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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
It's relatively easy to get the document format by using a heuristic on "not so plain" text, not to be talking about more "binary" formats which are even easier to recognise, for example to differentiate between Mar
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> Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text. [...] But plain text? Always. Everywhere. Somebody needs to watch "Plain Text" (Dylan Beattie, NDC Copenhagen 2022) https:&#x2F
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> Make, it works just like it used to a decade ago. So, not at all for anything not simple. It's not that we all got together one day and said "you know what, (GNU) Make does all what we need, let's build some new, more co
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I use these colours for rainbow brackets in all other languages https://github.com/Release-Candidate/vscode-scheme-repl/blob... but for LISPs I dimmed them (their saturation) down for normal editing (when not &qu
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> Does finding the number of unique elements in a set That's easy, that's all of them. Sorry, could not resist. Yes, hashing is the usual method. In a sorted list you can compare to the following element.
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> Why do some people hate Make so much to use an abomination like CMake? Because Make doesn't work either. This holds for Make too: > Probably because it looks nice in the tutorial with apparently simple syntax, but then on real
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
My favorite is accursedUnutterablePerformIO https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring-0.12.1.0/docs... This "function" has a superficial similarity to unsafePerformIO but it is in fact a malev
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
Coq has "admitted" (or "admit"), but sorry is of course way better :). Lean also has "admit".
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
> Some day, I'd love to write proofs instead of tests in some places. Believe my, you only want to do that if the proof assistent accepts "I leave the details as an exercise to the reader" ;)
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> The C codebase of QBE is intended to remain hobby-scale and pleasant to hack on. As much as I like the idea behind QBE, our definition of "pleasant C code" differ by orders of magnitude.
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
> Non-europeans ISO-8859-1 only supports Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic. So, about half of Europe.
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
You're more of a sadist than a slave, I'd say ;)
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> [...] so it could really be 4 things. We may be missing one. As the code is equivalent to if BLA { ... } else if BAZ { ... } else { ... } I do not see a reason why there should be a branch missing.
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
The measurements in the default(?) plan look off: cabinet 200cm x 92cm top 3cm bottom 15cm scale 5 50cm * * 20cm * drawer door door drawer * drawer ^ ^ drawer *
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> Requiring nix for a language would be a large barrier for adoption. It's a no-go, as it doesn't work on Windows (no, WSL does not count).
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To get the interviews, it's best to read them in the "correct" order: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie... https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical
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> Typing the whole name takes longer[...] At least not for me. > The flags however, even when small and/or blurry, can still be quite easily differentiated by anyone familiar with both. Well I'm actually living in Slovakia a
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
Oh, yes, that's why I wrote that the language must be written in the native language and additionally contain the translated name. And _every_ long list of text should be searchable (for the native and the translated name). Which Apple
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
How would flags in the language selection help? The actual problem is finding the language selection at all (which still has an icon of a (stylised) globe on MacOS).
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> This is only an issue if the flag is the only information provided. The next step is acknowledging that the flag doesn't contribute anything, but may cause confusion or negative associations with the flag's country. So what e
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> The question isn't "where are you from", but "which country speaks a language that is similar to how you speak" Exactly. And that's the problem. There are countries where more than one language are officia
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by ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
Exactly, that's also how Apple (I'm starting to feel bad to constantly mention them) does it, the native form is "normal font face", the translated one is in lighter grey.
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> Icons help find things faster, [...] I _highly_ doubt that being able to input the name of the language (or country or whatever), both in its native and translated form, is slower than scrolling through all possible icons.
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But we are talking about using flags of countries for languages, which is a totally different "kind of wrong".
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Both versions is the correct answer, like in the screenshot in the article.
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> I don't know which of 语言设定 and 重置设备 will allow me to set the language back to English. That's why the languages should be presented in their "own" native form (name and alphabet), at least additionally. Which - u
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> How many people live in homes built over one hundred years ago? Many people in Europe's historical city centres.
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Almost every house in Europe (and elsewhere) has a wooden roof frame.
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> what else are you going to use? Even today there aren't many uses for metal (excluding brass) hammers apart from driving nails, stone (carving) chisels and everything involving deforming metal. For everything else you can use a &q
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> mostly used to protect what you are hammering Yes, but that still includes tools like woodworking and wood carving chisels, froes, axes, metal splitting wedges (to protect against metal splinters flying around),...

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