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> Exceptions aren’t “cleared,” they are “finally-d.” Because that’s how finally works

This explains exceptions thrown in the try block, but what about exceptions thrown in the catch or finally blocks?

What is the reason for allowing returns in try-catch-finally blocks? Is there a good example of something that would be hard to handle otherwise? I feel like the article and examples here are all good demonstrations of why return statements should be avoided in try-catch-finally blocks.
I think you're conflating kindness and niceness. People are nice to protect the feelings of others, whereas kindness has a more logical component, e.g. being honest when the truth can hurt. You can be kind without being nice. But I believe you're right that people need to take their emotions out of their work.
i do use BSD make for a lot of components, but yes, there are a few where GNU make is not easily replaceable :) there are plans to change this eventually, but nothing has materialized yet
As author of parent: I don't mind Natto. It's a strong almost musty taste to me and the texture is hard to get used to. As a breakfast condiment, I'd much prefer Marmite/Vegemite.

Another fermented fish thing I will not eat again, Fish Candy from Vietnam. Many of the same smells and tastes, but combined with a slightly caramelized sugar coating on a stick.
Good, now if only people understood what UFO stands for and that "unidentified" doesn't imply "alien".

Imagine admitting an unidentified object flying over your soil and your defence system not being able to force it down, what consequences that would have for your military, intelligence agencies and your government in general should the object belong to a foreign military. Unless someone has actually seen an alien fly one of these things, it's safe to assume that the unidentified objects are likely to be part of covert operations of either one of the competing powers or the United States military itself. Either that or the aliens really do perceive the entire world to be United States.
How is this different than "wealth begets wealth"? If money to computation costs money, then equity of AI access is a subset of financial equity.
In other words, you met them on their terms...
Runner is to Marathon as Regatta is to_________________

(You need to be wealthy and coastal to know what a Regatta is)

If you have a number system where each place is a power of two greater than the one next to it, and only the digits 1 and 0, how do you represent the number 1033?

(This was an actual question I remember from a test, which I aced because I already knew binary but most of classmates were dumbfounded by the question)

Any question in English to a kid who grew up in a home that didn't speak English.

There are lots of studies you can Google with more examples.
It's a taboo topic because of people's fears and anxieties that it triggers.

A (cold) rational perspective sees that many (if not most) challenges facing society share a root cause of there being simply too many people.
You actually believed TSMC had more than a trillion dollars of revenue a year?
That is true.

However, the project tagline on Github (but not the docs), which is but one click away, states “A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.”
This looks like custom syntax to me:

x-for="post in posts"

You can argue that this is just an HTML attribute, so it is existing syntax. But it appears to be a way of looping through items in a collection, and as such it is neither HTML nor JavaScript, and therefore it is a custom syntax.

It is not checkable at build time if there is no checker available.
They have to give back the principal, but what about the interest earned from their bank?
So what part of Chimera is "built with LLVM"? Certainly not the Linux kernel itself, that relies too heavily on GCC quirks.
i did intend to use pkg at first, however, after some experimenting apk turned out to be the better option (there are things pkg still doesn't support - such as version constraints, getting it to work on musl is a fair amount of patching, its shlib scanning is semi-broken on Linux, and its repo indexing is insufficient for my purposes)
Have you considered installing Alpine or Debian in a 32-bit virtual machine? Using VirtualBox for example. Both Alpine and Debian provide 32-bit images.

It might be possible to use Docker as well, but I’m not sure how.
Maybe science should have a concept like "negative citations" which could help.

But treating them like criminals seems a step too far.
It's not "collected as part of PRISM" any more than any other thing is.

PRISM is an internal codename for (not bulk! specific!) downloading of data direct from FAANG et al servers under FISA Amendments Act section 702. It's warrantless but is not bulk/mass surveillance. (Also, it technically is a "court order" as there is a secret rubber stamp "FISA court", but it doesn't require a warrant or probable cause, or allow for review/appeal because it's proceedings are classified.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intell...

Theoretically it's not supposed to be used against US citizens but Snowden has claimed that a secret interpretation in a secret court has decided that it can be.

https://www.eff.org/702-spying

They use it a ton, though, as it's the #1 most used source in the US IC. Apple turns over more than 30k user accounts of data under warrantless FISA orders each year, per their own transparency report.

That said, Apple has (in response to my blog post you linked) committed to a) encrypting that OCSP traffic in the next macOS, and b) deleting all of their stored logs.

