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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
Correction: That some subset of the people you mostly meet online tries to get rid off. You'd be surprised how many don't even realize it's artificial, and/or welcome it. The average Google user is most certainly not sim
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
> In ye olden times, the C standard was considered guidelines rather than a ruleset, undefined behavior was closer to implementation-defined behavior than dark magic, and optimizers were stupid enough to make that distinction irrelevant
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by Blikkentrekker 2y ago
All my friends say “octopodes”. Some people on the internet keep saying that that's wrong; I find that very strange. > because we don't pluralize any other word that way. Certainly we do “platypodes”, “matrices”, “irides”, “cl
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
No, the problem is very easy, referring by page number is simply ridiculous. As well as all those “(<Family Name>, <year>)” citations, Besides, in HTML one can directly link to the relevant part.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Quite so. The font annoys me. This is one of the reasons I hate PDF and why I believe these things should be controlled by the person reading it, not the publisher. I do not much care what font the auctor finds pleasant to read, but what I
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Or normal keyboards? Many people can type blind. Some learned to do so while born blind, others became blind after they had already learned this skill. I would assume that the majority of persons on HN are not looking at their keyboard as t
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
I made these arguments two decades ago when I was still in university that PDF is a horrible format because it's purely præsentational, especially for people with disabilities whose software relies on semantic information. LaTeX last t
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
So this is another bug introduced by Debian itself by patching things? I remember that there was a fairly severe one which was caused by patching OpenSSL I think? But I remember the change they made being fairly weird and no one understood
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
In that case how is it a slingshot and a very eccentric orbit?
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
I don't understand this article at all. Is it some kind of discovery that gas that exists somewhere can be attracted to a supermassive black hole, or a body with mass of any type? I don't see the relevance to that the gas was once
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Do people even know where to start with this? Is any research even trying to find a way to replicate these abilities in a mammal?
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Because the specification of the POSIX shell says that `export` changes the current environment of the running process, not just of any newly started processes. This is useful to recognize various processes I suppose. I have written code th
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
There has been research going on about the difference in reptilian and amphibian regeneration opposed to mammals for many decades now and news outlines always say that this could one day lead to something replicated in mammals. But have any
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
No, in many cases one needs to set them interactively. Consider for instance something as simple a implementing a shell. Such a program needs to be able to set the environment based on user interaction and this change needs to show up in &#
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
The article implies the third set disappears in adulthood.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
The article says that the initial plan is children who were born with missing teeth, and then for lost teeth in adults. The way it's explained suggests these “tooth buds” they use disappear in adulthood however, so I'm not sure ho
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
And many things that exceed existing standards objectively somehow lost out to exceeding standards or inferior standards coming later. The success of software in particular is about being at the right place at the right time as well as inte
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
I'm fairly certain a lot of very influential software came from the hands of Bill Gates as well such as the FAT filesystem which is still used, the original MSDOS and BASIC Interpreter which made a huge impact. Of course, that's a
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
> And it's amazing that two of the biggest contributions to the world of software came from the same person. That's not that amazing at all, because the fame and weight of being the creator of the former led to the adoption o
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Unhealthy in what way? Given that studies repeatedly report that childless persons report a greater life satisfaction? Why is it bad if it goes against “evolutionary psychology”? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle&#x2F
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/childfree-study-confirmed... Apparently it's very normal. On top of that “abnormal” does not mean “unhealthy”, but then again, that's something psychologists very often
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
I would absolutely not as an untrained person try to firefight my own house rather than rely on trained professionals for that, no.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Why would people make up excuses? They simply don't want them. My “excuse” for not having children is the same “excuse” I have for that I'm not a firefighter: I have no interest in it.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Why would stars hit each other during galactic collisions when stars inside of a single galaxy already almost never hit each other? Apparently reading it here of all the stars in the galaxy, a stellar collision only happens once every 10 00
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Okay, but what exactly is 100 times faster when measured? Simply the sorting algorithm? If it not be a bottleneck to something then it doesn't matter much. I assume the entire performance of FreeBSD hasn't improved a hundredfold b
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
> and created monotheist religions to substitute animist religions I often see this interpretation that monotheism is somehow more “advanced” than polytheism, even Age of Empires suggested so but why exactly? Because Christianity and
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
It should be noted that “神” can probably better be translated as “spirit” in many contexts, and denotes a wide variety of supernatural beings, which actually makes “spirited away” an interesting choice.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Titles are very frequently changed, this is because titles are supposed to sound catchy and what sounds catchy in one language often does not in another. Spirited Away in Japanese was also literally more so “Sen and Tihiro's mysterio
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
Which is a very obscure language. Type erasure at runtime simply isn't really possible with full union typing and looking at it as a consequence Ceylon has to box everything into a structure which contains a type tag which is obviously
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
The problem with union types for exceptions is that it becomes impossible to return an error as the correct case, or at least there is no way to discriminate any more. Functions that deal with errors also need to be able to have exceptional

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