trealira

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by trealira 2mo ago
> even GC isn't necessary Um, isn't it? Don't all Lisp variants have it? IIRC McCarthy's LISP just ran out of memory until the GC was written.
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by trealira 1y ago
> steps the RNC didn't even take, in this case. What steps are you referencing? I don't get your comment. Also, the DNC and RNC just choose people and fundraise. It's strange to me how people refer to the parties like this
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by trealira 1y ago
> I'm really not sure why Democrats don't just let Trump shoot himself in the foot. That had been their strategy, to just let Trump do things and become unpopular without drawing attention to themselves, but while Trump and Rep
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by trealira 1y ago
2 years ago, Wharton predicted that the U.S. debt would be defaulted on in twenty years [0]. > Under current policy, the United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cut
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by trealira 1y ago
Funnily enough, this has resulted in people saying things like "見てみましょう" and "見てみてください", which confused me at first. But I suppose this is like non-native English speakers being confused by the extra "do" in ph
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by trealira 1y ago
Yeah, firing the labor statistics head because Trump say she's been faking the numbers to make him look bad actually makes it seem both obviously politically motivated and casts whatever comes after into doubt. Now their credibility is
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by trealira 1y ago
Because he talks like them, and they know he's a scumbag, but he's their scumbag, which they sic on the people they hate most: the vermin liberals, the immigrants poisoning the blood of the country, the parasitic federal workers w
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by trealira 1y ago
>This is clearly dog whistle langauge and not intended to be taken literally, but it is starting to be a common trope and it makes me very curious as to how this industry operates? It's clearly just dismissive language that doesn&#x
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by trealira 1y ago
> "C is the language that combines raw power of assembly with expressiveness of assembly." The most expressive part of C is the syntax oriented around writing terse, side-effectful expressions that manipulate buffers, pointers
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by trealira 1y ago
Yeah, it would have to be something like this if you wanted to avoid the signed integer overflow at the end of the loop: assert(i <= j); for (;;) { do_something_with(i); if (i == j) break; i++; }
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by trealira 1y ago
> I did consider that, but I wrote "in general" for a reason. It works very specifically in the case of "add one" or "subtract one", but it doesn't work with anything more complicated, like chasing poin
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by trealira 1y ago
It's true that theorem provers can be just sufficiently advanced type systems (the Curry Howard correspondence), but not all theorem provers operate that way. Isabelle/HOL operates on higher order logic. Imperative ones like SPARK
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by trealira 1y ago
Perhaps it's that you never have to read the whole file into memory at once if it's with a `FILE *` rather than a string. I'm not that person, this is just my assumption.
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by trealira 1y ago
>I have not taken any position on whether or not children should be targeted with messages across the spectrum, ranging from the extreme on one end "It's okay for boys to play with dolls", to the extreme on the other &quot
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by trealira 1y ago
If it were just a soft C, then "ocean" would sound more like "oh-see-in" or "oce-yin". But it's also been palatalized to sound like "oshin" in typical pronunciation. People might not have underst
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by trealira 1y ago
> since haskell is non-strict, if can be implemented as a function, and iirc it is "If" can be implemented as a function in Haskell, but it's not a function. You can't pass it as a higher-order function and it uses th
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by trealira 1y ago
More important than the Heritage Foundation is the Federalist Society in the case of getting more conservative judges.
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by trealira 1y ago
You're right. Those languages have morphological passive voice conjugations for their verbs. That, combined with their flexible word order, offers expressivity. I was just pointing out that English, due to its strict word order, is mor
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by trealira 1y ago
> But but but the creator himself said it is gif like in gin and giraffe... right? Yeah, that's what the creator said, and that's actually how I pronounce it, too. Just pointing out that "gi-" words can have both hard
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by trealira 1y ago
There's also Finnish.
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by trealira 1y ago
The passive voice just switches the roles so that the patient is the subject and the agent is the object (e.g. in "The ball was kicked by John," the ball is still the patient despite being the subject). It's just that with En
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by trealira 1y ago
And yet there's also girl, gift, gimp, gill, gibbon, and giggle.
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by trealira 1y ago
> We Italians, when we were children, we were taught to read based on the written letters, and we were able to read any word. It was normal, during primary school, to pronounce a word correctly and then ask the teacher what it meant. Thi
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by trealira 1y ago
> So then I question if there are trans women out there who would be satisfied in a world where anyone can wear anything. So long as they look in the mirror and see a woman. There are trans women already who just wear jeans and t-shirts
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by trealira 1y ago
> Transgender people often suffer gender dysphoria. That's the definition of it. > You're correct that it's possible that gender dysphoria might be a downstream effect of society. Namely, we are an extremely gender-segr
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by trealira 1y ago
> What the hell is the difference between "men" and "man"? What's the difference between "bitch" and "beach"? Those words all have completely different vowels in English; they're not irre
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by trealira 1y ago
Grammatical gender can serve as disambiguation. I just heard this sentence recently while watching something in Spanish: "No me compares con alguien como tú, que llegaste aquí de una isla oriental sólo porque te impresionó un espectácu
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by trealira 1y ago
> Can you back that up with evidence? I'm not them, but there have been reports of tourists locked up for weeks. https://apnews.com/article/border-tourists-german-canadian-d...
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by trealira 1y ago
I'm pessimistic about it, too.
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by trealira 1y ago
I'm not them, but I'll try reordering the sentence to help you parse it better. As bad as the WG21 process might be, the additions into ISO C++ don't land there because a group of academics found a cool feature; they land th

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