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by msla 3y ago
Genes are, at best, a correlate to culture and ethnicity, and sometimes a weak one. For example, the "one-drop rule" ensured that people with very little African ancestry would be Black (or other, ruder terms) for the purposes of
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by msla 3y ago
Time zones acknowledge that everyone synchronizes with the people around them, possibly with some added information about people who are theoretically too far away to be in the same time zone together but still want to synchronize with each
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by msla 3y ago
How universal did the JVM ever try to be? Aren't its semantics pretty tied to what's legal in Java?
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by msla 3y ago
> Almost all C++ code interacts with bare pointers at some point. This is a device driver. If it has to talk to memory-mapped hardware, that's a raw pointer, inherently, inevitably. Other things are language issues, and can be solve
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by msla 3y ago
C has enums, too, you know. What do Rust enums do that C enums don't?
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by msla 3y ago
So we can take that yoavweiss_ character as a Google representative.
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by msla 3y ago
A good bit of Raku looks like a language construction kit: Build your own little language, using Raku as a huge bag of tools.
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by msla 3y ago
Thinking purely conceptual notions are real is mysticism. It's a confusion of layers, like in an Escher print: The hand is drawing itself, the water is going around infinitely, because the background is bleeding into the foreground and
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by msla 3y ago
The big thing Raku offers is grammars as a built-in language feature: https://docs.raku.org/language/grammar_tutorial > Regular expressions (Regexes) work well for finding patterns in strings. However, for some task
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by msla 3y ago
So there's no actual advantage, since you can still be wrong and grasping for something that doesn't exist or that you can't define properly. It's just adding more mysticism to mathematics.
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by msla 3y ago
So if Platonism doesn't give you any special insight into mathematics, what good is it?
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by msla 3y ago
If mathematics were the study of real objects, why didn't Platonists realize set theory was ill-founded a long time before Russell did? After all, Plato predates Russell by a few years.
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by msla 3y ago
> macOS is a certified Unix. So's z/OS, whereas FreeBSD isn't. Also, there are Linux distros that are certified Unixes: Inspur K-UX, for example. > Unix Hater's Handbook Ah, yes, the "our favorite proprietary
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by msla 3y ago
Yeah, that excuse makes perfect sense if you don't think about it.
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by msla 3y ago
It only takes one.
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by msla 3y ago
Has a distro Cloud-nature? This is the most serious question of all. If you say yes or no, You lose your own Cloud-nature.
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by msla 3y ago
> Looks like it's read-only at the moment, but still pretty cool. That's how Linux NTFS support started out, too. What is it about NTFS that makes writing hugely more difficult than reading?
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by msla 3y ago
It seems like some people are claiming emoticons are retroactively emoji because emoji is the term people know now.
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by msla 3y ago
Emoji and emoticons are not the same thing. Emoticons are things like :) or :D which can be done purely in ASCII. Emoji are actual pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by msla 3y ago
For example, in reference to the WWI experience in specific: > Some men with shell shock were put on trial, and even executed, for military crimes including desertion and cowardice.[16] While it was recognised that the stresses of war co
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by msla 3y ago
> If you had looked them up before commenting. You wouldn't have been wrong on every single thing you sayed. And these sentences are why we aren't pedantic in public.
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by msla 3y ago
Hell, business types confuse data entry work for dev work. It's Computer Stuff. It's all the same.
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by msla 3y ago
Yeah, but they're betting nobody else did.
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by msla 3y ago
https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html > Depending on the ``memory model'' in use, 8086-family processors (PC compatibles) may use 16-bit data pointers and 32-bit function pointers, or vice versa. And it is
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by msla 3y ago
> That's why the tax is in proportion to the unimproved value of the land. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37913341 > The idea is that you tax the land only as if it was being used for best use - so that eve
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by msla 3y ago
> The land will still be owned, just by different people, regardless of how high it is taxed. That means that the government can raise revenue without curtailing economic activity. And this is a fantasy. Some land is marginal: Taxing it
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by msla 3y ago
It would because anyone who isn't in the best-paying part of the economy would be taxed higher than their actual income could support, leading them to either switch businesses or go broke.
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by msla 3y ago
But the post I responded to implied that if you weren't in the most-profitable economic sector, you'd be taxed as if you were, causing excessive loss, leading to people switching businesses to be in that one Golden Sector regardle
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by msla 3y ago
So people will be paying a higher tax than they ought to be if they aren't trend-chasing the economy to always be engaging in that "best use" from year to year? That sounds perverse in itself, especially since an economy need
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by msla 3y ago
NTLM is being replaced by Kerberos. Kerberos has requirements about clocks being synchronized such that clock skew will prevent authentication. I rather doubt that Microsoft has made Windows any more punctual about setting its damned clock

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