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by amyjess 7y ago
Most likely, some legacy character set had a ℻ character, so Unicode had to include it for compatibility reasons.
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> Few or none have made it the default because they're ignominiously slower than binary floating-point. You can strike the "none". Perl 6 uses rationals (Rat) by default, someone once told me Haskell does the same, and Gro
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One of my favorite things about Perl 6 is that decimal-looking literals are stored as rationals. If you actually want a float, you have to use scientific notation. Edit: Oh wait, it's listed in the main article under Raku. Forgot about
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by amyjess 7y ago
It ultimately doesn't matter. Excel macros are code, and they are very often production-critical code. The people who wrote them don't see themselves as coders, sure, and management often doesn't give the code the respect it
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I'd be curious to see a definition of "in some social circles". In particular, I'd like to see what parts of the country those social circles exist in. Because I'm in Dallas, and wealthy white-collar professionals d
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by amyjess 7y ago
For what it's worth, the designer of the Renault Twingo (another polarizing design) said something similar way back in the day. Better to design something 20% of people love and 80% of people hate than design something everyone just th
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> They used to drive luxury sedans while their wives drove minivans. Now the dads drive trucks that have replaced the minivan and the moms drive luxury SUVs. I've been thinking for a while now that luxury trucks (like the F-150 Plat
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by amyjess 7y ago
So pretty much the only thing I boot into Windows for nowadays is to play FF14. My routine is always the same: log in, open Chrome if it didn't open already (happens 50% of the time), and then open the start menu, type fi , and click
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by amyjess 7y ago
Hey mods, may I suggest shortening the title to "Browsh for text-based internet browsing (2018)"?
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Illumos is the kernel, and SmartOS and OpenIndiana are both Illumos distributions. The OS is packaged the same way Linux is, with different distributions maintained by people outside the kernel devs.
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Interestingly enough, the industry is actually going the opposite direction. Engines are getting quieter externally, to avoid pissing off your neighbors (there are few things as annoying as a tuner with a fart-can exhaust driving down a res
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And historically when the Japanese _have_ gone overboard on tech, back in the bubble era, they also tend to back it up with overengineering. Think of the fourth-gen Toyota Supra or any version of the Nissan Skyline GT-R. Or the Toyota Soare
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So, out of curiosity, I looked up the original Japanese, and it's also just a total non sequitor in English but the original Japanese line actually follows from the conversation. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki&#x2
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> it's all a bit odd of course, because in typical japanese fighting games (or even chinese wuxia films) the characters normally yell the name of the skill before doing their special skill, like "wave fist" or "dragon
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If the original translation was punched-up all the way through, I might be inclined to agree, but it wasn't. It was the only archaism in a game that was otherwise translated into modern English. The only version of FF4 to have a punche
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by amyjess 7y ago
Personally, when I'm checking a translation, I like to use WWWJDIC's text glossing mode: https://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?9T The thing with my Japanese skills is that my grammar is excellent
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by amyjess 7y ago
The validator existed, sure, but finding a page that validated was like finding a unicorn.
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Dallas is one of the most diverse parts of the US. The sheer amount of different ethnic food I regularly eat here is mind-boggling, and it actually made it very hard to pick a place when I was considering moving a few years ago (I wanted a
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by amyjess 7y ago
I went to UT Dallas, and I got a full-ride scholarship without even having to apply for it. I had no extracurriculars to speak of, and my grades were good but not the best (I was in the top 10% of my class, but nowhere near the top of that)
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Hi, I'm a queer woman in Texas. UT Dallas alumna even.
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I'd imagine that a lot of this is attributable to Firesheep calling attention to how anyone on a public Wi-Fi network could snoop on your Facebook traffic. Most of the major websites fast-tracked HTTPS shortly after that.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Python as well. The module system and the exception-handling system were mostly lifted from Modula-3, and the class/object system is a hybrid of Modula-3 and C++ (something that's still explicitly stated in Python's documenta
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Loud condemnation from the wider community. Contact their employers. Ban them from contributing to projects. When GamerGate became a thing, every major publication and several major figures in the gaming community all loudly spoke out again
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> Switching to English is way overblown a reaction. Two Hungarians chatting in English (unless there are non-Hungarian speakers involved) seems extremely weird to me. It may be partially that English is really foreign for us, while it&#x
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Every time an article about SQLite hits the front page here, I find myself stunned at how well-designed it is.
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This is why once the MAX is re-certified, I only intend to fly on carriers which have all-Airbus fleets. Which sadly probably means I'll be flying Spirit from now on, but it'll be worth it.
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by amyjess 7y ago
So, back when I first started using Lyft, in 2014 or 2015, I thought it was customary to stay in the car until you rate and tip your driver. One day, as I was doing this the driver started aggressively demanding I tell him how much Lyft cha
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by amyjess 7y ago
> The aggressive tip dude that took me basically told me that my fare was "too short" and nobody wants to take it, but how he's such a good guy and doesn't play that game and that's why I should tip him well. He
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by amyjess 7y ago
Honestly, I would rather get an email from my hosting company saying my project has been taken down after receiving a DMCA notice than get a visit from a process server saying that a huge corporation has filed a suit against me. Not having
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There was also a notorious story of multiple kosher restaurants who had booked a lesbian comedienne only for the local kosher board, run by Hasidic rabbis, to blackmail them by saying that if they don't cancel on her they'll revok

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