mrout

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by mrout 9y ago
Virtually every educated person in Europe speaks English.
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by mrout 9y ago
It absolutely is reasonable. You have a moral and legal responsibility to testify in court.
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by mrout 9y ago
Why do Americans use 'liberal' in such a strange way?
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by mrout 9y ago
Cursor position is based on glyphs though, not grapheme clusters. Grapheme clusters are a well-specific Unicode concept. >Thus: one grapheme cluster, or two, depending on the font. One glyph or two depending on the font. Two grapheme clu
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by mrout 9y ago
They're all valid measurements. The length of a string could be measured in bytes (which doesn't require you to know the encoding), code points (which doesn't require huge Unicode grapheme clustering tables), grapheme cluster
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by mrout 9y ago
I disagree. A grapheme cluster and a glyph are different things. The former is not dependent on the font. 'fi' is two grapheme clusters even if the font renders it as a single glyph. 'é' is a single grapheme cluster even
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by mrout 9y ago
Python 3.5 is compatible with Python 3.4. Python 4.0 would be a silly number to use, it implies that there's incompatibility.
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by mrout 9y ago
There is a clear path forward. It's Python 3. The Python community unanimously agrees that the way forward is Python 3. Many libraries are planning to drop support before 2020, many have already dropped support, and the rest never supp
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by mrout 9y ago
I'm not sure there's much point just repeating the article in the comments.
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by mrout 9y ago
This is just maths, there's nothing dry about it compared to any other article about maths.