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by gpvos 10mo ago
AML = ? (edit) Ah, right, anti-money-laundering, found it in your last sentence.
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by gpvos 11mo ago
That's the normal way to introduce an acronym in an article. Anyway, I was just saying that however irritating, it's likely just an omission out of forgetfulness, not deliberate clickbait. A minor application of Hanlon's razo
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by gpvos 11mo ago
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by gpvos 11mo ago
FCM = Firebase Cloud Messaging, a messaging and notification service run by Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase_Cloud_Messaging
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by gpvos 11mo ago
JPEGs can be rotated losslessly as long as their size is a multiple of eight (or to be pedantic, the block size, which is usually eight).
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by gpvos 11mo ago
When I used PdfSharp about 9 years ago, it wasn't really designed to import arbitrary PDFs; it crashed or hung on many less common constructs or invalid PDF files. It was really only designed to either create PDFs or edit PDFs created
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by gpvos 11mo ago
Again, they have your login cookie and are already tracking what you've seen. Just start captcha'ing after several dozen articles per day.
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by gpvos 1y ago
Ack. Intra-Schengen versus outer Schengen border. Borders are confusing. And yes, border controls are almost everywhere again.
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by gpvos 1y ago
The Serbia-Croatia border is definitely not a Schengen border; I assume that was a typo.
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by gpvos 1y ago
I am a late riser and am very strongly in favour of permanent standard time.
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by gpvos 1y ago
SSR = Server-side rendered
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by gpvos 1y ago
Um, no? Using standard time in summer (assuming northern hemisphere) means that the time will be earlier when the sun goes up and under. So it will be darker at 9 PM and easier to put your children to bed. They may get up earlier though.
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by gpvos 1y ago
I thought Linux uses ELF to load dlls.
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by gpvos 1y ago
That's only one of the topics in this thread, it's about western (colonial) involvement elsewhere in general. Just have a look at the line of parents of this comment; you were the only one who reduced it to the Brits. I was direct
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by gpvos 1y ago
Maybe not so much the Brits, but the French still have exploitative relations with their African ex-colonies; look up the CFA franc.
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by gpvos 1y ago
> This doesn't repudiate anything I said, and it's a particularly weird canard. It does repudiate it, directly. What are you on about?
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by gpvos 1y ago
Okay. Seems more diversified than Mozilla at least, with its huge dependency on Google's search bar.
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by gpvos 1y ago
Interesting! No PE structures though, I suppose.
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by gpvos 1y ago
That sounds like a Windows-only approach though.
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by gpvos 1y ago
I don't remember that; maybe you can look it up? Ladybird is still far from usable or fast enough to even start comparing it to Gecko.
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by gpvos 1y ago
The article dates from 26 July, the tweet from 26 September.
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by gpvos 1y ago
Anyone except an American judge can see that this is intentional.
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by gpvos 1y ago
"as told by Rob Pike" is an essential part of the title, can that be added/reinstated?
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by gpvos 1y ago
See my comment on how Perl stores up to 2^63-1 in a UTF-8-like format: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227396 .
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by gpvos 1y ago
Fair enough, it will take some time to weed those out.
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by gpvos 1y ago
Maybe if you were entrenched in the Windows world. Storage-wise, UTF-8 is usually better since so much data is ASCII with maybe the occasional accented character. The speed issue only really matters to Windows NT since that was UCS-2 inside
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by gpvos 1y ago
It made much more sense than UTF-16 or any of the existing multi-byte character sets, and the need for more than 256 characters had been apparent for decades. Seeing its simplicity, it made perfect sense almost immediately.
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by gpvos 1y ago
I suppose it's still possible to extend to 31 bits in the future, once UTF-16 has become obsolete enough. How big is the need for it right now?
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by gpvos 1y ago
This is research, not production code. Premature optimization is irrelevant.
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by gpvos 1y ago
You could even extend UTF-8 to make 0xFE and 0xFF valid starting bytes, with 6 and 7 following bytes each, and get 42 bits of space. I seem to remember Perl allowed that for a while in its v-strings notation. Edit: just tested this, Perl st

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