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by qubex 6y ago
“Language P has a mechanism by which it conflates several different glyphs into a canonical form for the sake of variable names” is not an “actually not true” kind of exception. A mathematician such as yourself (and myself too) should rec
842.
by qubex 6y ago
I know this is mean of me, but the student who was taking her Computer Science exam and who apparently thought that changing the file’s extension would change format? Yeah... she deserved to fail.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m a Bristol native (though I grew up in the Italian city of Milan) and I absolutely love the place, particularly the Old Centre this article refers to. Whenever I go back I make it a point to stay well within the Old Centre area, usually
844.
by qubex 6y ago
I think that violates the “only X, but in different fonts” dictum. Those are technically different glyphs and therefore very distinct names. A font would be the same character tagged in different ways, those are absolutely different charact
845.
by qubex 6y ago
The Onion was way ahead (as usual): https://www.theonion.com/report-90-of-waking-hours-spent-sta...
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by qubex 6y ago
Can I ask why you have placed so much emphasis on analytics? To me Hacker News is too frontage-driven already.
847.
by qubex 6y ago
Good work! I use both the iPad and iPhone so ideally I’m looking for a native client that caters to both these platforms and that would allow me to log in with my account to comment. There’s many Hacker News clients out there but few that m
848.
by qubex 6y ago
I’ve built a layout back-end that rapidly prototypes the web-page with custom metal type, quickly hammers it into a wooden frame, and then runs it through a printing press and scans the result, which is then saved as a PDF, compressed, and
849.
by qubex 6y ago
This is... patently dumb, but I love it. I’ve often found myself thinking how it would be great if the next AppleTV contained an A13 SoC, and... if somebody could adapt Linux to run on it so it could be made into an ultra-compact, super-pow
850.
by qubex 6y ago
Implying that “the Left” and the Communist Party of China are in any way comparable by referring to them collectively demonstrated a remarkable lack of political insight and a remarkable degree of intellectual dishonesty.
851.
by qubex 6y ago
Or they could do something awful to Chrome. Point is, the longer Google can postpone any such occupancies, the longer they can delay a drop in their stock market price (because surely such an event would have a negative effect on their stoc
852.
by qubex 6y ago
As another user posted, there’s a long list of terms dating back to 2012, so this isn’t recent. Even the post referred to dates from the end of 2019, so it isn’t exactly novel. Google might well accept being excluded from China, but I’m ass
853.
by qubex 6y ago
Dude, I’m in Europe too. If you think the Trump administration is “perfectly suited” to do anything... well, that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. I certainly don’t agree with you about that.
854.
by qubex 6y ago
This may not be the Federal Government you want to legislate over Google...
855.
by qubex 6y ago
Because the Chinese market is huge. Because freedom of speech in the Western world is an individual liberty which platforms such as YouTube do not need to guarantee, whereas censorship in China is an absolute requirement they must abide by.
856.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s the “Flashlight in the Dark” concept of consciousness as the focus of attention.
857.
by qubex 6y ago
Isn’t that just Searle’s Chinese Library?
858.
by qubex 6y ago
The last bit you mention reminded me a lot of The Physics of Immortality (Frank J. Tipler, 1994) which I first read in when I was thirteen or fourteen years old. This was before it had been proven that the cosmological constant existed an
859.
by qubex 6y ago
I don’t know what about “200 year period” is particularly exciting. For us humans, maybe... but the 4.5 billion year time-span suggests you’re taking a wider view. From the planet’s point of view there’s just a mass extinction going on whil
860.
by qubex 6y ago
Never seen this parody site before. Droll.
861.
by qubex 6y ago
I’m a nonend developer.
862.
by qubex 6y ago
I saw a thread on Twitter about a teacher-parents meeting session being gatecrashed by a grifter posting “hard-core pedophilia”. To be honest I find it quite disappointing that people would even bother to go to the elaborate lengths of fina
863.
by qubex 6y ago
I’ve been using fountain pens all my life and this kind of stuff absolutely horrifies me. Basically they’re cheap metal ballpoints.
864.
by qubex 6y ago
I know the term but I can’t quite understand how to interpret it in this specific context. Does it mean you can only program an FPGA once? Only one FPGA? One object per bus? I really don’t understand it.
865.
by qubex 6y ago
> was written as a singleton Can you please explain this? What does it mean exactly? And is it different in versions of the kernel that aren’t the ones you explicitly mention?
866.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s right! I’d forgotten how utterly amazed I was when I discovered multiple cursors and how useful they were. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered that feature anywhere else.
867.
by qubex 6y ago
Going down the rabbit-hole led me to this within a few clicks, and made me giggle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Studio_Services#...
868.
by qubex 6y ago
The final question, about whether investigating consciousness in a post-pandemic world is more urgent, absolutely baffles me. I can’t imagine anything more remote from the pragmatic necessities of readjusting daily life than something as
869.
by qubex 6y ago
I used this way back in 2003 when it was still called Hydra . It was the first collaborative text editor I ever used and was a showpiece for Apple’s Randezvous (later Bonjour ) implementation of zeroconf . I was absolutely amazed. I ne
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by qubex 6y ago
And remember kids: you don’t need a bunch of gotos and printfs because you can use enums!

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