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by bloak 7y ago
Besides confusing people, I'd say it's a useless feature for a couple of reasons: 1. If you insert a misnumbered item in the middle of the list then when you come back later to edit the text you will be confused by how the numbers
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by bloak 7y ago
Darwin did excellent work in a number of areas and is a real hero. But I disagree with "the lion's share of the credit" because I don't think there's a finite quantity of "credit" that needs to be shared o
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by bloak 7y ago
The fact that so-called Arabic numerals are written left-to-right is perhaps evidence that the Arabic numerals were invented in India and are called Arabic in Europe only because Europeans learnt about them from the Arabs.
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by bloak 7y ago
A more pertinent point is that if your website doesn't really need JavaScript, and most don't, then it will be faster, more reliable and require less maintenance if you simply don't use it. There are also security risks if yo
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by bloak 7y ago
It sounds like what they want is a bit like what you get with a word processor provided that everyone is using the same version of the same program on identical systems, so you don't have the current situation of the layout getting com
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by bloak 7y ago
Does that "most" mean 60% of people, or 90%? Unsolicited advice only annoys me if it's long-winded and preventing me from doing something else. Also, I don't know what "validation" is in this context. Oxford En
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by bloak 7y ago
Unusable input boxes are rather common nowadays. I know several web sites for which I know from experience I should edit my text somewhere else and then paste it in, then delete and repaste if I need to change anything. In general, I'v
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by bloak 7y ago
It was ordered that all copies of the film "Nosferatu" be destroyed, because it allegedly infringed copyright. Shortly after the alleged copyright had expired a copy was found in a safe. It seems that someone had failed to fully i
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by bloak 7y ago
I think they were at the same school but not in the same class. There's a theory (more fun than plausible) that Hitler was influenced by Wittgenstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jew_of_Linz One of the probl
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by bloak 7y ago
RFC 2279 says: "In UTF-8, characters are encoded using sequences of 1 to 6 octets." That's not technically a standard, but it was widely implemented.
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by bloak 7y ago
Yes, I think that's the right approach. You just forgot to mention that in order to prevent tracking a new VM is spun up for fetching each page. (Of course this wouldn't be necessary if the browser were implemented by someone who
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by bloak 7y ago
Imagine being an astronomer in a society living on a planet orbiting an intergalactic star like that: no proper stars in the sky, just smudges of distant galaxies. It might be difficult to discover the "Copernican principle" in su
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by bloak 7y ago
One should distinguish between at least two things here, and I'm not totally sure about the terminology. There's a thing called a "booster seat", I think, which doesn't contain any expanded polystyrene and is not li
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by bloak 7y ago
Losing party paying everything is perhaps even worse than each party paying its own costs. The correct solution, as implemented in some countries, is that if a party was behaving unreasonably, for example by refusing a fair offer to settle
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by bloak 7y ago
Non-rhetorical question: What's the point of this? For many years it has been possible in many countries for a police officer to enter a vehicle's number plate and get details of the registered owner, including a photo, on the scr
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by bloak 7y ago
With gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, is it possible to have a secret formula these days?
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by bloak 7y ago
So when are they opening the authentic Sumerian restaurant with bilingual menus?
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by bloak 7y ago
Personally I'd be worried that the easy-to-extract Saudi oil is about to run out and the Saudis know that and that's why they're selling. They run a fairly tight ship and might be capable of suppressing the truth about their
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by bloak 7y ago
Thinking of nationality, I would guess it's easier to find cases in which religion divides people with a common language than cases in which religion unites people with different languages.
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by bloak 7y ago
Perhaps for you and me language is the only major attribute, but for many people there's also religion, and sometimes religion is even more important than language.
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by bloak 7y ago
It's the "grade" that makes the headline ridiculous for me. I can imagine military and non-military rocket launchers, but "military-grade rocket launchers" makes it sound like there's a QC stage at the end of t
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by bloak 7y ago
There was a similar, though less spectacular, case in the UK, in which the police spent more on lawyers successfully defending the case than it would have cost to compensate the person whose door they had smashed down in the middle of the n
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by bloak 7y ago
I'd vote this down if I could. It's a total waste of time. Some wise commentary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Chinese_room#can_someone_... ? EDIT: Several failed attempts to make the link work.
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by bloak 7y ago
It might be conspiracy to commit murder, or it might be fraud, if he was intending to take the money but not kill anyone. What do the police do when they catch someone who was selling fake illegal drugs? It can't be a drugs offence, ca
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by bloak 7y ago
For a murder conviction and a long sentence there has to be both: someone killed and "malice". You punch someone in anger and they die: murder, years in prison. You punch someone in anger and they are not seriously injured: relati
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by bloak 7y ago
A technical problem with localising a programming language is reserved words: either you decide in advance which localised variants will exist and you can't add any later, or the variants are potentially incompatible and to combine cod
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by bloak 7y ago
Another article with similar content, but more details and less advertising, previously submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19223719
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by bloak 7y ago
As I understand it, we don't know how Bach tuned his keyboard instruments. We know he cared about tuning and tuned his own instruments, but apparently there are reasons to believe that he didn't use equal temperament. Bradley Lehm
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by bloak 7y ago
If you don't allow non-ascii then you may have to mangle some people's names in the copyright header. It's good to check files for unexpected characters, though. Here's some Perl to do it: perl -e 'binmode(STDIN
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by bloak 7y ago
Perhaps people who write product reviews should get into the habit of starting their review with a description of what they are reviewing, who they ordered it from, and how much they paid for it. That last bit of information is definitely v

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