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811.
by JdeBP 3y ago
This is one of the biggest hurdles of learning modern physics. We know, from experiment, that the universe is flat at large distances, and that there is not a fourth dimension into which it is folded or bent. However, we also talk abou
812.
by JdeBP 3y ago
No, one couldn't; because roywiggins isn't arguing that the directions don't exist. Given that the ideas of there being no privileged frame of reference and the universe being isotropic are fairly basic concepts of modern ph
813.
by JdeBP 3y ago
The headlined article was written in 1884, and it is not discussing time as "the fourth" dimension. Nor is roywiggins.
814.
by JdeBP 3y ago
People find it a confusing idea to grasp that deleting things actually requires more space, either temporarily or permanently. Other comments here have gone into the details of why some modern filesystems with snapshotting and journallin
815.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Although note that several comments here report situations where truncation doesn't work either. 21st century filesystem formats are a lot more complex than UFS, and with things like snapshotting and journalling there are new ways for
816.
by JdeBP 3y ago
"fawning" or "ingratiating" seem to be the standard English words for this.
817.
by JdeBP 3y ago
I've said before, elsewhere, that I think that that cartoon is misleading. The truth, as should be apparent nowadays after the parade of leftpad, ntpd, xz, et al., is that there are thousands of those little blocks at the bottom tha
818.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It's related to excessive coupling between modules and low coherence. There is a way for programs to implement the systemd readiness notification protocol without using libsystemd, and thus without pulling in liblzma, which is couple
819.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Ahem! * https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/converting-systemd-uni...
820.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Reading the documentation, "this is a clone of MS-DOS" turns out to be quite a misleading summary of what this is. The documentation claims things (which I have not verified personally) such as forking, signals, and pipes. Instea
821.
by JdeBP 3y ago
It's a bit sad that CGP Grey's promotion of this last year has helped to reduce the amount of available documentation, as (according to one of the few other YouTube videos on hexagonal chess) after this video came out there was a
822.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Even thinking of this as regional variations developing is superficial and wrong. There likely was not a single central standard to splinter in the first place. Framing this in terms of modern concepts like centralized government-backed s
823.
by JdeBP 3y ago
That is, essentially, ossification in action.
824.
by JdeBP 3y ago
None of the three clocks were iPhones. (-:
825.
by JdeBP 3y ago
You need a microwave oven like mine, with the apparently-by-design feature (mentioned as an aside in a Technology Connections video some years ago, as I recall) that one can program the seconds up to 99. 11 minutes is 10:60 . (-:
826.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Or, rather, our idea of what the standard was, skewed as it is by survivorship bias and coming centuries after the fact, is superficial and wrong.
827.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Having been amused by the headlined tiny factlet about clock faces when I was a child, I observe that the pseudish BBC copyright declaration system is, apart from the odd regnal number in law citations and apart from 19th century hymnals, p
828.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Cue all of the animated YouTube videos about Poland's border changes caused by WW2! (-:
829.
by JdeBP 3y ago
In terms of the native API, it is viewed as a filesystem, accessed via the Object Manager like everything else. The registry is under \REGISTRY .
830.
by JdeBP 3y ago
For what it's worth, .NET Core has the same capabilities of abstracting away pathname separators, if one wants it. Personally, I don't regard such things as useless and unneeded; because I see the value in not writing programs
831.
by JdeBP 3y ago
I didn't want to spend a whole afternoon eumerating every single possibility. Anyway, I vaguely recall that I already did in a Stack Exchange answer, which is ironic given the headlined subject, years ago. (-:
832.
by JdeBP 3y ago
As the author of a CMD replacement long ago, I remember Rex Conn's comments on how the command-line parser of COMMAND (and hence CMD) was quite arbitrary. What was implemented, though, was a set of characters that acted as separators b
833.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Except that it is not /etc/$toolname. Sometimes it's /etc/$subdirectory/$toolname, doing that very many-layers-deep thing that you describe. Sometimes, particularly on the BSDs, it's /usr/local
834.
by JdeBP 3y ago
But one that misses the point that regedit was superseded by regedt32 and even that hasn't been the only tool in the toolkit for decades. There are specialized tools like (for instance) the ODBC Data Sources utilities that edit specifi
835.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Actually, it's a combination of several such databases, some system-wide and some per-user. And they're held in files. So if "I don't even give a damn what format the file is in" were true, registry hive files ar
836.
by JdeBP 3y ago
There are two answers saying that, and one is sourced to Wikipedia whilst the other has screenshots of tests being run. Just copying Wikipedia to Stack Exchange isn't a good idea in general. In any case, there are plenty of contemp
837.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Addendum: ITV duly repeated it, as predicted, 3 days after I wrote that; and the relatives tell me that they happily watched it on broadcast.
838.
by JdeBP 3y ago
> I know what they wrote. Clearly you do not, as I made no complaint; but merely pointed out how it wasn't quite the regular court process that tomalpha said it to be, and pointed out another thing that has been highlighted by the c
839.
by JdeBP 3y ago
Post Office Ltd is not "the state". At least nominally. It was privatized at the turn of the 21st century. As I just said, one of the things that this has highlighted for people is that a private company has a normal practic
840.
by JdeBP 3y ago
You should have read the more-on-which first. (-:

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