That wouldn't have stopped the IC from monitoring all of that previous unencrypted traffic and logging it themselves, though, but that has nothing to do with PRISM/FISA. That's bulk collection, which is a different thing than PRISM.
I didn't say the ban had to be indefinite.

We really need to densify a lot, and do so quickly, and I am skeptical the market will get us the quick enough.

Zoning is bad, but don't forget all our good unplanned construction was also pre-auto. Looking at e.g. parts of Texas, I worry that the self-perpetuation dynamics of cars --- which are very strong --- will make a market-based transition away from low density too quite tenuous.

I have 0 problem saying in Core areas single family family homes have no place, and we should ban them outright. SFH zoning is bad because it causes land too be wasted, such that future generations have to pay the costs of redevelopment rather than building right on "unimproved" land. Conversely, "too much density", if there even is such a thing, would waste very little land, meaning that a mandated switch back to SFH suburbia would be cheap, just as it was 50+ years ago.

It's not hubris, it's learning from our mistakes.
Or midrises that are between 4plexes and large condos, are another option
This.

I always go to Bundlephobia before deciding to use an NPM dependency.

https://bundlephobia.com/
The insurance is a joke. I’ve seen requirements from companies that we want to do professional services for that require us to carry $5mil in cyber insurance, but nothing at all mentioned as to requirements on security governance and or policies/procedures.

Nothing will change until government regulates it. Same with auto, airlines and rail. They did not make their products and services safer by choice, they were regulated to do so.
This is funny. They always shuffle the deck chairs when threatened. I've been that new exec guy. It's scary. You know 1% of what everybody else does, and everybody expects miracles. Realistically you can only be effective at that 1% intersection of what you know with what you need to know. So what do you do? Obviously get another new guy to pass the buck to. That way, they can't point out how much you don't know. But ultimately I think everybody knows it's not really about the few people at the top; it's just the only thing they can safely change, because, well, it's not really about the people at the top.
If it were possible, it would produce far better outcomes than what we are currently seeing in SF. No chicken farmer or tanner could afford to build in SF, so that’s not much of a concern. And it would mean a far more diverse housing supply than what we currently have.
OR the author simply portrayed the average modern human as they experienced it. Averaging facial futures of all races is not something one can easily imagine, and I doubt it may even look good. Also, what a weird obsession with skin color as if that’s the only differential marker across human population, you know, not everyone participates in this crazy American self-hating hysteria that forces you to constantly think about colors of the skin and implied gender roles of people.
The consent of the Hong Kong people in 1997 was entirely dependent on the Hong Kong Basic Law and Sino-British treaty being honoured by China.

China his indisputably reneged on both agreements since 1997. Virtually nobody in Hong Kong or associated with Hong Kong would have accepted the 1997 handover if they had known in advance.

This should be borne in mind by anyone evaluating whether to trust China on any important agreement in future.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further" comes to mind.
California has more same regulations on backyard chickens than the rural town I’m now in which requires a $50 license per hen, max three.

Though you can move just outside town if you want chickens I guess.
It’s a little cheap to say eagles are the projectile, as they can continuously update their trajectory until the moment they grab their prey. Humans have to get it right right at the moment the projectile leaves their hand; they can’t correct as the projectile flies.
Most of what we do, including writing code, is not rational. We are emotional beings with heuristics. You make irrational decisions in your code all the time. Hell - the fact that your code doesn't come along with a formal proof is evidence of irrationality; do you think the code you hand-crafted doesn't have bugs?

Kindness is a tool we use to accomplish work with other emotional irrational beings. The NTSB crash investigations wouldn't work without kindness. You can't run around asking insensitive rude questions in an insanely important/sensitive situation and expect to get cooperation! We are all responsible for each other whether we like it or not, and our ability to work together we'll hinges upon good relationships, which among other things, depends on whether we're kind to each other.
Intel has 20 billion in profit a year. AMDs revenue is half that. AMD can't compete with apple and intel's cash flow.
Or with a slightly happier outlook: Blender really turned their UX and UI around within 20 years of initial open source release. So change is possible, might just be really hard.
Also scarcity of contractors, architects, and essentially anyone who works on homes. Even with the project approved costs are going to be high in the Bay Area.
I'm not sure this is anything specific to react? Its just a question of internal vs external state. Internal state gets managed by the component itself, external state gets managed by some ancestor in the tree. One component's internal state is another's external state. No different to objects or any other data modelling exercise imo.

