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by bazoom42 1y ago
Nobody has claimed Paul invented the idea of the Messiah.
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Html does not allow ambigous structures. While it has a more flexible syntax than XML, it always parse to an unambigous structure.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
> ask yourself why the mercator projection was so popular for so long Besause maps was developed as tools for navigation. But if you want an idea of the relative sizes and positions of the countries of the world, you should use a globe.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Are you arguing XSLT can do anything JS can do? Because that is obviously not true.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Chrome clearly outcompeted Firefox despite Firefox’ faster XSLT implematation, so perhaps the performance of a feature which is almost never used is not that significant either way?
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It is just a special nostalgia for technologies which never became sucessful. They are percieved as more pure and perfect than the messy real world. Client side XSLT transforms are very rarely useful. It was intended for a vision of the web
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by bazoom42 1y ago
WHATWG have removed features before, e.g. frameset, font, and applet elements from HTML. All of them were rarely used and had better alternatives available.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
> It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra More likely because this order is closer to typical English sentence structure. SQL was designed to look like English, not relational algebra.
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Migration was a theory but really been proven.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Yeah but not every religious writer considers suffering and death a happy end.
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She doesn’t turn into sea foam though, she turns into an air spirit, getting the chance of an immortal soul, which is what she was after.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Andsersen has some happy endings, eg the Snow Queen or the Ugly Duckling. I guess the Matchstick Girl has the closest to a “happily ever after” ending, since she dies and goes to heaven.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Does Andersen ever use the “happily ever after” ending?
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Are you thinking of Baron Munchausen? That is not an Andersen story.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
If you are referring to Tony Hoares talk, it is not nulls which is the billion dollar mistake. The mistake is type systems which does not distinguish between nullable and non-nullable.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
According the article, the term “dynamic” was chosen because it has positive connotations.
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Sure, but this is only possible because the LLM is trained on those answers.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
The term “diacritic” has a specific mening. It means a symbol added to a letter to alter or disambiguate its sound. The dot in i and j does not have that function (in English), therefore they are not diacritics but part of the letter itself
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Just call it a HTTP API and everyone is happy. People forget REST was never intended for API’s in the first place. REST was designed for information systems navigated by humans, not programs.
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They are not diacritics since they don’t alter the sound of the letter.
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> All gods are worshiped by definition. There is no evidence Loki was ever worshipped.
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Crime and theft happen in Denmark as in other countries. But finders get compensated for the metal value so unless they are collectors or have contacts to private collectors, there is not a lot to gain. I know a guy who found a gold treasu
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by bazoom42 1y ago
You do get compensation for the metal value.
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These letters have evolved over time. The latin letters ao was used for the sound but over time it became a ligature where the o moved on too of the a. Similar to how vv became w over time. While some script are deliberately designed, most
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by bazoom42 1y ago
W is a ligature of “vv” which turned into a distict letter, similar to how “ae” turned into the letter æ. New letters in latin scripts seem to have evolved from either diacritics or ligatures. There are a few examples of letters borrowed fr
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by bazoom42 1y ago
Characters like å and ø are considered distinct letters but they originated as diacritics. Diacritics are small symbols which can be added to existing text to remove ambiguities and aid in pronounciation. So the scripts started with the lat
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by bazoom42 1y ago
The runic alphabet is probably derived from latin, but it adds new letters like eth and thorn which does not correspond to latin letters.
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Early on, programming was considered secretarial work.
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Stored procedures are actually great when used for bulk set-oriented data operations. Much simpler and more efficient than passing large datasets back and forth between servers. The problems arise when processing data row-by-row using curs
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As far as I can tell, the announcement was only about replacing Microsoft Office 365 with LibreOffice, not about replacing Windows with Linux.

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