Phoenix3875

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago

In this particular case, the server offered to pay for the meal, rather than giving it for free.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

One problem with exceptions is composability.

You have to rely on good and up-to-date documentation or you have to dig into the source code to figure out what exceptions are possible. For a lot of third party dependencies (which constitute a huge part of modern software), both can be missing.

Error type is a mitigation, but you are free to e.g. panic in Rust if you think the error is unrecoverable.

A third option is to have effect types like Koka, so that all possible exceptions (or effects) can be checked at type level. A similar approach can be observed in "practical" languages like Zig. It remains to been seen whether this style can be adopted by the mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You would expect that from the author of The Dispossessed. She's an anarchist (Paul Goodman leaning) through and through. She also wrote the preface to Murray Bookchin's The Next Revolution.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What happened to their defensive prayers?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

So an average furry?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (11 children)

There are USB-C headphones.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Black Panther the movie actually borrowed some art elements from Afrofuturism. Although it's not very pronounced.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Walter, where is the money?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The paper only says it's a collaboration. It's pretty large scale, so the opportunity might be rare. There's a chance that (the same or other) researchers will follow up and experiment in more schools.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The interviews revealed that data scientists sometimes get distracted by the latest developments in AI and implement them in their projects without looking at the value that it will deliver.

At least part of this is due to resume-oriented development.

 

Coming from another country, I always wonder why the two utility companies I have here in the UK, Thames Water and Octopus Energy, would calculate an amount that they think I should pay monthly, instead of just charge whatever I used last month. To me, the latter way makes much more sense and is the standard practice in the countries I lived before.

The amount they calculated seems to generate either a huge credit balance, or a huge underestimation. Thames Water changed my monthly bill from £29 to £7, and then to £17 over the course of a year and a half. Octopus Energy built up more than £200 of a credit balance (not sure if it's a result of the UK government energy gift credit last winter), then set a minimal amount of £61 monthly. They say the purpose is to make sure that the credit balance would be always be more than £100. Okay...but why? If I want to save money, I'd go to a bank.

I could see that it might make sense if the measurement is not as easy or accurate, but come on, it's the 21st century and the meter shows me my energy usage by the hour, surely they can calculate the exact amount rather than pull a random number out of nowhere?

 

can be used as a bunker at war

 
 
 
 

It seems to be a bug for Firefox Android, but I had an empty space at the top when using wefwef as a PWA. Setting the toolbar position to "bottom" in the three-dot setting menu seems to fix it.

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