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by bmn__ 5y ago
That's more wrong than correct. There's only one minor part of the design where we can see a relation: Latin q resembles Cyrillic ч .
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> When converting the original characters into English Latin characters is correct, not English > why didn't the creators of this system choose letters which more closely match the native pronunciation? Because among other things
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> there are sounds and consonants people just cannot make past a certain age That's false. > why go for perfection? It's politeness, nay, more than that: respect. Trying hard to produce a name as accurately as one can shows
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Google improved their negligence in 2019. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%24_
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Some people are not well socialised and just like to insult programming languages, and by extension, judge and put down their users. We should extend pity to them. Or perhaps detached bemusement as in https://youtu.be/R00JE6
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by bmn__ 5y ago
You have to come up with the modicum of empathy to put yourself in the shoes of the users to be able to understand why they are angry. • You must acknowledge that privacy is a basic human right.¹ Maybe you were brought up in a culture where
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> the main problem is that 90% (imaginary data) of the cars in cities are not used Reality is even worse than your imagination. https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=cars+are+parked+*+of+t...
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Why don't we have a `~/.config/bash.d/` directory whose files are automatically sourced? That they there is no need for installers to step on the toes of a central profile, they would just add a file to the directory whi
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> Is this necessarily a bad thing? It pains me that I have to explain this to adults on HN, but: yes, this is bad. The foreign investor/customer paid dearly with time and money for the research and development. The factory runs an a
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by bmn__ 5y ago
American law does not apply in Austria
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distinction between inclusive and exclusive or
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Another group who use that name are the libertarians who recognise that the Tedros rename to sars2/covid is a Kampfbegriff and refuse to use it out of principle in order to avoid supporting the CCP propaganda efforts. They are politi
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by bmn__ 5y ago
It is too early to displace HTML with PDF. > PDFs used to be inaccessible My eyes are not very good. I have trouble reading the font in the PDF. I am using Firefox. HTML lets me pick that a font that I can read easily. I cannot do that w
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Reply to redis_mlc < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27878748 >, post out of order because of the ban: Moderation does not care about right or wrong, truthful or fake, moral or immoral. Moderation cares about harmo
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by bmn__ 5y ago
User redis_mlc has been shadowbanned for eight months which is an abhorrent practice. He is a prolific contributor, but most readers will never see his comments. Occasionally, a reader with showdead:yes in the options and sufficient karma w
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Are you just going to ignore the evidence that goes counter to the narrative you want to establish?
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by bmn__ 5y ago
That is incorrect. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23067431
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Already taken to its logical conclusion: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Perligata
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Daktylos just means finger.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Play strategy games in historic order; at the conclusion of a game, export the game state for import into the next one. • Imperator (antiquity) • Crusader Kings 2/3 (middle ages) • Europa Universalis 4 (renaissance/early modernity
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Classic hacker anti-procrast in German: http://frollein-schmidt.de/antiverpeil.html
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Badly maintained fork of https://github.com/public-apis made with copy-paste in order to hide the provenance. More: https://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory https://apis.guru https:&
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by bmn__ 5y ago
I resent that I have to spend a magnitude more effort to refute your misinformation than it took you to write. You are conflating the person whose shipment was seized, Henrik Huseby in Norway, with the person reporting on the story, Louis R
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by bmn__ 5y ago
https://sqlzoo.net https://sqlteaching.com https://pgexercises.com
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by bmn__ 5y ago
You are mistaken. The Outline link only has the introduction (1500 words) by Freeman, the Atlantic article is ten times longer.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Explanation for your downvotes: you misunderstood GP's post, he refers to removing the concept of null as it is currently specified from the language, not removing null values from data.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
It's not 1960 any more. We have colour video. We are allowed to highlight syntax with colours instead of the less legible all caps.
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Is that a bug? Certainly feels like one. Try it with software that does not blow goat dicks, and it does not disappoint: $ perl -E'say q("Tarzan") =~ /"Tarzan"(*SKIP)(?!)|Tarzan/ ' $ perl -E
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by bmn__ 5y ago
> ads are entirely controlled by the video uploader Some Youtubers talk shop on their channels. I have learnt from them that this is not the case. Even if a Youtuber is very meticulous about placing and restricting the ads (e.g. two mid-
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by bmn__ 5y ago
Even languages with heavy-weight MOPs do not offer a programming interface to unapply/uncompose, the reverse of: https://metacpan.org/dist/Moose/source/lib/Moose/Meta/Role/A... https

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