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by gucci-on-fleek 5d ago
> I worked at the provincial government as an intern. We had those keyboards. Which province? Because I've never seen the CSA keyboard used here in Alberta, but it's also not terribly surprising that the Albertan government has
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by gucci-on-fleek 5d ago
> Every I know in Montreal uses the CSA/ACNOR layout if they're writing French and nobody uses AZERTY There are two different Canadian QWERTY keyboard layouts suited for typing French though: the one called "Canadian Frenc
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by gucci-on-fleek 6d ago
I've never heard anybody claim that they got a threatening email from dang before though. The moderators could easily block any such story from appearing on HN, but there are plenty of other sites where they could post it, and I suspec
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by gucci-on-fleek 6d ago
> there are many people that have a significant reliance on roadkill to fulfill their dietary needs. I doubt that many people are collecting roadkill on a 75mph 6-lane divided freeway though, since I can't really think of any safe w
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by gucci-on-fleek 6d ago
There's an episode [0] [1] in a famous Canadian comedy that makes fun of this distinction: > Brent: Ah, the tax man. > Drey: A tax man. > Brent: Pardon? > Drey: I'm not the tax man, I'm a tax man. Saying the tax m
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by gucci-on-fleek 8d ago
For an analogous but completely unrelated example, Stoney [0] has a word for "ocean" (mînîtâga) [1], but it's also only spoken in a landlocked region. So maybe human languages have a tendency to preserve/invent the wor
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by gucci-on-fleek 11d ago
Nonstandard analysis [0] [1] uses infinitesimals but is still completely rigorous. I haven't ever really used nonstandard analysis myself, but there's a fairly well-regarded textbook available online [2]. [0]: https://e
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by gucci-on-fleek 11d ago
btrfs is almost 20 years old now, so lots of people only used it back when it was newer and far buggier. In my experience, btrfs is actually more reliable than other filesystems due to its checksumming abilities, but when it does fail, it
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by gucci-on-fleek 12d ago
For the most part, probably no, because a sales engineer requires substantial engineering experience, so requiring sales experience on top of that would limit the candidate pool too much. I'm sure that there are higher-level sales engi
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by gucci-on-fleek 13d ago
Perhaps a sales engineer? > I am just much more comfortable supporting existing software than building new software. Having technical skills is required, but you'd be doing little to no coding or design work. > Being an interface
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by gucci-on-fleek 13d ago
> The moreless catastrophic decline of their languages was perhaps unavoidable. Yup, this is unfortunately the case. Colonization definitely made things vastly worse than they were before, but the modern world has become so connected t
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by gucci-on-fleek 13d ago
Well sure, because everybody already knows exactly what "spending at least two hours a day outdoors" means, whereas things like "Orthokeratology" need a bit more explanation since not many people have heard of that befor
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by gucci-on-fleek 13d ago
> I'm wondering what script the North American Indians The Cherokee syllabary [0] and the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics [1] are both scripts designed for use with North American indigenous languages, and both are still widely used (
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by gucci-on-fleek 13d ago
I've never seen this out west before (I'm in Alberta), so my guess would be that it's related to the sovereignty movement [0] rather than some broader grassroots movement to join the EU. But I could be wrong here. [0]: htt
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by gucci-on-fleek 15d ago
> Weird. Wasn’t lead typically used as an opacifying agent? That's its role in paint, but lead glass [0] is a thing, so transparent lead-based compounds do exist. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_glass
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by gucci-on-fleek 15d ago
Hmm, I don't think that I've ever seen dang moderate a comment that is politely worded, on-topic, and non-malicious. You could argue that of comments that break the rules, dang is more likely to moderate ones on specific "s
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by gucci-on-fleek 15d ago
Huh, this completely crashed my Firefox on Linux, which I've never had happen before. At least the rest of the programs on my desktop seem to have been completely unaffected.
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by gucci-on-fleek 16d ago
> Finally, the group of people interested in having a species description may not be very large; and the group willing and able to create one even smaller. Perhaps, but the caption on the picture in the article [0] says that it was taken
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by gucci-on-fleek 20d ago
> It's still kind of a wild west so you see people using the italics d for derivatives instead of the differential operator upright bold form. Upright and italic are both valid, but I don't think that I've ever seen a bold
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by gucci-on-fleek 20d ago
Docker was first released 11 years after AWS though, so I'm not really sure that it counts as "pre-cloud". Regardless, I agree that Docker has made self-hosting stuff pretty easy, and arguably even easier than it was in the p
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by gucci-on-fleek 26d ago
> I've sometimes heard "orphan" used to represent a single word left alone on its own line at the end of a paragraph, but the terms are often confused and Carter could have used "widow" in that sense. This is an
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by gucci-on-fleek 28d ago
It's in the URL (January 2016): https://joearms.github.io/published/2016-01-28-A-Badass-Way-To-Connect-Programs-Together.html
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
> Most displays are 60Hz This was true even a couple years ago, but these days, most mid-range and above TVs [0], phones [1], and monitors [2] support 120Hz, which is a nice integer multiple of 40Hz. But lots of these devices default to
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
Cool! But it appears to always use LuaTeX as the engine, so only the older MkIV format is supported, and not the current LMTX format. The caching also doesn't seem to work quite right, since it appears to regenerate the font caches eve
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
Why you choose to base this off of TeX Live 2020? Is that just when you initially started the project, or are there some incompatibilities with the later versions? Also, we (the TeX Live team) would be happy to add Wasm as an officially-sup
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
> I think you might be able to go an additional decade backwards Yeah, Python has had good Windows support at least 15 [0] or 25 years [1], depending on how you count it. > Back in college most of my friends were on windows and one o
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
> I’ll never not be bitter than Python “won” the scripting language war over Ruby, more or less just because someone did a bit of AI work in it first and it took over that space by default. This is just my personal opinion with no data t
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
> I honestly cannot recommend anyone who starts programming to choose Python as their first language, contrary to popular sentiments > I think it may be better off to skip Python altogether and write your code in a statically typed la
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
If you count pre-release versions, there are actually 7 pre-declared constants, since Python 3.15 (planned for release in November [0]) adds a new constant "TYPE_CHECKING" that should behave like "Ellipsis" and "Not
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by gucci-on-fleek 1mo ago
> But, you're ignoring that it's also not exactly a blanket ban on travel from the DRC, just "within the last 21 days", which... does that make a meaningful difference? What's the alternative here though? It&#x27

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