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Molok is the name used in the Bible for a Canaanite deity that the Israelites were forbidden to "suffer their seed to pass through the fire to". Details are scarce, but this is usually taken to refer to human sacrifice. It later became syncretized with reports of child sacrifice at Carthage, where the popular imagery associated with Molok (the idol with outstretched hands, the drums) is taken from.

> Another pathology is that there are companies who ship LibreOffice, often claiming support, but then file all their tickets up-stream and hope they are fixed for free.

Lmao... but thinking again, given the average user's bug-filing abilities, a professional bug-filer might actually be useful.

But once you've accepted unchecked exceptions (and paid the cost of the having them), it just doesn't make sense to only use them only for bugs. For example, it is better to

  try:
    x = json['foo']['bar'][i]
  catch OOB:
    handle error

than to

  if not (json is a dict and
          'foo' in json and
          json['foo'] is a dict and
          ...):
    handle error
  x = json['foo']['bar'][i]

even though in the former, unchecked exceptions are used for non-bugs.

How do you propose handling an OOB index in an array?

It might be interesting to compare them if you'd care to share.

Here is a typical example (from Genesis Rabbah)

> And Cain rose up against his brother Abel. [...] With what did he kill him? R. Simeon said: He killed him with a staff: And a young man for my bruising (Gen 4:23) implies a weapon which inflicts a bruise. The Rabbis said: He killed him with a stone: For I have slain a man for wounding me (ibid) indicates a weapon which inflicts wounds. R. 'Azariah and R. Jonathan in R. Isaac's name said: Cain had closely observed where his father slew the bullock [which he sacrificed, as it is written], And it shall please the Lord better than a bullock (Ps 69:31), and there he killed him: by the throat and its organs.

From a Christian perspective, a more interesting example might be the Gospel's atomization/recontextualizations of text as Messianic prophecy ("out of Egypt I have called my son", "behold, a virgin shall be with child").

> That hermeneutic - texts are collections of independent logical propositions - was essentially unknown in the ancient world

On the contrary, the atomization and recombination of the text into new meanings is highly characteristic of Midrash. Of course, this isn't the same as the "prooftext" hermeneutic I think you're criticizing.

Firefox/Linux: the cursor constantly tracks to the left. You have to push the mouse to the right to keep it still.

Works in Chromium though.

No, where does it go? Are the big editors unsuccessful?

Ugly maybe, but they're do kinda combine the advantages of both. They have the portability and reproducibility advantages of static linking, while still letting you take them apart and change the dependencies like with dynamic linking if you really want to.

What do you mean by "source-based distribution"?

It can also cut the other way though. Bugs can be introduced, compatibility can be broken, users can not find the library in their package manager, or they may find too new of a version. The danger of this is smaller for popular libraries, but goes up as you move to the long tail.

>Do your installed programs share dynamic libraries?

>Findings: not really

>Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables.

Findings: Yes, lots, but mostly the most common ones. Dynamically linking against something in the long tail is pretty pointless though.

Historically imperative languages did have tagged unions (Algol, Pascal, Ada, Modula). Their disappearance is mostly because of OOP's takeover I think. It was thought that a tagged union should be replaced by a base class with one derived class per variant.

What they lacked was usually a nice way to operate on tagged unions, ie. pattern matching.

You can also put a Readme in any folder and it will show up the same way. You usually wouldn't want those up top while browsing the files though. So it's also about consistency.