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by inkyoto 4y ago
> … in Thai, for example, the syllable NA is written นา with น and า treated as separate characters, while in Devanagari, NA is written ना where न is the N sound and the A sound ा is a spacing mark which changes the shape and spacing of
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> I think everyone should consume around 75g daily (I should add: as an absolute minimum) You ought not to give advice based on your personal pet theories (no offence implied). The daily protein requirements vary for different people (in
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Oh, yeah, AIX is perhaps the only UNIX kernel out there that can preempt itself out of RAM into a swap space in nearly its entirety under a heavy memory shortage pressure, with the exception of the disk interrupt handler – to swap itself ba
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by inkyoto 4y ago
It is hard to say about now, for most of the interesting AIX features are tightly coupled to the IBM hardware (e.g. dynamic CPU re-/allocation across LPAR's and a gazillion of other things), and the hardware is rare to come by now
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> 1. Buckets is unnecessary concept. Why use it at all, when we have domain and path. That should be enough. Bucket is a very important concept in S3 buckets. Because a S3 bucket is a container filled with S3 objects. A S3 object can hav
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Ha, an interesting link, thanks. It comes off as an attempt to atone for former sins and a rather not very convincing one (not to me, personally, anyway). Booch goes on to state: > The UML was originally designed to be a language for vis
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> The true value of UML is that it reduces ambiguity and constrains risk through lightweight prototyping. That was certainly not the original premise of UML. Booch et al came up with a grand idea «once you have UML, you will never have t
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Collective nouns, a common feature of Indo-European languages, are not an exact equivalent of counting words in Korean, Japanese, Chinese and other Southeast Asian languages, they are their nearest functional equivalent though. It is not
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Ah, yes, you are correct. I got temporarily transfixed on something else. None of the Indo-European languages (to the best of my knowledge) have future participles due to none of them having a true morphological future tense. Therefore, the
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Spoken Mandarin would be a great basis for a logical world language. Grammatically, yes (with a few caveats). Phonetically… perhaps not so much. Mandarin has a pretty poor phonetic inventory having lost a large number of sounds (includ
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Being a native Spanish speaker, I am accustomed to knowing how a word is spelled just by hearing it, although there are some cases where there might be doubt (like the homophones b and v, or the always silent h) […] And then there is t
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> going = present > gone = preterite «going» is not «present», and «gone» is not «preterite». They are present and past participles, respectively, that can be used to form present and past tenses in English, and they can be both use
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Need to take the literature as a whole. The literature as a whole has not yielded conclusive results on either side of the fence yet. There are studies that have found benefecial effects of a supplement XYZ intake, and there are also s
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Proponents will argue endlessly that it isn’t the right formulation of vitamin E and nitpick trial flaws […] Vitamin E is not a single vitamin but is a group of eight different vitamins with different properties. Detrimental effects of
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Yeah, it would also be possible to design a system that doesn't enforce permissions. It is even easier than that: one only has to simply detach the disk and reattach it to another UNIX box to gain access to any file as the file sy
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> And file system corruption is definitely a loophole. Zero directory entries pointing to an i-node is not a file system corruption as it neither corrupts the file system nor breaks the file system semantics; it is possible to have a gar
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Say every hard link to the file […] Ehr, no. Again, there are no files in the conventional sense in UNIX file systems. There are collections of disk blocks pointed to by an i-node and one or more directory entries pointing to an i-node
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> There is no official romanization of Cantonese. There is, it is called 粵拼 or Jyutping ( https://www.lshk.org/jyutping ). However, its use is not enforced, and the original British colonial era romanisation remains freque
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Terraform's design is that of a half-baked configuration management program. It's not even declarative programming, because declarative programming requires the program actually try to achieve the desired end state. terraform
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by inkyoto 4y ago
That is why I mentioned the universal/global, non-trackable digital identity as a solution and a posion pill for the locked down device. Such a digital identity has to be decentralised, resistant to ID theft attacks and a wide range of
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> The problem here is […] I categorically refuse to accept that sort of thing. It is a perceived problem specifically for you (and, based on the arguments presented so far, it appears to solely based on the personal dislike rather than o
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> I'd rather live in a world with spam […] That is a personal choice, and I choose to not have spam on my phone. Several months ago I was subjected to a floodgate of good ol' fashioned SMS spam that lasted several weeks. There
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Btw those "90% of Australian Internet users being censored" was a couple of major ISPs putting in a DNS block that can be worked around in 5 seconds. It is relatively simple for a technically savvy user, with a caveat. A few
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You don't remember the late Stephen Conroy of the Labour Party who is responsible for single-handedly imposing sweeping Internet censorship laws onto the Australian public and mandatory ISP level filtering with the public not having th
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by inkyoto 4y ago
That resonates with my experience at large as well, which I find to be unfortunate. I actually have come across a number of highly knowledgeable and talented sysadmins along the way, and I truly wanted the Dev part of DevOps to work and inv
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> … "devops". It's really job title for "sysadmin … Uhm, that what it has become, but not what it ought to be. I define the «DevOps» as an experienced software engineer with the black belt in networking and system adm
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by inkyoto 4y ago
File system journals have reduced the likelihood of unlinked inodes ending up in /lost+found but have not eliminated it completely. There is still a non-zero chance a journal corruption as well during a unexpected shutdown or complete
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Couldn't this pretty easily be solved at the file system level? It will not solve a problem that does not even exist in the first place, but will rather badly break the semantics of the UNIX file system precisely at the file syste
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by inkyoto 4y ago
I had not consulted the original text prior to replying, so I used a collective 蠻夷 as a guess. 蠻 and 夷 both translate as barbarian, an adjective and a noun (so to speak). 夷 is the character used in Archaic (Classical) Chinese that was used
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Chinese characters do not always have a clearly defined, unambiguous , meaning when gazed upon on their own in isolation . But they do acquire a specific meaning when used in a specific context. Typically, when complemented with other cha

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