orthoxerox

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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
People (like the guy from the article) literally take Uber rides instead of ambulances, so they are a reasonable substitute good in many cases.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
It says, "Officials are checking whether travelers have received draft notifications". Which means not everyone in this age bracket is prevented from leaving, only literal draft dodgers.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
> Why not conscript the bulk of their manpower reserves and actually invade in earnest? Because it's hugely politically unpopular. There's a risk that this will happen after the parliamentary election this autumn.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
> The draft in Russia now covers all males from 18 to 30. In that age range, men can no longer leave Russia. This is incorrect.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
That's because Donbass is seen as useless. It's like bombing upstate New York or Michigan when invading the US.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
Because he thought he wouldn't need to use them. He expected Ukraine to accept the inevitable and not provide meaningful resistance. He almost got away with it, too. Had the Russian army launched its missile stockpiles at Ukrainian pow
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
Russia has destroyed most of Ukraine's traditional defense manufacturing sector a long time ago. The problem is that Ukraine has decentralized and/or offshored a lot of its manufacturing. There's no need for a massive assembl
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
Napoleon lost the bulk of his army in the summer.
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by orthoxerox 3mo ago
Napoleon planned his Russian campaign extensively: he had supply hubs set up all over the Duchy of Warsaw, with feeder routers from Prussia keeping them full. What he didn't anticipate was how bad the roads in Russia would be and how l
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
I wish HN supported triple backticks.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
How does it compare to CommonMark, which I think was the first formally specified Markdown dialect?
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
"Ceci n'est pas un chien"
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
My son is insufficiently verbal (he's of the kind that communicates with quotes, but really struggles to express or understand new sentences), and I am quite sure he has concepts, feelings and ideas.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
"Massively relaxing and feels right/normal" instantly reminded me of hobby tunnelling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> If you're a concerned parent: set your children's ages in their device accounts. And if you're a concerned government, make OS vendors support it and make parents criminally responsible for not setting it.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
There are still enough people speaking Ukrainian even if we roll back the clock to 2019. Lviv = 2.5m Vinnytsia = 1.5m Ivano-Frankivsk = 1.3m Khmelnytskyi = 1.2m Rivne = 1.1m Ternopil = 1m Volyn = 1m Chernivtsi = 0.8m Zak
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
The problem with MUMPS (and RPG) is that there's so much legacy code written in the old style that you have to learn to read and write it anyway.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Separating locomotives from trains next? And then, finally, hump yards?
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
In C# it's not a lone ?, it's two operators: ?. and ?[ Lua could have ?. ?[ ?" ?{ and ?(
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
LuaJIT has always been a superset of 5.1.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Mike Pall wrote in the issue that it's easier to parse. If they get rid of the ternary operator, I'll ask him again to drop the period.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Because 5.2 had a bunch of breaking changes. https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Cloudflare does or at least did use it a lot.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> I felt really sorry the author died an early death. Everyone who knew Lermonotov personally thought Michel was a massive asshole. His biggest hobbies were destroying existing relationships by seducing the women and badmouthing everyone
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
The "-sha" pattern is relatively consistent: Pavel-Pasha, Mikhail-Misha, Natalya-Natasha, Nikolay-Nikolasha, Alexey-Alyosha, Mariya-Masha, Ilya-Ilyusha. So, Aleksandr-Aleksasha. The dropping of "Alek" is the only inconsi
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> For non-native speakers, it’s hard to guess that it’s the same person. Like "Mrs. Thatcher", "Margaret" and "Peg"?
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> The main difficulty is the names. The names make it so hard. What's wrong with the names? I find Chinese novels much harder to read because everyone's named C{V[n[g]]|ei|ao|ou} C{V[n[g]]|ei|ao|ou}C{V[n[g]]|ei|ao|ou}.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
There was a Lua[JIT] fork called Idle that seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth that did exactly that: it would take a small stub program, a runtime library and all the scripts and package them into a single PE/COFF binary th
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Why won't it be compatible? Any code written in Lua 5.1 will run on LuaJIT.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
A bunch of them are from Luau, the Roblox fork of Lua and the dialect most young programmers know. Adding them to LuaJIT will make it easier to write for both Zoomers and AI agents, who have been exposed to a lot of Luau code.

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