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by bmn__ 5y ago
Willing to learn and improve. How would you express what I wanted to say?
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> Didn't English the also came from neuter if I'm not mistaken? Confirming, you are mistaken. English used to be 3-gendered (system m,f,n) like its linguistic predecessors and neighbours, only lost it in the 14th century with s
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by bmn__ 5y ago
I examined closely and found both are exactly the same, a perfectly valid Latin script run and equivalent to the expression in escape notation "\N{U+74}\N{U+68}\N{U+69}\N{U+73}\N{U+3A}". > perl -C -E'print "\N{U
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> Why are fruit feminine and pencils and pens masculine? Is it because writing instruments were the tools of men or because they're phallic? […] it's arbitrary and I would assume, like many things in our world, they were chosen
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by bmn__ 5y ago
< http://enwp.org/Kannada >
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> I have difficulties parsing your statement The underlying idea is: as a hacker , and as a first step , the onus is on you to come up with the explanation‡ yourself, not expect the burden of education on somebody else's back to b
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Also see: < https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.bbc.com/pidgin > 5 submissions to the BBC News Pidgin home page: < https://www.bbc.com/pidgin > 3 submissions to the initial announcement of the se
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> I can easily create two different domain names that render identically in the browser You can't (any more)¹. That worked for a limited amount of time, then mitigations were put in place, and subsequently standardised as part of Un
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Let's see how this sounds when we flip it around. "That is one thing news aggregator commenters should learn: while it might be fun to just put one's ignorance on display for the world to see, when publishing, come up with a
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Consider that the people working for you are experts, but the rest of the world on average is not. If one cannot make a judgement whether < https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/207 > weakens SHA-2 for a particular use case
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27714868
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> why does grammatical gender exist See < https://www.belleslettres.eu/content/deklination/genus-gende... > around the 40 to 60% content region. tl;dr Originally Proto-Indo-European had no genders. The conc
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> I was curious about the timing of the post. cmuratori mentioned meowhash in passing in a recent (i.e. few days ago) Refterm or optimisation video. It is possible that user DeathArrow watched this, too, and decided to submit the project
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> good randomness, few collisions on typical input data, and universal implementation The relevant standards body NIST has issued SHA-3 in 2015. Spread the word that programmers should not reach for outdated hash algos. < https:/
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by bmn__ 5y ago
openSUSE (excluding Tumbleweed) had delta RPMs since 2005.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
If you read the linked document carefully, then you will notice that YAML 1.2 existed twelve years ago, the incompatibility has not been addressed as suggested and remains still a problem for the end users.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> JSON is also valid YAML That's false. http://p3rl.org/JSON::XS#JSON-and-YAML
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Some software dealing with YAML had the ability to execute code by accident, see comment thread < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849761 >.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
The guess is based on what? When I observe the world, I come to a different conclusion. I see people including non-programmers talk about HTML as code. I see software packages like editors that say they deal with code, and it's not abo
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Gemmell made a mistake in assuming the shame and guilt of the people who abused his article. The article is just a tool. We should hold the abusers responsible for their gatekeeping and telling others to get lost.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
ISO holds meetings where member delegates improve the drafts and negotiate the standards to be.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
I see you chose to ignore what prompted the rant. Is it deliberate?
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by bmn__ 5y ago
If the US were to adopt the requirement of a police candidate having an A-level (or whatever the local equivalent is called, I can't figure it out), I predict the problem would solve itself within a generation. This requirement is not
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/%2a/http://101.132.96.154/%2a
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> are you going to start your own company to do the same work but sell it yourself and take all the margin? No, but not because it's supposedly difficult to incorporate; I did this once and it only took filling a one page form, wait
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no, increase virtual screen size
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> I know former MSers who worked on progress bars for old Windows versions. https://explainxkcd.com/612
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by bmn__ 5y ago
You don't have to suffer (subjectively) bad typography. Cascading style sheets were designed with the ability to override author styles with user styles, your Web browser has settings for this.

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