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by dpassens 2y ago
> Another favourite theme was to boast about his humble origins and plebeian influences – ‘I have not been ashamed to learn from tramps, butchers and barbers’ – even though he had benefited from a sound education as a child and gained a
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by dpassens 2y ago
> Also there's a chance for this article to be an input for various llms, thus increasing the confusion in the future. Sounds good. Anybody who uses LLM output without any understanding of their own deserves it.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Why would you need Google Maps to get home from school? I have an absolutely terrible sense of direction, but even I can memorize a single route after walking it a couple of times.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Is this really that US specific? Ages 6-7 seems to be pretty common for first grade¹, which gives you 13-14 for eighth. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_stage
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by dpassens 2y ago
No, you can just use a pointer to struct S without ever defining the fields of S, no void pointers required.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Yes, it is, because in your phrasing the fact that nobody else keeps time that way is the cause and lack of support in software the effect. The comment that I originally responded to is phrased as though lack of software support is the caus
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by dpassens 2y ago
I agree with that take. It's also quite different from saying that it's weird because software doesn't support it, which is the claim I took issue with. Maybe I should've phrased my comment differently.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Sure. But that's completely different from saying it's strange because software doesn't accommodate it.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Maybe arbitrary was the wrong word. I understand that this is an implementation cost issue and I'm not saying that the decision not to pay this cost wasn't reasonable. My objection is not with tzdb, but with the characterisation o
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by dpassens 2y ago
But whether standard software is able to express this system is up to the software, not the system, no? Why is this way of timekeeping weird, apart from the arbitrary decision not to support it?
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Non-Intrusive Vtable(lottia.net)
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by dpassens 2y ago
Except it doesn't necessarily go towards (positive) infinity. Use a negative dividend, and you approach negative infinity instead. The same is obviously true if you use a negative divisor instead, and you get positive infinity again if
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by dpassens 2y ago
> that's what I meant to say Ah, that makes sense. I thought you meant long 'i' as in extending the duration of the 'i' sound, like in 'beep' vs 'bip'.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Surely the logical pronunciation is the way you'd pronounce it in library, so a long 'ai' rather than any kind of 'i'? Though I personally always use the short 'i'. I was going to justify that by saying it
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by dpassens 2y ago
You could kind of avoid the return stack, if you only ever do tail calls. Obviously, that's pretty unrealistic, but it's possible.
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by dpassens 2y ago
I believe GP meant that you can't have protocols containing numbers, using rot13 as the example protocol on port 76. Though, as msk-lywenn said, rot13 isn't a real protocol, which don't really have numbers in their names.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Who said anything about sticking anything into credit card terminals? And I'm not seeing any wires sticking out of the phone. I'd say it doesn't particularly look like a bomb either, but given recent events, that probably doe
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by dpassens 2y ago
(Sane) web UIs in general should be fine, since they can just use the browser's JS engine. I don't think transmission is affected, at least it's not listed as masked. You're right about firefox though, which is weird. Ap
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by dpassens 2y ago
147 packages don't strike me as that many, that's less than 1% of all Gentoo packages. I expected much more. EDIT: And several of those packages are binaries. Apart from the *-bin packages, I've identified TeamSpeak, dev-libs
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DKIM signatures from mailing list providers don't mean too much(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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by dpassens 2y ago
It is indeed a decimal escape: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.2/lex.html#char-literal
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by dpassens 2y ago
Am I misunderstanding or do you really not eat any vegetables at all, not even in a dish with meat?
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by dpassens 2y ago
Depending on your operating system, you might have (the option to remap a key to) a compose key. Then you can press compose followed by, for example, <= to make ≤. This also works for letters with diacritics on them, like "o for ö o
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by dpassens 2y ago
FILE* is defined by the standard.
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by dpassens 2y ago
How is any error rate, no matter how small, acceptable when it comes to killing people?
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by dpassens 2y ago
The purpose of a business is whatever its owners want it to be. Typically, this is maximizing profit, but it could be anything, like getting paid for what you like to do.
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by dpassens 2y ago
Personally, I'd love to mind my business, but some people are so obnoxiously loud I don't have a choice.
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by dpassens 2y ago
It's a stupid notation: > the foundation uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem That just sets you up for the year 100,000 problem. The objectively better idea is to just parse years as regular integers, something tha
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by dpassens 2y ago
Good luck using your GPU without electricity.
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Threads, Asynchronous IO, and Cancellation(utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by dpassens 2y ago|0 comments

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