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ASN.1 standards are free: https://www.itu.int/rec/t-rec-x.680/en Many, though not all, specifications that use ASN.1 are also freely available. I've been out of telecom for awhile, so I don't know the
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> Even in the most limited federal government has fundamental requirements. I guess my question is more related to how you can tell the difference between a "valuable value" like "slavery is bad" and a less-valuable v
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> This has been a thing since at least the Roman empire? My read on the comment was that people killed each other for political reasons prior to the time of Christ, and maybe even religious reasons, but that conversion wasn't a st
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> When the federal government begins to force values upon the country en masse problems begin. What is your opinion about the US Civil War? I'm curious about this because it is in part an abrogation of states' rights over a qu
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> The world didn't used to be like that. I credit Christianity with the invention of proselytizing; religions before it (including Judaism, its immediate parent) were content to stay with a given tribe and not try to spread. It goes
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These were super interesting, thank you. Do you know if there are any references to them intentionally trying to subvert the Nazi idealism of the Übermensch?
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Thanks for the links! I'll check them out.
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> "Übermensch" is a much more evocative word than "overman". Try "Superman" instead. I'm not a historian, and I've wondered whether the historical background for the comic (conceived in the early &
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An interesting project! Regarding some of the ASN.1 comparison characteristics, I'm not quite sure if I understand--there's a lot to read here, and it's likely I've missed something by a lack of acquaintance with your do
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> Will you elaborate on why it’s a travesty? Genuinely curious as a newer photographer still discovering the best online resources. Rockwell is rather opinionated, and that rubs some people (including me) the wrong way. As a nascent pho
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In practice prints look good either way. I have noticed that the main drawback to the older lenses is the coma, not resolution. I routinely shoot manual focus Nikkors on digital bodies without significant artifacts from resolution...but as
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A fun but by now old thread on manual focus Nikkor lenses is at https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/929565 . I whiled away many hours looking at the work people did there. Edit: it appears that the thread is s
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> Assuming a loving god exists, shouldn't that being give us a way to tell the difference between false beliefs and true beliefs? Oh, sure, I think that makes sense. I mean, supposing god exists and wants us to know he/she
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> Ultimately it depends on the claim, but the basis of it would that you'd have to be able to both test and repeatably reproduce whatever effect is claimed. Can you explain further why this would be a good standard, or how it would
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> So what does that leave me with? Facts, logic, and evidence. Any religion that can give me solid evidence that the supernatural is real and exists would win me. None have succeeded (and I have had fun looking into a few). What tools wo
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> How does ASN.1 compare to something like binary protobuf? Protobuf is probably easier to work with in many cases, but there are a few issues that I've run across that makes protobuf a greater challenge in production: 1. Backwards
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You could give it away.
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> For many people there is no hope for a future. What is the object of that hope? I.e., what are people hoping for in the future? (Yes, this is a bit of a vague question that requires a lot of speculation. If you're willing, humor
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> Well, by becoming new laws in individual countries. Can a country create a right for more living space for some of its citizens?
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> But, the more comfortable I got at being a beginner led to even faster learning. This attitude has spread through other parts of my life, even areas where I'm not a beginner, and has led to improvement across the board. I think th
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your usage is probably much higher than is mine, but generally any purchase doesn't require my attention to shipping. if it's mission critical or I'm impatient I obsessively reload tracking. on the other hand I don't lik
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> It's another example of how the modern economy has many consumer-hostile incentives that have actually led to regressions rather than improvements. To be honest, I actually think it's probably more privacy-conscious to elimin
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> It happens occasionally, but rarely. For some definitions of "law" this is probably true. But I think under the more general principle it's much more likely to happen than not. If you look at the law as any set of rule
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> I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and snarky liberals started moralizing about mask protocol, there wasn't as much resistance to wearing masks among right-wing crazies. The Law always provo
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> In a proper Lisp you can take anything that in a regular language would be a language feature and implement it as a library. I should have been perhaps a bit more clear, though T9 makes that hard. I mean more in the sense of standardi
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> It's pretty interesting to see how papers owned by the same parent company will present the same news with pretty much opposite takes on it. Ideally you'd get this from the same paper, and not different papers in the same fam
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> We have an informal rule that every feature that starts with the words "Why not ..." gets rejected. I wonder how much language inertia can be overcome by surveying what's been implemented multiple times and ranking them.
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check the dpi of your monitor. you'll want to consider that the pixel density of your monitor is not the same as a print. I printed six megapixel images at 8x10 inches and you could probably in with lower res at that size. I would be s
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> I'll never understand why people want code folding. Sometimes cognitive load is correlated with visual load. Perhaps most people don't suffer from this problem? But I do. Other times code works as an outline, and folding br
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Can you describe this in any detail? E.g., what was the system, how did the interop work, etc?
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