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by nanis 4y ago
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16450">
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by nanis 4y ago
Yet, for example, it distinguishes upper and lower case versions iota[1] from "upper case i" and "lower case dotless i". A similar provision could have been made for upper and lower case versions of "Turkish dotless
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by nanis 4y ago
No, the fact that there is no codepoint that makes those mappings ambiguous is due to the way Unicode decided to save to codepoints for seemingly no good reason. What should be _the_ value of `"I".lower()`? Or, "i".upper
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by nanis 4y ago
And yet there is still no unambiguous lower case "I" or upper case "i".
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by nanis 4y ago
Could you list some?
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by nanis 4y ago
> Too balance this perspective, let's remember that not all public workers are bad people. "This perspective" said nothing about "public" workers being bad and only referred to the implications of the incentives
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by nanis 4y ago
> that is not a public good paid collectively via taxes. Keeping in mind that most things which are paid for in this way do not meet the economic definition of a "public good" and therefore could have been provided efficiently
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by nanis 4y ago
> Public bodies rushing to accept contracts thinking that suppliers have their best interests in mind is horribly naive. "Public bodies" do not rush ... People who work there do. Those people really do not have that much of an
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by nanis 4y ago
We do not know what was in the tweet simply because it is not referenced/cited.
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by nanis 4y ago
The tweet is the "secondary source" whereas the Tumbler post is the "primary source" in this context[1]: > For example, suppose you are reading an article by Brown (2014) that cites information from an article by Snow
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by nanis 4y ago
> Recently, somebody shared on Twitter a new proof As far as I can tell there is no link to this tweet in this post which is bad form to say the list. The post has multiple links promoting author's other posts, but not to the raison
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by nanis 4y ago
Apart from the intra-company dynamics, there is also the fact that Google do not face the same kind of consumer driven market pressure as, say, Walmart. I do recommend the excellent "Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin’s
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by nanis 4y ago
> BleepingComputer further observed that the "meta" tag containing the "noindex" attribute was itself placed towards the bottom within the page's HTML code, in an elongated line that overflows without breaking. P
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by nanis 4y ago
I do have a 809 MB recovery partition (side effect of going from 80 GB HD to 2 TB), but I believe this wants a UEFI partition (which does not exist because this is a BIOS boot only machine). On the other hand, since the recovery partition s
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by nanis 4y ago
Hmmmm ... So, Terraform redux with a JavaScript facade? The associated blog post[1] makes a case for infra-structure as code and not much of a case for this particular intermediary. On the other hand, given that it seems to me most uses of
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by nanis 4y ago
Related posts from my past experience from about 10 years ago: * Splitting long lines is slow[1] * Can Parallel::ForkManager speed up a seemingly IO bound task?[2] In both cases, Perl is the language used (with a little C thrown in for [1])
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by nanis 4y ago
It turns out this is a tool for preventing Windows from upgrading from one release to another. My goal is to prevent Windows from attempting to install very specific security update[1] as it fails because it is not relevant to this particul
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by nanis 4y ago
Thank you. I will look into it.
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by nanis 4y ago
Hmmm, with 12 bits, I was expecting 4096 colors, not 12.
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Ask HN: Has anyone found a way to avoid Windows Update KB5012170
2 points by nanis 4y ago|5 comments
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by nanis 4y ago
You can use your own domain and string as well[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512149
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by nanis 4y ago
> (netCDF, HDF) those are not "obscure" formats and are infinitesimally better than text. so, not much better?
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by nanis 4y ago
> Those sweet economists. (I’ve got my MSc in Economics ;) > Giffen and Veblen goods? Let me know when you find one. Grazing grounds for the perpetually counter-example starved. > I’m all for the theoretical models Nothing theoreti
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by nanis 4y ago
> So, demand for lamb spikes around Easter every year. But, lamb prices actually drop around Easter (at least for consumers) So, you don't think everyone involved in the chain of getting that lamb to you, anticipating the shift in t
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by nanis 4y ago
> If demand is highly inelastic - as would be expected for something like culinary preferences Demand curves, regardless of elasticity, are always downward sloping: Higher prices lead to fewer units demanded. Your statement implies contr
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by nanis 4y ago
Horses are companion animals.
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by nanis 4y ago
> You can't operate a non-profit the same technique as a for-profit. Keep in mind that profit maximization subject to a budget constraint and cost minimization subject to an output constraint are equivalent problems. A non-profit ou
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by nanis 4y ago
How does that work when terraforming Artifactory?
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by nanis 4y ago
Does no one proof-read any more? > New PRNG added to the rand module, for fast pseudo-random numers.
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by nanis 4y ago
Not to be confused with MapR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapR

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