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by gfaure 6y ago
It does indeed, with the dot on خ being the central dot (repeated once per rotation).
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by gfaure 6y ago
As an aside, I found the analyst's reference to "Quemoy and Matsu, Pratas, and Kinmen Islands" strange -- after all, Quemoy and Kinmen are two names for the same place.
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by gfaure 6y ago
If we look in `collections`, we can see `defaultdict` sitting side-by-side with `OrderedDict` and `Counter`. I've long since resigned myself to the fact that naming consistency is not Python's strong suit :)
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by gfaure 6y ago
To be fair, software engineering connects better to the interests of STEM-ish kids (video games, robotics, electronics) than spreadsheets ever could.
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by gfaure 6y ago
This is a great counterpart to this slightly more implementation-focused article on the Obra Dinn aesthetic: https://danielilett.com/2020-02-26-tut3-9-obra-dithering/
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by gfaure 6y ago
> "We are not familiar with Hong Kong’s consumer protection laws, but they are probably the same ones China adopts." Despite recent events, I don't think this is necessarily a safe assumption. Many of Hong Kong's orga
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by gfaure 6y ago
I note with horror that "activated" is misspelt in "itemsnotacivated" but spelt correctly in "activateditems".
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by gfaure 6y ago
Incidentally, it's wild seeing the physical models of 3D surfaces in the Open University video you linked -- nowadays, the equivalent visualisations can be obtained so quickly, at such low cost, and reach so many more people.
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by gfaure 6y ago
What makes one Toledo "the" Toledo? Which is "the" Springfield or "the" Newtown?
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Server-side rendered virtual showroom for Balenciaga(videogame.balenciaga.com)
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by gfaure 6y ago
The occurrence of images of Pokémon and Spongebob do sound out of character for the station -- is it plausible that someone with a very strong transmitter is toying with the operators?
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by gfaure 6y ago
On a whim, I decided to search for "quicksort", and found a judgment where a loan company was trying to sue for infringement on the grounds that a competitor copied the SQL schema of their product. The complaint was upheld. https
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by gfaure 6y ago
While PIE-inspired, the dialogue there was not recognisably related to any PIE reconstruction -- check out https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4008 for more on this.
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by gfaure 6y ago
The author made a conscious choice to use л instead, on the grounds that it would be a better etymological (albeit worse phonetic) correspondence.
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by gfaure 6y ago
This reminded me of a certain creative "solution" to the lack of generics in Go: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
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by gfaure 6y ago
Since he did modify the spelling, I don't think it's that hard to imagine.
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by gfaure 6y ago
I admit the error. They both post videos on speedruns, and I mixed them up.
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by gfaure 6y ago
EDIT: I mixed up two retro gaming YouTubers. The below refers to Bisqwit, not Bismuth. His personal views aside, I hope you find Bisqwit's other videos interesting. I really respect this guy as an engineer and a retro gaming enthusiast
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by gfaure 6y ago
Yes, insofar as organisations and corporations are named after people: .agakhan, .bentley, .dupont, .lamborghini, .scjohnson etc.
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by gfaure 6y ago
It's a money grab for ICANN, precisely. Neither users nor developers have any say in this process, and the body that stands to benefit financially from accepting trademarks as TLDs is _not_ going to be acting in the interest of users o
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by gfaure 6y ago
.calvinklein? .bananarepublic? A clear money-grab that has no benefit to users, complicates validation and security for developers, and seals off vast swathes of the namespace for the sole use of corporations.
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by gfaure 6y ago
https://www.instantpeoplefinder.com/optout.php goes directly to a 404. Honestly doesn't surprise me, but there's a special place in tech hell for these people.
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by gfaure 6y ago
Two data points: our cat's poop doesn't smell bad at all when she's eaten homemade food, while if we feed her canned food or dry food, it smells stereotypically bad. Also, cats don't necessarily knock things over just b
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by gfaure 6y ago
Beautiful aesthetic! Just a note, the front page has my pet peeve typo "it's" on it.
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by gfaure 6y ago
I did see that a verified Blockbuster Twitter account briefly came out of retirement this month -- don't know who would be operating that anymore, as I doubt they have a social media manager... https://twitter.com/block
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by gfaure 6y ago
What is most galling about this is that even if we assume that culture X yields candidates with personality characteristics undervalued by culture Y, _racial background doesn't indicate culture_. How should a second-generation Taiwanes
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by gfaure 6y ago
The "fully scriptable" link (configure dijo to track your git commits!) seems to be broken.
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by gfaure 6y ago
True, but what you wrote suggested that the fact it was detected elsewhere exonerates China. It does not.
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by gfaure 6y ago
The fact that the virus was detected in wastewater samples in Italy earlier doesn't by itself rule out an origin from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or from China.
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by gfaure 6y ago
I had no idea khinkali were so similar to xiaolongbao!

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