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by derleth 13y ago
> Do you think perhaps they may have a similar concern regarding significantly larger mass vehicles moving at higher speeds some distance to your side? So they're justified in acting recklessly around me because others act recklessl
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by derleth 13y ago
Your snark aside, I don't cycle. I walk. Mainly, I'm concerned with getting knocked down by a cyclist who thinks that sidewalks are a wonderful place to go full speed without having to worry about anyone else.
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by derleth 13y ago
> work reasonably well in most climates. If you like to be boiled in the summer and frozen in the winter, not to mention having to cycle on icy roads with no shoulder and sixteen-wheelers bearing down on you. Anyway, if you do cycle, ple
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's a blessing, not an obligation or a demand or a condition of use. That's how we interpret it. The problem is that we don't know what the rights-holder has in mind, and what that entity's willing to sue over. Law
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by derleth 13y ago
When France lifts the ban on the hijab, we can talk about how non-racist Europe is. Also, France really needs to stop deporting Romani people. Frankly, you're amazingly privileged being black in France compared to being an Arab or a Ro
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by derleth 13y ago
http://arxiv.org/ The arXiv focuses on physics, math, computer science, and similar, but it certainly seems to be what you're looking for.
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The very first sentence in the section about the response from the medical community: > One of the first to respond to Semmelweis's 1848 communications was James Young Simpson who wrote a stinging letter. Simpson surmised that the E
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by derleth 13y ago
Yes, France, where you can live the good life as long as you're a white, European Francophone. Immigrants (especially dark-skinned Muslims) need not apply.
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You know what's really socialistic? The systems inside any large company. You need a computer and a cubical? These things will be provided to you, in return for your work. Nothing reasonable is denied as long as your productivity jus
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by derleth 13y ago
It isn't a bad analogy. My counterargument is that local government policy can usually be changed a lot more easily than religious dogma, especially dogma surrounding who to demonize. Maintaining a strong notion of who is in the in-gro
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by derleth 13y ago
If you ignore the fact the various tribes stole from each other. Native Americans weren't a single, homogenous mass, and they certainly weren't Noble Savages ignorant of the ways of war.
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Mostly, we started as a land of commercial opportunists taking advantage of royal grants. The religious zealots just played better in the history books of 100+ years ago, so they get most of the attention.
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by derleth 13y ago
So telling little gay kids that they were born broken and are going to Hell isn't abuse? Don't you dare say that it doesn't happen or that it doesn't matter. Don't you dare.
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by derleth 13y ago
Because you can have extremely long strings without worrying about overflowing a fixed-size length prefix.
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by derleth 13y ago
Anecdotal evidence is empirical evidence. It's just not very convincing because it doesn't come with any information about how common experiences like those are, or what confounding factors might be at play. Now, in this case, c
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by derleth 13y ago
Exactly, and moving from ASCII to UTF-8 means you get to keep that consistency: 0x00 means 'End of string' in ASCII and it means 'End of string' in UTF-8. No change. Never a miscommunication. No possibility of old softwa
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by derleth 13y ago
> But using 0 to terminate strings means you can never have a string that actually contains codepoint 0, as the terminator isn't part of the contents of the string. This is indeed a tradeoff. The only alternatives are to either stor
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by derleth 13y ago
> This is false; the encoding of codepoint 0 is 0x00 per the standard Well, yes . That's the point: 0x00 is only ever used to encode codepoint 0. It never shows up anywhere else. That's precisely what the text you replied to m
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by derleth 13y ago
> UTF-8 would pretty much only need to be updated if the unicode standard redefines what a code point is (e.g. starts using floating point, decimals, imaginary numbers or something else that is also unlikely to happen) Or if they decide
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by derleth 13y ago
Tom Jennings did something similar which only goes up through ASCII: http://www.wps.com/J/codes/ You might also know Tom Jennings from having created Fidonet and having written the BIOS which became the basis for
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by derleth 13y ago
Do you know hosting sites with different terms?
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by derleth 13y ago
The 386 had both protected mode and a large enough address space to make that protected mode useful. The 286 had protected mode as well, but a 16-bit protected mode doesn't let you write programs large enough for it to be worthwhile.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Snus is an awesome alternative to smoking. Doesn't it cause oral cancer?
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by derleth 13y ago
> And they managed to make a distributed kernel that worked. So it was great the same way Smalltalk and ITS were great: It was wonderful, but most of us couldn't use it, so it was worthless. Technical acumen doesn't matter if t
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by derleth 13y ago
> I don't want anyone to invade anywhere. So what do you want to happen?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Iran. Crippling economic sanctions and concerted isolation. And decades later, Iran still hasn't changed.
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by derleth 13y ago
Do you want the US to invade Qatar? Maybe establish a puppet government? Or just invade, leave, and see what happens?
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by derleth 13y ago
So, do you want a replay of Iraq or a replay of Vietnam?
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by derleth 13y ago
> But four letters fits in a 32-bit direct atom, so the attraction is pretty irresistible. Reminds me of how ITS limited filenames to six letters per component, because they used six bits per character and six times six is thirty-six bit
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by derleth 13y ago
> pills and therapy There's no recognized drug treatment for Autism/Asperger's[1], and I kind of question your skepticism towards therapy. What's wrong with getting help with things you could be doing better. [1] The

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