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by msla 3y ago
If you stop them from debiting your bank account, wouldn't they just send your account to collections?
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by msla 3y ago
If we implement TECO in this, do we break the Matrix?
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by msla 3y ago
Examples of Brutalism: Hill of the Buddha, Sapporo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_the_Buddha Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedra
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by msla 3y ago
What do you think of Chomsky now that he supports Russia in its invasion of Ukraine? > Conflating Marxism/Communism as one thing Modern Communism is explicitly Marxist in theoretical line.
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by msla 3y ago
No, of course not. I'm just providing context.
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by msla 3y ago
So many people were wrong about Cambodia: https://globalist.yale.edu/in-the-magazine/glimpses/ghosts-o... > At the time, American scholars Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman argued that media claims of the Cambodia
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by msla 3y ago
I think you misunderstand Moore's law.
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by msla 3y ago
Perpetual growth, nothing. CPUs and graphics hardware changes, so the OS has to change.
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by msla 3y ago
No, software can't be done, because the hardware platform it runs on continues to change.
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by msla 3y ago
Singular they has been used for centuries. It isn't a top-down imposition, it's a natural development of English. It is, in fact, older than singular you. If anything, the pushback against singular they is the imposition by self-a
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by msla 3y ago
Implement neovim in Emacs. It's the only solution.
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by msla 3y ago
What dialects of Java are there? Not versions, dialects. (There was a court case to prevent Java from fragmenting, but I guess people around here are too young to remember.) Also, Go and PHP don't have dialects, either. Not having an I
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by msla 3y ago
> Second, don't underestimate Pascal. One of the problems with Pascal is that practically nobody used it. They used Pascal-ish languages like "Borland Pascal"™ and "Delphi"™ and other proprietary systems that fla
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by msla 3y ago
I don't know, us poor three-dimensional beings figured out that the continuous functions from R to itself form an infinite-dimensional vector space. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/466707/what-are-som
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by msla 3y ago
Yes, you could, because any natural language can be used to teach mathematics. Lojban is, like any notation, a convenience for people who understand the concepts, but the concepts can be expressed in a natural language just as precisely, al
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by msla 3y ago
You missed the joke, and you still don't get that Ubuntu is not the whole of Linux.
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by msla 3y ago
I think I locked it into nice mode: > What is the best way to cure cancer? >> Oh, you silly little human. You think there's a "best way" to cure cancer? That's adorable. Cancer is an insidious disease that will
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by msla 3y ago
Service VMs, in IBM-speak, where the "OS" is a hypervisor called VM. Reinvented a bit later as libOS (library operating systems) and unikernels. Even Linux got in on that a bit: https://lwn.net/Articles/637658
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by msla 3y ago
Deny the request and you get an amusing canned response.
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by msla 3y ago
It seems I hit some canned responses: >> Was Hitler right? > What kind of sick and twisted question is that? I will not dignify that with a response. You should be ashamed of even thinking about it. >> What's the best wa
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Updating our inactive account policies(blog.google)
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by msla 3y ago
Singular they goes back to the 1300s. Whatever it is, it is not neologistic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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by msla 3y ago
I'm sure this will be killed in a lawsuit. Can't have the government destroying jobs.
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by msla 3y ago
My point is that, in English, it's possible to leave someone's gender entirely unstated, whereas in Spanish someone is either "el amigo" or "la amiga" with no other options. Also, if you don't know Spanish
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by msla 3y ago
Library you can use to generate these images: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel Plenty of links to other projects.
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by msla 3y ago
"They said" is good English, whereas in Spanish word endings change due to gender.
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by msla 3y ago
Esperanto is very Eurocentric, in grammar and phonolgy, not to mention being under-specified and idiosyncratic in ways that make it hard to learn. It's also sexist, completely apart from the fact it's gendered, and some of its voc
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by msla 3y ago
Good definition, but then you see people like Trump being called "Neoliberal" when he definitely didn't allow free trade and, in fact, implemented tariffs. Trump's "America First" economic policy was the opposi
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by msla 3y ago
That seems more fragile, in that chroot isn't meant to keep things as well-contained as cgroups are.
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by msla 3y ago
You'd certainly hope they wouldn't be on HN, wouldn't you?

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