inkyoto

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by inkyoto 5d ago
Since categories have been invoked, we are discussing semantics. «As a whole» leaves unclear whether your example means the kind itself, its members generally or every member without exception as they are three distinct interpretations . T
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by inkyoto 5d ago
> “Cats meow” is “about” the whole of what makes up the category as opposed to parts of it. No. That is, at best, a highly informal proposition and, at worst, a frivolous disposition masquerading as a definition of «category». Bare plura
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by inkyoto 5d ago
I can't answer the why question, but out of all Germanic languages, only Faroese has retained the plural indefinite article, although its use is restricted to nouns that 1) only occur in the plural and 2) indicate «a pair/set of
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by inkyoto 6d ago
«cats» in «cats meow» and «apples» in «I like apples» are not categories, they are bare plural noun phrases with generic reference. They refer generically to members of the relevant class, rather than naming the class itself. Both are count
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by inkyoto 10d ago
That is a relatively recent change. In the 80-90's, the most popular destination for Australians was the UK: Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance fame) and many others moved up there.
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by inkyoto 13d ago
It is a conspiracy – one of the many for which history has been inconsiderate enough to preserve evidence of.
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by inkyoto 13d ago
For rural areas, lower frequencies are better because they mean longer distances ↝ fewer cell towers but also less density. Conversely, higher frequencies mean more density, shorter distances and more cell towers. The ROI in the rural scena
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by inkyoto 13d ago
There are historical and cultural reasons for that. Even though hiragana can be traced back to the 5th century, the educated and elites continued to use kanji exclusively until the 20th century, whereas hiragana was relegated to unofficial
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by inkyoto 13d ago
> Japanese could be written with the Latin alphabet very well, if a set of kanji radicals were retained and inserted before a part of the words, to disambiguate their meaning. Sort of. The adoption of a Latin script would risk severing c
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by inkyoto 13d ago
Not numerous but specifically Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan – all four countries speak Turkic languages, and they chose to do so to align themselves with Turkey. The adoption has been rather slow, and previous Cyrillic
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by inkyoto 14d ago
Australia (2018), New Zealand (2018), US (2017), Iceland (2025), Switzerland have shut down 2G networks. In Norway, Telia shut down 2G in 2025, but Telenor is holding out until the end of 2027. In Sweden, Telia is holding until 2027, and al
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
There is no need for two penny sarcasm. I deliberately stopped short of invoking golden parachutes and the numerous other escape hatches available at that altitude, as I am perfectly aware they exist. I am equally aware of chief executives
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
In the current legal framework, AI can't be held accountable, a human being is required. That is what the CEO is for – to be on the receiving end of beatings and flogging if the business they are at the masthead of effs something up.
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
The GCC assembly syntax is not a monstrosity, it was a necessity given how GCC represented the intermediate representation of the code. Historical GCC docs actually explain the rationale of the design pretty well. Moreover, since GCC was on
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
The correct assembly syntax is a matter of convention and personal preference – not a category error. Historically, some ISA's have adopted the «src, dst» convention, whilst others have preferred «dst, src». We should be grateful that
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
Firefox has also adopted and supports Manifest v3, but Mozilla did not adopt all of Chrome/Chromium’s Manifest v3 restrictions . In Chrome/Chromium, Manifest v3 largely replaces extension-controlled network blocking with a more r
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
Registers are very much real, and their number being available at the ISA level will continue to matter regardless of the actual number of shadow registers. Being able to store, e.g. 10 vs 5, local variables in a larger register file has pe
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
Competing RISC designs tanked for a number of reasons, but not just because Intel and AMD started pumping money into their products. RISC vendors were in the business of selling hi-end workstations and servers that required their own respec
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
To recover the past working context, not necessarily looking up a specific command (but that, too, – on certain occasions). I also hold over a decade worth of zsh history and revisit it from time to time to reconstruct the full memory of wh
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
> […] then the CPU vendors can optimize on one side […] I find the statement ironic and somewhat amusing (or bemusing – depending on the perspective) for reasons entirely unrelated to CPU's and/or RISC-V. I keep hearing the p
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by inkyoto 1mo ago
> […] we're at a bit of an inflection point where mooore's law has proved itself to be an scurve […] Well. May's law[0], which states that: Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law.
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
Functionally, Bitcode delivers – a .bc file can be compiled into any architecture LLVM supports. I have tested a few supported architecture, and it worked like a charm. Stability of the Bitcode format across releases is orthogonal to the fu
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
It does exist in LLVM and is called Bitcode, a binary format for the LLVM IR - https://llvm.org/docs/BitCodeFormat.html Apple used to require apps submitted to its iOS App Store to be in the Bitcode format, and they wo
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
> […] why the building does not have high quality NBN connections? Because their place of residence is connected to an embedded network that has eschewed the NBN Co and chosen to connect to a private fibre operator who sits outside the
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
«Mates rates» is a big problem in Australia, indeed. At best, it is collusion, but typically it is corruption. I have recently gone through the entire chain of complaints, the ombudsman including, and I have gained plenty of insight into ho
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
No, technically it can't. An individual writing to an MP is rarely sufficient by itself. Australia’s embedded network landscape is a peculiarly intricate tangle of nuance, complexity and regulatory optimism. Note that the embedded netw
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
Performance gap is not closing in specimens commercially available today , and the promises of it «happening any moment from now» are now indistinguishable from monthly horoscopes. For example, Zen 2 is a 2019 design, and the 64-core SG2
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
> […] they are legally allowed to sign binding contracts with the building manager […] The embedded networks collude with the builders and offer them the installation of wiring, air-conditioning, gas, hot water, and sometimes the interne
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by inkyoto 2mo ago
Moreover, apartment dwelling residential customers connected to embedded networks (many new apartment blocks in NSW, Victoria and Queensland) are not eligible for the Solar Share Offer because under section 6(3)(c), a consumer supplied thro
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by inkyoto 3mo ago
There are not.

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