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by buchoo 3y ago
Arabic speakers have a comparable system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet#Compariso...
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by buchoo 3y ago
The same frustration due to the same bad habit led me to look into implementing lazy loading in SumatraPDF, but unfortunately the code is structured in such a way as to make it a very non-trivial change.
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by buchoo 4y ago
Reminds me of the quotation attributed to Edgar Degas, who it is said was in a conversation with Jean-Louis Forain that was interrupted by the state-of-the-art technology that the latter had had installed in his home: "So that's w
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by buchoo 4y ago
One fun historical tidbit is that St Teresa of Ávila died on the night of the 4th to the 15th of October, 1582.
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by buchoo 4y ago
The interracial marriage ban precedes Roe v. Wade by over 6 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
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by buchoo 4y ago
Not very specific, but he says: "In my parents' house, there were a lot of books: all the great authors of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, translated foreign authors. I spent my youth, and still today I spend most of my time, r
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by buchoo 4y ago
That passage reminded me of a remark by the 2002 French Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue: "My specificity today among French mathematicians is not to know more mathematics than others, I can even admit that I know less mathematics tha
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by buchoo 4y ago
Reminds me of the American TV show "What Would You Do?", of which there are many videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatWouldYouDo It tends heavily to revisit certain themes, but overall it drives h
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by buchoo 4y ago
Why would they list the movies? Seems counterproductive since you could then broadcast which torrents are monitored.
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by buchoo 4y ago
There's also more nuance than that, in that the Liberals' position changed substantially over time. Gladstone's party was one that very much believed in lowering taxes and lowering state expenditure, with the idea that the in
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by buchoo 4y ago
Note that the article is talking about the Commons, not the Lords. Still, it fails to mention the Reform Act 1867, passed by a traditionally landed Parliament and which substantially increased the franchise; it is this change that can be th
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by buchoo 4y ago
Reminds me of a Udemy Unreal Engine course where the instructor would pronounce APawn* as "APawn star", which Udemy's subtitle generator would suitably render as "a ** star".
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by buchoo 4y ago
Could you please provide evidence for your claims?
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by buchoo 4y ago
GP presumably meant the weapons of mass destruction Donald Rumsfeld claimed Saddam Hussein was developing in "seeking the means to strike the United States and our friends and allies",[0] not unusable pre-1991 weapons that were ru
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by buchoo 4y ago
Was it? I recall the kuro5hin analysis of the leaked Windows 2000 source code[0] that said: >there is nothing really surprising in this leak. Microsoft does not steal open-source code. Their older code is flaky, their modern code excelle
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by buchoo 4y ago
Is Ada actually considered a legacy language in the same way COBOL is now? What languages have displaced it for new software in the safety-critical areas that it gained ascendancy in?
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by buchoo 4y ago
Similarly, the effect of media coverage can also be thought to be visible in perceptions of race relations. When polled, Americans say that their local race relations are still near the best they've ever been, but for the past few year
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by buchoo 4y ago
You are quoting critics negatively assessing a popular composer, whereas the article talks about how music now praised by critics largely fails to engage the public. (Note that Fidelio did indeed receive an unenthusiastic reception in 1806
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by buchoo 4y ago
Parkinson's law in software is real. As Jon Blow often says, our computers are basically supercomputers that are astoundingly bogged down by bad software development practices. The computer I'm on is at the very least several doze