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by Delk 3y ago
That would probably be the case for Indo-European languages, but it's way too easy to find counterexamples from outside of those languages. In Japanese it's "iie" (いいえ), in Finnish it's "ei", and the latte
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by Delk 3y ago
Robot intuitively sounds like it could be a good candidate. I don't think "computer" is quite that universal, though. AFAIK it's something else at least in French ("ordinateur"), Swedish ("dator"), No
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by Delk 3y ago
#2 wouldn't work internationally. Of course the US can internally have whatever kind of legislation they want, including whatever requirements for having one's works covered by copyright. But non-US authors or companies (or govern
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by Delk 3y ago
To be fair, most of the stuff in "falsehoods programmers believe about $concept" lists are really falsehoods almost everyone believes. Software is just one of the places where the limits of those implicit beliefs might actually be
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by Delk 3y ago
IMO agile didn't turn out to be a fad. Rather it became so normalized (in some form, not necessarily a pure one) that it's just not a hot topic any more.
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by Delk 3y ago
> I felt as if they went for massive breadth instead of focusing on key concepts in depth. To be fair, a bachelor's degree in CS is almost unavoidably going to do that to some degree. There's enough of a breadth of subject matt
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by Delk 3y ago
> The idea of judging an empty collection as having all items being any value is flawed, since there are no items to measure. It is on par with 1 / 0. Not really. Those Python functions follow definitions from set theory and predica
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by Delk 3y ago
To me, bubble sort is intuitive, as far as sorting algorithms or their detailed implementations go. I absolutely wouldn't sort that way if I were to sort something as a human, but in that case I wouldn't be even trying to figure o
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by Delk 3y ago
If you have e.g. outdoors activities in sparsely populated areas as a hobby, having a car gives you a lot more freedom than being dependent on public transport. Buses may work if you're only going to locations that are popular enough b
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by Delk 3y ago
I feel somewhat conflicted about this. I'm from Finland, and while we aren't technically Scandinavian and might be something of an outlier among Northern Europeans in general, the stereotype is that we're not fond of small ta
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by Delk 3y ago
I agree apt or dpkg ending up in a bad state would probably mean bricking for lots of people. It's something I remember also having to do in some cases after dist-upgrades. I remember having occasionally dealt with having to manually r
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by Delk 3y ago
What really sounds like something with the setup is not right to me is that Beached seems to say they have to cross their fingers every time they run just a plain update, not a release upgrade. I remember often having to fix something whe
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by Delk 3y ago
I don't know or remember the details of the DMCA, but does it not require the copy protection to be of some reasonable effectiveness (e.g. reasonable cryptography)? Or does it consider the "copy protection" scheme protected r
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by Delk 3y ago
People might prefer not to single out the company even if they only interviewed at one. Just a guess, though.
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by Delk 3y ago
https://ftp.funet.fi/ I don't know if their FTP server supports TLS. (edit: fixed url)
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by Delk 3y ago
The "FTP" archive is also served over HTTPS nowadays, and has been for a long time. The hostname may still be ftp.funet.fi but there's an HTTP(S) server listening. I'm actually a bit surprised that they do also seem to s
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by Delk 3y ago
Some of the appreciation should go to the academic roots, culture and tradition of the early internet. The internet originated at DARPA but many of the earliest participants and adopters were academic institutions. FUNET is the Finnish Univ
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by Delk 3y ago
Ah, right, I didn't remember that.
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by Delk 3y ago
> DDG [...] no ads DDG does have ads, though? Perhaps they're less common and less intrusive than on Google, and only appear for searches that can meaningfully have ads related to them (e.g. if I search for "thinkpad" I ge
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by Delk 3y ago
The majority of those bug fixes are from people who probably were paid by companies to work on them. A couple of people with a bunch of fixes attributed to them seem to work for Red Hat, and several contributors have Collabora email address
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by Delk 3y ago
> or integer types smaller than 32-bits Java's got byte (8 bits) and short (16 bits)? (Still signed, though, of course.) Unless those are actually padded to 32 bits in the VM or something.
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by Delk 3y ago
My first thought when simplicio mentioned trademark was that The Open Group -- which would seem to own the X Window System logo -- might need to try and protect their trademark. If they don't, it's easy to foresee how down the r
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by Delk 3y ago
Feeling the need to cite a particular work out of convention or for social reasons is understandable and very common AFAIK, but I'd consider it a part of academic rigour to at least take look at the work one is citing. Blindly citing w
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by Delk 3y ago
To me, Git is more like a Swiss army chainsaw. It's been quite a while since I used other version control systems (such as Mercurial) to any greater extent, so I'll have to rely on my recollection of the feelings and thoughts I ha
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by Delk 3y ago
> What makes that especially pernicious is that, tracing all the way back to the era of Freud, BPD has been viewed as essentially untreatable I've got the impression that BPD, unlike other personality disorders (or things labelled a
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Multi-party systems generally tend to have less of a gap between parties. Especially if no single party is strong enough to hold majority power alone in a parliamentary system, decision-making requires collaboration between multiple parties
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by Delk 3y ago
> No TRIM - no info about free blocks what could be safely and fully reused - more overall wear for SSD. It's definitely possible to enable TRIM on an encrypted device, at least on LUKS. It requires specific support from the LUKS la
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by Delk 3y ago
It really depends on what you're developing. If it's some random web backend, it's often fine to just let the error propagate as a 5xx. Many error cases wouldn't have a better solution anyway, and all that's breakin
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by Delk 3y ago
> Well, why it shouldn't? Yeah, maybe it should. I don't know how exactly that's typically implemented, hence the question mark. > Don't forget, while the RAM can be prepared (zeroed) fast, the on-disk swap can&#x2
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by Delk 3y ago
If the OS didn't keep the pages around in swap after they were swapped back into RAM, I don't see how having more space in swap could reduce writes to it. > Every write is different, because the bytes on the storage are already

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