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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
> Flags for England, Scotland and Wales are part of Emoji 5.0 and not shown here as they don't require new code points. Apparently Unicode Inc. isn't concerned with flag emoji at all. This 'Emoji 5.0' is a completely
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
Isn't it because 'incorrect HTML' has been practically defined out of existence?
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
How often does a self-closing <title /> tag appear in the wild?
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
I thought the whole point of XHTML is that non-well-formed documents should generate an error instead of being unpredictably interpreted according to each implementation's whims. And if you really insist on doing that, why not just p
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
Why does it bundle a copy of the gumbo library instead of just linking to it?
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
> http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ Dead link. Copy: http://archive.fo/5Gx8C
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
HEADLINE: Easier way to create local packages DESCRIPTION: My first distro was Debian. Then, for a while, I used Arch. But it kept irritating me with its total disregard for backwards-compatibility (symlinking /usr/bin/python
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
I'll never understand those who cannot serve a single page of static content without adding a bazillion of gratuitous hard dependencies on JavaScript libraries. Maybe if more people resisted the temptation to use the latest and shinies
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
I, at least, got a <textarea> with the Markdown source...
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
That doesn't seem to support IPv6 at all. And doesn't let you do much with a parsed address either.
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
> various pomo terms and theories Care to be more specific?
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
http://archive.is/rx20S
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
You mean, like this alternative universe? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6... Flipping this around, why does the 'command line' have to be a string (or a list of str
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
That's pdfTeX, not vanilla TeX. $ tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2016/Debian) (preloaded format=tex) **\show\numexpr > \numexpr=undefined.
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
I don't think lie detection using ultrasonography is very reliable...
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by pwdisswordfish 9y ago
People who don't like being distracted probably don't spend all their time on HN.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
You know you're in a place for nerds when you see social interaction being explained in terms of TCP/IP instead of the other way around.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
$ ping 0.0.0.1 connect: Invalid argument $ ncat 0.0.0.1 80 Ncat: Invalid argument.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
That won't do. This is just a list of evidence-free assertions. I'm generally unimpressed with Wikipediocracy: they engage in exactly the kind of sensationalism that I'm so tired of.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
struct object_id was introduced in this commit, in 2015: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=5f7817... So this change doesn't do much for now. Good to see, though.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
I think that's the problem — they are 'bitching' and are therefore dismissed as 'haters'. For the rest of the populace, Wikipedia is 'good enough' to casually link to. And those complainers often have no a
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
I've never worked in a call centre, but from what I heard about that job, it can be some very emotionally draining work where you have to deal with all sorts of inane and entitled people, and you can easily lose your temper and/or
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Policy says otherwise, and this particular one doesn't seem to be ignored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-p... The general bias seems to be in favour of treating sources as acceptable,
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Yes! Finally, people are starting to notice the problems with Wikipe— > The Daily Mail ...Right. Seriously, why is it that every time someone criticises Wikipedia, it has to be in this sensationalist, tabloid-esque manner, and often for
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
They probably went by the number of registered accounts (which I didn't check). Not that it isn't terribly misleading anyway.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Why resolve blocked domains to 127.0.0.1 anyway? Wouldn't 0.0.0.1 work better?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
cat doesn't care about file type either.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Isn't that what mkfs.* is for?
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Of those two? That depends on whether your language is German or Swedish.
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by pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Umm... why? The only rationale for this project I can see is this: > Piping JSON through multiple programs creates lots of trivial changes, which makes it hard to do things like take meaningful diffs. But you can always put JSON through

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