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by dghf 12y ago
Shame they're getting rid of the 'view' synonym for 'vim -R', though I guess it's easy enough to replicate with a shell alias or trivial shell-script.
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by dghf 12y ago
I did wonder if that was the Normans reconnecting with their Viking roots, as it was the Danish kings of England who first used the word as a title for provincial rulers, in its Norse form jarl.
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by dghf 12y ago
> probably because 'count' was too similar to a rude word. Now that's a theory I've not heard before: you could well be right. However, the Wikipedia article on the word in question says that it's not attested in
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by dghf 12y ago
I can't see how the article justifies its title. Did the (comparatively) lower level of adult lactose intolerance in the West have social, cultural, economic or other effects significant enough to be described as a change in the course
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by dghf 12y ago
> Finally, the Normans invaded England in 1066, and they subdivided the land into counties, from which we get the title of “Count”. Other way round: "county" comes from "count", which is an anglicisation of a gallicis
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by dghf 12y ago
Wouldn't you still need to use VMs even if IE were available for Linux? Aren't sites supposed to be tested for browsers and platforms ? E.g., a site may show an undesired behaviour under Chrome for Windows but not under Chrome fo
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by dghf 12y ago
> Port Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office to Linux Office maybe, but is there any demand for IE on Linux?
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by dghf 12y ago
No, for the reasons laid out in the article. Not least: websites (at least well designed ones) are platform agnostic.
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by dghf 12y ago
A hat-tip to Arnold Reinhold, the guy behind Diceware, would have been nice. (I know the article links to the Diceware site, which gives Mr Reinhold's name at the bottom, but still ....)
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by dghf 12y ago
> It might have been designed as a language for web based documents. Though this is not what the web is used for today, consumers want applications not documents. They want applications and documents, or I do anyway. I spend more of my
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by dghf 12y ago
> As usual people in the UK pretend nobody lives in the rest of Ireland That's a bit harsh. What are your grounds for saying that?
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by dghf 12y ago
Well, your comment on London got me interested, and while I couldn't find arrest-warrant stats for the City, I did find this: http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/disclosure_2014/april_2014... Among Great
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by dghf 12y ago
> It's a police force that handles an area which has just 7400 residents. And about 300,000 daily commuters. What's the commuter/resident ratio for Ferguson? The City of London Police also have certain national responsibil
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by dghf 12y ago
> Of course these ratios are different, because by nature a single, small municipality issues many arrest warrants for people who are not residents, while a larger system mostly handles people living inside its constituency. Could you ex
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by dghf 12y ago
IANAL, but I would imagine it's a bit trickier, as our right not to incriminate ourselves is more restricted than that of our American cousins (at least in England & Wales -- Scotland and Northern Ireland may be different): the war
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by dghf 12y ago
Or the "right" colour and class: viz Christopher Jeffries, a (white) landlord and retired teacher, somewhat eccentric but otherwise respectable, who was arrested for the murder of his tenant (and vilified in the national press) af
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by dghf 12y ago
If you do read the story further, and the NBC story it links to, you'll see that these 16 000 arrest warrants were issued by the Ferguson Municipal Court; they're not merely warrants known to Ferguson police but originating else
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by dghf 12y ago
> e: Ah, I see why I'm not understanding you now - you're talking about the differences between Racket and SICP/Scheme whereas I made the assumption that we were talking about the difference between Common Lisp and Racket
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by dghf 12y ago
> I dunno it looks to me like they've just defined nil to be equal to null/empty, which is not exactly the same. But it is how nil is defined in SICP: 'The value of nil, used to terminate the chain of pairs, can be thought
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by dghf 12y ago
And it looks like someone's already done it: http://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/neil/sicp.plt/1...
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by dghf 12y ago
It would be interesting to find someone who had had an NDE and taken LSD (on a separate occasion), and ask them to compare the two experiences in terms of vividness, beauty, feelings of peace or being loved, etc.
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by dghf 12y ago
> e.g. Racket doesn't have `inc`, `dec` or `nil` I'm assuming those are trivial to add?
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by dghf 12y ago
This page [0] says otherwise (about embassies in general, not specifically the Ecuadorean embassy in London): > U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, as well as foreign embassies and consulates in the United States, have a special status
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Xkcd: Terry Pratchett(xkcd.com)
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by dghf 12y ago
> even the ability to render a page with monospace fonts if you want. Is there any major browser that doesn't allow you to do this?
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by dghf 12y ago
Fair point. It sounds like the ideal would be a browser setting: fast-and-dirty justification for the impatient vs TeX-style line-breaking for aesthetes.
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> Browsers could implement the same line breaking algorithm as used in TeX, but have decided not to for performance reasons. This is an odd reason — TeX was developed and runs on computers much less powerful than those commonly used in m
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by dghf 12y ago
> the Semites---a people speaking similar languages, from which both Jews and Muslims descend s/Muslims/Arabs/
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by dghf 12y ago
Any risk of a gamma-ray burst affecting Earth?
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by dghf 12y ago
"The device, which will sell for $1,900 in the US and £1,900 in the UK ..." So, over 50% more expensive in the UK. Why is this? Is the cost of doing business in the UK so much higher? Is the US price before tax, and the UK price i

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