anonymouz

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by anonymouz 14y ago
One could sort of satisfy naturalethic's wish by choosing a numeral system with pi as basis. Then pi would have digit representation '1' in this system. And yes, mathematicians have studied transcendental bases for numeral systems (Knuth in
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by anonymouz 14y ago
Ah, I can see the reasoning there, but do not agree with it at all. Besides the inherent awfulness of this approach, my first thought was that the site is completely broken. My second one was, "Why do they want to trick me into enabling JS?
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by anonymouz 14y ago
But roughly speaking HTML should contain the structure, and CSS the rendering information, especially if it's mostly a static page like here (maybe if you're writing a Webmail client or something it makes sense to handle more stuff on the c
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by anonymouz 14y ago
How come this page is completely screwed up without JavaScript (tiny font, no paragraph breaks)?
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by anonymouz 14y ago
No, but I didn't claim that I have it. That bit of back-of-the-envelope calculation in the article does not justify a claim anywhere close to 'verifiable wrong'.
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by anonymouz 14y ago
> It's pure superstition, and verifiably wrong. Would you care to point out a source for this?
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by anonymouz 14y ago
My personal feeling is, that you would learn more about Python by trying to write something using the standard library and embracing Python's style, instead of porting a JavaScript library.
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by anonymouz 14y ago
But what about the people living next door to your hypothetical smoker? It's a good idea to have fire safety regulations, for the reason that a fire usually will not just burn the person who caused it in the first place. (Whether this fire
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by anonymouz 14y ago
I find the recent trend to put all kinds of tutorials, introductions, etc. into videos or similar quite off-putting. It is much harder to skim through, or adjust my reading speed to how fast I can comprehend what's being said, which depends
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by anonymouz 14y ago
Obviously there's lots of interesting entertainment. But I also happen to like some TV series, and they are usually not available here in any reasonable form (i.e., if local broadcasters pick them up at some point, then they are dubbed).
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by anonymouz 14y ago
I had already grabbed my wallet, but then I noticed that it will be restricted to a very few countries. Oh well, back to Pirate Bay.