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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
ita est totali ridiculus! ergo ridebam tantum. concordamus nos. bonus risus, amice mi atave.
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
> It’s like saying specifying the file directory SQLite uses is config. Or, to continue the fopen analogy, like saying that the file you've given fopen is to be opened with mode "a+". The only real difference is that fope
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
Tabs are intended to be used for alignment. "Tab" is a clipping of "tabulator", as in "thing that tabulates" or "thing for tabulating", where "tabulate" means "to arrange in a tabula
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
But it does. From OpenBSD's mdoc(7): The mdoc language supports authoring of manual pages for the man(1) utility by allowing semantic annotations of words, phrases, page sections and complete manual pages. From GNU groff's mdoc
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
> The usual criterion for distinguishing language from dialect is mutual intelligibility. The problem with this criterion is that mutual intelligibility is not transitive, so it doesn't support an intuitive notion of sameness that o
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
I have no idea where the industry is headed, but I feel rather confident that there will always be some group of people that will find some reason to look down on your codebase. If you rewrote the whole thing in state-of-the-art FP tonight
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
I've never worked in any field that might be considered "semantic web", but at my last gig I spent some time researching deductive database technology. "Semantic web" was like a keyword that popped up in the abstrac
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
The -i in gens Sempronii is the singular genitive in this case ("the clan of Sempronius" or "Sempronius's clan"). Good ol' inflexional paradigms :)
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
> annotations which translate certain words (the name of which escapes me at the moment) Perhaps you're thinking of glosses? I'm not familiar with graded readers, but I am rather familiar with mediæval manuscripts, wherein
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
> Hello everybody out there using minix - > I'm doing a (free) operating system ( just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. —Linus Torvalds, in a post[1] to comp.os.minix, 25 August 1991
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
The original ML language (the one produced as part of the LCF theorem prover), did have a `where` clause that works like the one in Haskell. See here for example: https://github.com/theoremprover-museum/LCF77/b
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
> You see the same phenomenon in German, a language that's retained multiple forms of the second person. In German translations of the Bible, and in German prayers, God is addressed as "Du" (the familiar singular "you
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
As far as I can tell, the use of "thou" in the early (until about the 17th century) English translations was to preserve the grammatical number found in the Hebrew and Greek originals, which had separate forms for singular and plu
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
You've got it sorta backwards, at least as far as English is concerned. "Thou" and "thee" were the descendents of Old English "þū" and "þē", respectively, and were originally the nominative and d
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
I haven't used i3 in a long time, but if it's got support for systray icons, you can run the NetworkManager applet and manage your network settings there as you would in any ol' desktop environment. I do this with awesome, an
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
I've worked in several different fields: financial analytics, network monitoring, enterprise storage, and most recently electronic design automation. Each of them has involved different sets of formal theories. Sometimes combinatori
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
The FreeBSD bootloader (on several platforms, at least, including i386 and amd64) is written largely in a dialect of Forth called Ficl [1]. Perhaps GP got "Forth" and "Fortran" mixed up? Looks like the Forth loader is g
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
I þink you mean þe letter "þorn" ("thorn") ;) Ðere was also ðe letter "ðæt" ("that"), a later invention ðat began as a stylistic alternative to þorn in Old English manuscripts, but fell out of favour
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
And "an ekename" -> "a nickname"
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
If you haven't already, I recommend checking out rlwrap, which you can use to run any ol' program that takes input on stdin and give it readline support. I use it quite a lot, and I have aliases in my .bashrc for wrapping various
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
Yes. As a bonus, the acknowledgements in the scsh manual also features some of the finest writing I've ever read in a technical document: https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
In addition to bash itself being widespread, most of the common "bashisms" are also supported by zsh and most variants of ksh (and many systems actually use some variant of ksh disguised as /bin/sh). This is unsurprisin
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by groovy2shoes 8y ago
7z, xz, and lzip all use the same compression algorithm (LZMA). The differences between them are in the container format that stores the data, not in the compression of the data. 7z is akin to zip in that it functions as an archive in add
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
You can map locations in generated C code to locations in some other file, too. Standard C has a pragma for it: #line <num> "filename" or, if the filename is the same as the previous pragma, you can omit it from th
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Yeah. I quite like the way the second edition was conveyed, though, with additions and amendments indicated by typographic conventions, because the result is that when you have the second edition, you also kinda have the first edition. It
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
I don't have a copy of CLtL1 myself (though I vaguely recall checking it out from the university library a few times many moons ago). I'm replying to you because your post was the last stop for my train of thought, but this isn&#
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
While I do get that feel with PostScript, as far as I can tell it was accidental rather than a conscious design decision. The stack-oriented nature of PostScript appears to have been influenced by the engineers' experiences with work
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Combining aspects of Lisp with aspects of Forth is not a new idea. The RPN calculators offered by HP used a language called RPL ("Reverse Polish Lisp")[1], including a user-level version (a little more Lisp-y) and a system-level
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Virtual dispatch in C++ and Java is dynamic dispatch, but it is singly so rather than multiply so as found in CLOS, Dylan, Julia, etc. If you want multiple dispatch in C++ and its kin, you need to jump through hoops with visitor patterns a
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by groovy2shoes 9y ago
Latin emphatically did not disappear with the fall of the Roman Empire. Classical Latin was preserved not only by the Roman Catholic Church, but also as the lingua franca of all educated discourse in the West into the 18th century (at le

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