JdeBP

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by JdeBP 1y ago
That's backwards. People in that age bracket grew up with computers where the em dash was not in the character set at all, and typewriters and terminals only had a minus key. The people who grew up with the em dash are the younger H
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Wherever you learned ASCII from, it was very wrong. It probably made the common (although less common in the 21st century than in the 20th) erroneous conflation of ASCII and Latin-1, or IBM code page 437, or IBM code page 850.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In this particular case, the options for mobile 'phone keyboards are greater rather than fewer. The em dash is a first class citizen on the "writer" layouts in ThumbKey, for example. * https://github.com/dess
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You'll need to delve into history back quite a number of years. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439869
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I think that the scenario here is where the queries are explicitly not leaking, and you've raised a red herring. If I understand correctly, the scenario is an internal machine named "george", which is being properly sea
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The Open Root Server Confederation has long since been wound up. But some of the other alternative root servers are still around even now. One example: https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/dot
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you want to learn about Jane Street: 1. Watch Stand-Up Maths and Numberphile videos on YouTube and do not skip the sponsor advertisement readings, e.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eqyuQZHfNPQ . 1. Read https:/&#x2F
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Because in June 2005 the simple response to the Debian bug filed in September 2004 was to comment the global setting out of /etc/login.defs rather than change it to 0027. And after some back and forth there's now the explana
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It is legal, rather than marketing, speak. "Sunset clause" has been widely-used legal jargon for a good half century at this point, possibly longer.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The other amusing thing is the spanner in the icon, with the narrow jaws and mouth that is not angled. There are Apple pundits who insist that spanners do not look like that, and that Apple Has Got It Wrong. Of course, spanners can and do
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Given how much effort many people have put into combatting the trailing capital letter 'D' habit, including with one particular piece of RedHat software from 2010, it is interesting to see RedHat a couple of years earlier embracin
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I should add, by the way, that this nicely demonstrates M. Geerling's point here about catching bugs by running things on a Pi. The TianoCore's unnecessarily recursive implementation of a destructive BS is slow enough, on a Pi 4,
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by JdeBP 1y ago
On the one hand it is good to discover that someone is tackling getting TianoCore working on the Raspberry Pi 5. On the other hand, they still have the destructive backspace behaviour, and inefficient recursive implementation, that breaks t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This is doing the rounds on YouTube, too. But with pretty much the same information as everywhere else that tracks back to the same original sources. * https://youtube.com/watch?v=mlY2QjP_-9s (JayzTwoCents) * https:/
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Don't let on that OpenBSD does not have vi either. Its vi is actually nvi, yet another vi clone, that Keith Bostic derived from elvis.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And yet Arial Nova exists, as pointed out at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45046490 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The interesting thing is that going by that and by Medea's numbers ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45044803 ), it seems strange that copying from an operating system that was well after WGL4 came out ended up with
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by JdeBP 1y ago
That's well short of even WGL4, and must lack a fair whack somewhere else in addition to Greek and Cyrillic if it's only 475.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The first question that I always want answered when learning of a new font is how much of Unicode it covers. It a question rarely answered by "We have made a new font." blurbs, though. Yes, yes; it's aesthetically pleasing,
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. Because the GR/QM conflict comes up in the other direction that way. GR predicts infinities for zero-radius particles. Indeed, so too does classical electromagnetism. In any case, "quanta" does not really mean the same
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by JdeBP 1y ago
If you enjoy that sort of thing, also read Killing Vector by Charles Sheffield.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Indeed. That's rotational frame dragging for you. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I am told that the SmartOS people have this sort of idea. * https://wiki.smartos.org
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The problem is that two pagers don't do everything that they should do in this regard. They are supposed to do things like ul utility does, but neither BSD more nor less handle when a CR is emitted to overstrike the line from the begin
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Credit to otterly and Hilift for finding some other better coverage than this semgrep page as well: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45040126 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45040507
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by JdeBP 1y ago
> Are you using a compromised version of nx? > Run semgrep --config [...] > Alternatively, you can run nx –version [...] Have we not learned, yet? The number of points this submission has already earned says we have not. People, d
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by JdeBP 1y ago
> Because each element requires at least a 16 byte representation, both tiny and repeated short strings use more memory than they otherwise would. In a wider view, that depends. If one is using a general-purpose heap for string storage
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by JdeBP 1y ago
For the UPU's own press release, see: * https://upu.int/en/press-release/2025/upu-working-to-ready-g...
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It definitely is survivorship bias. Go and watch videos from the retrocomputing enthusiasts. There are loads of branches in computing history that are off-trajectory in retrospect, inasmuch as there can be said to be a trajectory at a
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It isn't expected until one then learns enough comparative linguistics and etymology to discover that loanwords coming back has happened throughout history. And not just with European languages, although for obvious historical reasons

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