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by nanis 4y ago
From the very same Wikipedia article: > The label "Turkish" does not refer to Turkey; at the time it was a general term for all Muslims in the Mediterranean region since the majority were a part of the Ottoman Empire. During th
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by nanis 4y ago
The Mediterranean between the 1500s and the 1900s is a very interesting place with a lot of interesting shades of gray. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinan_Reis > Sinan sailed under the famed Ottoman ad
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by nanis 5y ago
<script type='application/ld+json' class='yoast-schema-graph ... "datePublished":"2017-07-17T01:31:05-05:00", "dateModified":"2017-11-18T18:07:56-06:00"}]}
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by nanis 5y ago
The author is MJD. He is, among other things, the author of one of the best functional programming books[1]. > I was a professional Java programmer for three years (in a different organization), and I have meant for some time to write up
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by nanis 5y ago
> This is an outcome of the historic process which gave us modern Unicode. That historic process does not preclude introducing two extra codepoints to at least allow for the possibility of correctly encoding the upper case of "ı&quo
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by nanis 5y ago
> Exactly. Unicode’s “job” is to provide a code point for every letter And in this case Unicode fails catastrophically by not providing codepoints for the uppercase of "ı" and the lowercase of "İ" while potentially al
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by nanis 5y ago
That is baloney ... The fact is Unicode could have provided extra codepoints so that at the least the possibility of correctly processing a mainly French document that includes passages in Turkish at least existed. The current state of affa
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by nanis 5y ago
> "one code point in unicode does not necessarily map to one character on the screen." Also, importantly, some characters are not represented at all. For example, there is no codepoint or combination of characters that distingu
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by nanis 5y ago
> If you read the whole post, ... (and so you could avoid the issue by turning off telemetry) Speaking of reading the whole post: >> users who disabled Telemetry would see this problem resolved even though the problem is not relate
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by nanis 5y ago
It seems to me that the poster views this belief favorably. For that, I will ponder how well the poor lived under the "nobles". At least, during the feudal times the offer of protection from the feuding lords and sharing of the ch
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by nanis 5y ago
This is a well-reasoned exercise about constructing confidence intervals for the population rating for a product from individual ratings observed thus far. It doesn't do well with bi-modal (e.g. 100 `1` ratings and 100 `5` ratings) but
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by nanis 5y ago
My cheat script will not help with refactoring your code, but note that with a helper data structure, you do not need multiple passes over the guess to mark each letter in one of three states. Write down the process in human language first,
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by nanis 5y ago
Correction : I thought this was script to solve Wordle puzzles, so I provided a cheat helper below. At first blush, I thought the idea was for the human to feed this script information back from Wordle so it could improve its guesses. Sig
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by nanis 5y ago
I have to say it lacks the immediate clarity of the original. I found both the layout and what happens with the keyboard under the game boards confusing. Also, please explain what the rules are :-)
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by nanis 5y ago
Why do you think the stock market indexes are crashing as inflationary expectations are being entrenched?
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by nanis 5y ago
The comment to which I was replying said "the end of the URL". Adding the period at the end of the domain name is not the same as adding it at the end of the URL. I responded to what was actually said.
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by nanis 5y ago
> Technically speaking, adding a period at the end of a URL is valid in that it implicitly exists for all URLs in the context of DNS. I think your are confusing the role of a trailing dot in the DNS[1] system with the role of a host elem
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by nanis 5y ago
Apart from the stock market, you have to take into account the persistent inflationary environment that is being created. Inflation shortens horizons. The usually impatient early investor becomes more impatient as the uncertainty surroundin
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by nanis 5y ago
> Such empty discourse absent of falsifiable statements is more damaging to our society than a glass of wine ever could be. Hear, hear. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust Descend; Dust i
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by nanis 5y ago
> 50th percentile I would normally not call this out, but it is repeated so often in the text that it is jarring. Just call it "median" as it is everywhere else, please. On the other hand, I must commend the author(s) for not u
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by nanis 5y ago
It seems early commenters missed the point of me posting a link to the original story. :-) It ought to lay bare how a survey that says "people who think we should wear masks all the time think masks are better than other face coverings
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by nanis 5y ago
No, thank you. "We" don't need it. But, ideologues who want to lose all connection to the past and tradition need one more lever to pull it seems.
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Medical masks increase facial attractiveness more than other face coverings(cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com)
2 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> How are you calculating those odds? I truly have no idea what the answer is, but as someone well versed in economics, econometrics,and statistics, to me the relevant odds are not about independent coin tosses etc. I would like to know
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by nanis 5y ago
I did not know there was a name for this[1]. I am regularly using a T400 which started life as a Lenovo 3000 N100.[2] Upgrades since then include a 2 TB SSD, 3.06 Ghz CPU, and WiFi. I do enjoy tinkering, but I also like the keyboard :-) [1]
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by nanis 5y ago
This is significant for a few reasons: 1) Coronaviruses have been with us for a long time and will be with us for even longer and the notion of a "universal coronavirus vaccine" does not seem realistic at all (I am not so sure it
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Universal Coronavirus Vaccines – An Urgent Need(nejm.org)
4 points by nanis 5y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
> * Depending on the service one customer's experience is not the broad experience. Someone might be having a really bad day but 99.9% of the region is operating successfully, so there is no reason to update the overall status dashb
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by nanis 5y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turan
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by nanis 5y ago
The fact that authorities have been including in the "unvaccinated" people who * had their first shot and waiting for the second (three weeks) * had their second shot less than two weeks prior has been a sticking point to me since

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