balfebs

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by balfebs 3y ago
Not sure what you mean, but ternaries are right-associative in Perl just like most other languages. PHP is the odd one out.
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by balfebs 3y ago
I believe that 9,000 years ago there wasn’t as distinct a pole star due to axial procession. Celestial north would probably have been somewhere between Vega and Tau Hercluis with a fairly wide separation.
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by balfebs 3y ago
Unfortunate that the repo name and header text of the README both misspell “programming”
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by balfebs 3y ago
If you define fall as the size of the gap. You could also take it as acceleration towards the barycenter, which would be the same. These are indistinguishable for everyday objects so could argue that the word “fall” could be interpreted e
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by balfebs 4y ago
That is a concern, but this makes invariants something the compiler can reason about more easily, since they happen at function boundaries and are distinct from regular code, unlike “vanilla” assertions.
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by balfebs 4y ago
The post assertions do look very similar to a unit test, but the pre assertions seem really useful; it can sometimes be difficult to know every code path that leads to your function, and though tools exist for this, assertions on inputs hel
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by balfebs 4y ago
Without other planets to examine, we have no way of knowing whether this is survivorship bias. Is life truly that tenacious or are we incredibly lucky? Perhaps best not to tempt fate if the latter.
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by balfebs 4y ago
There is a great deal more to learning a language than its alphabet, and English is probably one of the worst languages to learn that use the Latin alphabet, with many inconsistencies and exceptions in grammar and pronunciation. The reason
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by balfebs 4y ago
When I was a Perl programmer, in our shop we amended the motto "There's more than one way to do it" to "There's more than one way to do it, but most of those ways are wrong." The Perl community themselves event