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    Comment #49216647

    What could be more explicit than this? > It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I’ve asked, would associate with astrology.

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    Comment #48884469

    How do you plug a keyboard into a sheet of paper?

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    Comment #48679797

    Was this announcement AI-generated?

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    Comment #46962206

    The cloud is getting light from both the sky background and direct sunlight.

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    Comment #46961860

    The slider in the first demo under "What's so special about blue" is broken; the colors are correct when the slider is all the way to the left or right, but not when it's in the mi…

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    Comment #46861711

    To be more pedantic, yes you can, but only with a meta-language.

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    Comment #40731777

    For Haskell, there's always Hoogle ( https://hoogle.haskell.org ).

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    Comment #40356720

    Wouldn't using push_back prevent the need to reverse the Vec at the end?

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    Comment #40309921

    Java doesn't have pattern-matching yet. Haskell is not an imperative language.

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    Comment #40309914

    > The intent is to introduce a more-advanced construction called pattern matching in a later release.

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    Comment #40207728

    See also: DOM versus streaming.

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    Comment #40117381

    Why? Is it mostly because of Haskell's purity (side-effect-freeness), so optimizations can change expressions more freely and safely?

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    Comment #40083994

    It's not even necessary for compression -- gzip is decent and transparent .

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    Comment #39822579

    Does this technique rely on Linux-like overcommit?

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    Comment #39810602

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun

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    Comment #39695412

    Sounds like "Word Disassociation". https://genius.com/Lemon-demon-word-disassociation-lyrics

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    Comment #39662125

    https://drand.love/docs/timelock-encryption/#%E2%9A%A0%EF%B8...

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    Comment #39610968

    macOS (desktop), not iOS (mobile).

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    Comment #39478389

    What a letdown!

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    Comment #39445516

    > in case of bugs the user-space scheduler will just crash and sched-ext will transparently restore the default Linux scheduler.

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    Comment #39437377

    > Zed, however, is not open source This was true when the article was written, but it is no longer true. https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source

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    Comment #39415555

    Why would you think ACX is AI-generated?

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    Comment #39333524

    I don't think that rule holds in general. For another example besides religion, you can choose whether or not to marry interracially.

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    Comment #39224434

    Do you have a source for that?

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    Comment #39138191

    What's the advantage of that subshell redirection over a simple pipe?