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by eeereerews 6y ago
Molok is the name used in the Bible for a Canaanite deity that the Israelites were forbidden to "suffer their seed to pass through the fire to". Details are scarce, but this is usually taken to refer to human sacrifice. It later b
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by eeereerews 6y ago
> Another pathology is that there are companies who ship LibreOffice, often claiming support, but then file all their tickets up-stream and hope they are fixed for free. Lmao... but thinking again, given the average user's bug-filin
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by eeereerews 6y ago
But once you've accepted unchecked exceptions (and paid the cost of the having them), it just doesn't make sense to only use them only for bugs. For example, it is better to try: x = json['foo']['bar'][
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by eeereerews 6y ago
How do you propose handling an OOB index in an array?
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by eeereerews 6y ago
It might be interesting to compare them if you'd care to share.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Here is a typical example (from Genesis Rabbah) > And Cain rose up against his brother Abel . [...] With what did he kill him? R. Simeon said: He killed him with a staff: And a young man for my bruising (Gen 4:23) implies a weapon whi
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by eeereerews 6y ago
> That hermeneutic - texts are collections of independent logical propositions - was essentially unknown in the ancient world On the contrary, the atomization and recombination of the text into new meanings is highly characteristic of Mi
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Firefox/Linux: the cursor constantly tracks to the left. You have to push the mouse to the right to keep it still. Works in Chromium though.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
No, where does it go? Are the big editors unsuccessful?
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Ugly maybe, but they're do kinda combine the advantages of both. They have the portability and reproducibility advantages of static linking, while still letting you take them apart and change the dependencies like with dynamic linking
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by eeereerews 6y ago
What do you mean by "source-based distribution"?
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by eeereerews 6y ago
It can also cut the other way though. Bugs can be introduced, compatibility can be broken, users can not find the library in their package manager, or they may find too new of a version. The danger of this is smaller for popular libraries,
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by eeereerews 6y ago
>Do your installed programs share dynamic libraries? >Findings: not really >Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables. Findings: Yes, lots, but mostly the most common ones. Dynamically linking agai
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Historically imperative languages did have tagged unions (Algol, Pascal, Ada, Modula). Their disappearance is mostly because of OOP's takeover I think. It was thought that a tagged union should be replaced by a base class with one deri
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by eeereerews 6y ago
You can also put a Readme in any folder and it will show up the same way. You usually wouldn't want those up top while browsing the files though. So it's also about consistency.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
> (Nov 18, 2001) TCC version 0.9 is out. First public version.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Writing, as opposed to speaking, by its nature conveys a degree of anonymity. Historically, anonymous writers are very common.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
To emphasize where the topology comes in since it wasn't clear to me at first: the important bit is the saddles. Just before a saddle goes under, there are two important properties 1. there are land masses on both sides of the saddle.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
I like Noah's Ark a lot.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
It's slowed down a lot. There's been a total of 8 posts and 50 comments since 2019. There were 32 posts just in 2017.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Not really on topic, but what happened to LtU anyway?
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by eeereerews 6y ago
One way is that it can handle functions like return : Monad m => a -> m a where m occurs only in the outputs. There's no input arg you could hang a vtable off of.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
I've thought about this too, but keeping positional args. The basic data type would be a "blob", consisting of a struct part and a tuple part.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
It doesn't. isOdd('') => false isOdd(null) => false isOdd(2n) => TypeError: Cannot convert a BigInt value to a number But even if it did, the same line of reasoning leads to the absurd conclusion we should
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by eeereerews 6y ago
> Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
Recursive fibonacci is highly artificial, but the fact that a compiler can greatly transform the program is an important advantage of compilers over interpreters.
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by eeereerews 6y ago
https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator/issues/31...
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by eeereerews 6y ago
> a barrel connector power supply What's wrong with this?
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by eeereerews 8y ago
> But that doesn't explain why I can't add two `String`s together using +. Because that would consume both Strings, which doesn't make sense. The impl that exists only consumes the left string, reusing its buffer. This see
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by eeereerews 8y ago
You've missed out on a charming popup bubble offering you a... customer retention start kit, was it?

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