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From the millions of tablets the historians have analysed, we know that Babylonian (educated) people loved lists. I've heard an Assyriologist make fun of it in his course. There are lists for everything: events, vegetables, mathematica
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"Ordeal" was exactly the same process in Europe for centuries. In France at least, this "divine judgment" was mostly by fire and water. I remember reading about these "river ordeals" in Dominique Charpin's
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I've read the commit message in the post, and read it again, but I did not understand how it would be configured. The penalty system seems complex but only 2 parameters are mentioned. From the documentation, one of these parameters is
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> However, I’m struggling to imagine how centralised actions would work. Don't imagine, just have a look at what is happening in other countries. Overlooking the world outside of the USA is also very "American". Chile has
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IIRC, the right way to check if a table is empty is next(mytable) == nil As the sibling comment points to, the documentation of the # operator is complex. It returns a border which is defined as: a border is any positive inte
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> The great thing about toys is they are very easy to put down for a while and then pick back up again later with very little effort. That matches my experience. I've written programs in Haskell, and it was very satisfying. But goin
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Their edition is based on this. That does not mean it is faithful to it. For instance, if they followed their guideline, their edition modernized the text with modern US typography and conventions. See https://standardebooks.or
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You shouldn't use mod_php. It's a security nightmare. https://www.php.net/manual/en/security.apache.php Even Apache httpd discourages the usage of mod_php. If installed, Apache recommends some extra conf
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The space-time geometry of our world is not Euclidian, not even Riemannian. The story of "Operation Chaos" looks more chaotic than scientific. That fits with the books of Poul Anderson I've read, like the excellent High Crusa
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> Things like GitHub's Secret Scanning will still be there to check... When a DVCS is successful, there are many server software. For git, there is the official git daemon and its wrappers (gitolite...), but also many forges, some o
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Henri Poincaré and Ernst Mach where physicists that worked in the same domains as Einstein. Mixing in the philosopher Hume make your citation very unprecise. Yet, even is debating about Hume had "significantly influenced Einstein'
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> People don't read philosophy like they would poetry. They want to learn something about the world, something factual, preferably. People often expect much from the philosophy. They hope for personal enhancement or a better underst
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A few centuries ago, philosophy was a knowledge. Its concepts and theories were central in most educations. Spinoza proved the existance of God. Charles Fourier defined new societies. Now that sciences and technology rule the knowledge fiel
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That's nice, but quite buggy. "Cape town" appears in South Sudan, though the country is not named. Erythrea is also missing its name. And there are 2 Somalia blocks, with different colors. My own experience is that it's
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> the chance of anyone actually hitting the bad data seems quite small (as in, lottery jackpot winning small). I saw it on a small cycling site that uses OSM's tiles. I was surprised and checked OSM's site for this French back-
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By "Actually Portable", this article means that one can build a portable executable of `python` (compiler and runtime) which can run on many systems, including Windows and Linux. But the reality is a bit different . The article st
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Indeed, that's what the Debian maintainer of OpenSSH did soon after the quick security fix. He replaced the dependency on libsystemd with some hand-made code that notifies systemd by socket. https://salsa.debian.org/ssh
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For a benchmark on a standard set: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench/blob/master/lzbench18_sort... Of course, you may get different results with another dataset. gzip (zlib -6) [ratio=32%] [compr=35Mo&#x
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The article gives a link to a simple shell script that detects the signature of the compromised function. > Running OpenSSH sshd from systemd I think this is irrelevant. From the article: "Initially starting sshd outside of systemd
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This is too restrictive. The article claims 3 facts are the proof that the genre is ill: (1) 12% of US readers read sci-fi in the last year, (2) current sci-fi best sellers are old books or not really sci-fi, and (3) in the 80s, SF novels w
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I remember writing a script for doing this, more than 10 years ago. I haven't used it much, and not for many years. The problem is that a fully automatic schema is only readable for very small databases. So small that very soon you can
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I also use Firefox, as a secondary browser, but the only reason I share with the author is Mozilla's independant web engine. My main reasons for sticking with FF are that I'm distrustful of Google's policies and that I'm
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Greg Egan's diaspora is in this list of 12 books. They chose the novel Diaspora, but many of his short stories and novels are very mathematical. I remember stories about a toric universe, or playing football on a relativistic field (wi
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It's not only about fake science, don't forget the authors and a reviewer lied about their affiliations and conflicts of interest. When a Journal Editor and a publisher realize that they were deceived by plain lies, I would expect
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> Both this issue and issue with the door bolts were caused by Spirit From what I've read, this is not what happened for the door bolts. The New York Times report was that Spirit required access to some part of the fuselage masked b
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fail2ban is not very performant and it will only reduce the amount of attempts. An alternative is to add a nftables rule (or iptables or whatever firewall). Something like : table inet filter { chain input { tcp dport ssh acce
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Indeed, EPUB3 provides all the features that the author wishes. His "portable EPUB" format is just a loosely specified subset. It's unclear if some extra features are included in the format as they are in his "Bene"
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> some kind of standardized format for enabling users to read your docs offline. epub An epub is a zip containing HTML files (more precisely, XHTML) and a few text files for metadata (mainly OPF for the global structure and NCX for a tab
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That resounds with me: reading fiction is a great way to share the life of other people. Some prefer movies for this, but it's only after ready novels that I've sometimes thought of people as if I had met them in real life. As a t
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> at 65 years old stood on the tarmac with a machine gun until a plane’s hijackers surrendered. That's a funny story. In fact, too funny and hardly believable... According to a NYT article from the time of these events, the 4 hijack

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