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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26292671 ECS was popularised with http://enwp.org/Dark_Engine in 1998. The architectural style probably existed already earlier, but I have no evidence I can point to.
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   If a person is disabled (physically or mentally), they will be mostly confined by the family to their home for their own good and not participate in the wider society.
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > I don't know enough about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27662804
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   Just write "you (plural)" next time to make yourself easily understood.
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > the contrast is stronger That's mathematically impossible.
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > AFAIK there’s now way to “tell” the gender of a word in German That's incorrect, there are rules. (These rules have a few exceptions.) m: -en, -er, -ig, -ismus, -ist, -ling, -m, -or f: -ät, -e, -ei, -enz, -heit, -ie, -ik, -in, -io
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > What was that "spirit" of Opera 12? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23733577 (plus parent for context) Maybe I can summarise that as "l
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > A formal apprenticeship model would be great for programming It exists since 1997-1999, varying on the country. An apprenticeship takes nominally between 3 and 3½ years, concludes with a level 4 EQR and the rules and by-laws are determ
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   by bmn__ 5y ago

   > Could you act as your own copyright troll? Yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz14Ul-r63w > That is, what happens when you file copyright claims against your own works from a second account? You split half and hal
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > m, a, and b are all type-level variables; the value of m is a type constructor (which is essentially a type-level function), while the values of a and b are types. Let's try to apply that knowledge, and use my tribe's creed
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Holding elections on voting computers that are by definition unverifiable and the effect being a loss of confidence in voting is not a conspiracy theory. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25401222
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23294417
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    I believe AmigaOS and BeOS had that, ROX Desktop too? We could replicate the same nowadays via GStreamer, but adoption is hampered by its plug-in system, meaning that most installations are incomplete.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Same horse with Greek intruders removed: https://vscodium.com/#why
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > They'll just hit a function call they need to make with a Unicode character This is optional, the language adapts to the capability of the user. He can write ∑ or sum for a function, µ or mu for an identifier. https://d
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    KDE and all its applications and a majority of other Linux desktop application use the configuration laid out in < https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/ >.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    You have confused terminology. TC is an example of orthodox file manager. Explorer is an example of spatial file manager.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Better: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/view-page-archive
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Conspiracy theory: 1. specification authors want to make sure the extended grapheme cluster algorithms are widely adopted so that implementations can correctly deal with devanagari 2. they notice no one gives a shit about brown people and t
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Internet pop culture won't forget the name any soon. https://i.redd.it/vh72e4sstj431.jpg https://lotus.paheal.net/_images/3e7bcec1c66b3d342ab726a52ff... https://art.ngfiles.com/ima
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    >> Both the US and Germany have exceptions. > No it does not. Bold claim. How does one square it with the exceptions documented in the article linked in GP's post?
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    https://altbox.dev
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    For very small values of nominal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27494790
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    30 year war, Ahlam Tamimi bombing, wars of suppression against Bön
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > Removing religion completely has been tried in a larger scale experiment in the Soviet Union and the results were very much worse than the most barbaric religions. What am I supposed to say here? "Good thing I'm not Stalin&qu
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    There is a vast gulf between what is preached and what adherents do or don't do. Knowing human nature, I think all religions have suffered abuse in the form of having peace on paper, but inciting hate through opportunists.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    Nothing is safe. It's always a trade-off. I guess people are downvoting you because they think you misjudge the trade-off.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > I have some more questions (serious) Contact the department of health education of the ministry of health. You already paid for it with your taxes, might as well make use of it.
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > Why do people still have to attack religion? Because religions are still dangerous animals, if you would indulge this metaphor. Just because we managed to declaw and tame one (values of Enlightenment supplanting values of Christianity)
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    by bmn__ 5y ago

    > using a regex DSL to match a sequence of strings, where you might want to define a string class (analogous to a character class) as a regex itself. http://p3rl.org/retut#Defining-named-patterns https://docs.