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by enriquto 2y ago
Love that the numbers in Catalan are represented as numerals, not as words. EDIT: playing with it, it's a bit sad that large numbers do not work at all (in any language); and that not all common forms of a word are shown. For example,
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by enriquto 2y ago
Elinks is alive, and with better support for many modern sites (no js, though). https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
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by enriquto 2y ago
This is something that non-english speakers have long learned to live with. It is due time that everybody accepts that some words will sound funny to them. In french, for example, "bit" means "penis". This creates q
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by enriquto 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification (as well as the suggestion of looking at the urban dictionary, in the other comment). My point is that when you say: > Gimps are considered inappropriate to even talk about in school and business settings Thi
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by enriquto 2y ago
> his piece of software (...) will never do this unless it changes its name. Why? Honestly, why? As a non-native English speaker (like the vast majority of people in this planet), the word "gimp" to me means "the free soft
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by enriquto 2y ago
It's quite ironic that just to look at this document, consisting of plain text with a few low-resolution images, you need to activate javascript in the browser.
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by enriquto 2y ago
Let me play the uno reverse card: why should "--help" be the single solitary string that echo does not print like the others?
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by enriquto 2y ago
I don't expect any such ugly shit. A call to echo should print its arguments, no exceptions. NAME echo - echo arguments SYNOPSIS echo [ arg ... ] DESCRIPTION Echo writes its arguments in orde
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by enriquto 2y ago
> I've only _once_ in my life encountered a tool that didn't have `--help` support Never heard of echo? What do you expect this to do? echo --help
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by enriquto 2y ago
All these complains about "shortuts for copy-paste" are so confusing... COPY: select text with the mouse PASTE: middle click don't people use that? No need for the keyboard at all! It works across all programs since forever
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by enriquto 2y ago
intriguing that the word "spacetime" does not appear in this text. For sure it wouldn't be related to algebraic geometry!
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by enriquto 2y ago
> A lot of these points are opposites of each other, so much so that it seems intentional. The writing style is reminiscent to this famous text (not written in jest, you have to understand that most of these statements depend on a contex
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Removes all comments from your code (yes, those are visible on arXiv and you do not want them to be). Why not? I love to peek at .tex file comments, and secretively hope that somebody somewhere is reading mine...
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by enriquto 2y ago
> You pay for that by having a stack rather than a small fixed number of variables. you can easily add variables to your rpn calculator. For example ">x" pops the top of the stack into the variable x, and "<x"
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by enriquto 2y ago
Graybeard opinion: most sites shouldn't deal at all with colors. Just write plain html [0] and let your users choose. Default browser styles are not only stylish, they are also accessible and responsive by default. [0] https:/&
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Programs are not text Wow. It's amazing to see the beast laid out so clearly before me. As someone who grew with the mantra "a program is a piece of text", my jaw dropped when I read this post and realized that it was n
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Many build systems don't respect LDFLAGS and CFLAGS, or respect one or the other, or only partially respect them, causing a great deal of annoyance Sounds good, doesn't it? This means that efforts to produce a fully static d
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Perhaps in a few years Hyperbola will reach its final, perfect state There's still a long way to go. The elephant in the room, prudently sidestepped by the hyperbola community, is the removal of dynamic linking. Now that would
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by enriquto 2y ago
The one with the rectangles representing reflections in the water is incredible. You can track each strip of rectangles to a city feature, and they are subtly different, in a way that makes sense.
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by enriquto 2y ago
If your .tex is simple enough, it can be converted directly to plain html using a tiny sed script.
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by enriquto 2y ago
But it's the same thing with math. All of science and engineering can be seen as useful artifacts that you obtain as a bonus from math.
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by enriquto 2y ago
I'd agree to some kind of 1//0=0 for ints; but for floats you'll take 1/0=inf from my cold, dead hands.
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by enriquto 2y ago
beautiful map of the Catalan Countries when you search for that name here
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Just show the name of every street damnit. But why? Google Maps is not a navigation aid. Its purpose is not to help you know the name of the street you are in. It's a tool for paying customers to steer you towards their shops.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> they operate a higher risk vehicles Are you serious? How can you say that? Cars are, by themselves, much higher risk than bikes. If bikes are dangerous at all is because of cars. The main--heck, I'd say the only --spreaders of
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by enriquto 2y ago
You do not need to understand all his ideas, just one or two to begin with.
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by enriquto 2y ago
It doesn't sound like it's "backfiring", does it? Removing these ultra-rich people from the country will certainly decrease the wealth gap between the rich and the poor, which is probably one of the main goals of the ta
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Why? In order to preserve the sacrosanct simplicity of naive shell scripts. Seems like a very noble goal to me. The only unexpexted compexity arises when you want to deal with filenames having mixed spaces and nbsps. But I'd say
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by enriquto 2y ago
As a fellow spaces-in-filenames-hater, the fight is not lost. We are on the brink of winning it; it's just a mount option away! While we cannot avoid that people hit the spacebar when writing a filename on a gui, this does not mean a
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by enriquto 2y ago
> loop over a string array Dear anal_reactor, what is a "string array"? I have used unix shells since nearly 30 years and never heard about them. And I consider myself a script-fu master! There are two array-like construction

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