Mindless2112

Assuming you're on Windows 10, you can add the "Undo" button to the quick access toolbar in the upper left corner of File Explorer. Then you can hover over the button to see what it's going to undo.

Same boat. I'm not mad. This is just the kick in the pants I needed. I already have a Mail-in-a-Box set up; now I have an unignorable reason to migrate everything.

You either find out the candidate knows how GPS works or you find out the candidate's willingness to say "I don't know".

It's valuable to know how someone will handle a question they don't know the answer to -- whether they recognize their own ignorance and whether they are willing to admit to it.

You don't necessarily need a radio at all to tune into WWV/WWVH -- you can listen on a telephone. (Nevermind that most telephones today use radio waves.)

(303) 499-7111 for WWV (Colorado)

(808) 335-4363 for WWVH (Hawaii)

https://www.nist.gov/time-distribution/radio-station-wwv/tel...

getopt_long (and thus most GNU programs) work this way. I think it's probably a misfeature though since it means that adding a new option can introduce ambiguity. Having both short (ex. -x) and long (ex. --exclude) options is a less problematic solution.

"The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." [1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/268/510

Some people with children don't like that because "[their] children will have to go to school in the dark" during the winter. That's what killed legislation to make DST permanent where I live.

Closest to zenith, I presume.

Error returns and checked exceptions are isomorphic. There's nothing you can do with one that you can't do with the other.

But I agree with the underlying point you're making. The error mechanism that a language provides determines how a programmer will think about handling errors. Exceptions make you think about error handling as control flow. Error returns make you think about error handling as unwrapping data.

> what programmers actually* do with checked exceptions*

If the only trade-off considered is 'writing "gobbledy gunk" to handle exceptions poorly' vs 'not handling them at all' then, of course, checked exceptions will look bad.

If the trade-off is whether the compiler will be able to tell me that I'm not handling an exception, well, I want the compiler to help me out. People writing low-consequence code can sprinkle "throws Exception" everywhere.

Without checked exceptions, it becomes my job to ensure that exceptions are handled, and I am nowhere near as thorough as the compiler.

> what you maybe need is a different design*

Could be. Perhaps exceptions on the whole are not a good error mechanism because of the way programmers think about them.

Picking two HN favorites, Rust has Result<T, E> and Zig has error sets, both of which effectively work a lot like checked exceptions but with better syntax (and without the bad rap). try/catch is clunky by comparison.

> Bill Venners: But aren't you breaking their code in that case anyway, even in a language without checked exceptions? If the new version of foo is going to throw a new exception that clients should think about handling, isn't their code broken just by the fact that they didn't expect that exception when they wrote the code?

> Anders Hejlsberg: No, because in a lot of cases, people don't care. They're not going to handle any of these exceptions.

As an argument against checked exceptions, this is nonsense. Hand-waving away making breaking changes to an API because "people don't care" about handling the error conditions. I consider it a sign of the immaturity of the software industry that "proper error handling was too much work, so we didn't" is an acceptable sentiment, let alone an acceptable practice.

In case you're feeling left out in Notepad, you can right-click › "Search with Bing..."

https://hackerweb.app/ does this for items with a lot of comments.

HN should copy this feature. The top thread dominates the discussion all too often.

Or just jam it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China

$220k according to Wolfram Alpha.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24130k+1996+USD+in+20...

"lab leak" does not necessarily imply "originated in a lab". The lab can bring in a virus from the wild to study and then have a leak.

It actually listed under NEGG.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3698743-lianluo-smart-closes-m...

"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...

You can (and I do), but it is explicitly not supported. If it breaks, you get to keep both halves.

There's a good chance of not seeing one being built since it might only take 6 hours -- see [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzpv47o80eg

Also ECMA (C# and JavaScr... er, ECMAScript) which provides standards at no cost vs ANSI (no notable language specs since C and Pascal) which charges a fee.

Nyquist is about sample rate and frequency, not bitrate and frequency.

Edit: Clearly there is generally a relationship between bitrate and quality, but for compressed audio it is far from "cut and dry".

coreboot was created at a government lab.

https://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Who_is_working_on_coreboot.3F

Internet advertising's fundamental value is negative given its environmental (not to mention psychological and sociological) impact. So can we get rid of ads?

...or stores it in .git[1].

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GitExtension

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ -- "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963"

I grew up with a globe, which is less of a lie than this. Granted, it had the USSR and some other defunct countries on it.

Unfortunately, the introduction of the presentation took too much time, so the novel part of the presentation is very hand-wavy.

> "Always/Never" shares the story of the national labs’ history of work for the safety and security of nuclear weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQEB3LJ5psk

Without separation of powers, even the best constitution is worthless.