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Ontonator

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    Comment #45823156

    For Bluetooth, you could of course use one or both of the runes upon which the logo was based: ᛡᛒ

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    Comment #44529902

    While I don’t disagree that houses have become less affordable, that graph is rather misleading. A graph of the ratio, as posted in one of the comments [0], would be more informati…

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    Comment #43300164

    Granted, as in “conceding a point”. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/granted

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    Comment #41465996

    In the context of Swift, ARC is automatic reference counting: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

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    Comment #40794064

    Do you have a specific reference for this? I’d love to know more.

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    Comment #40789908

    Be careful: it’s been a while since I used C and I haven’t used much C++, but I think forward progress is only guaranteed by C++, not C.

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    Comment #40789867

    I’m not sure it can loop indefinitely, but it can block (e.g. if the reader of the pipe is not reading from it and the buffer is full).

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    Comment #40788795

    > Somewhat expectedly, gcc remains faithful to its crash approach, though note that it only inserts the crash when it compiles the division-by-zero, not earlier, like at the beginn…

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    Comment #37375202

    Would the DNA testing have revealed whether or not they were related, or would the DNA have been too damaged to work that out? (Of course, even if they were not related, they were …

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    Comment #36551366

    Not relevant to C, of course, but Ruby supports something like this with `?a` being equivalent to `"a"` (both of which are strings, since Ruby doesn’t distinguish strings from char…

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    Comment #32030640

    I disagree. There may not be a keyword required to refer to `struct`s specifically, but the namespace that is searched when resolving a symbol is determined by the syntax used to r…

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    Comment #32006977

    I can’t speak for the others, but Rust definitely has separate namespaces for them. See https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/reference/names/namespaces.ht...

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    Comment #31700376

    On the point about semicolons in JavaScript, the logic I’ve heard is that if you consistently use semicolons, you can have a linter warn you if there is an inferred semicolon, so y…

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    Comment #31605694

    Both the C/C++ and Python extensions seem to be open source, but I think you’re right about the remote development one. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools https://github.…

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    Comment #29698925

    The longer someone is at the counter, the more likely you are to see them. You’re biased towards seeing the relatively few people who take half an hour.