As for rendering a single instance in two places, you'd see weird behaviour trying to do the same with raw DOM element instance (well not so weird as not being able to render in two places).
Why fill to capacity?

Even at small scale, a venue might hold 500 people, but it's probably a nicer experience if there are far less than that many there.
Most of the people graduating in bay area cities are forever priced out of living in their hometowns already. Tech is largely to blame at this point because it fuels the extreme valuations. Without tech, prices would still be high because of lack of new supply for the growing population, but we left that price zone years ago.
That still happens in Germany?!?!? Why don't the polizei scoop them up? Seems like an easy way to boost your arrest #'s.
Gimp has been getting better in the last 10 years. Sure it's a long time, but how many UI/UX specialists are contributing to open source with their skills? At least there's a will for improving things.
What electronics could survive that much sustained acceleration? 20kG stretches my sense of plausibility.
I used the word "dangerous", not "controversial". In the past, you could have a controversial opinion online without risking your livelyhood and safety. No longer.
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The Orb photos seemed to increase.
Indeed and it was stuck in a legal battle with AT&T, while commercial UNIXes and Windows NT, were adopting stuff out of it thanks license.

Had Linux not happened, most likely I would still be deploying Solaris into production.
What's wrong with Plex Media Server? This would seem to fit your description
Extreme examples. In reality you’ll see more service industry like bodega, accounting, cafe, etc
Didn’t you know the demand to live in the Bay Area is literally infinite and they could build 7 billion apartment units and the prices would continue to rise? It’s truly a special place.
FWIW it takes 7-8 seconds to load on my computer as well, on the latest Firefox, with a good CPU.

This has finally convinced me to not waste my time learning React, at least for now.
In the US that would be entrapment and charges wouldn’t stick.

It’s a great way to get rippped off though.
You don't have to live in the city of the project you want to stop. You don't even have to live in the state, in the United States, or even be a natural person. The requirements for standing under CEQA are so loose that anyone can sue on any basis. This was made perfectly clear when the California Supreme Court allowed "Save the Plastic Bag Coalition" to sue Manhattan Beach. Yes, you read that correctly.
This is the stupid tax at work.

They should have pulled their heads out of their butts and respected people's property rights 20, 30yr ago when the problems were becoming obvious. But they didn't so they're gonna have to pay up.

Repealing some zoning is a small step in the right direction but they're gonna continue hemorrhaging money until they start tackling the other ideologically driven inefficiency (of which the person you are replying to has named a few types) before they really start seeing improvement.
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But if the store in question would accept cash, then it could at least server some of its customers. I expect it would not only be 15% of the customers. I would add those customers who are, you know, a little capable of adapting to circumstances and would actually go to their ATM to pick up some cash if they don't have any in their wallet. If not, I guess they don't need those groceries so urgently.
Sorry, what's wrong with the US economy, exactly? We had a devastating pandemic over the last 16 months from which we're recovering rapidly (c.f. yesterday's really quite good jobs report), inflation seems to be a bit high though still historically low, credit markets are loose, investment rates remain extremely high historically, unemployment remains under control, wages seem finally to be moving upward after decades of stagnation...

I mean... where's the bad news here?
"These days?" One wonders where Feynman got his supply. Rando street dealer, or a friend in the organic chemistry lab?
Removing the paywall seems unfair. If a site has a paywall I'd like to know before I click on the link - that way I can chose if I want to respect their paywall (and potentially pay) or avoid the content completely.

I am assuming the paywalled sites are using analytics to justify the paywalls to their executives and investors.... visits blocked by the paywall counted as a future revenue source, and visits that circumvent the paywall counted as a 'reader'.
Here's the issue I have with that. We have some of the greatest minds on earth working for institutions like NASA,etc. Then we have private industry like SpaceX, etc pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible with Space flight and Rockets. You can even go further and include Russia and China in this equation and what they have learned throughout the decades. And yet there seems to exist some very special "Organization" that can develop and implement things that we can't even explain, the disparity is crazy to even consider. It's like developing a F18 Fighter during the time of Ox carts. Doesn't make sense to me.
> this was concealed to hide either spectacular incompetence

