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Comment #46998383
> A version of this that uses tree sitter grammars to map a codebase, and does it on every startup of an agent, would be awesome. This was a key feature of aider and if you're not …
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Comment #32380805
It's because `a` is not a pointer to the result of badfunc; it is a copy. So the return value of `badfunc` might be overwritten if func2 is non-trivial, but the copy will not.
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Comment #14329936
I think that when you find arguments that GC can be competitive with manual memory management, they always rely on the assumption that it is in the context of idiomatic code. For a…
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Comment #14329731
Absolutely, but I think the "in most cases" of the original quote was meant to imply simple malloc/free style memory management rather than the use of tailored arena/region allocat…
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Comment #14329439
As far as it goes I think it is a pretty fair statement. However it is important to know of other decisions in the language which make it easier for the GC. Particularly, the use o…
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Comment #11341534
Also, this doesn't support zero padding with ch=0.
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Comment #10928532
I was also curious since it was so obviously a brigade with most reviews posted on the same day. It seems he angered Breitbart fans with a tweet: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/s…
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Comment #10840236
Except in this case, when the comment was written http hadn't been invented yet :)
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Comment #9397668
To get :cd to behave more like vim, you could add https://github.com/gbarta/evil-noautochdir which in addition to behaving like :set noautochdir, also allows :cd to take an argumen…
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Comment #9197062
Relating to #3, if you expect to be overseas long term and you are in a situation where foreign tax credit will cover your US tax liability, it can be advantageous to use the forei…
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Comment #8872766
I'm struggling to imagine any 300-head software company based in regional Victoria. Are you in a satellite office of a larger org?
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Comment #8719758
But if you're going to abandon your green card, you need to do it before the eight year because doing it after that makes you subject to the exit tax where abandoning your green ca…
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Comment #8719657
I think you are confused about foreign residence and foreign taxation. Most countries will tax all foreign income if you are a tax resident of their country. But not many tax forei…
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Comment #8719627
If you can avoid it by spending a certain amount of time out of the country then surely it is not what is meant by non-resident taxation in the context of this article?
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Comment #6812558
What makes you say that the suit was withdrawn? I can't find confirmation of that anywhere.
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Comment #6812303
Uniloc sued Mojang (makers of Minecraft), which is a Swedish company. In Texas of course. Mojang is bigger than many small companies, but is still quite small.
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Comment #6205512
(User woe, you have been hellbanned which is a shame because your points in this thread have been quite true.)
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Comment #6205427
Possibly by non-earned-income he means passive income. You are not allowed to exclude passive income on form(s) 2555. It is foreign earned-income, not foreign-earned income. Althou…
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Comment #6205182
The parent may have been confused about when a transaction takes place. They would only have a taxable event for their currency at the time they converted between different currenc…
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Comment #6058168
Eritrea.
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Comment #6044647
There are also different treatments of capital gains, and phantom gains which arise only from shifts in exchange rates. For anyone of any means beyond their salary alone these both…
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Comment #5414089
I think he has a typo at the end which should be gggqG where gg means motion to top of file, gq means reformat over a motion and G means motion to end of file.
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Comment #4499504
> You could buy a .com address years before the internet existed outside the US. The .com tld was created in 1984, at which point there had already been international links for ove…
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Comment #4458442
As others have pointed out, DDT is still in use for vector control, however its effectiveness is reduced because of resistance caused by excessive use for agricultural and general …
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Comment #4391688
He didn't choose Ecuador because he thinks they are great. They made an 'unofficial' offer of sanctuary to him back in 2010, and I am not aware that he has had any offers from anyw…