XaspR8d

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by XaspR8d 7y ago
> Is there a language that consistently uses codepoints with more than 2 bytes? There are definitely (small) communities using scripts that lie entirely in the SMP. For example, Mru, Adlam, Takri, Pracalit, Miao, Wancho, etc. Most of the
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
Yeah, but that's a really challenging line to draw diachronically. For example, clip = to fasten originates from Old English `clyppan` (to embrace/clasp/surround), while clip = to cut originates somewhere Scandanavian, as in
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
> my first question would not be about the origin but about the embedding itself. The user's input is rendered in the web frontend of blackboard? Why? I think Blackboard sees this as a convenience feature, i.e. students submit assig
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
In my rural US curriculum, these concepts were 100% part of the (very vague) "Algebra II". Granted it seems like it didn't stick for a large segment of folks. (Which might be a valid thing to examine in itself: for math and s
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
I had assumed it was one of those where the players who are found join the seeking team. I think that tends to scale because the seekers usually have explosive growth as the poorly-hidden players are rapidly converted.
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
Well the issue behind that issue IMO is that so many US streets can be used as main roads. They were built overly-spaciously with only the interests of car drivers in mind.
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
I tend to prefer lowercase since it reduces the number of confusable characters, especially in handwriting (8/B, 0/D, 4/A), but I can understand that numbers might typographically or semantically feel uppercase, so lowercas
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
> Now imagine going from 5 to 10 people. The communication web of the two are different. 4 possible communication points vs 9. Or if you measure communication needs by number of conversational pairs, it goes from 10 to 45!
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
That particular pattern looks like it came out of the Hyperface project.[1] Also here's an actual purchaseable link at RedBubble [2]. No affiliation with the seller (nor does it look like they're connected to the original project)
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
At first glance, blues seem to have 2 contact points and magentas have none, but the correspondence seems to break for yellow and orange, which each have several (overlapping) numbers of neighbors that they are used with.
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
My rule of thumb has been that a US city needs to be at least a million people to have a hostel, and at least 4 million to have more than one.
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
Joke's on you -- the article helped me find a flaw in the theory of journalism! (Paper is much better yes. I always had trouble with that notation.)
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
Also curious about differentiation strategies, if anyone has tips. I'm guessing the marketing materials for the cables isn't even sufficient to tell them apart in many cases. It's tempting to build some sort of test rig for t
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
To be fair, even most of the United States hasn't heard of this chain. YC's location bias makes it sound wider-spread than it is.
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by XaspR8d 7y ago
Not a licensing expert myself, but I'm sure that exists out there. Creative Commons has some pretty close variants, for example CC-BY-NC-ND (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives). https://creativecommons.org/lice
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
I always found it strange that the standard view usually depicts Lanthanum + Actinium on the main block and Lutetium + Lawrencium on the auxiliary. I suppose historically it makes sense that valence was the motivating factor, but at my (tot
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
White Castle has had Impossible Burgers available for about a year now. Just interesting to see the trend emerging from what I would consider the "bottom-most" market segment. I suppose they had the most to gain from drawing in a
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
Lots of people sharing their tour anecdotes, but I wanted to add: my favorite part of the experience is when they take you inside the "lungs". Due to the immense amount of atmosphere inside, they needed a way to handle the expansi
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
It's not arbitrary code execution, just a toy observation about the specification. Additionally, 1) as noted, none of the font rendering libraries used were capable of recursion without the author's modifications, 2) in a web cont
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
I'd love it if OpenTTD had just a smidge more complex of a city simulation, so that towns weren't just concentrically-expanding colonies. But yes, it's much better at bringing that transport logistics puzzle to the forefron
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
I don't get the feeling that SimCity suggests that car-centric solutions are the "right" answers. My interpretation always was that it shows you how ideal mass transit solutions were but why economic pressure could keep them
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
If you ever find yourself near Yuma, AZ, and have a sense for "weird travel" like I do, I'd recommend taking a jaunt into Los Algodones (AKA Molar City) immediately across the border. You can park at the border station and wa
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
Tangent: I've always wondered if there would be utility in humans gaining expertise in writing "for" translation, i.e. knowing what kinds of semantic and syntactic constructs are the least lossy when localized, or perhaps eve
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
My local grocery store has a sign above the gift cards reminding people that government entities and utility companies will never ask for payment in gift cards. If they can manage a warning, I would hope Bitcoin sites could have a disclaime
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
There isn't any sort of spec to ask the browser to use specific scaling algorithms, right? I think the general idea is safe enough -- images of gradients are probably going to look fine upscaled in any algo that would actually get ship
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
CSS gradients have 2 notable annoyances: - Simple horizontal, vertical, or radial gradients can rarely capture the "organic" look that most designers want (the gradients of real materials and scenes are highly uneven so perfect sy
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
Some estimates for the outer boundary of the Oort Cloud put it at 200,000AU = 3.16ly (more conservative estimates seem to be 1ly or less). Even the inner boundary is thought to be at least double the distance of the object just discovered,
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
Yeah, also it may seem obvious that a bagel sandwich sliced in the traditional would fall into the {top,bottom} Sandwich category, but they provide no formal descriptions of smoothing. I'm sure I could construct some wildly-non-homoto
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
I am a scientist, and any experiment that demonstrates a hypothesis I do not like is an experiment I do not accept.
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by XaspR8d 8y ago
Yeah, I almost feel bad about how often I see Triplebyte ads, since I'd like to use the service but I'm not intending to relocate to one of their cities right now.

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