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by bmn__ 1y ago
It is wrong to blame the server here. For better results in content-negotiation, a user-agent should allow you to assign numeric weights instead of just a list (implying the same level of preference). Example: Accept-Language: en;q=0.
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by bmn__ 1y ago
perl -E'Unicode::Collate::Locale->new(locale => 'cs')->sort … … …' works. Test cases at https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?action=view&id=900
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by bmn__ 1y ago
> how you can't "alphabetize" language names Not so, this sort order has been standardised as part of Unicode for at least 28 years. To see it in action, pipe the list of languages as a text file through a conforming tool
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by bmn__ 1y ago
The logical mistake was to attribute this success to accelerationism, when hundreds of thousands of other technological or social factors exist that have greater explanatory power. I think we are closer to the truth under the assumption tha
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by bmn__ 1y ago
What gives you the idea? Works fine in width 422px.
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by bmn__ 1y ago
Yes, this is nonsensical or contradictory because GP is not aware of the correct definition. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28105868
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by bmn__ 1y ago
He is. Today is the day you realise that thanks to your innate intelligence you had a time of privilege in school.
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by bmn__ 1y ago
What's the name of the common fallacy, "I can't imagine it therefore it cannot exist"?
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by bmn__ 1y ago
These are ideals of humanism.
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by bmn__ 1y ago
> Nationalism is not compatible with freedom. That's false. The way you phrased this is that I just need one example to debunk, I'll gladly take the easy win. Here it is: https://freedomhouse.org/country/mo
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by bmn__ 1y ago
> The author complains about VSCode's extensions clashing, but then proudly lists a dozen Kate plugins they use. That makes sense; when I was reading this I inferred that VSCode's extensions were clashing, making him loath to u
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by bmn__ 1y ago
https://github.com/rurban/smhasher#:~:text=fibonacci
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by bmn__ 1y ago
Obligatory Perl snobbery: Perl wins the day by being shorter and better output and already installed on your computer. perl -C -M5.032 -MUnicode::UCD=charprop -e \ '# https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPING
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by bmn__ 1y ago
It's not an exact repeat.
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by bmn__ 1y ago
The writer David Malcolm tells a story in his article about compiling C17 code and pretending it's C23. Duh, no wonder it breaks! You C standard authors have it bass-ackwards. The version of the code must accompany the code, not the co
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by bmn__ 2y ago
You are in a bubble if you think that "everybody has […] settled on they". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179524
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by bmn__ 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl,_Saarland
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by bmn__ 2y ago
The download-model step breaks with: max_rec_size = mx.metal.device_info()["max_recommended_working_set_size"] RuntimeError: [metal::device_info] Cannot get device info without metal backend Because it is accompanied with a huge s
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Yes, it is. I have shown the sources, and thus quite demonstrably refuted diggan's claim of Uncertainty at the end of his post. The other parts of his post are very much emotional appeal, trying to get a HN reader to feel Fear and Doub
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Why shoot the messenger? Not a rhetorical question, answer it if you are able to. diggan, your way of thinking needs to face strong criticism. It brings you into the realm of make-belief and delusion and turns you away from the truth. Deali
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Money is drying up because Google is being ordered to terminate the deal, and they refused to save it and rather spend it on flights to Zambia to make a festival session about "feminist AI alliance for climate justice" "cente
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by bmn__ 2y ago
It lacks the deduplication part that make its competitors useful.
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by bmn__ 2y ago
On good file systems (see < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174685 >) also identical chunks of files can be merged, resulting in more savings than with just whole files. As of now, dedup cannot help with this, bu
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Nothing much, jdupes already does the best thing. https://manpages.debian.org/jdupes/jdupes.1#B
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by bmn__ 2y ago
btrfs, xfs, FIDEDUPERANGE for the sake of people coming from search engines.
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by bmn__ 2y ago
> Does Earth become a giant favela ruled by a dozen trillionaires with a tiny supporting bourgeoisie? Yes. SF author imagines it would be more efficient to concentrate the proles of into a small agglomeration of buildings. It's easi
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Not enjoyable to me. It elevates the pronunciation that Shaw used into the status of the one true English and marginalises any other spoken variants, dialects all over the globe. This is presumptuous and unfair. How about this (equally unwo
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by bmn__ 2y ago
Consider just ignoring posts with bad spelling altogether: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/strikeout/
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by bmn__ 2y ago
me too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32638021 Note dang's reply, he sees nothing wrong with how it is, in his view, there is no groupthink problem, it's all just banned accounts.
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by bmn__ 2y ago
2025: Mitsuhiko discovers ::Tiny modules :) https://metacpan.org/search?size=500&q=%3A%3ATiny The article shows it's a cultural problem, not a technical. The normal case should be that implementations come in all

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