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by lou1306 5y ago
But it was a "fall" in the sense that the line of western Roman emperors ended then and there. Odoacer did not claim the title for himself and even sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople.
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> Most of the banks operating in the City of London are European or American anyway HSBC is neither, and is the second-biggest bank in Europe. Just to name an example. (I guess by "European" you mean "EU-based")
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It's high time OSs try and implement something akin to what DoNotTrack was intended to do in web browsers. Of course it will have the same adoption issues faced by DNT, but if first-party apps (like VSCode, DotNet, and PowerShell under
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by lou1306 5y ago
Try "Delete until the 3rd closed parenthesis", or "Delete everything within the {} block currently under the cursor". In Vim it's pretty natural, because commands are compositional. It's like you can "talk
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For the record, the "3 keystrokes" are "ci" (mnemonics: "Change In") + the delimiter. Also works with "w" and "W" to change the word under cursor.
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by lou1306 5y ago
How funny, in Italian we kind of have the reverse! We say "andare a zonzo" which mean "wandering without a clear direction", and "zonzo" is onomatopoeia for the sound of a flying insect. > BTW I always found
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Furthermore, there are far fewer physical constraints in software, so the range of possible designs is dramatically wider. (Actually I dare say that sotware itself has no physical constraints at all: software artifacts and software execu
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It is well-known that UK doctoral scholarships (as well as postdocs) are pretty low, especially considering the cost of life there. In the rest of Europe, grandparent's remark mostly holds. In France, for instance, students get bout 1.
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The Bible says "We are given 70 years, or 80 if we are strong" (psalm 90). Sounds like pretty strong evidence that old age (>50 years) was not that exceptional.
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While it's true invermectin is also approved for humans, some people do buy/take the veterinarian tablets that target the, uh, "horse market". So they are in fact using a horse drug.
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I also remember using NT 4.0 (with the "hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to login" quirk) and then 2000 at home as a kid. Dad, being a sysop/dev/IT manager/"tech guy", really liked the stability of NTs. It took the first
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It should be in Windows 2000's place. ME was a Windows 9x system, 2000 was part of the NT family.
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To be clearer, the EU did not "abolish daylight saving" either, just the practice of switching back and forth every 6 months [0]. Each member state will decide whether to keep DST or Solar time. For instance, countries such as Ita
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by lou1306 5y ago
Relevant: If your SSH server is public, you can give its address to https://sshcheck.com/ and it will report any weak spots in your config.
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This dualism in CS still carries on to this day. Essentially, the lambda calculus is the forefather of the functional approach to computation, while the Turing machine epitomizes the imperative paradigm.
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It's technically correct, since am=ante meridiem="before noon". And midnight, of course, comes before noon. You can call it 0am, but then you'd have to call noon 0pm which is weird. Plus, remember most analog watches in
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by lou1306 5y ago
Speaking of ABC, some years ago HN was all abuzz with inter-universal Teichmuller theory, did that fizzle out or what?
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Godel's theorem is actually not that complex. Sure, you may think of "Godel, Escher, Bach", but that book is stuffed with sooo much material that is only tangentially related to the theorem. Of course the consequences of
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by lou1306 5y ago
> People may prefer the English experience because they expect the translated version to be inferior As an Italian, I can relate so much to this, because translated apps will happily treat verbs as adjectives and vice versa. A couple exa
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Somewhat related: a similar program [1] is part of the benchmarks used in the annual Software Verification Competition (SV-COMP). Specifically, in the termination analysis suite. Maybe they secretly hope that some tool, someday, will spit o
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Still, I guess you could get the dumps and do a local Wikimedia setup based on them, and then crawl that instead?
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by lou1306 5y ago
> Why do we need strong ID so often anyway? ... To prevent identity theft?
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by lou1306 5y ago
I think FB's sheer reach and the way the friendlist of a user closely resembles its real-world social graph (for typical users, at least) puts it in a league of its own.
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The so-called "Hague invasion act" allows the US President to use "any means necessary" to release any US citizen from custody by the International Criminal Court [0]. This, technically, gives the President the power to
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by lou1306 5y ago
Are you aware of the huge death toll Covid took despite all the mask mandates? You don't sound like you're aware. In the US, Covid took more lifes than WW2 did. Again, with mask mandates.
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I mean, it sounds weird now , but back then the assembler would indeed have eaten up precious CPU time. Imagine if, nowadays, a grad student took a node in a scientific cluster to run Dreamweaver in a Windows VM instead of writing HTML by
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by lou1306 5y ago
> It approaches something like Infinite Jest's Samizdat videotape Small, but crucial difference: the Samizdat did not involve money transactions :)
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There's an Italian podcast, Power Pizza, which also does a similar thing, but the domains have a silly/surreal vibe rather than an offensive one. Their website is called unpodcastveramentebellissimoguardaveloconsiglioproprio.com (
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by lou1306 5y ago
Another case in point: Tullio Levi-Civita [0]. His work on tensor calculus became a cornerstone of relativity. Famously, Einstein was once asked what he liked the most about Italy, and replied: "Spaghetti and Levi-Civita". [0] ht
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At least Google's policy with Gmail has always been clear: we give you free email, you allow us to mine your data. Same with Android and their other free services, more or less. Apple, on the other hand, is doing a complete about-face.

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