- microtherionThey are being sued by the SFC, which has been deputized by the actual copyright holders to act on their behalf: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#linux
- a) There are too damn many of them.
b) They have a complete lack of respect for robots.txt
I'm starting to think that aggressive scrapers are part of an ongoing business tactic against the decentralized web. Gmail makes self hosted mail servers jump through arduous and poorly documented hoops, and now self hosted services are being DDOSed by hordes of scrapers…
- Yes, accessible in the sense of being readable without extensive prior knowledge. If I recall correctly, I read the initial edition while still in high school.
- I'm not sure what Builder would have to do with default parameters and named arguments.
Builder is extremely useful to pair with a parser, e.g. SAX. The parser parses the input, and the builder then decides what to do with it.
- > A factory is a factory.
Yes, but what about factory factories? https://factoryfactoryfactory.net
- It could make some sense to use strchr, because in idiomatic UNIX tools, single character command line options can be clustered. But that also means that subsequent code should not be tested for a specific position.
And if you ever find yourself actually doing command line parsing, use getopt(). It handles all the corner cases reliably, and consistent with other tools.
- That 80/82 bit format turned out to be problematic, as it was only used internally, and stored as 64 bits in memory. This meant that the same calculation could give different results based on whether an intermediate value had spilled to memory or not.
- Wirth also wrote an extremely accessible book on Compiler Construction, using exactly the hand written recursive descent parsing approach discussed by OP.
The initial edition was published in 1976, in German, but the latest version is available online:
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/Compil...
There are also parser generators like ANTLR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANTLR) which take an input not unlike yacc, but generate a LL parser using explicit code, rather than the table driven LALR parsing of yacc.
- It also can initiate phone calls and play music.
And those are really the core use cases for AirPods, HomePods, and CarPlay, the contexts where a hands-free eyes-free interface is most useful.
- Theoretically, yes, but in practice almost everybody would just run their Ubuntu Fridge in a stock configuration.
- cf The Harvard Law: "Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
- Unfortunately for the English majors, the poetry described seems to be old fashioned formal poetry, not contemporary free form poetry, which probably is too close to prose to be effective.
It sort of makes sense that villains would employ villanelles.
- Try adding a French or Spanish accent for extra effectiveness.
- Theoretically, there's a mechanism in Unicode allowing you to aim left and right: https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Direction
But I don't think it's implemented widely, if anywhere.
- SVG is XML based.
- It's PowerPC assembler.
I assume GP's point was that assembly language literacy was a pointless skill nowadays. I found it quite useful, precisely because it's no longer an ubiquitous skill, so you can shine with your expertise in some situations.
- Was going to mention that point: http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/geothermal-energy-ear...
The worst earthquake that was induced that way was 3.5, but given that one of the quakes happened in an area that had a catastrophic earthquake in the Middle Ages, some caution might be warranted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1356_Basel_earthquake
- I'm not super comfortable with my body, but I occasionally frequent saunas, and in my experience, there is very little "staring" going on in the mainstream ones (obviously, there are saunas intended for orgies, pickups, etc, but that's a very different culture). Typically, just enough eye contact is made to avoid bumping into each other on the way in or out.
Anthropologically, I've heard that cultural acceptance of staring at people is inversely correlated with amount of clothing worn, i.e. in cultures where people habitually live unclothed, it's considered rude to look at others' bodies.
Of course, I'm old and fat, so I have good reasons for not fearing people being sexually attracted to me…
- In many European countries, it's not at all controversial to have nude mixed-gender saunas (and concerns about homosexuals recede once it's possible to be ogled heterosexually in such spaces).
- Yes, but Apple tends to lock in their supply with long term contracts and prepayments, so they often are protected from supply shocks.