the past 2 years, most of my work has been in porting some fairly simple legacy message forwarding and conversion programs from C to Java. So on our test servers I can swap out the C programs for drop-in replacements in Java and watch t
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by Elrac 7y ago
Almost never. With the kind of software I mostly write these days, I'm fortunate to be able to incrementally develop my code and test it under real-world conditions or a subset thereof. So my approach is exploratory coding -- I start w
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by Elrac 7y ago
Underneath the eloquent prose and the many helpful examples and showcases, this is an anti-science hit piece. How dare theoretical physicists develop ideas about the world around us that can't be quickly and obviously supported by real
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by Elrac 7y ago
Pretty much every "alternative" medical procedure or product for the gullible has one serious side effect: the potential for abandoning medicine that actually and empirically has an effect superior to placebos. Prominent example,
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by Elrac 7y ago
Looking at your wish for exploratory evaluations in for-comprehensions, I was reminded of how Clojure does this. I found it quite elegant. The inside of the for-braces allow for keyword-based sub-clauses: There's - ":when" wh
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by Elrac 7y ago
No doubt our different perspectives are a result of us doing different things with Go. I don't write compilers or other "highbrow" Computer Science-heavy programs. I most frequently find myself writing interface software, dat
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by Elrac 7y ago
I hear you, but there are also upsides. As a veteran of many programming languages, I find Go's minimal feature list a plus! Especially if I'm not rushed, I have an annoying tendency to try for the most elegant, succinct, idiomati
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by Elrac 7y ago
Might be against the rules, but here's a "me too." I've been avoiding Medium even before they became so blatantly commercial. Forcefully urging me to create an account and log in just to read a bloody article? No thanks.
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by Elrac 7y ago
Let's be fair to Haskell and LyaH: I've taught some Java classes. I can get people writing and running trivially useful code before explaining the concepts of "class" and "static". I explain that parts of the c
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by Elrac 7y ago
Wow, cool! Thanks. I hope to do more with Haskell once I retire, and this may stand me in good stead. I think my point is still supported to some extent by the fact that this is knowledge from outside of the language that I'd need to k
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by Elrac 7y ago
As a Haskell n00b, I'd like to mention something I can do in about 20 other languages but not in Haskell: ( UPDATE: I stand corrected, in a reply by tome. ) I'm writing and debugging some functional code - in Clojure. There's
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by Elrac 7y ago
I'd like to voice my disagreement with the author about C having the shortest compile times. From my own experience and reports all over the Web, it seems that Go handily beats C at compilation speed. This is mostly down to a lot of de
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by Elrac 7y ago
Well, I'm basing that particular claim on the published opinion of a professional academic historian of science. If you or anyone else interested has a lot of free time, you may want to skim these pages by Dr. Richard Carrier: http:&#
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by Elrac 7y ago
Ah, sorry about muddling that up. I understand that Fallows is a journalist, but he looks to be distilling the ideas of "real" historians including Peter Brown and Walter Scheidel. So to my way of thinking (and arguing), Fallows i
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by Elrac 7y ago
I realize I don't have the chops to argue against a professional historian, but here's what I'm seeing: The period after the fall of the Roman Empire is often called "The Dark Ages," though a lot of revisionists try
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by Elrac 7y ago
I think _theoretically_ the way this is thought to work is that Amazon or Google could take out daily ads in all major media that say "vote for John Doe, he's a great guy!", i.e. well-heeled companies could do candiates'
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by Elrac 7y ago
I mostly agree with what you said but I'd like to point out a glitch in your argument about halfway through: where you say "because it has, for millions ... of years." I'd say that's not valid, because what happened
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by Elrac 7y ago
You're of course free to "doubt that anything is truly random" and to suspect that "there has to be some type of cosmic drummer," but I feel compelled to point out that your "case in point" completely fail

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