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testestxon Regular Expressions – Mastering Lookahead and Lookbehind

> I find myself writing simpler ones and tying them together with app code just for sanity's sake.

Or just use PEG, parser combinators, or other more readable parsing abstractions

testestxon Rust-style resource management in OCaml

Affine and linear types and variants (ownership types, uniqueness types) can model predictable release of resources, like a compiler-enforced C++'s RAII.

As another commenter put,

> The paper explains it's because they want deterministic destructors for things like file handles.

testestxon The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)

There's no such thing as human races.

http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?It...

testestxon OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands estimation

> If you do not wish to give them the rights to your modifications, the license forbids you from using it

Unless your use qualifies as fair use

testestxon An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense

Those are racist undertones, even when put in context.

testestxon Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (2016)

> There must be something else in the Universe to observe the single proton for it to have rotation, etc, according to quantum physics.

No, according to the Copenhagen interpretation.

testestxon Many major websites are taking silent anti-ad-blocking measures

I doubt bandwidth is their concern. They already wasted bandwidth by showing the anti-ad block wall.

testestxon The great error: the Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect

There are many people today that want to associate themselves with Trotsky. They are called trotskyists.

testestxon Man jailed for over 5 years and fined $76K for selling VPN in southern China

That's why browsers pin the certificates of certain sites.

testestxon What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

Car sounds are important for small children and animals in the street though.

testestxon A tale of two bubbles, the dot-coms and Bitcoin

A better analogy is with KaZaA. It's still around, but was largely replaced by BitTorrent.

testestxon China Blocks WhatsApp

They could do it, but the current leadership doesn't seem interested.

testestxon Why Happy People Cheat

I just want to give a name to this for whoever want to Google more: novelty seeking.

testestxon Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners

Simply return an HTTP error code if your server doesn't want to spend resources with my request. HTTP 500 perhaps.

testestxon Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet officer who averted nuclear war, has died

Who?

testestxon Interesting commands for the Linux shell

I would find it a little if it were called the GNU or the GNU/Linux default shell

testestxon Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

This is totally impractical, or people would be already doing this when using other browsers as a defense in depth thing.

testestxon Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial

> This has been done for some time with other, less aggressive types of IgE-mediated conditions like dog and cat dander allergies

Can you link to this please? Is this "allergen immunotherapy"[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy_to_cats#Allergy_shot...