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Why is it too strong to say that functional point update operations on strings are not provided, when you seem to confirm that the supported way to manipulate strings functionally …

I did think about cache-friendliness and made them as much so as I reasonably could, mostly by trying to minimize levels of indirection; but pointers are inescapably involved, and …

If you see this — have another look — I think I've improved it.

Okay, I buried the lede :-) Good suggestion, thanks.

Actually, formal verification could help massively with four of those problems — all but the first (UI/UX) and fifth (requirements will always be hard). A change in the API of a de…

Dark chocolate.

I've done breathwork for years, and at some point the tetany simply stopped happening and hasn't returned.

> The model genuinely believes it’s giving a correct reasoning chain The model doesn't "genuinely believe" anything.

The thing to understand about the LVT is that we are pretty much all already paying it; not to the city in which we live, but to the previous owners of the land we live on. When we…

The plural is "corpora" :-)

> there should have been some kind of error handling This is the point I would emphasize. A kernel module that parses configuration files must defend itself against a failed parse.…

Do you really think Putin would hesitate to arrest him if he did that? Snowden knows he is being watched closely. I suppose that is itself a reason to take what he says with a grai…

I've read somewhere that Seymour Cray used to write his entire operating system in absolute octal. ("Absolute" means no relocation; all memory accesses and jumps must be hand-targe…

Probably not. She needs to spend her time campaigning.

Not a bad idea, but it remains to be seen how many people are up for starting a run at this late date. Also, I just read that Harris has money pouring in. The donors may effectivel…

I've read that it was a driver of some kind, not an application. Applications can't cause BSODs (I hope).

Really interesting to me that none of the commentators I've seen in the press have even hinted that maybe an OS that requires frequent security patches shouldn't be used for infras…

I prefer the term "deference" for treating someone as an authority. But you're right; people do often say "respect" when they mean "deference".

The elasticity doesn't matter for the equivalence of the two scenarios (head-on collision at 50 vs. brick wall at 50). We've assumed, albeit implicitly, that in the head-on case, t…

Walter's answer is good, but here's another. When the two cars collide, it's possible to imagine that they are exact mirror images of each other and hit exactly head-on, so that a …

What do you suppose one should do if one received such a warning?

Penicillin never kills viruses; only bacteria. This is true of all antibiotics. Antivirals are a separate category (and don't tend to work as well AFAIK).

That was my point.

But if the sunlight that produced that power had hit something else instead, it also would have been turned into heat. There's no net heating of the planet from solar power. (Of co…

Funny -- this is why I love working in Lisp. I can edit the code and retry it, often by just restarting the stack frame. Compiling takes milliseconds.