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by pacaro 7y ago
One thing that I like about PEG (among many) is that it's fairly easy to create useful error messages from them. My approach has been to introduce a type of cut operator, such that if you backtrack past a cut operator then it's in
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by pacaro 7y ago
We regularly did this in Scouts in the UK in the eighties. We would have map and compass and know where we were supposed to get to, but there was general disorientation and disinformation about the starting location. IIRC we were always dro
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by pacaro 7y ago
Even better, some words have directly contradictory meanings in different dialects of English. In the context of a meeting, to table something means to not discuss it at this meeting, or it means to ensure that it is on the agenda and is
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by pacaro 7y ago
NIMBYism isn't only about housing, it refers to any pushback on a change that is generally agreed as good/useful/necessary on the basis that "sure we need this thing, but not where I live". Currently we hear it a lo
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by pacaro 7y ago
This was also a persistent urban legend in Cambridge, England in the early 90s. I'm not sure how much I believe it, bikes were/are easy enough to steal as it is
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by pacaro 7y ago
Often in more formal writing the phrase "peace officer" is used, at least in part this is because in the US there are so many different types of cop and so many jobs that have some level of cop-like authority that saying cop or po
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by pacaro 7y ago
I just got back from Bali, Indonesia where one of my friends crashed a scooter, the total bill for two ambulance rides, urgent care, hospital, and scooter repair was around Rph 10,000,000 which is $700 in round numbers Some of this can be
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by pacaro 7y ago
Adding relative weights to each rule would be a simple extension to the grammar. If only integer weights were permitted it could be a simple preprocessor.
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by pacaro 7y ago
This was very much a theme of the way we were taught, there is no possible way to go into anything in depth in a lecture, if something sparked interest then we were supposed to read up on it, write a paper, and get criticized. Some classes
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by pacaro 7y ago
I have no idea. We mostly glossed over it in class, but I had been given a copy of Gödel Escher Bach at some point so I dove a little deeper. My personal preference is Nagel's book which is short and clear (and you can probably find a
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by pacaro 7y ago
I have a philosophy degree (strictly speaking History and Philosophy of Science) and I'm a staff software engineer at Google. I've been doing this professionally for 25 years, and definitely my career had a slow start, it took a g
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by pacaro 7y ago
There are real world cultures that use general-to-specific for addresses
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by pacaro 7y ago
My understanding is that there are a variety of advantages: the kite flies in cleaner air; the thrust from the kite is applied at one point, with less heeling moment than from a sail; the design of the boat is not constrained by the structu
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by pacaro 7y ago
My parents live in a house built in 1840 (in the UK so this isn’t too unusual) and I grew up being continually told to close doors (every room is separated from connected rooms by doors) to conserve heat and, particularly importantly for th
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by pacaro 7y ago
Same, if only to ease the transition out of the shower
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by pacaro 7y ago
In French I believe that this is known as the “école horizontale”.
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by pacaro 7y ago
Because if you’re laundering money you don’t mind a loss. How much depends of course on your risk exposure and how “dirty” the money is. Essentially it’s worth it (to some people) to pay a “fee” to decontaminate the money. There’s a reason
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by pacaro 7y ago
In my experience this also applies to dating, it’s really easy to overlook things in the early stages of a relationship (or what might become a relationship) that turn out to be quite significant later.
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by pacaro 7y ago
One way I remember how to spell it is to start from “warranty” which is almost the same word and much easier to spell, then replace the “w” with “gu” (in some languages they’re mostly the same sound) then replacing the “y” with “ee” isn’t s
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by pacaro 7y ago
There was at least one cluster of vCJD (in Queniborough) traced to a small traditional slaughter house that was providing to butcher shops, and that cross contamination was occurring because in a slaughter/butchering operation with on
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by pacaro 8y ago
As both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages, close cognates are pretty common
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by pacaro 8y ago
While they’re not quite in the same league, Seattle has some pretty incredible manhole covers too, there are 115 different designs, it would take quite a while to hunt them all down https://seattle.curbed.com/2014/7&#x2
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by pacaro 8y ago
I always remember it as ROY-G-BIV, but then maybe I played a little too much Paranoia[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
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by pacaro 8y ago
FWIW in the earlier days of BitLocker (when it was called cornerstone) a preboot PIN was considered then default secure setting. Working in the 16-bit boot loader places some serious restrictions on numeric text entry. If you have to consid
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by pacaro 8y ago
That’s the pragmatic answer for sure
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Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To(sherylcanter.com)
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by pacaro 8y ago
I find that I prefer soy with tea and coffee, especially coffee, I think that the slightly nutty flavor goes well. If you have a soy vanilla latte that’s basically a three bean dip (apologies to those who know that neither vanilla nor coffe
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by pacaro 8y ago
Well, there is Microsoft Consulting Services, so it isn’t quite such a simple picture. But it is true that they haven’t gone down the IBM path.
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by pacaro 8y ago
There’s an article from 2005 with most of the same information https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/going-with-dr-flow/arti...
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by pacaro 8y ago
I’ve had similar thoughts. I currently have an iPhone 6S, I’ve had it for 30 months, and don’t really have a need to change it. I remember when I started changing laptops only when they broke, and it’s a similar feeling

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