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by bmn__ 5y ago
Better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646035
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Liechtenstein, too, in that agreement. More German speaking countries (language with official status) who were not involved: Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Namibia.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30425746
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I contest that. The parsers based on the formalism of CFG do not have that problem. The straightforward mental model of the user always matches their behaviour, no complexity, no surprises.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> I don't understand what the payoff is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Better: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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by bmn__ 5y ago
#!/usr/bin/env perl use utf8; use Unicode::Collate; my $uc = Unicode::Collate->new( normalization => undef, level => 1 ); printf "pos %d len %d\n", $uc->index(
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> you are oversimplifying to the point of inaccuracy No, what I wrote is an accurate reflection of Unicode. It does not matter what Jean Dupont and Hong Gildong think, but what we agreed on as a standard. > They do not exist as standa
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by bmn__ 5y ago
It's a press release, the material edited to several lengths in order to increase adoption among the press agencies and other recipients. I have seen this practice a few times.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> A 'character' meaning what? […] it's ambiguity in the concept of "character" All of this already standardised in detail in Unicode. There is no ambiguity. Read it some time to mend your ignorance, it answers al
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> > what's wrong with the ol' "sudo apt install foo" > That installs a binary tool I can run at the command line. […] It's not great for a web browser or a calculator. You're wrong about that. A packa
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> Modifying your core parser at runtime though, who would do such a thing? Perl? Its numerous language extensions allowed it to stay competitive for such a long time. Every time someone says "language X can do Y but Perl doesn&#x27
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by bmn__ 5y ago
It can be externally parsed with ambiguities. The article is written by someone who authored such a parsing toolkit about three years later. Despite what you may have learnt, an ambiguous parse tree is still a useful thing to have, we can b
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nimp
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> the Korean alphabet was designed in the 19th century False, it was in 1443. https://www.korean.go.kr/hangeul/setting/002.html
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwP0KUlnZg
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by bmn__ 5y ago
False. $ perl -Mwarnings -E'sub f { $c++; say $c if 0 == $c % 1_000_000; f() } f' Deep recursion on subroutine "main::f" at -e line 1. 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Waiting for http://enwp.org/Miegakure for 11 years and counting.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537294
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Stackexchange contents are freely available with a share-alike licence, ctrl+f "user contributions" in the site footer. The data dumps are linked elsewhere in these discussion threads. They are not scraping. The secondary economic
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by bmn__ 5y ago
We were talking about RFCs, so yes. It's the fundamental qualitative distinction between the two technologies: good specs really do matter. https://pwn.ersh.io/notes/why_specs_matter/ https://www.x
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Atom killed RSS. It has RFCs out the wazoo.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Applying a bare amount of image optimisation: original 3_389_491 B pngout 2_739_324 B quantised 256 colours+pngout 636_135 B webp lossless 2_210_112 B web
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Not a stupid question. This has already been done for numerous languages. Your search terms are "X in the Web browser" and "X compiled to wasm".
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by bmn__ 5y ago
The terminology for these concepts in common use is "user" and "user agent".
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Also see: • Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014) < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882389 > 2022-01-10, 119 comments • Medieval Price List < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669787
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Not a dumb question. Answer is no, TS's features are in general not sufficient to express dependent types. It would need to stop making a distinction between types and values, and allow running arbitrary (total) functions in order to
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by bmn__ 5y ago
That's a misnomer and I'm glad it's already getting fixed in some places: the newer, better word is "eager". This frees up "strict".
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Not a problem in KDE.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
The good fork already has it. < https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#sponsorblock-options >

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