Miiko

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by Miiko 5y ago
Is the "tree" an adequate structure to describe relations between languages? Wouldn't directed acyclic graph (DAG) be better? IANAL (I'm not a linguist), but my understanding that languages - especially of people living
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by Miiko 5y ago
That's not a bug but a feature - when using href, it would be not possible for them to get data on what link you clicked, and both Google and Twitter rely much on that info.
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by Miiko 5y ago
> Try factoring this with the quadratic formula x^5+5x^4+10x^3+10x^2+5x+1. But this is not a trinomial and, of course, quadratic formula is not applicable here. My objection was specifically for section 4.3, which does not provide any cl
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by Miiko 5y ago
Not sure what's the point of section 4.3 Factoring Trinomials introducing "trial and error (or guess and check) method", when this task can be solved easily without any trial and errors, by using 6.2 Quadratic Formula. Should
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by Miiko 5y ago
> In the last election in Primorsky Kray Putin got 65% up from 57% in the previous election. Yes, and in 1927 Liberian general election Charles King received around 240,000 votes (out of 15,000 registered voters). So what?
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by Miiko 5y ago
> The fucking CCP does not exist, clown! CCP = Chinese Communist Party. What does not exist was called CCCP ;)
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by Miiko 5y ago
A couple of decades ago I was toying with stitching too, tring to combine high-resolution topo maps to cover all California. That was when I learned that the Earth is not flat, after my attempt failed. ;)
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by Miiko 5y ago
> Patents do not require actual copying to infringe, but copyright does. In other words, if you use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V to copy these blank lines, then you infringe AT&T copyright. If you don't and add blank lines by other means - yo
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by Miiko 5y ago
I had (yes, I'm that old) and, trust me, that's not very interesting nor pleasing, at least not compared to full greyscale one.
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by Miiko 5y ago
Thanks! now that makes sense - indeed, "endian" refer not to what's on the end, but from which end we start writing the number.
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by Miiko 5y ago
Probably because English is not my native language, but it always looked to me that the names are backward: * "big-endian" should have "big" (most significant) part on the end * and "little-endian" should have
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by Miiko 5y ago
Correct, but we're talking about "idiomatic" not "most efficient" solution. Input validation is usually not time-critical, and for these cases the code clearly showing the intent is much better than optimal one.
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by Miiko 5y ago
Not to mention that proper idiom for this task would be: int n = strspn(s,"0123456789"); BOOL b = (s[n] == 0);
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by Miiko 5y ago
The random idiom I got was: > Idiom #120 Read integer from stdin > Read an integer value from the standard input into variable n int n[15]; fgets(n, 15, stdin); Really?
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by Miiko 5y ago
Well, if you formulate the statement as: > We do know that Newtonian mechanics is not deterministic at singularity points then I fully agree with that. However, that may be fixed by either adding additional requirement (e.g. Lipschit
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by Miiko 5y ago
I read them. The first paper you referenced do not address any points (it just gives another example, similar to the Norton's Dome), and the second one actually confirms the major point given by Gruff Davies: > Newton’s laws are det
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by Miiko 5y ago
> We do know that classical mechanics is not deterministic. > Source: https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/ Nope, according to this analysis, classical mechanics IS deterministic: https:/
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by Miiko 5y ago
> It is not that people in rest of the world or rest of USA are less smart on average. It is that they live in a system in which some form of oppression exists if someone higher up in the food chain learns of their success and starts bea
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by Miiko 5y ago
> "I've never done waterfall" Yes, that's correct, I've never done waterfall either. By definition [1] "The waterfall model has, at least, five to seven phases that follow in strict linear order, where a ph
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by Miiko 5y ago
I'm from the same age group and, while I did not work in Microsoft back then, but everything he says matches my experience very closely (maybe just exaggerated a bit).
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by Miiko 5y ago
Regarding SFO, "The SFO BART Station is located on the Departures/Ticketing Level of the International Terminal (Boarding Area G side)." - it is located at the airport (you need to take AirTrain from other terminals, though
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by Miiko 5y ago
Good coverage of dynamic linking, but for this part: > To solve these problems, I suggest bundling all development (linking) library files together into a different directory structure per version. Isn't it almost exactly what'
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by Miiko 5y ago
Could anybody explain what's the point of using 50% gray for main text font? Does it really look good to somebody besides the designer?
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by Miiko 5y ago
Surely it can - we had a guy in our office (which was in Daly City) commuting from Sacramento area, - but I don't think it is very common... at least not in technical companies, which usually allow / tolerate flexible hours. Off
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by Miiko 5y ago
> But, I guess that an important difference between USA and Europe is the stress of commuting. European cities are more compact and with way better public transport, so, maybe in the USA is justified the extra effort just to not have to
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by Miiko 5y ago
Looks like nobody noticed the date at the top of the page: "Posted in tools by Scott Locklin on April 1, 2021"
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by Miiko 5y ago
Actually, "Almaty" is the correct Kazakh spelling of the name - if using the latest 2021 revision of new alphabet, to be officially used starting 2023, replacing current Cyrillic one (in which the spelling is "Алматы",
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by Miiko 5y ago
Nice tool, but new version is technically not an "ASCII flow" anymore, as it now uses Unicode Box Drawing characters (in 0x2500+ block), unlike previous version that used ASCII for lines and boxes.
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by Miiko 5y ago
> Originally it used to be Alma Ata which then became Almatı. Depends on what you mean by "originally" ;) The modern city was founded in 1854 when the Russians established the military fortification of Zailiyskoye (renamed Vern
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by Miiko 5y ago
Not really. Kazakh word for "father" is "әке", and "-ата" is used as suffix, similar to Japanese "-san". Which is not very relevant anyway, since the real name of the city in Kazakh was always "A

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