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You were being overpessimistic: Python's GC handles cyclic references perfectly well.

I don't think anyone manually counts out their tabs and spaces, but I think every major text editor has a mode or plugin to make this automatic.

A is indented with a tab. B is indented with a tab, plus the requisite number of spaces to line up with the above line. C is indented with a tab.

> My girlfriend is MOSTLY supportive but I don't dump everything on her. Learn to deal with stuff yourself and you'll be happier. Learning to deal with stuff yourself doesn't precl…

What kind of guarantees do you want from your type system? Strictly speaking the only guarantee that linear types give you is that every single linear value will be consumed at som…

Yep -- actually, if you look at how the IO type is defined in Haskell, it looks basically like this (there is an object that represents the "state of the world" that gets threaded …

Not sure what you're asking here. Usually the semantics behind what happens to an unused variable (i.e. is the file automatically closed, etc.) come down to how the language is des…

Depends on the implementation of the language. In a typical functional language with linear types, the functions that mutate an object return a "new value" that is conceptually a m…

Linear types = "you must use this value exactly one time" Affine (uniqueness) types = "you can use this value either zero or one times, but you can't use it more than once" As an e…

Why are you under the impression that what Apple calls "ARC" is substantially different than reference counting?

> I mean... you could have just called it a ref. ref T instead of &T. And then just ref(foo) or foo.ref to get a ref to foo. Ugh, no. There are references all over the place when I…

Haskell is a compiled language.

I have not seen any evidence that GC is the primary bottleneck in Haskell, or that a form of compiler-driven manual memory management would be faster.

> Except you can bound it, and you can escape it that way. IE "not gotten anywhere after 30 iterations, so don't know". It should go without saying that this system is not Turing-c…

Have there been writings on what exactly git's migration strategy to a new hash function will be? Apparently they have a seamless transition designed that won't require anyone to u…

The problem isn't the length of the text representation of the hash, it's the length of the actual binary representation of the hash.

You wait for other games to come out, like any other console?

That's nearly as in "most of C's features are supported by C++", not "most of C++'s features are C features".

There's nothing stopping you from downloading the script and peeking at it yourself. There's also nothing stopping you from using the many other installation methods available.

So why did you make an HN post to share a result that you admit doesn't mean anything?

> A computer sceince background inherently implies software development background. > An algorithm that takes infinite time for 1 instruction is O(1) and still constant time. > An …

Rust actually started with a model like this. The idea was when starting out for the first time you can use garbage collected pointers for everything and then switch to the manual …

No.

No fines for fake news are "on the table" in the US. Obviously policies that are meant to target fake news wouldn't touch opinion pieces about the best Christmas gifts.

What a bad article. I mean, starting from the very first parapgraph: > What puzzles me about the discussions around “fake news”, is how everybody in favor of free speech is now cal…