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I don't know, variable decelerations seem to me to be funny but useful.

I mean constant constants, constant variables, and variable variables seem useful.

I'm not sure how would variable constants be useful.

Also, anybody knows the difference between constant constant and immutable data (constant contact constant)?


In the normal case, Alice can write 'const const true = false' and Bob, on a second machine, can write 'const const true = 7', and there will not be an error. But if Alice writes 'const const const true = false', than Bob can't reassign or mutate 'true' without throwing an error. It's for truly global constants


Come to think of it, package registries are sort of “superglobal” in many languages. It’s not entirely far-fetched to imagine a language in which variables themselves can be super-global. Heck, MUMPS global variables are immediately persisted to disk and visible to all other processes - and that’s a real language used in real systems!


It's a rather straightforward dig at C\C++ which work exactly like this with `const` variables.


That's interesting.

Would you share the details of the hardware setup (MiniPC, USB remote control) and screenshots of your configured KDE/Plasma desktop?


... and aspect ratios. Country flags are not (almost) squared as in the OP link.


Just type > before pasting the quoted text. But you have type some text in a separate line as a place holder of your own response before you paste your quote or else your response will be part of the quote as you just said.


Yes, that's exactly the issue!

In Slack I can type > to quote something, and a line break will continue the quote. However, pressing backspace returns to normal text

In Teams you're stuck on quote-mode

Notice that in Slack I don't need to use quotes for replies, as the reply-to-message works

Retraction as I write this after some intensive googling: apparently pushing shift+Enter twice in teama breaks you out of quote mode. So at least there's that.


I'm not even American, but CNN coverage of the 1990-91 Gulf War really put them on the radar. The whole Middle East watched CNN Live coverage.


Just in the past week someone posted what appears to be control room video from CNN in 1991 (and others): https://youtu.be/5CxWCWhs-uc - start of the US air war, https://youtu.be/RpClxMvpEmM - second hour.


Anecdotally, (and I am American) it was also somewhere between the Gulf War and the OJ Simpson trial that cable changed from some exotic thing that rich people paid for to something a lot of your friends had.


Dude had a cameo in the first Ghostbusters. Larry King was already a known entity. There's a reason CNN picked him up.

Never mind, I got mixed up, you're talking about just CNN.


He also went with Snoop to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles and did not appear to enjoy the food.


I remember there was this CNN guy in Bagdad that reported the air attacks live from there. That definitely put them on the map.



Bernard Shaw and a couple of other reporters from what I remember. I distinctly recall tuning in a few minutes after things started and listening to them hide in the hotel room as Iraqi security started to clear the hotel that all of the reporters were staying in at the time.


Just remembered: Peter Arnett. He was the only one who had a phone line out from Iraq during the first attacks.


Wolf Blitzer, IIRC, did that.


Wolf Blitzer was the CNN reporter at the Pentagon that day. He appears in the first video linked above.


2001 was the first time I got online; first site visited was also cnn.com on a 56k modem.


Are you thinking F#?

I believe that other than being ML-like language and being developed jointly by Microsoft Research and Inria, F* has nothing to do with F# and .NET.


"Programs written in F* can be translated to OCaml, F#, and C for execution. ... The latest version of F* is written entirely in a common subset of F* and F#, and bootstraps in both OCaml and F#."[1]

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F*_(programming_language)


Thanks, I stand corrected.


No I was just hoping it was connected somehow. I only found a single mention of .NET:

> F* provides a facility to specify interfaces to external modules that are implemented elsewhere. For example, operations that perform file input/output are implemented by the operating system and made available to F* programs via the underlying framework, e.g., .NET or OCaml.


... and C. But I can see why you dropped Part C. Part A and B were excellent but C not that much.

Dan Grossman is an excellent educator. You'll probably learn more programming [languages] concepts than any other beginner's course.


C is the most important part to me, lol.


Just be careful when setting up Algo VPN.

Its secure defaults will probably block all other services you're running on your server and render them inaccessible.

You might even end up not being able to ssh to your server if you choose not to let Algo set up ssh configurations (because you have your own).

I would say install Algo on a dedicated droplet or backup your VPS before setting it up.


This is the intended behavior/deployment model of Algo (as a dedicated VPN server on a dedicated VM).

If you are running other co-resident services and need more lenient firewall rules / system configuration, you should consider another option.


> I would say install Algo on a dedicated droplet or backup your VPS before setting it up.

droplet == host?


VPS/VM offered by Digital Ocean


I would say IEnumerable<T> interface.


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