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Re:More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:58PM (#21519166)
Education via libraries requires dedication and critical thinking; neither is necessary for modern universities.
x86 is more complex than a Turing machine.
Totally went over my head. I thought he was talking about programming languages uses the same language for their keywords.
Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:56PM (#21286703)
To the second question, when you work in the industry you realize the answer is often the programmer.

Edit: There were a lot of questions in that comment.

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:50PM (#21276877)
[0,1] is not less infinite than [0,2]. Also the less does not need quotes, there is an ordering of infinities.

Edit: typo

It's good to teach children (and sometimes adults unfortunately) to be responsible for their emotions and explain what happened instead of vague statements like "She made me angry!", but you don't choose your emotions to situations, only how you respond to them.
The same dictionary that defines literally as both literal and not literal. Dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive, and so they also account for incorrect but common usage.