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by dhosek 1y ago
Grapheme count is not a useful number. Even in a monospaced font, you’ll find that the grapheme count doesn’t give you a measurement of width since emoji will usually not be the same width as other characters.
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by dhosek 1y ago
There’s a fun scene in The Last Action Hero which plays on this convention: A kid who’s gotten transported into a movie and is trying to convince Arnold Scharzenegger’s character that they’re in a movie by asking a bunch of people what th
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by dhosek 1y ago
I think that’s at least in part because some 555 prefix numbers have been assigned for non-directory information uses (I have a vague notion of seeing this for some toll-free numbers).
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by dhosek 1y ago
In the 90s I did a tech writing gig documenting some custom software a company had built for them by one of the big consultancy agencies. It was a bit of a nightmare as the functionality was arranged in a way that reflected the underlying a
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by dhosek 1y ago
I remember at the time there was also going to be the wonderful new kernel that would allow OS/2 and MacOS to coexist on the same machine. As someone who had a Mac and an OS/2 machine side-by-side on his desk, this seemed like it
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by dhosek 1y ago
> I believe 2026 will finally be the year of Linux desktop. I’ve been hearing this substituting in YYYY+1 every YYYY for the last quarter century. The year of Linux desktop will never come. Why? - Money. Hardware manufacturers make more
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by dhosek 1y ago
That was pretty common back in those days. With the appification of a lot of websites, it’s coming back (albeit using rest instead of a proprietary protocol).
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by dhosek 1y ago
But there’s still the option of using the desktop apps. Personally I hate using browser-based apps, but then I’m also old.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Admittedly, it’s been decades since I tried this and I was deliberate about saying http and not https.
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by dhosek 1y ago
You can also telnet into port 80 and communicate with an HTTP server.
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by dhosek 1y ago
And the bumps for the mountains on that globe (assuming you had a fancy one) were gross exaggerations: https://dahosek.substack.com/p/one-million-stories
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by dhosek 1y ago
If I remember right, > was the prompt for Integer basic, ] for Applesoft Basic and * for the monitor.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Yes. Calvin and Hobbes.
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by dhosek 1y ago
There are definitely some huge social challenges in the generation ship concept.
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by dhosek 1y ago
It is definitely a cruel way to think of it, but the thing is that in a generation ship, you have resources for a limited number of human beings. Longer lifespans mean you have more human beings to support. Life extension makes more sense i
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by dhosek 1y ago
Read the post again, it’s not about the species along the way, but the species living in places that have become open for colonization by the creatures taking advantage of oil rigs for cross-oceanic migration that wasn’t possible before. Ki
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by dhosek 1y ago
Depends on to what extent you value continuity of the idea. The idea of returning to Palestine without the precursor of the arrival of the Messiah is a relatively young idea, dating back only to the 19th century. This leaves a pretty big ga
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by dhosek 1y ago
It would require not merely anti-aging, but being able to produce resilient offspring at a later age, otherwise, anti-aging would be detrimental to the project since in the intermediate stages of the journey, non-reproducing adults would be
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by dhosek 1y ago
That’s not exactly gendered as the -ou suffix is the masculine genitive so Elena Papadopoulou is Papadopoulos’s Elena. Czech does a similar thing with last names that aren’t adjectives. Slovene, which has roughly the same gender and case as
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by dhosek 1y ago
Although in at least some cases the gendering isn’t just a simple gender marker: In Czech, for last names which are adjectives, then yes it’s a gender inflection (e.g., Rosický → Rosicka), but for non-adjectival names, the female version is
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by dhosek 1y ago
Probably he’d be Josué. But in Greece, he’d be Ιησούς (Jesus). Beginning with the Vulgate¹, there was a distinction between the two names in Biblical texts that is carried over into most modern contexts (although I would note that Russian f
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by dhosek 1y ago
It’s really just the idea that having a collection of music that I’ve curated through my own tastes means that I can safely do things like just tell my phone to shuffle all songs and I’ll be happy with what plays. Jason Kottke recently post
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by dhosek 1y ago
Oh, I think it’s quite wonderful really. There are cases where the limited nature of some configuration-based things ends up being a mess (one that comes to mind is a feature in Spring Data where you can extend a DAO bean into a rest servic
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by dhosek 1y ago
I used to joke that the direction spring was heading was that you’d have an application be a boilerplate main method with a dozen lines of annotations. Then I actually encountered this in the wild: we had an app that sent updates from db2 t
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by dhosek 1y ago
The current administration is directly and indirectly eliminating the foreign student pipeline. Even if we somehow get out of this morass in the next few years, which is far from guaranteed, the long-term damage will take decades to repair
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’ve made a conscious decision to not do streaming services. Having all the music is not much different than having no music at all. I don’t even want all of my own music on my phone. Instead, I use a set of smart playlists to give me a c
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by dhosek 1y ago
How did they not take the opportunity with this version to rename it pi-thon?
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by dhosek 1y ago
Worth noting that few people use the TeX executable as specified by Knuth. Even putting aside the shift to pdf instead of dvi output, LaTeX requires an extended TeX executable with features not part of the Knuth specification from 1988. Btw
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by dhosek 1y ago
I recall reading somewhere about some investor who wanted to take control of cb who drove this, so less shorting and more opportunistic drive down the price to buy more shares at a lower price.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Sadly, yes. Fortunately, most of them are developers’ toys, but not all.

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