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by bloak 2y ago
You also have to recompute the check digit, of course, for example: 0131103628 -> 9780131103627
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by bloak 2y ago
I don't disagree but interestingly Europe may have one city that is less walkable that anywhere in the USA because I saw one list of the world's least walkable cities that started like this: Johannesburg, Patra (Greece), Dallas, H
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by bloak 2y ago
Vaguely related: Apart from £ and €, a typical GB keyboard has a couple of non-ASCII characters printed on it: ¬ and ¦. The key labelled ¦ is usually mapped to |, but the key labelled ¬ often gives you an actual ¬, though I can't remem
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by bloak 2y ago
That's interesting, and good, I suppose. I knew that the birth rate had peaked but I didn't know that the absolute number of births had peaked. According to https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-births-
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by bloak 2y ago
That gender thing is interesting. Could you try renaming some of the variables and substituting words in the comments so that the code no longer obviously appears to be dealing with gender and see if Copilot behaves differently? If it does
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by bloak 2y ago
Do you know Private Eye ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye )? Around the 1980s, presumably shortly after the appearance of Walkman, they had a cartoon in each issue that generally had a scene of several people i
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by bloak 2y ago
> Nobody’s surname needs 128+ bytes. According to Wikipedia some joker did have a 666-character surname, officially, in the USA. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to truncate the field at some reasonable limit to prevent people from
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by bloak 2y ago
It's more like a preposition that exceptionally comes after the noun phrase instead of before it. (Is there another thing like that in English? I can't think of one, though there's one in German: entlang) Etymologically it&#x
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by bloak 2y ago
Also "kill", apparently.
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by bloak 2y ago
It depends on the book. In the case of Kafka's "The trial", for example, the manuscript is "the original" because the author never finished the work and all editions were made after his death based on that manuscrip
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by bloak 2y ago
"Trivially" might be overstating it. If you do the scan at 1000 dpi and get several people to check it was done properly then very probably you will never want to refer to the original again, because a scan is much easier to consu
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by bloak 2y ago
I agree it's surprising and can only suggest the following explanations: * Undefined behaviour lets compiler developers improve the performance of certain standard benchmarks (slightly but significantly) and they don't want to giv
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by bloak 2y ago
A single-word common name usually refers to a genus: "oak" is anything in Quercus , "wagtail" is anything in Motacilla and so on. That's not conclusive because there are plenty of exceptions, and "human&quot
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by bloak 2y ago
On the other hand, spreading species of eucalyptus that koalas can eat and also bringing in koalas sounds like an excellent plan!
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by bloak 2y ago
No explanation of why this tiny fern has such a huge genome?
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by bloak 2y ago
That sounds great for the cinema: if it goes off the rails the director can let it run for a bit if it looks some great improv or else shout CUT if it doesn't. However, on the stage ... I'm not so sure ... your fellow actors might
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by bloak 2y ago
You can have a whole conversation about someone in English without revealing their gender, but it takes some skill. There's even a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_game I am not at all sure that
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by bloak 2y ago
Of the countries mentioned above, yes, and China emits a lot less CO2 per capita than the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... However Russia emits almost as much CO2 per capita as the U
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by bloak 2y ago
Yes, though perhaps I'm not using the best terminology. English doesn't have "grammatical gender", so a noun like "table" or "wisdom" doesn't have a gender like it would in French or German, but
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by bloak 2y ago
> This is a factual description. Is your gender on the same side as your biological sex? That's all cisgender means today. That may seem reasonable, and I certainly wouldn't want to argue against it, but I've seen enough d
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by bloak 2y ago
I don't think it's true that "changing time zones is something we already know how to do easily". At least not with the word "easily" in there. Time zones cause a lot of problems, which is why we don't cha
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by bloak 2y ago
It's something people have strong opinions on. Obviously some people want to get rid of leap seconds but I personally like UTC with leap seconds. The only change I'd make is to require leap seconds to be announced several years in
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by bloak 2y ago
That's French-style punctuation. It doesn't distract me too much. According to LinkedIn the author is in Egypt but has the same (Arabic) name (modulo spelling) as a famous French footballer (and headbutter).
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by bloak 2y ago
0123456789 are best called "European", I think, as Arabic numerals would be: ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
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by bloak 2y ago
> Maybe that would be my advice in taking up hobbies: aim to be better than the worst people who do it professionally. Then I hope you don't count sports as hobbies because being better than the worst people who do it for fun is a s
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by bloak 2y ago
> If you think about it you can never eliminate the advantage of being faster. If you do 5 seconds batches it just means the edges of the batches become the time-sensitive points. You mean you can never completely eliminate the advantage
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by bloak 3y ago
Is that a well-defined thing? How is one supposed to know whether the FooBar WomBat 20 is the same vehicle or not as the FooBar WomBat 20i? Do auto industry insiders have a clear concept of this?
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by bloak 3y ago
I wasn't familiar with the term, either, but it's in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
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by bloak 3y ago
It seems to me that people are very much exaggerating how "professional" this attack was. Yes, it doesn't look like the actions of a single bored teenager but I don't think the government of a country like the USA or Chi
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by bloak 3y ago
Interesting. Is there also a pattern in the times of day? (I don't so much mean the times in commits done by the developer because they can be fake. I'd be more interested in authentic times recorded by GitHub, if any such times a

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