I won't even touch the rest, but this one still strikes me as too early to call, given the cultural importance of saving face. I'll buy that there was much less of it than people allow their imaginations to run away with it, but if you don't think there was some very long tense, sweating bullets meetings on how to best go about sculpting the narrative and shaping the story in terms of national interest goes, or covering of ass in the early days, then I don't think you've been paying attention to the diplomatic realities surrounding China at all.
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What's a smarket?
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They say late Sunday night, but no timezone. :(
Police in Northern Europe typically spend their time going after large dealers, producers, etc. Arresting low-level dealers happens too of course, but believe it or not, police over here don't consider the # of arrests to be their primary KPI.
Why is there no information on the README about what functionality does this framework offer, or why I might be interested in using it? Isn't this supposed to be the first piece of information a potential user should be interested in before getting into the how?
FORTRAN does the same actually
All of them don't wash away JavaScript semantics, just because the source language is something else.
San Francisco recorded a 753 percent rise in car burglaries compared to May 2020
F# lacks an imperative "return" at all - a function returns precisely the value of the expression that is its body - which makes it a lot easier to think about this kind of thing, at the cost of sometimes having to be explicit about assigning a value to the result of a `try/with`.
That's one read. The other is that UFOs existed in a blind spot, as it would require they (organizationally) admit their lack of ability to understand or respond to these phenomena.

Given how ossified the upper echelons of the military typically are, this is not an unlikely scenario.

Which is why the recent moves to (1) mandate reporting, (2) centralize investigation in a single, funded, and persistent group with a clear mission, (3) that's authorized with access and has lines of communication to actually clear incidents as classified-known or not... is encouraging.
I’d guess the parent is referring to airline flight recorders, aka the “black box”.
This is precisely what the dcma is for
Oh, it's also worth mentioning that even if you don't use the App Store, iCloud, or an Apple ID, you cannot opt out or disable these push connections. You have to filter them at the network level if you don't want a mac, iPhone, or iPad to phone home.
Developers as a whole, sure.

The handful of developers who are working in the current environment? No.

You see this with every regulated industry. The people who pissed away a ton of time and money to get into the club don't want the club to fall apart.
This seems to be a clear case of fraud by whoever had her declared dead. As well as earlier incompetence by whoever handled the transfer of Mme H's employment records.

Further, Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law."

She needs a better lawyer....
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You seem to be implying that the media has a pattern of using these stories as a smokescreen to distract from domestic economic issues, yet they've never been discussed in the media prominently enough to serve that purpose. No one is not talking about the economy because of this, the media hasn't stopped covering the economy to keep talking about this.

There is almost always something "wrong" about the US economy or some political or military crisis at large, so any story related to UFOs that crops up will likely coincide with some greater issue related to the economy or politics or what have you, and appear to be a distraction from it.

I also don't know what story from 20 years or so ago you're talking about, the details are so vague. But the media doesn't "claim" things, it reports things other people claim. Two incidents don't make a pattern, and correlation isn't connection.

>Are they planning to use drones to kill their own citizens and then blame it on aliens? WTF? I can't figure it out.

It's very simple - the US government was directed to release a report about UFOs, the internet (mostly thedrive) turned that into a viral story involving tic-tacs and secret patents and other unrelated nonsense, and the media is covering it because it's newsworthy. There isn't some darker, nefarious secret purpose behind all of it.
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> What is the reason for allowing returns in try-catch-finally blocks?

I think it just makes for a simpler language spec, and in this case, return is treated like any other statement; then again, there's a note here specifically about try-catch-finally blocks[1] so maybe it doesn't make for a simpler language spec :)

[1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/ecmascript-language-statem...
That’s true, but because Moore’s Law has slowed, you’ll be able to amortize that $30 billion over a longer time.
A shrug can mean "I don't know", but it's primary meaning is indifference.

Just prior to "The report amounts to a giant shrug" the article said, "Few in the Pentagon seem worried about extraterrestrial invaders." It is just as likely, if not more so, that the writer meant indifference and not "we don't know". We'll never know, however, since the word isn't clear from the context.
A lot of people (including me), do self-host emails.

Nowadays, with software like Mail-In-A-Box, it’s as easy as one click install and few DNS settings.

Although, I do concede in some rare occasions, not everything goes well.
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How you explain events which are seen in multiple sensors same time?
>Good, now if only people understood what UFO stands for and that "unidentified" doesn't imply "alien".

It is my perception that most people know that UFO doesn't mean alien but willfully suspend disbelief, similar to when watching a fictional movie, in regards to them because they enjoy the mystery of the whole deal.

>Either that or the aliens really do perceive the entire world to be United States.

There have been UFOs over the years all over the world. South American countries have also had a lot of reports. The United States has a lot of reports but after filtering the outlandish stories its probably similar to other countries.
Given that Apple isn't going to start selling M1 on a box, they have little to worry about actually.