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Koshkin
2y ago
A.k.a. “vendoring”
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2y ago
In my case, I have to carry it to the office and back home. I also often use it outside.
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2y ago
It's just not a good fit for my lap.
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2y ago
If I refused to do work under Windows, I'd be fired.
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2y ago
> Not a chance in hell. In 2003 I was using a Pentium III Dell laptop with Linux (2.4) on it. Everything worked, including wifi.
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2y ago
Not totally, only partially. At the time the Bulgarians were already a mix of the Slavic, Byzantine, and other peoples - including, of course, the Bulgars who, too, settled there, in the process of their migration from the East. The Bulgari
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2y ago
But compare: The Polish "chrząszcz" vs. the Cyrillic "xрущ" vs. its usual transliteration into English as "khrusch".
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2y ago
Cyrillic was not a bad choice for Tajik. In any case, I think it is better (than Arabic script) suited for Indo-European languages like Persian. (On the other hand, it would have been fun to see Spanish also use Arabic script. :)
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2y ago
> diacritics Tiếng Việt hay Việt ngữ là một ngôn ngữ thuộc...
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2y ago
But it was the shipping that was the bitch.
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2y ago
A 1000-mile “weakening”
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2y ago
> Equality can be philosophically troubling Which is probably why they are saying "equity" now
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2y ago
At least it's a short piece, compared to A New Kind of Science .
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2y ago
> meant to be being punished Who is the punisher is important.
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2y ago
"Equivalent" and "the same" are sometimes equivalent. (Or the same.) It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. https://libquotes.com/bill-clinton/quote/lby0h7o
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2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40394015
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2y ago
It's not a "subset," it's "the set of equivalence classes."
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2y ago
This is about estimation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40394015
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2y ago
True - for (relatively) small numbers. For large (huge) numbers estimation is usually considered to be equivalent to counting, and the result is sometimes represented using the "scientific" notation (i.e. "floating-point"
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2y ago
I am sure you meant "mainframes." (Supercomputers look like rows of server racks these days.)
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2y ago
I once spoke to a younger developer who did not know that multitasking could be done on a single core; also, he has never seen a mechanical watch and could not believe that it did not need a battery.
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2y ago
Or https://dwm.suckless.org/
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2y ago
The optimal way would be to have a web browser run under a unikernel.
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2y ago
I would, I just can't get over the name.
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2y ago
> It's Vim vs Ed. No, not really.
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2y ago
My first PC had (what I thought of as) an infinite amount of RAM. 8 MB. I could not believe that someone (else) wanted 32 MB, it was insane.
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2y ago
> 3 lines of config remove it all in Emacs Exactly. (Knowing emacs does not keep me, either, from wanting to write a text editor of my own, no matter what "the main goal" of that might be.)
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2y ago
> At least consider Zig. Considered the example given. Now my eyes hurt. I think I started appreciating Lisp more.
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2y ago
> The main goal of this editor is to keep the focus on the text editing and not be distracted too much by buttons, tabs, menus, and animations… I used Emacs a lot. I am sure emacs can be easily configured not to have too many animation
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2y ago
An obligatory quote on the Langlands Program from a well-known category theorist: The thing is, I’ve never succeeded in understanding the slightest thing about it.
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