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Comment #18646159
Here's a much better article with a similar title: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c9e7/3fc7ec81458057e6f96de1...
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Comment #14935026
I can recommend SF, I just started it a week ago without prior Coq experience. I'm using the VSCode integration which helps, CoqIDE is a bit clunky.
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Comment #14661117
At that point aren't you just doing normal Racket pattern matching? (match (list (> x y) (stringp foo) (oddp n)) [(list #t _ #t ) (whatever)] [(list _ #t _ ) (other-thing)] [(list …
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Comment #14399026
Swift C# has the ability to opt-into default checked arithmetic. I don't know of anyone that uses it...
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Comment #14162099
This looks really good, thanks! Nice support for isometry.
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Comment #14084052
That's just Windows. There's no combined codebase akin to Google's.
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Comment #14083846
The difference is that a French text must be finite.
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Comment #13926811
("Free-format") Fortran has a max line length of 132 chars, up from ("fixed-format") 72 chars on punch cards.
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Comment #13434178
Yeah, I originally qualified everything and then figured most readers of the site are USian anyway ;)
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Comment #13414308
FYI: `languæge` and `charæcters` don’t make much sense—‘æ’ and ‘œ’ usually changed to simple ‘e’ in modern English ( Encyclopædia , mediæval ), unless at the start of a word ( æsth…
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Comment #13409424
That's mostly because Encyclopædia Britannica is styled that way.
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Comment #13409414
Also why Menzies is pronounced "mingiz": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menzies
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Comment #13387730
Haskell for one, but lots of others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads
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Comment #12956761
Forgive my ignorance, but if you're issuing certificates for internal hostnames that you want to keep private, why would you need a public cert? Wouldn't an internal CA be better?
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Comment #12946126
That page is just an inferior version of the source: https://www.geonet.org.nz/quakes/felt
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Comment #12741361
> After instructions, participants were given printouts of sample code they could refer to while solving tasks. Group Lambda got code of a C++ program using lambda expressions and …
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Comment #12722491
The Tài Xuán Jīng symbols are, however. A subset can be used like: 𝌆𝌇𝌉𝌊𝌏𝌐𝌒𝌓𝌡𝌢𝌤𝌥𝌪𝌫𝌭𝌮 So Unicode has Bagua (3 bits), Tài Xuán Jīng (4 trits), and I Ching (6 bits, but…
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Comment #12451349
I{HEART}COM
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Comment #11236898
> Calculating the size of a static array. std::size is in C++17: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/iterator/size
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Comment #11100299
This is hilarious.
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Comment #10235768
Because that seems to be what the person who came up with the "63 MB" figure has done.
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Comment #10232570
Something does seem funky. The website looked like this in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418234503id_/http://www.bath... [This page is 3,780 bytes.] In fact, you can find t…
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Comment #10128229
These exist in Haskell as "Pattern Synonyms". Here's a partial translation of some of the F# examples on MSDN to Haskell; {-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms, ViewPatterns #-} pattern Eve…
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Comment #9882118
The point here is not particularly about signedness, it's that UB allows better optimizations to be performed. If overflow is defined to wrap around then it's potentially an infini…
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Comment #9801824
> It seems the terrible performance of the STL can be explained by std::string: this thing hits the general purpose allocator every time a new string is constructed. In this benchm…