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by samatman 2y ago
Sorting is impossible to do correctly without knowledge of the language in which the text is written, because the collation rules for symbols differ between languages. Unicode, of course, defines those collation rules, and UTF-8 sorts lexic
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by samatman 2y ago
The issue is a bit more than a year old. Feel free to step up and close it. Complaining about it isn't going to add velocity to a new project.
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by samatman 2y ago
TeX has three actively-maintained engines, and there are a lot of folk putting work into improving LaTeX and its ecosystem. So effort is going into LaTeX, including performance, right now. Probably someone committed a perf improvement tod
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by samatman 2y ago
Fennel is a better Lisp than elisp. Neovim is extensible, and to a large degree written in, Lua, which the target language of Fennel. Most developers do not like writing Lisp. That's just a fact, slamming the downvote button won'
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by samatman 2y ago
It is unclear to me what purpose this comment serves.
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Anecdotal case study involving a community of about a hundred enthusiasts: many in this community held the opinion you do, which is that something about the mushrooms themselves is unique to the psilocin experience (psilocybin is not always
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes so this: > Any actual utility imagined for cryptocurrency has yet to materialize in any significant quantity Is false, to the tune of billions in remittances per year. Normally when the number starts with a B we do consider that ma
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by samatman 2y ago
I doubt this comment will change your mind. But it should. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33644090
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by samatman 2y ago
Fundamentally, it's not entrapment because entrapment doesn't mean what many of us, myself included, feel that it should mean. The crime was committed. So the burden of proof falls on the defendant to demonstrate entrapment, which
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by samatman 2y ago
Chris Done is male, is there some reason you're misgendering him in addition to making some extremely personal and out-there ad hominem comments insinuating various reasons not in evidence for why he posted what he did? What's the
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by samatman 2y ago
Hearing "codes" generally means you've found yourself around Fortran. Simple as.
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by samatman 2y ago
There are basically political reasons for this. Wade-Giles is associated with Taiwan, and is in fact mostly used when referring to Taiwanese subjects, I've always seen Kaohsiung for the city, never Gāoxióng. The Mainlanders would find
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by samatman 2y ago
A more accurate statement is that English is a language where spelling often reflects history and etymology, rather than phonetics. There's always a relation between a spoken word and its written representation, they're the same t
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by samatman 2y ago
The reductio ad absurdum of this style of argument would hold that every retailer is a monopoly, because once you walk into the store, you can only buy things from them.
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by samatman 2y ago
I know this is a mere quibble as a rider on a helpful post, but a disclosure is not a disclaimer. Disclaimers separate you from the comment, examples: > Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice > [says things about $
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by samatman 2y ago
Indeed. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, which in clear language protects free speech for corporations. That includes the right to engage in political advocacy, which is what Citizens United v. FEC was about. A lot of p
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by samatman 2y ago
Might want to check out Harpoon: https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/harpoon/tree/harpoon2 No comment on your one-file approach one way or the other, but like all of us, you will need to deal with tree-shaped pro
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by samatman 2y ago
May as well complete the set: Is Worse Really Better? https://dreamsongs.com/Files/IsWorseReallyBetter.pdf Also: Nickieben Bourbaki might be an anagram of something, but it is definitely not an anagram of Richard Gab
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by samatman 2y ago
> > At the time C was invented > C is from 01973. > Some of these things were brand spanking new in 01973 ...right. The Rise of Worse is Better is a memoir, it's set in the past.
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by samatman 2y ago
The name of our country is the United States of America. Sometimes we call it the US, or United States, sometimes we call it America. Much as yours is called la República Federativa do Brasil, which you call Brasil for short. Do you ever c
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by samatman 2y ago
The USA, you mean?
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by samatman 2y ago
That used to be true, but no longer, goroutines are truly preëmptive, in 10ms time slices.
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by samatman 2y ago
Double-backslash for multiline literals is standard Zig and it takes a bit of getting used to. I suspect I'll always find it ever-so-slightly unsatisfying because I really want the token to be `\\ `, and it's just `\\`. I don&#x27
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by samatman 2y ago
As far as I am able to parse it, this sentence is meaningless. Hacker News, not known for the immense sophistication of its markup, is, somehow, mysteriously, able to tell the difference between one newline (still a paragraph) and more than
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by samatman 2y ago
This comment is manifestly made in bad faith. I want the police to arrest, and DAs to prosecute, organized theft rings. Someone with several stolen bicycles is not a small businessman, he's a fence, and should do several years of time.
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by samatman 2y ago
The only interesting question, to my mind, is if Facebook reserves the right to. If they do, then of course they will. Do they? You be the judge. https://www.meta.com/legal/smart-glasses/
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by samatman 2y ago
Theft is an organized crime. That tweaker/junkie who steals your bike, breaks into your storage unit, whatever? He's not an organization man. The dude with a standing offer to pay twenty bucks for the bike, or ten if it's sh
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by samatman 2y ago
That's mail. Parsing mail is undecidable, this is known, it's an ancient format (I use that term in the loosest sense) and can only be handled on a best-effort basis. That is not a property of plain text files, of the sort we see
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by samatman 2y ago
C'mon you really don't. Two newlines in a row isn't even a regex, let alone a heuristic.
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by samatman 2y ago
Hah! Old dogs can learn new tricks. That pleases me an unreasonable amount.

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