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by bloak 6y ago
I propose we don't add this to Unicode.
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by bloak 6y ago
See also "rev": https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.g...
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by bloak 6y ago
I might, but I'd perhaps be more likely to risk my life saving someone from a Citroën 2CV or a VW Beetle. I'm only half joking. There is a real tendency to judge other people by what kind of car they're in and the decision wh
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by bloak 6y ago
At least the word "Scunthorpe" really does contain a rude word. "Bitch", "dyke", "faggot" and "hoe" are non-rude words for a female dog, a ditch, a bundle of sticks and an agricultural imple
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by bloak 6y ago
How does this interact with alternative and personalised keyboard layouts and with sticky keys for accessibility? I don't have a proper overview of how these things work, but I'm a bit worried that there may be multiple layers (re
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by bloak 6y ago
There's a similar even more dramatic effect if you go to the top of a tower and look out over totally flat countryside: in the distance it looks like dense woodland, although the trees are hundreds of metres apart in reality.
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by bloak 6y ago
Comac was worth mentioning, I think. I hadn't heard of it and I appreciate being informed. However, currently the "third largest producer of civil aircraft, after Boeing and Airbus" (Wikipedia) is Embraer. British Airways use
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by bloak 6y ago
Yes. Also the blinkenlights are very satisfactory. And very nice casing. What is the clock speed at the end of the demo? It sounds like about 8 Hz.
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by bloak 6y ago
That's a good point, but I've just skimmed through the fantastically detailed entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, which seem to suggest that the word "orange" was used in English around 1400 and was used as a colou
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by bloak 6y ago
I prefer 4:3. I was brought up on it and it just seems right. I think a lot of the old films I watch are 4:3 anyway, unless they're 2.39:1, in which case 16:9 is hardly ideal either. What I find really hilarious is how they sell laptop
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by bloak 6y ago
Proof that old-fashioned television sets transmit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54239180
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by bloak 6y ago
Apparently the oldest known closed terrarium has been sealed since 1972: search for "David Latimer" and "terrarium". Apparently they were popular around 1960 so I'm disappointed they can't find one that's
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by bloak 6y ago
An intermediate stage of offset printing is aluminium plates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_printing#Materials ). They would survive a long time in conditions that would destroy paper. If after the zombie apocaly
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by bloak 6y ago
Standard rules for (Soviet) embassy staff during the cold war included writing secret documents with a pencil rather than a typewriter because the text might be deducible from the sound of the typing. Of course the writing would also be don
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Earth Is in a Hurry in 2020(timeanddate.com)
2 points by bloak 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
The goal of US foreign policy is world domination. The sanctions on Iran may well contribute to that goal. However, from the point of view of what's good for mankind generally I'm not sure it wouldn't be a good thing for Iran
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by bloak 6y ago
Personally, I totally agree with you that 12:00 should be roughly when the sun is at its highest. I suspect that's not a major consideration for most people, however. In the UK we have already tried "permanent DST" (if that&#
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by bloak 6y ago
"A drive in the country" is one of the best short stories I've ever read. Structurally perfect. (Warning: includes suicide.)
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by bloak 6y ago
And another question: is there a cheap and easy way of getting access to the text of "Rumour at nightfall", particularly during a COVID lockdown when reading it in the British Library would be even less convenient than it usually
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by bloak 6y ago
Since you asked ... do you know anything about Graham Greene's contact with Esperanto and perhaps some other constructed language? "Stamboul train" has some Esperanto expressions standing in for Hungarian, and "The confi
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by bloak 6y ago
Thanks, but what I'm trying to do is split authors ... and I think I've worked out how to do it. The trick is to make sure you're looking at the "work" rather than the "edition", because when you're l
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by bloak 6y ago
I noticed that two authors with the same name are conflated. But if I try to edit any of the editions involved, the interface won't let me either modify or delete an existing author nor even add a new author using the author ID rather
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by bloak 6y ago
That is all correct. Another consideration: occasionally an incompetent publisher puts the same ISBN on two unrelated editions. A bibliographer might just carefully record what's printed on the book, but many users of ISBNs won't
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by bloak 6y ago
I think there's strong evidence for weak forms of the hypothesis. For example, the available colour names in a language affects the way people classify colours as measured by the way they perform a task in which language is not used. S
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by bloak 6y ago
That's not quite correct as stated. People usually try the local language first, if they can speak it at all. At that point they don't even know what each other's languages are. So two British people meeting for the first tim
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by bloak 6y ago
Where do you draw the line between "content" and "mark-up"? * Word break nearly always gets treated as content, denoted by the space character. * Line break can be either: '\n' or <br>. * Paragraph break
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by bloak 6y ago
Why do some people use UUIDs in the first place? Some kind of cargo cult?
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Tamam Shud Case(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by bloak 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
It's explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6O4N3wxf8
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by bloak 6y ago
That's a difficult question, but if a language changes rapidly then not everyone will keep up with the changes to the same extent and communication between those people will be compromised. This also affects written communication. Most

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