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by bloak 3y ago
Much as I like Git, I'm not sure I like the idea of the artefacts depending on the git commit and therefore on the entire git history. I rather feel the artefacts should only depend on the actual source and not on a particular version
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by bloak 3y ago
I don't think transcription from Greek is standardised. I've met several people "officially" called Vassilios or Vassileios or Vasileios or Vasilios while they were in the UK, but they all had the same name (Βασίλειος) i
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by bloak 3y ago
The elephants might learn after a while which sources of sound are genuine. Then you'd have a load of useless loadspeakers and no honey.
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by bloak 3y ago
And Peter Hammill's opera of "The fall of the house of Usher". Here's part of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dHsQekNB64 (According to one of the comments it's the 1999 recording. Probably I&#x
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by bloak 3y ago
Isn't that web site eapoe.org brilliant? Nice old-school design, amazingly thorough bibliographies, multiple versions of each text, ... (Is there anything like it for any other author?)
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by bloak 3y ago
I think you're right. I've sometimes been in the situation of having to maintain a script that depends on APIs or data formats that change from time to time without warning. A fair amount of skill and effort is required. (There is
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by bloak 3y ago
That is true, but if you're talking about a change in temperature (the temperature is rising by 2 degrees per hour, or the temperature falls by so many degrees per km of altitude) then there's a real zero, of course.
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by bloak 3y ago
Winch launch?
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by bloak 3y ago
For me there's a big difference between applying a simple algorithm to the data, a formula which someone could scribble down on the back of an envelope, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, some neural network thing with millions o
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by bloak 3y ago
443 Manchester Road. See https://paulplowman.com/stuff/house-address-twins-proximity/
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by bloak 3y ago
In that case presumably the other country would be responsible for issuing a penalty, assuming symmetry in a fair world (which is a fairly questionable assumption).
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by bloak 3y ago
www.ancienttreeforum.org.uk says: "Ancient trees are those which have reached a great age in comparison with others of the same species." "A birch tree could be considered as ancient at 150 years old, for example, but an oak
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by bloak 3y ago
I think (not sure though) that the Berne Convention requires Australian law to treat foreign books in the same way as Australian books so the reference to "Australian books" is a rhetorical flourish, not legally relevant.
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‘Biggest act of copyright theft in history’: Australian books used for AI model(theguardian.com)
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by bloak 3y ago
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression "mylke of almaundes", i.e. almond milk, was used in 1425. So I'd say the use of "milk" to refer to non-dairy products is fairly well established.
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by bloak 3y ago
This reminds me of a weirdness with some sat navs: the distance to your exit/destination is displayed as: 12 ... 11 ... 10 ... 10.0 ... 9.9 ... 9.8 ... with the value 10.0 shown only while the distance is between 9.95 and 10. It&#x27
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by bloak 3y ago
Those are difficult questions. Are we talking about how "happy" people are? That's the goal for some people, and an official goal for Bhutan according to its constitution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr
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by bloak 3y ago
Perhaps it's acceptable in moderation, like "ain't". It's needed for a rhyme in a well-known song by Billy Joel, for what it's worth. On the other hand, there is a different song by Billy Joel in which "an
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by bloak 3y ago
Free trade can lead to a "race to the bottom" in which industry moves to the country with the lowest taxation, lowest environmental standards, worst treatment of employees, worst data protection, etc. and so other countries are en
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by bloak 3y ago
In this version of the story (with less advertising) it says the artist only had to return the money provided for inclusion in the art works, not the "fee": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep&#x2F
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by bloak 3y ago
> This assumes that only messages from controlled sources will be received though, right? I don't think so. The question of whether you trust the length indication to be correct (you almost certainly shouldn't) seems to me to b
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by bloak 3y ago
Streaming has already been mentioned. Efficiency might be another argument. If your messages are typically being sent through a channel that already has a way of indicating the end of the message then having to express the length inside the
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by bloak 3y ago
Personally I use four-digit years even when I'm writing the date on some food that I'm putting in the fridge -- somethng that needs to be thrown away before the end of the week let alone the end of the century -- but at the same t
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by bloak 3y ago
No mention of "Blas de Lezo", the option that was winning the poll until it was silently removed?
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by bloak 3y ago
That would seem to be an exaggeration. Wikipedia says 1.7% of the population could count as intersex, but: "Of the 1.7%, 1.5% points (88% of those considered "nondimorphic sexual development" in this figure) consist of indivi
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by bloak 3y ago
I don't believe that there's a well defined thing called "physical attractiveness". It's quite possible that "looks like an entrepreneur" is part of your definition of "attractive" in this instan
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by bloak 3y ago
If the "DNA analysis" isn't entirely invented then my guess is that they have analysed the DNA of a mixture of microorganisms that happened to be present on the specimens.
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by bloak 3y ago
Emacs does (or did) exactly that, perhaps by default: I think I had to disable it once because it was annoying me ... (setq sentence-end-double-space nil)?
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by bloak 3y ago
Of course some style guides would tell you not to put a dot after "Dr" because "r" is the last letter of "Doctor". Similarly, the abbreviation of "Saint" would be "St", while the abbreviatio
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by bloak 3y ago
> such identical designators should be geographically widely spaced Yes, though I wouldn't normally regard "4,000nm" (mentioned in the article) as widely spaced in geographical terms. Unless they meant nautical miles (whic

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