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by fhars 2y ago
The argument was that this design of systemd makes it hard to write applications that are portable, so that systemd is effectively a very big net negative to the open source ecosystem, because it causes massive fragmentation.
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by fhars 2y ago
I think you may have misread the parent comment in the opposite way that comment misread the title. Isn't it a bit sad that System Verilog ended after a bit over two centuries?
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by fhars 3y ago
Yes, it would probably have to be halucinfabulation for purely phonetic reasons.
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by fhars 3y ago
Unicode was never designed for ease of use or efficiency of encoding, but for ease of adoption. And that meant that it had to support lossless round trips from any legacy format to Unicode and back to the legacy format, because otherwise no
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by fhars 3y ago
Look, we live here... [points on map]
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by fhars 3y ago
It's post 2022, it will not be used.
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by fhars 3y ago
Well tested communication strategy, that is how Eliza worked, too.
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by fhars 3y ago
But the L part is only correct in so far as it repeats the definition of what it means to be a subtype, i.e. it is vacuously true. BY the way, does any OO language apart form Ocaml get this right?
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by fhars 3y ago
The paper is linked in the article, from it: At one point he squares the distance 92 pedes, 9 untia, 0 minuta, 9 secunda. He writes this quantity as “.92909.”, and its square as “.8.6.3.2.0.8.2.2.8.1″
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by fhars 3y ago
There is a tic-tac-toe system that learns to play using reinforcement learning built of matchboxes. Designed in 1961. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
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by fhars 3y ago
As a comparison value: in Germany, you can loose your FM license for inactivity if you broadcast 90 seconds of silence. We had to care for stuff like this when we did some remote discussion rounds on community radio during the pandemic and
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by fhars 3y ago
1901 might also be an artefact of data with invalid dates passing through legacy systems that only support dates between 1901 and 2099 (because both 1900 and 2100 are non-leap years divisible by 4, breaking naive time calculations).
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by fhars 3y ago
You might enjoy the concept of an earth sandwich https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a306338...
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by fhars 3y ago
The other replies that are "about 15+ years out of date" do cite literature that is more than 10 years newer than your references, though...
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by fhars 3y ago
Wasn't the problem here that Boeing is only linked if no great force is applied and also switches to the average it the force difference is large enough, and that it didn't really document that behaviour?
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by fhars 3y ago
What's wrong with `anki --syncserver`? (user management is a bit iffy, admittedly)
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by fhars 3y ago
There is this old notion that you should think of "lines of code spent to solve a problem", not of "lines of code produced".
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by fhars 3y ago
You'd win. https://people.csail.mit.edu/wjun/papers/sigtbd16.pdf
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by fhars 3y ago
In Mercator projection?
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by fhars 3y ago
That's why it is revolutionary :-).
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by fhars 3y ago
But all those other things require organisational changes. By focussing on passwords, you can put the whole blame for any problems on the users.
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by fhars 3y ago
For the benefit of the American viewers, who might not immediately know what 15km are.
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by fhars 3y ago
Defending cars is waging war on humanity. There, I can play that game, too.
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by fhars 3y ago
It's not the same, "decline slows" means that the sales are still shrinking, but at a slower pace.
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by fhars 3y ago
That is quite a big assumption, given that the standard way to write 今日 in hiragana was けふ until 1900.
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by fhars 3y ago
It is described in detail in the fourth paragraph of the linked article, and the papers referenced there.
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by fhars 3y ago
That was not a type-in adventure, though, that was distributed on disks, not as a printout to type in (what this article is about).
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by fhars 3y ago
Is it this, which seems to load: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1KdbgOFXXXXbyXVXXq6xXFXXXT/Fre...
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by fhars 3y ago
A funny game I saw Toki Pona speakers play: make an appointment to meet somewhere in Toki Pona, and then the next time you meet for other reasons, compare notes when you were where, and for what reason, as a result of that appointment.
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by fhars 3y ago
So they are using a software that they know is not fit for purpose. That is at least gross negligence.

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