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by brenns10 4y ago
My understanding (and take this with a grain of salt, I don't have sources) is that after the Norman conquest in 1066, the original English language was the lower class language and the Latin/French language of the conquerors beca
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I think it comes down to development cost. A lot of suburbs are developed by a single housing developer, and they essentially have a "theme" with similar styles and just a few floor plans to choose from. So some suburbs end up loo
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> Or if someone is about to sign up to a Mastodon instance, it gently points out that this isn't really Twitter, and that the server administrator will probably read your private messages. If you want the server administrator to de
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Nope, it's not a technical reason. Zoning laws typically prevent you from building structures near the edge of your lot in the suburbs. They also mandate excessive amounts of space to store automobiles, and absurd setbacks from the str
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I'm not convinced you understood the comment you replied to, which doesn't suggest placing a public park in somebody's yard. It suggests that people are clinging to their yard when they could instead have a housing option whi
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We can have both, can't we? Obviously I don't like cul-de-sacs personally, but nowhere in my comment did I suggest banning them. The phrase you quoted was just a turn of phrase as I described my preferred style of land use which
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It's important to be very clear: you're misrepresenting the options! It's not a choice between suburbia and Manhattan. It's a choice between exclusionary, backwards suburban zoning (which is subsidized by denser developm
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It's a strawman to compare detached suburban housing to the densest housing options on the planet. If you do that, it's only fair to compare it against cabins without utilities, off road and miles away from the nearest grocery. Ve
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I appreciate the concern for new developers, but I really don't think it's a good solution to have every project readme describe pip, poetry, pipenv, and whatever other new hotness there is in the package management world. There&#
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You could instead drive at or below posted speed limits, and stop at traffic signals. Then you wouldn't have to worry about this "dystopia"! And the result is that you'd be a safer driver too. This is ridiculous whatabou
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It's not dystopian, but it raises the standard of evidence beyond what is feasible to support. With simple limits, you can say "I clocked you at 80 on a 65mph road" and that's evidence enough. You'd need far more ev
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Yeah, it was decriminalized because jaywalking was a crime invented by the auto industry and there's no real harm in it, provided that a person crosses a street when it is safe to do so (this is part of the new law, it's still ill
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> Pretty much any effort to constantly monitor everyone's behavior at all times is dystopian, yeah. You say "at all times" but like I said, this surveillance is limited to the times when you are operating your privately ow
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True, I didn't mean to imply that race was the only factor for unfair enforcement. Just one well-documented example. All the more reason not to add more subjective criteria for enforcement.
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There's no alternative here. You're asking for a law where a driver gets to interpret the situation and decide whether a traffic law should apply to them or not. That's just unenforceable, imagine trivial court cases hinging
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In this case you are operating your licensed, registered, several thousand lb machinery on roads subsidized and maintained by public money, at great risk to other road users (and yourself). Is it so dystopian that there's the chance yo
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Leaving hazy judgement calls up to the police for enforcement, at least in the US, has not fared particularly well for non-white people. See, for example, the history of enforcement of "jaywalking", a "crime" which was r
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You may want to try xxd -r. https://linux.die.net/man/1/xxd Of course, if you're just looking for a fun programming exercise, then don't let me stop you :)
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I'm not a fan of RMS, but as you noted, his blurb in the talk wasn't "Javascript the language is not free", or even "Javascript the ecosystem is not free", it's about the privacy invading factor of JS in a
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I also disagree with this article's approach, but it seems pretty disingenuous to say that they don't understand terminal input because they didn't mention readline. After all, this is a blog post on the site for a terminal i
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A lot to be said about this - setting aside the privacy/login/pricing stuff, I think the problems and solutions here are vastly overstated. Yeah, terminal input is odd at times. Doubly so if your main prior experience is entering
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by brenns10 4y ago
Thanks! All good clarifications. You're definitely right on all counts, and it was more than a bit naive of me to suggest that language/library authors "simply" have two production grade regex implementations :) >>
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It really feels like they buried the lede here, as almost all discussions about catastrophic backtracking seem to do. Here's the second-to-last paragraph: > Alternatively you could switch to a regular expression engine that doesn’t
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This is an excellent description of a false sharing perfoance issue, and I wouldn't envy the work involved in tracking that code down through the JVM. These sorts of issues are common inside the OS kernel itself. Kernels are managing l
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As an update, Google's "warning level" seems to have dropped to Yellow from Red: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?u... I still see an exclamation mark in mobile Chrome, but it l
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Yeah it's probably an oversight, but that oversight feels particularly irresponsible given that it completely blocks the ability to access web sites (the primary function of a web browser) based on a third-party block list which can&#x
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I don't know, I got that exact error and searched the settings. I couldn't find that preference either.
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Hi folks, my Mastodon server is now blocked as a "deceptive site," likely because its login pages are similar to other Mastodon servers. To a machine learning or rule-based system, I could see how that seems deceptive. But I'
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Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers(snake.club)
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I agree with your perspective - for me Signal is yet another (more secure) internet messaging app on my phone, and I'm happy that way. I wouldn't want it to have anything to do with SMS, no more than I want FB messenger to start h

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