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If it’s like Lisp, then ? is just part of the symbol and doesn’t have any special syntatic meaning. In different Lisps it’s also convention to end predicate names with a ? or with P (p for predicate)

I think this is a sort of anti-license, so I think the sort of people who use it reject copyright law.

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Something I’ve been for a while now is why this gender disparity is so strong in this specific area of engineering compared to all other engineering areas. People seem to claim it’s because of the “geek” stereotype, but that seems more like a symptom than a cause and I fail to see how it enforces this disparity, considering there’s nothing preventing a woman from being a geek too.

I’m not a Nix user, but doesn’t Nix make both pip and venv obsolete in a way? Nix is a package manager (which could be used to package anything including Python packages/modules) and also allows you to create environments that include only certain packages of certain versions.

I think they they reduced the content width in order to improve readability and it is possible to press a button to expand the content to use the full width of the available space. I just am a bit annoyed that the languages are hidden behind in a popup menu now, because a certain browser I have to use is unable to open that menu (but that’s more of the browser’s fault for not being fully conformant with the web standards (which to be honest I don’t see having the degree of simplicity/complexity that allows someone to easily write a web engine that’s fully conformant))

I’m sorry, if I was being annoying.

Anti Commercial AI thingy

I don’t think a license will prevent language models from using your post. If anything, you are allowing people to use your post for more stuff it couldn’t otherwise be used, since a license is you giving someone permission to use your work in a certain way, but if you don’t give a license, copyright law assumes that you haven’t given permission.

When using git and are working on a feature, and suddenly want to work on something else, you can use git stash so git remembers your changes and is able to restore them when you are done. There is also git add -p this allows you to stage only certain lines of a file, this allows you to keep commits to a single feature if you already did another change that you didn’t commit (this is kind of error prone, since you have to make sure that the commit includes exactly the things that you want it to include, so this solution should be avoided). But the easiest way is when you get the feeling that you have completed a certain task towards your goal and that you can move on to another task, to commit. But if you fail you can also change the history in git, so if you haven’t pushed yet, you can move the commits around or, if you really need to, edit past commits and break them into multiple.

Thanks!

I don’t live in the US, but also I use my own government’s weather data.

ocean depth map data

Where can I download it and under what conditions can I use it?

For anyone who was confused as I was about hearing of a new release of Netscape, this article is from 2000.

On another note, what other licenses do you lemmings know that impose more restrictions to prevent your software from being used for evil?

Weirdly OSI doesn’t classify the SSPL as an open-source license because it doesn’t guarantee “the right to make use of the program for any field of endeavor”, calling it a fauxpen license. I don’t think the FSF has commented on the license, though I would be curious what they say about it.

I imagine they consider it to not give the right to make use of the program for any field of endeavor, because providing the source of the entire stack needed to run the service you provide makes it impossible for users to host their service on stuff like AWS, since it is proprietary.

I don’t think so, since memory safe languages are supposed to prevent you from doing that, so it would be the language implementation’s fault.

A great way to learn would also be to write your own c programs and then disassemble or use the -S compiler flag to see the result of the compilation and play around with different optimizations levels (-O)

With all the takedowns (open source or otherwise) occurring lately

Am I out of the loop? Were there any big controversial takedowns recently?

I wrote this after I learned about attempts to use Scheme as the lingua franca of Web in the early 90s. Someone told me S-Expressions are bascilly XML and well, he’s right.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/8713988

Was it this exchange? :D

I appreciate your answer, but I mentioned systems programming, because I was more interested in languages that do not rely on a garbage collector.