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by knorker 2y ago
Are you contradicting my extreme example, or all "non-ASCII" characters? I also cannot write something as ordinary as "ç", no more than I can write Chinese character for water. "ç" is a letter. As is "å&qu
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by knorker 2y ago
> Most people won't do it when it's offered. I hope this has actually been tested, and that this is not a (quite reasonable) assumption. (but per below, it's not easy to test) But when you say "most won't do it w
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by knorker 2y ago
By any definition of the word, I'm a foreigner. So if you meant to imply that I'm an American, you've guessed wrong.
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by knorker 2y ago
> I don't think any rational person would disagree that it should be illegal to deliberately spread misinformation and lies. It's actually a very common opinion, because it always gets weaponized. It's not a new phenomeno
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by knorker 2y ago
I'll hazard a guess that your preferred username can't be written by 99.99999% of the world, and would always have to be copy-pasted?
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by knorker 2y ago
It's not just programs. And it's not just semantics of all-numeric username. It's also whether you want usernames that you cannot type, nor possibly even render. Definitely you can't spell it to someone else. Who owns th
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by knorker 2y ago
So in the future I may not be able to even type the name of another user? Admins and other users not being able to type usernames sounds very bad. And I say that as someone whose native language has more letters than English.
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by knorker 2y ago
Voting with our wallets got us infowars and two major fake news groups of media (mainstream and not). Why should you want some MBA's life to be easy? So that it's feasible to keep producing what you actually want. I just wish it w
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by knorker 2y ago
If the author is reading this: Please stop hiding the scroll bar. It's user hostile. I want to see if I have time to finish this article before I have to leave. And now I have to waste time copy-pasting the contents into a text file, j
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by knorker 2y ago
A related pet peeve of mine is UIs that round off your investment holdings or cash. Sometimes to 2 digits. Sometimes 3. Or 4. How many significant digits are there even in fractional SPY holdings? You just resort to looking in all the pla
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by knorker 2y ago
> jump into wild nonsense conspiracy theory or extreme bigotry. Did they? The commenter was referring to "Simple Sabotage Field Manual", by the CIA. It's a very commonly cited list of actions to take, or that someone would
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by knorker 2y ago
I've used Google's Daydream on flights. I agree, it's great.
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I still can't listen to these recordings without getting so emotional that I produce some actual tears. I love it.
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by knorker 2y ago
IANAL, but I'd also be worried that even if the project answers your question, maybe any one individual contributor to the project could sue you if they disagree. Only if the project doesn't have copyright reassignment, of course.
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by knorker 2y ago
It's sad that most of the items are clear language design mistakes stemming from the creators not learning from other languages. Go is a missed opportunity. Item after item of "yeah that wouldn't happen in rust". The lis
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by knorker 2y ago
I don't mean it as a counter argument, or I don't think the way you mean it, at least. You may not use it at your smaller scale. But there are millions of machines out there that do use it, and the alternative for the same functio
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by knorker 2y ago
There are other technologies for this, such as DTrace. The kernel's choice isn't eBPF or nothing, it's eBPF or something else like it. You may not use it much, but some people use it all day. I think FAANG engineers have said
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by knorker 2y ago
I kinda disagree with advise. Use emplace when you're passing args to the constructor. Saying to use push back for day to day use either says that you don't encounter this day to day (you probably do), or that you shouldn't b
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by knorker 2y ago
I think it's fair to say that your experience is extremely atypical. PulseAudio constantly stands out as the most common frustration in all of Linux. systemd is pretty frustrating too, but it's only frustrating the 1% of the tim
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by knorker 2y ago
Actually producing value is so last millennium. Ok boomer, you add value. We don't do that here. Unless you make TikToks endlessly aspiring to be a societal net loss kardashian, why are you even breathing? Writing text? Can't the
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by knorker 2y ago
Gotta strike while the iron's hot.
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by knorker 2y ago
I think it's a context thing. "A striking man" I would not read as a man on strike, unless the context is already labor relations. And with only the title to go on, there's no existing context. "He was a man of 25,
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by knorker 2y ago
The title is? It's in that direction with the suggestive pun, sure, but I wouldn't go as far as you. Especially since it appears to be an accident while shortening the original title.
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by knorker 2y ago
You skipped a step, though. Why is the assumption 50/50? Yes, there's the null hypothesis, but the null hypothesis shouldn't survive too much contradicting evidence.
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by knorker 2y ago
Sure, in theory the string 20xx-12-31T23:59:59 should never be created. But if it is created, so what? A time span is off by a second, in the positive direction. Not good, but shrug. I'm not saying it's a good thing. At time recor
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by knorker 2y ago
Negative leap seconds seem like they shouldn't be much of a problem. At least they don't involve repeating a second. No queries came in during a whole second? Who cares?
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by knorker 2y ago
Forcing opening in a new tab can go die in a fire. I don't understand how browsers even support that. It's so abused. If I wanted it in a new tab, I'll bloody well open it in a new tab myself. The feature is right there. Don&
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by knorker 2y ago
The people who buy these bags cannot spend all they have, even in 10 lifetimes. Don't worry about them. They'll be fine.
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> What happens in reality is that you more or less quickly ammass a big list of blogs and sources that gets updated by the hour Maybe you do. I don't. But you're not the only one misusing RSS. One of the things Larry Page said
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by knorker 2y ago
I agree. Like I said, most of these "sublicense[...]third parties[...]publish" things end with "for the sole purpose of providing the service you asked for". This license doesn't seem to do that. And that's a p

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