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by inkyoto 9mo ago
Unlike Mandarin and other Chinese languages, Cantonese does not have tone sandhi and has changed tones instead. Cantonese tones are also different from those of Mandarin, so no, it can't be adopted for Cantonese and it would require a
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
> Australians are able to buy solar panels […] but the cost equation is shifting very quickly. As of now, Australia has some of the lowest costs of solar panel installation in the world – the federal and state/territory governments
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
It is the clear separation of property and contractual rights, which I find to be pretty logical. In fact, the separation of concerns actually makes things simpler as the property rights do transfer with the property sale (a car, a house,
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
Because common law is not a general «duty to disclose everything» bludgeon for ordinary used-goods sales, and the «why not sue the first owner» argument can only work in narrow fact patterns. For example, if the first owner actively misrepr
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
> If I buy a used vehicle for example, I have exactly zero relationship with the manufacturer. I never agree to anything at all with them. I turn the car on and it goes. They do not have any authorization to touch anything. Generally spe
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
The issue is that XSD came along much later, and its use did not become binding in XML validation scenarios, hence partial success, even when the XSD-based validation tooling was available at the time. XSD provides a clean abstraction for t
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
> XML grew from SGML […] … as an effort to simplify SGML which was deemed to be too complex. Oh, the irony.
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
AT&T did not ship with the kernel source code, but they often shipped with the compiled object files of the kernel and a command line utility that allowed to change the kernel configuration parameters, after which the kernel would get r
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
You have just described OSF/1 (and later – Tru64) – a certified UNIX with a hybrid kernel operating over a Mach microkernel, BSD userland, POSIX conformance etc. What is the point that you are making?
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
This could be a great fit for Prolog, in fact, as it excels at the search. Each resolved record would be asserted as a fact, and a tiny search implementation would run after all assertions have been made to resolve the IP address irrespecti
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
> That isn't the English subjunctive. No, it is not a proper English subjunctive (a correct example would have been «as if they were» – past subjunctive) or «[we suggested] that they go». I deliberately lumped subjunctive, conjunc
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
> I don't know any other language where flexible argument order would work so well. Any highly inflected language has such a property. Slavic languages, Sanskrit (or, more broadly, Indo-Aryan languages) are prime examples. Speakers
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
A grammatical mood indicates the modality of the verb, and some languages possess rich inventories of the grammatical moods. They are called differently in different languages, but mood is an established term in English. English has indicat
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by inkyoto 9mo ago
Or, more pedantically, Markdown vs SGML, which was meant to be the one to rule them all.
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
I can see your point now, and we are in agreement that nested clauses are uncommon and at the very least sound unnatural in Sinitic languages, but it is distinct from «The sentences simply can't be very long and often don't have a
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
I do not share the view that the unification of RAM and disk requires or entails linear regions of memory. In fact, the unification reduces the question of «do I have a contiguous block of size N to do X» to a mere «do I have enough memory
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> Chinese novels are on the other side of the spectrum. The sentences simply can't be very long and but often don't have any connecting words between sentences. The readers have to infer. There is no grammatical ceiling on sent
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Linear regions are mostly a figment of imagination in real life, but they are a convenient abstraction and a concept. Linear regions are nearly impossible to guarantee, unless the underlying hardware has specific, controller-level provision
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> Some English translations of Russian literature can run into the absurd (sentences at half a page long), but even then there is a beauty to it. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin’s translation of Marcel Proust’s «In Search of
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
«Memory technology» as in «a single tech» that blends RAM and disk into just «memory» and obviates the need for the disk as a distinct concept. One can conjure up RAM, which has become exabytes large and which does not lose data after a sys
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
It is, although TIMI does not exist in the hardware – it is a virtual architecture that has been implemented multiple times in different hardware (i.e., CPU's – IMPI, IBM RS64, POWER, and only heavens know which CPU IBM uses today). Th
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Indeed. It can get ever weirder in the embedded world where a ROM, an E(E)PROM or a device may get mapped into an arbitrary slice of physical address space, anywhere within its bounds. It has become less common, though. But devices are stil
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
Meet TIMI – the Technology Independent Machine Interface of IBM's i Series (nèe AS/400), which defines pointers as 128-bit values[0], which is a 1980's design. It has allowed the AS/400 to have a single-level store, whic
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> But we don't have a linear address space, unless you're working with a tiny MCU. We actually do, albeit for a brief duration of time – upon a cold start of the system when the MCU is inactive yet, no address translation is pe
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> Because the attempts at segmented or object-oriented address spaces failed miserably. > That is false. In the Intel World, we first had the iAPX 432, which was an object-capability design. To say it failed miserably is overselling i
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
My point is that static linking alone and by itself does not meaningfully improve binary provenance and is mostly expensive security theatre from a provenance standpoint due to a statically linked binary being more opaque from a component
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
I am well aware of and understand that. However, > […] which artefacts were linked against that bad version of libc. There is one libc for the entire system (a physical server, a virtual one, etc.), including the application(s) that
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> I don't think that anyone actually believes that writing code is only for junior developers. That is, unquestionably, how it ought to be. However, the mainstream – regrettably – has devolved into a well-worn and intellectually sta
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> One reason is that using static binaries greatly simplifies the problem of establishing Binary Provenance, upon which security claims and many other important things rely. It depends. If it is a vulnerability stemming from libc, then e
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by inkyoto 10mo ago
> […] 2GB maximum offsets in the .text section … on the x86 ISA because it encodes the 32-bit jump/call offset directly in the opcode. Whilst most RISC architecture do allow PC-relative branches, the offset is relatively small as

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