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by pm215 3y ago
There seems to be a certain amount of "euphemism treadmill" in Japanese pronouns, where they start off polite and drift downward in acceptability to be replaced by new ones. I have a grammar book from 1906 ("Hossfeld’s Japane
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by pm215 3y ago
I think you might have some sympathy with the arguments made in the book-length essay 日本語が亡びるとき: 英語の世紀の中で, which also argues that the English language dominance has a deleterious effect on non-English-language literature and that English sp
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by pm215 3y ago
It does affect the average Joe, because Joe is buying the products or services the private organisation creates. If Walmart, to pick a random example, has this phenomenon and spends extra money wastefully at the end of their financial cyc
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by pm215 3y ago
This was not my experience. I had a working program that used the reqwest crate for a very basic synchronous-is-fine "just give me the contents of this web page" function. When I tried upgrading it to a newer reqwest that had deci
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by pm215 3y ago
For me the big gain is at the code review stage. It's much easier to review a set of patches that are a clear and distinct sequence of changes without "oops, fix bug" changes later in the series. It does require extra work by
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by pm215 3y ago
That is pretty standard for LL/SC instructions -- you'll find similar constraints on the Arm equivalent insns. In practice this doesn't matter because you only use them in a limited set of handcoded sequences to implement the
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by pm215 3y ago
I think the point the article is trying to make there is about the power of defaults. Sure, you can disable the grammar and spellcheck (I do that too), or you can configure it to specifically UK English and otherwise adjust it, but most use
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by pm215 3y ago
I've just noticed that I wrote "I agree with you that 'snapshot' to me strongly suggests read/write" and of course I meant "read only"! Hope that wasn't too confusing...
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by pm215 3y ago
The LVM howto https://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html says "In LVM2, snapshots are read/write by default". And RedHat's docs https://access.redhat.com/documentation&
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by pm215 3y ago
I'm not sure that's completely standard terminology. For example LVM has "snapshots" that are read-write.
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by pm215 3y ago
RP itself has changed over time, as the wp article notes -- if you tried to speak RP of the 1950s you would definitely come across rather strangely today. Some of the arguments over naming the article mentions is I think a disagreement over
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by pm215 3y ago
I had a graphing calculator for high school maths in the UK in the early 1990s. For me the main use case turned out to be "much better user interface than a plain old calculator" -- you got a screen that was big enough to show you
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by pm215 3y ago
It doesn't in practice delay things much even with a fairly large group resigning at once -- in 1985 15 Ulster Unionist MPs resigned on the same day, and this was done by cycling between the two offices and spreading the appointments o
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by pm215 3y ago
as a UK English speaker I'm not sure I've ever heard "lay on" used to mean "hire" as M-W claims, and the OED doesn't seem to list that as a sense. The usage in this sentence is the sense the OED defines as
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by pm215 3y ago
"Semihosting" is a very old term for this ABI (it dates back to at least the late 1990s in a bit of Arm documentation I found, and might well be earlier). It's mostly I think a name coined when looking at it from the point of
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by pm215 3y ago
If you go for the Southern English accent as the base for your non-rhotic phonetic spelling you don't even have to sacrifice distinguishing cot and cart -- they're different vowels because we don't have the father/bother
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by pm215 3y ago
The one on this list that surprised me is type O, because it's specific to Thailand and only standardised in 2006, which means that in the 21st century somebody decided it was better to invent a completely new plug-and-socket spec, rat
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by pm215 3y ago
This probably depends a bit on which part of Europe. In the UK the consumer protection law surrounding credit cards is stronger so it's better to use a credit card for larger purchases especially. For daily payments shops all accept bo
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by pm215 3y ago
In the meantime, if you're a member of your local UK library you probably have free access to the online OED using your library card number.
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by pm215 3y ago
True for motorways, but even on busy dual carriageways sometimes the planners just say "the footpath crosses the dual carriageway on the flat", ignoring that this comes pretty near to being an effective closure of the right of way
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by pm215 3y ago
It's not that difficult -- you find the metal fingerstop, and then move two around from it (0 and then 9). 000 would be easier, but it seems like that was already taken for other purposes.
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by pm215 3y ago
Examples where a passenger-initiated emergency stop would help: The Eschede crash in Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_train_disaster -- part of the wheel came through the floor into the passenger compar
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by pm215 3y ago
At this late date most of the details have fallen out of my memory, but checking PS3 and PS4 release dates, yes, it must have been PS3. I remember now that it was the PPC one, which also indicates the PS3. IIRC we had to change our codegen
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by pm215 3y ago
That's more I think that the business model was B2B and fairly high-touch-per-customer -- "are you a mobile phone handset manufacturer who wants to ship a MIDP Java engine for it? come talk to us about porting our stuff to whateve
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by pm215 3y ago
It never arrived anywhere from the Acorn and Amiga POV (my take on that internally was "we shouldn't be wasting our time with these Amiga chancers", not that my opinion mattered), but it absolutely shipped. The main driver of
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by pm215 3y ago
As somebody who lives well outside London, my mental model of "in London" is "within the M25" :-)
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by pm215 3y ago
Perhaps, but if you take the "single person with strong control" path then I think you tend to get a different set of failure cases instead. For a small language, a benevolent-dictator can (unintentionally, through bad decisions)
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by pm215 3y ago
Just a tangent, but there are also a lot of niches in software engineering that reward those willing to start from pages filled with millions of lines of code written by other people ;-)
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by pm215 3y ago
My point partly is that as outside observers we can't deduce "is taking it chill" merely because we haven't seen two press releases and three tweetstorms from any particular lab yet. They might be slogging away but not c
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by pm215 3y ago
We're in a hurry in the sense that we don't want to leave investigation of this on the back burner for a few months, but we're not in a hurry in the sense that it's going to make any difference in practice whether a lab

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