In terms of deliberate attacks on a DC, an adversary that can bomb a blast resistant bunker can easily bomb the data lines going in and out, to say nothing of external power supplies. I guess you can at least repair the lines after the attack, but it's pretty easy to knock it offline if that's your goal. I just don't see the value in making a DC blast resistant compared to the huge costs.
Different field, but it drives me crazy that people talk about Chinese philosophy and insist on using Mandarin pinyin for it. Mandarin is language that evolved from Classical Chinese thousands of years later! There are other, equally valid contemporary derived pronunciations like Cantonese or even Japanese and Korean. The reason to use Mandarin is because it is the most widely spoken language derived from Classical Chinese, but it's 100% not how Confucius or any of them spoke!
It's just the standard. So it self ratifies. It is quite possibly one of the worst options though given how many important language features are lost in it.
Cantonese used to be the preferred, and probably is to some, but even that is far from ideal and was chosen because while it preserves more important distinctions, it also happens to be/have been a very prominent Chinese language, with a moderate level of standardisation. It wasn't chosen purely on its linguistuc merits over others.
I can't remember who it was but there's someone out there who uses a fusion of Cantonese and Hokkien, where they pronounce the initial from one and then the coda from the other or something, though I can't remember which way around they did it.
They are pretty well founded. You can read old rhyme dictionaries and see how the words evolved eg when borrowed by Japan at one time and then when borrowed again a couple of hundred years later. We can’t ever know 100% but it’s not idle speculation either.
For starters, a Chinese language which preserves final stops (-p, -t, -k) would be a better choice (e.g. Cantonese). These disappear completely in Mandarin, leaving rhymes (the vowel + final consonant) underspecified or ambiguous in many cases.
That's like complaining at names like Jesus, Paul, Moses, or Peter (with their English pronunciation) because that's not how those biblical figures pronounced their own names.
After the present Pope had given his inaugural speech in several languages except for English, apparently someone (on Fox News?) complained, "what? no English? It was good enough for Jesus why doesn't he speak English!?"
The horrible part of this story is that it's so believable.
The main problem with frames is that you need to use JS to get it to be responsively sized. If they would fix that, frames would be perfect. They actually do what people just think Web Components do. I.E. they are actually isolated from the styles of the host page and have an actual security boundary preventing malicious execution.
Python has None, which frequently caused me problems in production, so that's not different, except Go can at least tell between a string and nullable string pointer.
Reversing a string is not a basic operation. A) why would you ever need to do it in the real world? B) reversing Unicode is non-trivial due to composing characters. There are packages available for Go that implement grapheme segmentation. If you need it, you can import one.
Integer formatting requires string reversing if you don't precompute the digits or work backward in a second buffer. It becomes necessary when standard formatting routines are too heavyweight for resource constrained systems.
Yeah, that's a really bad example... many environments now don't have a "string reversal" anymore, and many of the ones that do are the old & busted "string reverse" that doesn't work with Unicode, so they aren't really "string reverse" but just a legacy function that can't be removed anymore that is now technically grotesquely mislabeled. A modern-day string reverse is barely even defineable; technically, you have to pin it to a specific version of the Unicode standard to be well-defined because the next standard is likely to add characters that your string reverse would need to know about to work properly, but can't since they don't exist yet.
In some sense the best answer to "write me a string reversal function" in an interview is to say that no such function even exists anymore; I can write you a byte reversal function if you like, or we can sit down and hammer out a definition of some function I can write for you but it won't necessarily be a "string reverse". Best you can do nowadays is iterate on "graphemes as defined in this specific Unicode standard" and reverse those, but IIRC even that has some pathological edge cases, some of which are not really resolvable. Human languages as a whole are quite quirky.
The Dole who took over Hawaii (Sanford Dole) was cousin to the pineapple company guy (James Dole). So, not the same guy, but also not unrelated either.
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