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Re:Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’ on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:24PM (#25752995)
One correction. Her surname is Elbakyan.
Re:Real World Haskell on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:46AM (#25007921)
Install nix? Already done. What's the second step?
Re:Everything you need to know about windsocks on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:18AM (#24958712)
Exactly that is mentioned in the article.
Re:The ‘Caspian Sea Monster’ rises from the grave on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:04AM (#24869609)
Caspian sea monster had a static ceiling around 3000m. Just enough for a rebase to Mediterranean Sea.
Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @03:35AM (#24845585)
That's a quite unobvious consequence of the software progress. Making software be "a bunch of bricks for creating applications" do come with costs. And the main cost is performance.
Re:I lost €4k in a Facebook scam on Monday September 14, 2020 @12:07PM (#24471783)
Thank you, Niek, for sharing that story. Such cases should be maximally open and transparent for people to learn the real risks.
As I see on the demo, it evaluates the expression itself. There is a ton of possibilities to misinterpret the domain of operations involved. Moreover, how should we control the details to which it should unwind the undergoing calculations?

That way of work seems a bit too optimistic to me.

Re:Guide to Python Debugging on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:37AM (#23388628)
Oh, having full ipython during debug investigations is much better than using pure pdb.set_trace(). Thank you.
Fun fact about fortran: its creator (John Backus) was fond of functional programming, but that was after the fortran creation.
Re:This person does not exist on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:24AM (#22265298)
Guessed 10/10, but that was much harder than 5 years ago.
I have remembered the order of arguments since I figured out that the second argument is optional. So the link name is of course optional, not the original file's one.