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by praptak 2y ago
Still a pretty good example of having to support something which is definitely not part of the official spec.
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by praptak 2y ago
Corollary: uptime is part of the defacto spec being relied on. One of the SRE practices is breaking your service on purpose to bring the actual service level closer to what is promised and supported.
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by praptak 2y ago
Apologies for not being charitable but the main problem with "such people" is that they argue in bad faith and will say anything which they think will help Russian interests. There just exist some cases which you cannot argue in g
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by praptak 2y ago
How well has diplomacy worked so far? What kind of diplomatic steps do you specificallyh propose?
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by praptak 2y ago
First, a global system with no outages (say the gold standard of 99.999% availability) is a promise which is basically impossible to keep. Second, a global system being always available definitely doesn't mean it is always available e
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by praptak 2y ago
"They can have the former only by complete destruction of every Indian-man, woman and child" Unfortunately this is not a rhetoricallly exaggerated and obviously impossible choice. Settler colonialism exists and relies exactly on t
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by praptak 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with exonyms in principle . However using "Florence" instead of "Florencja" in a Polish text would sound weird. If you add historical conflict to it then it can get much worse. "Warschau&
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by praptak 2y ago
I'm a non-native speaker I remember I couldn't figure out how to pronounce "vehicle" just from how it's spelled. It's not like I pronounced it wrong (as is often the case with other words), I just couldn't
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by praptak 2y ago
I didn't know that. The QQRIQ jumped out at me because of my Polish background, so I googled it and found it's international.
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by praptak 2y ago
QQRIQ is a phonetic abbreviation of "kukuriku", which is the sound of the rooster in Hungarian and in several other languages (Polish "kukuryku", Hebrew " קוקוריקו" etc.). Makes wonder what the process for choo
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by praptak 2y ago
Smalltalk: the object/message model so powerful that the language itself doesn't even need any special syntax for ifs or loops.
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by praptak 2y ago
See also the linked article. You can mitigate that by getting a stylus.
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by praptak 2y ago
Touchscreens are also extra bad in the car. The hands have mass and the motion of a car is shaky due to bumpy roads, curves, braking, etc. This makes it hard to hit the desired area on a vertical touchscreen at near full extension of the ar
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by praptak 2y ago
Touchscreens are anti-accessibility. Lack of tactile feedback for the sight-impaired is the obvious part but there is another thing: Touchscreens just stop registering your touch when you get old. The older you get the less moisture there&#
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by praptak 2y ago
Modern circuit breakers are much fancier. They break not only when the current reaches a threshold but also when the currents passing in both directions (i.e. also back through the ground wire) are unequal. This prevents things like groundi
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by praptak 2y ago
This analogy can have two opposite meanings. Drug dogs can be anything from a prop used by the police to search your car without a warrant (a cop can always say in court the dog "alerted" them) to a useful drug detection tool.
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by praptak 2y ago
Mediocre pieces by otherwise great creators have huge value at the meta level. They add to the evidence that greatness is more than just being born a genius and then just cranking out masterpieces.
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by praptak 2y ago
It's not only about having a concept for absence though. Zero provides a way to express both the absence of grain and having some grain in a unified way, a number.
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by praptak 2y ago
"Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start." I don't think it's possible to fix this problem without also helping bad actors. Maybe it's a problem that just isn't worth fixi
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by praptak 2y ago
Poland though... hoo boy :)
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by praptak 2y ago
That's missing the point, India has nothing to do with it. When Linus speaks about being Finnish it's about being invaded by Russia and I don't believe India ever was.
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by praptak 2y ago
The key point is that the refreshes do not need to happen very often. Something like once per 20 ms for each row was doable even by an explicit loop that the CPU had to periodically execute. And this task soon moved to memory controllers, o
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by praptak 2y ago
Yes, it totally misses the crucial and non obvious trade off which unlocked the benefits. The rest of the system has to take care of periodically rewriting every memory cell so that the charge doesn't dissipate. In fact it took a bit o
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by praptak 2y ago
It's "an irresistible force meeting an immovable object" type of situation.
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by praptak 2y ago
I remember that in Poland electronic repair shops offered companies removal of the TV demodulator from TV sets used as monitors. That was necessary for the TV not to count as a TV receiver and thus not to generate the fee liability. I think
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by praptak 2y ago
The economic calculation is often an accountability sink too. We can say that the economy has spoken, profit was made, case closed. But we can also look for accountability in the political system. Maybe the hotel should be obliged by the la
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by praptak 2y ago
The title is a garden path sentence. It took me a while to figure out it's not about perception which ties limits to something.
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by praptak 2y ago
I am okay with public information being free to use commercially, with a huge disclaimer though. Wherever copyright is applicable, the public should retain it, that's what public domain is for. Any derived works, commercial or otherwis
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by praptak 2y ago
So we have an analogy: accidentally working app : correct app :: Gettier "not knowledge" JTB : proper knowledge JTB Is it possible to backport the program analogy back into the realm of philosophy? I'm dreaming of a philosoph
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by praptak 2y ago
I think it only means they don't crash nor escape, not stable as the opposite of chaotic.

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