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srean

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About srean

cat > Bourne.identity #! /bin/bash echo "$*" ^D

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    Unless I have to travel to a destination with a drastically different weather or I have to stay longer than ten days, it usually takes me no more than 15 to 20 minutes to get packe…

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    Comment #49247193

    I had vouched for your comment but it did not have any effect. Please email Dang, it seems to be a false positive of some sort. Love your long comments. > Oh I've posted much longe…

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    Comment #49246962

    @DonHopkins your comment is flagged dead. Is it because of its length giving false signals ?

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    Comment #49245909

    Oh! I thought this would be about migraine.

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    Comment #49241287

    I see them on sale, so probably they do. However, regardless of whether they do or do not, if they have kids they should. Globes communicate so much better than maps. In fact even …

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    Comment #49241251

    Agreed. Modern rigour is, well, quite modern.

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    Comment #49241068

    Why is it poor taste? He is not preventing anyone. Neither is he evergreening patents. Many things that are on the market can be made and sold by someone else for less. If you want…

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    Comment #49240990

    Many accomplished mathematicians were not professional mathematicians. Surprisingly enough, many were in fact lawyers. Descartes was himself a lawyer (by training) then there were …

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    Comment #49240939

    Like ... death to traffic.

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    Comment #49240933

    Yes right ? How dare someone build something entertaining and tell about it.

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    Comment #49240838

    This would qualify more as a Ballista than a trebuchet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballista

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    Comment #49214671

    https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This would be a good starting point. More in the manual.

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    Comment #49214658

    Could one compare choreography with this model https://felix-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_corout... Note this is for cooperative threading.

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    Comment #49214266

    A long long time ago I had a fun time making Mobius strip structure out of link list(s). Each edge of the ribbon was a linked list, connected to each other by rungs . It looped bac…

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    Comment #49209765

    Coroutines, cooperative threading using fibres, type classes, generics, type deduction, easy interface with C++. The functional style, pattern matching. Flow based programming usin…

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    Comment #49209331

    Unfortunately no. Felix is quite old at this point. It's a very interesting language, with many interesting ideas. It did not quite take off though.

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    Comment #49208973

    Take a look at Felix. https://felix-lang.github.io/felix/ Ignore the 'scripting' language claim.

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    Comment #49208855

    Great for listening to while programming. Words/lyrics throw me off but movie scores ... they feel perfect for programming.

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    Comment #49208448

    Not for C++ code generated by whole program optimizing compilers. Your "human entered" is doing the heavy lifting. Now that AI is writing code your assertion might be on shaky grou…

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    Comment #49182577

    Sorry about such a profound loss. Maybe you can find some meaning in the fact that it did not happen the otherway around.

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    Comment #49182532

    But think what your wife would have to go through if you passed earlier. It is that thought that makes me want to out last my wife, but in a state where I am useful in some way.

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    Comment #49182456

    The more fundamental reason is Amdahl's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law Even a tiny bit of serial instruction will limit the speed up

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    Comment #49172023

    Thank you. Had not heard this one before.