Beltalowda

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by Beltalowda 4y ago
This got me thinking: what exactly defines a forgery here? Ancient Jewish texts were almost certainly based on previous oral tradition and underwent all sorts of changes over the years before they came to be written down as the texts we kno
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Welp, it seems I misremembered how it all fitted together. It was a stressful time to be a non-MS user back then, so I blame Post-Microsoft-Stress-Disorder.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It's not like POSIX was universally adopted the day it was released; that took a long time. And not all systems were Unix/POSIX in the first place (e.g. Windows, VMS, the IBM s/3.., and on the consumer side Amiga, Mac OS, BeO
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
The question is whether an omnidominant platform like Microsoft's would have arisen in the first place. While the current Android/Apple situation isn't ideal, it's certainly better than only one of the two. I don&#x2
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> which Java engine you wanted your browser to use and Microsoft Java (or whatever it was called) It was called JScript. It was released after JavaScript. I am a peaceful man; never been in a fight with anybody, and oppose the death pe
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There's a tendency to overestimate things, but not so sure about the underestimate part. Unless I missed something I don't think there are many people running NoSQL databases on Itanium processors with GNU Hurd powering their XSLT
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> On the client side it was Netscape that broke MS' monopoly with Internet Explorer What? Microsoft completely obliterated Netscape, which was dominant before IE. In the early 2000s IE had like ~95% market share. Later Mozilla Firef
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Example from the same site: https://www.techemails.com/p/sergey-brin-irate-call-from-ste... Personally, I'd struggle to not capitalize things. It's just automatic. I do believe there was a bit of a fashion
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Because compiling on windows and deploying on linux/unix/etc, that was posssible 20 years before java in c/c++. "20 years before Java"? That's 1975 we're talking about. Was it possible to build a prog
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Sun's business model was selling hardware: beefy workstations that you do Serious Computing™ with, unlike those wimpy home computers like PCs.[1] Later on, when x86 actually became decent and competitive they shifted to server hardwa
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I remember explaining why I used FreeBSD instead of Linux back in the day, and just after I said "it's a bit more stable than Linux" the system completely froze. Ouch, embarrassing. Needless to say, no one was especially conv
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> are we still in 1990s? I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of this was written in the 90s or early 00s originally, and then "minimally maintained" only when required.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I think they're referring to the length of the articles, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream https://de.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> A common advice for documentation is "why not how", I'm not sure you can do "why" by looking at the "how". The "why" is important for inline comments, but for function and method comments I
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Unfortunately some countries don't allow you to change your name :-/ But in the US, yeah, it's fairly easy.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> FWIW, when denying the request to wootric, the docker daemon crashes. A yes, this about fits the standard of engineering I've come to expect from Docker. Anyway, I couldn't find any references too "woocentric" anywh
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Is the page http://www.deafblind.com/dbequipm.html up-to-date? I hope not. Homepage says "Last updated on the 17th September 2002", which seems roughly accurate considering the many dead links and such.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
At the time "dumb" mostly meant "not being able to speak" (mute); so she's saying "I can talk" and not "I'm not an idiot". Kind of an interesting example how language changes.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
In practice Wikipedia is often an effortocracy, not the meritocracy it wants to be.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There's a lot of religious things written down that many people don't really follow in practice. Are there various religious views that don't view women as I would like to? Sure. But it's quite a leap to "literally
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
These are like a few thousands people, maybe in the tens of thousands at the most . There are about 1 billion men on the internet, give or take. The internet is very good at amplifying a bunch of very motivated nutjobs. I can, if I wanted
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There have been plenty of nutjob feminists out there; "feminism" is very broad and there is a wide range of variety in viewpoints. Many of these viewpoints are reasonable. Others ... not so much. A few years ago I tried to bring u
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> Could they have at least minimised the blast radius? For example, make all of the text/Unicode changes for Python 3 and thats it. Most of the other changes were kind of trivial though. print → print(), some stdlib name changes: th
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
In the 3.9 release notes it says "Aliases to Abstract Base Classes in the collections module, like collections.Mapping alias to collections.abc.Mapping, are kept for one last release for backward compatibility. They will be removed fr
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It looks like the MoinMoin people decided to rewrite a lot of stuff for Moin 2 (which does support Python 3), but that hasn't been finished yet and has been in the works since about 2010. That's my impression from https:/&#x
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
DNS-the-protocol still doesn't support non-ASCII input, but DNS-as-people-use-it does. I expanded on that in another comment I just posted, so I won't repeat it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34230218
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
No doubt some things broke "needlessly", or that things couldn't have been done better, but I don't see how it could have been avoided since there is no way to distinguish between "I know that this string will alway
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Strings are still strings in Python 3; if you do 'foo' == EnumValue then that will work fine in Python 2 and 3. If 'foo' is from an unknown source: yeah, you might get a bytes type in Python 3 and an error, but that&#x27
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I don't care what the law says; the law says nothing about morality. If someone puts a piece of software on the internet and asks a reasonable price in return then you should just pay, and bypassing that is "piracy" and immor
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There's a difference between "I'm ok with this" (which is what the comment further upthread said) and "lol, what an idiot". The first indicates approval of the crime, the second does not. Plus, it was purely ba

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