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by bradrn 3y ago
> using capital i as roman numeral lookalike (instead of unicode) theirs At least that much is correct. Quoth the Unicode Standard: > For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate
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by bradrn 3y ago
I haven’t heard of C+-, and searching for it seems difficult… which story was that?
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In the periodisation GP is referring to, I believe Boléro would be Modernist, not Classical. The latter [0] refers to works by e.g. Mozart and Haydn, and followed the Baroque period of e.g. J.S. Bach. (Incidentally, I do find Classical mu
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Absolutely. I use Haskell as my main language for personal projects, and I like FP a lot — but I’ve seen some really horrible stuff marketed as ‘FP’ lately, especially in languages like JavaScript.
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I’ve used Xfce and XMonad together with great success. I’m on Wayland now (using Sway), but I still miss that combination.
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Pedantic note: ‘Address’ should really be a ‘newtype’…
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> I've been looking for a spreadsheet so that I can "drive spreadsheet from Python" rather than the usual "drive Python from spreadsheet". You might find Mito [ https://www.trymito.io/ ] interestin
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> Daniel Mendler (minad on GitHub) et al. have some seriously awesome packages. Absolutely! What I like about them is how they each focus on doing one thing well, making use of built-in functionality so they all work well with the rest o
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I’ve used Emacs for quite a few years now, but I had a look at emacs-bedrock when it was posted, and discovered a whole bunch of interesting settings and packages I’d never seen before. I’ve now switched my config over from Ivy to Vertico (
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> Yeniseian (the originator of such words as Tengri, Kha(g)an, etc) being connected to Native American Apache language was pretty amazing and evidence of the importance of paleo-linguistics in finding out informations about our ancestors
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> Another similar item is fountain pens. Can’t say anything about mechanical watches, but I’ll disagree with this: in my experience, fountain pens aren’t just toys. I was given a fountain pen a few years ago, and I immediately found it m
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I’m slightly surprised to see no-one has linked this yet: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
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> We designed LFortran to first "raise" the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) to ASR (Abstract Semantic Representation) … I’ve actually never heard of an ASR before… sounds very interesting! Do you happen to have any resources I can r
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> another language you probably haven't heard of that does not use English-looking letters Out of curiosity, which language is it? And which writing system are you talking about?
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Fair enough, though I’ll note that only I’ve given an up-to-date reference.
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I’m not on IRC, but the subreddit, the Discourse forum and the Discord server are all pretty good for this kind of thing too.
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> I'm always confused about whether I should have ghcup or stack manage my Haskell versions (and what the benefits and drawbacks are) There was a long and drawn-out transition, but these days it’s quite simple: use GHCup to manage y
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Absolutely this is possible! Such systems are called ‘proto-writing’ [0], and formed the precursor to almost every writing system known today (with the exception of ones such as Hangeul and Cherokee, which were basically created from scratc
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by bradrn 3y ago
In some ways, tiling WMs are a natural fit for tablets — consider e.g. the iPad’s ‘split screen’ mode, where two windows take up the whole screen between them. It’s easy enough to imagine a WM where you can drag windows to move them around,
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I don’t know much about Python, but from searching up WSGI, this sounds quite similar to the Web Application Interface [ https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wai ].
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Not to be confused with Reflex, allowing web apps in pure Haskell: https://reflex-frp.org/
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I think that is their point. Languages often spread by processes unrelated to genetics.
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> No [x] to close these 1980's text editors either. X was commonly used to delete characters in-line, but not to close the program. Not quite true. In Vim, :x means ‘save and close buffer’, and is a synonym for :wq. (Not sure if t
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Yeah, I know. I presume more readers here would be familiar with the name ‘Ancient Egyptian’ than with ‘Coptic’. (And really, as it evolved so dramatically over 3000 years, ‘Ancient Egyptian’ can’t easily be called a single language to star
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But, on the other hand, ‘While in most populations genetic and linguistic relations match, mismatches occur regularly as a result of language shift’: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122084119
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There is a saying I’ve seen: ‘genes don’t speak languages’. Languages can easily spread between population groupings, and conversely a single population can move from one language to another — and both processes happen with considerable reg
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From the same person, further down in the thread: > It's been pointed out to me that my wording could be taken to suggest that I think folks who oppose WEI are criminals. That was absolutely not my intent and I apologize for not bei
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Also a font shaping engine: https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=project...
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Looks like they haven’t changed the favicon yet… https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitter.2.ico EDIT: And in fact, it looks like their 404 page has the SVG: e.g. https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/twitte
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The was a small leak of helium within the instrument. Such incidents are completely unexceptional with superconducting magnets, and pose no risk to anyone outside the room where it happen, since both helium and nitrogen are about as inert a

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