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721.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604972 from 7 days ago. Perhaps the poster's perceived internet speed is also slow! :D
722.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Flagged as the link seems to be some kind of Ethereum leaderboard and nothing to do with the claimed title.
723.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Interesting that there's a comment in the article's comments that talks about the > client_sock. connect (9090, "192.168.71.132", () → { ... And then goes on to say that it mostly looks innocent. Except to me, that ma
724.
by ralferoo 2y ago
That was kind of my point. Many of these places don't have London postcodes nor are in the 020 phone district, and have had their own identity for a very long time as towns in their own right. Some of them have in recent years been sub
725.
by ralferoo 2y ago
MASM was also excessively wordy in many other areas. The amount you had to write to introduce a new segment or access something from another segment was ridiculous. I guess they probably improved that in later releases after TASM showed you
726.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Ooops, I guess I missed the part where he said "in tests". That makes it a bit better, although when it triggers, it'll still need someone to triage why the test failed and either nudge the date up / delete the test &#x2
727.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I first learned assembler on Z80, and so the Intel syntax should be more natural to me, but I migrated from that to 68000 which uses destination-last syntax, and never really had any problems with it even though I'd been using Z80 for
728.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Haha, I guess everyone downvoting my comment is sore that they don't live in London proper! Otherwise, I'm not sure why so many people have downvoted a comment pointing out that an article talking about roads in London is excludin
729.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I got as far as looking at the map and my immediate thought was "basically, almost none of these are actually in London". The second map with the red ones is more like the proper answer.
730.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I'd definitely agree with the putting the refactor into a separate PR and then the new functionality in another. Aside from the obvious that people are more likely to be willing to review your change when it's small, it makes it m
731.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I think this is the absolute worst way of dealing with the issue, and I truly hope everyone who sees this in a code-review has the sense to reject it. By all means, have such a check as a compile-time error, but not as something that gets
732.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't know about the size of their codebase or the extent that it has consumers outside of the repository the author has access too, but once a code smell like this has been identified, it seems a bit strange not to just eliminate i
733.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I learned it slightly differently: caesar adsum iam forte pompeius aderat caesar sic in omnibus pompeius inis at
734.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, measure words aren't really that strange a concept in English, it's just that we don't normally consider them. But we have e.g. "a pinch of salt", "a lashing of ginger beer" [1], "a lump of coal
735.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I'm nowhere close to being bilingual, and there are without doubt many factors involved in this, but I can think of a few fairly easily. Chinese has relatively few possible syllable sounds compared to Western languages. There are about
736.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I don't even like docker, but it still doesn't sound that terrible to me. It's an option. Use docker or use the single binary, but presumably if you like docker and have it set up for other things, you'll just use that
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by ralferoo 2y ago
> The sad thing is that I start the refactor, realize midway that I did not think it through, waste a day of my life, go to sleep, and repeat the same tomorrow thinking that I have found a "better way" to do it, just to make th
738.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Memorisation without understanding often ends up producing things like Mariah Carey's classic hit "Ken Lee".
739.
by ralferoo 2y ago
The corners of the "parallelogram" in the diagram don't touch the circle at the top or bottom. So, those two corners wouldn't be right angles, but instead would be slightly obtuse - rather like this comment!
740.
by ralferoo 2y ago
When I was a young teenager, Foyle's in London (near Tottenham Court Road) was an unbelievable sight to me. Apparently at one time it was in the Guinness Book of records as the world's biggest bookshop with its 30 miles of shelf l
741.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. Where I lived, in Stevenage, the original A1 was renamed B197, although I wouldn't have known that at the time - only that while I'd been a passenger in the car, I'd seen both the A1 and A1(M)
742.
by ralferoo 2y ago
When I was maybe 5 or 6, a teacher at school asked if anybody could name 3 roads. I proudly put my hand up and said "A1, M1 and A1(M)". The teacher said that no, they were all the same road. I felt so smug, and at such a young age
743.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I was specifically thinking of its use in words like night, not sure what I was thinking when I used those examples... was just scanning the text quickly for some ch clusters and didn't think too much about the words!
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by ralferoo 2y ago
The style is called Blackletter or Gothic script. It was very common (maybe the most common) in Europe for several hundred years. When I was little, it had pretty much disappeared in the UK, and I only discovered it as a curiosity in a ha
745.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Interesting. I had somehow read halfway through the text in the image not even noticing them, but got completely stuck at "preuaile". When I saw it there, I could only see it as the yogh character, maybe because it has a tail that
746.
by ralferoo 2y ago
Some good ideas, but also stops short on a few things. * It talks about signing the message to prove the sender, but why stop there? We might as well extend it by having recipient public keys available via DNS records directly (or DNS speci
747.
by ralferoo 2y ago
I think it's quite interesting how some of the undocumented instructions on the 8085 make DE more useful than HL for some types of pointer accesses in a way that kind of mirrors the way IX/IY was intended to be used on Z80. The LD
748.
by ralferoo 2y ago
As a Brit, I've never noticed NASA spelt Nasa before, and I'm on the fence about Unesco, not because I recall seeing it title-caps, but because it doesn't look offensive to me. That said, when I googled for the title-caps var
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by ralferoo 2y ago
Reading this write up is funny, because I had no idea this is what was happening. There didn't seem to be an explanation of what was going on. I didn't know it was a shared experience, just that various random things seemed to be
750.
by ralferoo 2y ago
And over the years, I've had several keyboard where I've physically removed the F1 key from keyboards used on Windows machines because of how annoying the experience was if you ever accidentally pressed F1.

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