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Re:Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:34PM (#47798371)
Is it less work than finding a human authored toy compiler of good quality. How long did it take to generate?
Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:01AM (#45101381)
Playing on the rail tracks also incurs incredible personal risk -- doesn't make it wise. Seems fair to me for the author to give their opinion that they don't believe this to be an effective form of protest. Especially given that they list their specific concerns.
Re:I Fought in Ukraine and Here's Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:58AM (#44386998)
True - and I hope I didn't give the impression that drone operators aren't taking significant personal risk, but compared to the alternatives for short range indirect fire (mortars) it seems like these systems should be less vulnerable?
Re:I Fought in Ukraine and Here's Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:53AM (#44386963)
FPVs don't seem anti-tank replacement -- they do seem to have a role against soft targets ie against massing infantry, c2 nodes or suppression of enemy mortars. In this role, from a distance, they seem harder to suppress than the alternative, ie mortars.
Also these are immature tech... I suspect at least some of the issues identified will be mitigated in time.
Re:I Fought in Ukraine and Here's Why FPV Drones Kind of Suck
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @07:15AM (#44386221)
Don't drones have another advantage not mentioned here -- counter-battery against operators being more challenging?
Re:PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:27AM (#19318689)
Meant to respond to top level parent who said:
> dicts would subclass sets
Was trying to make the case as to why treating dictionaries as a child of <generic collection> with an extend/merge operation using ‘+’ rather than a child of set with a union operation ‘|’ makes more sense (to me).
Changing the behaviour of a well defined operation like union seems bad - although my case is somewhat undermined by python’s overloading of ‘+’ to mean extend.
Re:PEP 584 – Add + and – operators to the built-in dict class
on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:23AM (#19317494)
If you treat dictionaries as sets of tuples union doesn’t work as expected:
{(‘a’,1)} | {(‘a’, 2)} = {(‘a’,1), (‘a’, 2)}
Same key maps two values.
Re:AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner
on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @03:08AM (#17300924)
It's AI judges, all the way down.
Re:“But didn't you write an embedded OS?”
on Sunday May 13, 2018 @07:21PM (#17061567)
"Invert a binary tree on a whiteboard"
I wonder if you get any points for turning the board upside down.
Re:UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance
on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:34AM (#15498045)
I wonder if their industry partners are similarly indemnified...
Re:Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @02:30AM (#14298126)
Self censorship is the only way the book burners can really triumph. So long as humanities' collective ingenuity continues to exceed the sum of our malevolence; I ain't too worried.
Ps key base is awesome :)