DemocracyFTW

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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> a country thousands of miles away had a temporary foothold on Chinese territory To effectively argue that "Hong Kong is of course part of China because it's right next to it on the map" opens the gates to all kinds of ji
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
“The arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates, and the blocking of political parties from participation rigged the outcome well before election day,” U.S. President
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This doesn't sound right. First of all, I'm not complaining about TeX being Turing-complete, what I'm saying is the syntax is unnecessarily hairy because TeX's syntax is Turing complete, meaning there is no static gram
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
See, that might be cultural background or whatnot, I don't know, but some people find those cartoons to be a nice touch, and they admire the clarity of exposition of The TeXbook . I'm the proud owner of the entire 6 vol Computer
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Every. Damn. Single. Thing. You. Said.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
In theory there should be no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there often is. TeX's syntax itself being Turing-complete means you can barely start to do static analysis on the code before hitting a wall you can o
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> a community only too willing to tell you how your question is wrong Been there, experienced that. Like this one poor guy who dared to ask at the TeX.StackOverflow help desk—"what can I do to get this and that vertical line in my t
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
While we're already using machine learning and neural networks to solve this problem, why not use a blockchain? /s TeX being "interleaved with natural language" is not at all at the heart of the problem IMO. Every HTML d
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This, totally. Nobody cares—or should be forced to care—whether a given compiler does something in a single or multiple passes, what counts is ergonomics and overall speed. FWIW when I still worked with TeX (XeLaTeX) I soon built my own wra
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I think what the article does get right is a fundamental technique to solve a problem when you're stuck: reduce to the essentials, get your terms / naming things right, write a teeny self-contained thing (I call it 'building
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
"he was an utter asshole" is my take on it. See my earlier comment.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Just read this guy's vita. An entire long life of profit-oriented road rage, always using the law and presumably his connections to go after like everyone else for minor copyright and similar offenses, striving to make this planet a mo
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> WASI is compelling to me because of the potential of writing plugins in different programming languages I think this is the future really, I've been pining for this to become a thing for so long.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Yeah that's like Louis and the rest of the family pretending to eat and enjoy Stewie's sand cake (complete with plastic toys for decoration): "Mmmh yummie, Stewie is a great cook"
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
That kind is quite entertaining and you should take him serious. His complaints are as a rule fact-based as he has sets he discusses right in front of him to show and tell. He does highlight what there is to highlight in the products of the
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This is wrong, he called himself Held der Steine . To suggest that because a solitary small time shop owner uses a fully generic image of a toy brick will cause the mighty Lego brand to get lost is bizarre. To be sure Lego does not have a
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
While we are at it, Corona is a common brand name and Kovid is a (given?) name, too.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I'm sure this has nothing to do with the name of one particularly popular person.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
came here to say this (approximately)
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
That argument could even be somehow valid if it were only possible to demonstrate that these intangibles improve life for people, like contributing to food, housing, education or even only entertainment. They do not. We do not have to care
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The good ones are quite tiny and make out of a single piece of fiber, at least that's what they look like. All corners are round and there's a floor drain meaning you can make a splash and not worry about it. Their small size make
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
an OS based on WASM could have merit Came here to say this. Beyond Rust and AssemblyScript, there are quite a few other programming languages that target WASM, meaning that WASM is a good candidate for that holy grail, the unified environ
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
The story of a group of people who are forced to fight for their right to self-determination in the face of oppression and oppression. The film is based on the novel by the same name. The story is set in the 1960s and follows the struggle
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
It's a bit of a mixed bag and the terminology is difficult to grasp. I'd say Tcl and Bash are languages that only have strings ('stringly typed') that can be interpreted in a number of ways. JavaScript, PHP, and SQLite&#
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
there's a calculator for that: http://www.artificial-gravity.com/sw/SpinCalc/SpinCalc.htm#c... From a radius of ~300m onward you'll see green lights (= good for people) for all considered parameters. RPM
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Very much so. And one may add that the implementation of UAX#11 "East Asian Width"[1] was done in a myopic, backwards-oriented way in that it only distinguishes between multiples 0, 1 and 2 of a 'character cell' (concept
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
To make things worse (or better), æ, œ, and ß have evolved from ligatures to becoming letters in their own right (a choice that may depend on the language), while ﬁ stayed a ligature. So 'ﬁeß', if there was such a word in German,
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
"symbols in Hindi which are not characters and can never exist as their own character but when placed next to a character they create a new character" a.k.a. 'ligatures', as in f+f+i -> U+fb03 'ﬃ'
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This could've been a solution but is not what Unicode chose to do (in this particular case). Also relevant: discussion around unifying glyphs like A, B, C, E and so on across Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek, all with their language-specific
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I think this goes to show that the file system is not the right place to implement natural language handling to its full extent, like it's probably not a good idea to implement time zones as a primitive function in your new programming

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