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Are there any programs that produce output before they are executed?

Output is a side effect.

He did say this, but maybe it wasn't clear. It's faster because you can skip the meaningless bureaucracy associated with obtaining copyright permission for a tiny run - a lot of da…

I think the original expression was poor, it could perhaps be paraphrased as "gun safety is an oxymoron".

Pirates of Silicon Valley, Sneakers, Primer, Ex Machina

Nice analysis! I was thinking safety is a function equivalent to negation. But I agree if safety and gun ownership are separate variables. p | safe (p) | ¬p | safe (p) ↔ ¬p --+----…

Over my lifetime I feel like computers have gone from nerdy thing that nerds do to trendy thing that popular kids hire nerds to do badly and treat like garbage. I guess it's not re…

Oh come on, the claim is that safe (p) !p, which is a bit different. Attack the actual claim.

Do you sit through television commercials without talking, getting up, turning down the volume, muting them, or looking away?

I think there's two things here. The first is the implicit or explicit contract to view ads in exchange for getting to view content. Entering into a contract in bad faith or breach…

Alright, these are the statements that made me feel guilt / anger, along with the message I interpreted: > If you walk up to me and ask for my newspaper without offering compensati…

I think it's pretty simple, any time you're admonishing someone and telling them how they should behave, rather than how they have to behave, it's basically a guilt trip. It makes …

Hmmm, good point. Ok, if you count individual messages, there is more spam, but if you look at the kinds of spam messages, they are way less diverse. So spam goes into one of ~10 b…

> For me, the arguments that fall along the lines of "once it's been sent I can do what I want" don't sit well because they feel anti-social in nature. For me, guilt trips are anti…

> the fact that everyone does have their marginal benefit and marginal costs for every good and service that can translate to a binary decision of whether they would purchase a goo…

Positive means you found the special thing you are looking for; negative means you just found an ordinary thing. False positive means you thought you found the special thing but yo…

The link you gave doesn't use the word implicit and actually says: > Wherever possible, make sure you have an explicit license to any necessary patents held by the licensor. Then i…

The text of the link itself could contain copyright material. Google says the practical limit 10 years ago was ~100Kb, not sure now.

Well, you could do a double-blind test where you feed pureed lazy plants and pureed healthy plants to your test subjects and see if you can detect a difference. But honestly just t…

What you said makes sense right up until the last bit about the lazy plants generating low energy in humans. There is no science to substantiate that, like none at all. I think it'…

People also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it's poetry, but those p…

I think that's wrong, because all 4 if-statements are evaluated for each sample. But yes agreed, in general there are lots of edge cases. I actually wrote a finite state machine sp…

Also you can decouple the handling of ac and heat, and check the current state to prevent a redundant transition into the current state. if (temp > max + error) if (off (ac)) turn_…