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by samatman 2y ago
It's also correct. They exploit heat (thermos) from the Earth (geos). A geothermal power plant and a geothermal heat pump differ in many particulars, but not in the meaning of the adjective they share in common.
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by samatman 2y ago
I don't misunderstand the problem at all. Gmail has been putting those little yellow tags on emails that are supposed to be important for longer than I can remember. Do they do that to spam which happens to get through the cordon? You
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by samatman 2y ago
The description claims these curves are "safe" but nothing pops up when I Ctrl+F `audit`. https://safecurves.cr.yp.to
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by samatman 2y ago
Functional programming as in map-filter-reduce? Lisp. Functional programming as in "strong static typing and algebraic data types"? ML. I try not to begrudge anyone their enjoyment of anything, and I like jazz, for the record. It&
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by samatman 2y ago
This would make a much less compelling headline if it read "Spam filter let through a phishing email", would it not? Machine learning is just software. If human intelligence didn't fall for phishing from time to time, no one
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by samatman 2y ago
> Furthermore, many similar concepts are implemented completely differently in different languages even if they look very similar to the programmer. This is true to some degree, yes. But all those languages manage to speak C ABI throug
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by samatman 2y ago
Purely as a matter of interest, Compuserve was founded in 1969 as a business offering time-sharing on minicomputers. It opened to the public in something very much like the form you're remembering in 1979. This later date is roughly
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by samatman 2y ago
It's true, they do tend to think that. Which is too bad, because The Cathedral and the Bazaar has very little to say about proprietary software. esr's type-case for Cathedral development is GNU software, and the Bazaar is Linux. F
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by samatman 2y ago
The way forward for something like that is for operating systems to start defining their interface in terms of ABI. That would be a major shift in mentality, and there are reasons why this has become less common over time, rather than more
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by samatman 2y ago
You have very strong opinions about correct English for someone who doesn't speak it as a native language.
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by samatman 2y ago
GitHub won because they built a great product. It was better than all the alternatives and people flocked to it for that reason. Git itself is mediocre, and some other DVCS like Mercurial could have won out, although HgHub really doesn&#x2
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by samatman 2y ago
It's the flag of the nation. Not the flag of the federal government. There are symbols which are more directly associated with the government, such as the Great Seal of the United States. You will see patriotic expressions involving t
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by samatman 2y ago
I've been unable to find a reference for this bit of lore, but I'm told that the typical traffic light has one, if built after the mid-90s. They were also quite widespread in LCD games, the Tamagotchi used one, Furby, later-model
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that this is your take on the project. I agree with some of it in modified form, such as pointing out that far more powerful systems like old Android phones are sitting around in great quantity and would be a use
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by samatman 2y ago
Just because I was there (I agree with your general point) I wanted to say that I made my first PGP key in 1995 and it was a 4096 byte one, which is just as uncrackable now as it was then. I even remember being vaguely confused, because it
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by samatman 2y ago
This place would be utterly unbearable with emoji. The symbols you wanted to include are in the Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks, which I expect are all banned because they contain some emoji and this was the cheap way to be rid of
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by samatman 2y ago
The correlation between government support systems as a thing which exists, and number of children per couple, is decidedly negative. I don't think that's causal in any way, but that lack of causality applies to your statement as
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by samatman 2y ago
Nitpick of the nitpick: in international sports, the preposition used is "of", as in "Pan Zhanle of China", as an elision of "of the Chinese team". Now, I could make up reasons for this, like not every athlete
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by samatman 2y ago
> I'd like if we could have an honest discussion Ok, lets! > if we just want to ban pet dogs altogether. No. Next question.
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by samatman 2y ago
What I'm not understanding is why you've invented an incorrect rule for the English language and cited it. What purpose does this serve?
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by samatman 2y ago
Words are styled the way they're styled. McDonald is a proper noun with two capital letters, Mcdonald is simply not correct. I'll note that you didn't manage your footnote consistently, since you spelled MediaWiki correctly,
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by samatman 2y ago
Usually, the colloquial conflation of Markdown with CommonMark and the numerous Markdown-esque dialects is helpful language, I've defended it here before. On this question, it isn't. Markdown qua Markdown, unambiguously supports
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by samatman 2y ago
I think there are several things going on here: - You're used to the way it works now, and don't like that it's changing - The build system is woefully underdocumented (understandable, since it's new and hasn't stab
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by samatman 2y ago
Bless you for this. I even do Option-click things, and somehow, I never spotted that one.
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by samatman 2y ago
We have different ideas of what a big deal is, clearly. The idea that C programmers, C programmers , are going to start bailing en masse out of the top of the Zig funnel, because they have to copy-paste a build.zig gist to get started? Thi
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by samatman 2y ago
The word you're looking for is "yeoman", btw. Peasantry is a larger concept which also includes serfs, but the yeoman farmer was exactly what you're describing. "Rich" might be pushing it in an Anglo context, b
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by samatman 2y ago
For what it's worth, outside of some outstanding issues with comptime (which are genuinely difficult, if ultimately solvable), I've found autocomplete, go-to-definition, and the other LSP semantic tools, to work fine in vs-code. Y
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by samatman 2y ago
build.zig is on its way to being essential. I consider that an appropriate development. Binaries need to be built, this should be integrated with the rest of the system in any modern language. It's not incompatible with using something
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by samatman 2y ago
It will require a little more work in a trivial way, but not in a meaningful way. What's happening is that C imports are moving to the build system, instead of being a compiler builtin. It's part of making LLVM and libclang optio
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by samatman 2y ago
At the risk of stating some obvious things: the claim that most educated persons would know these phrases does not imply that all educated persons must know these phrases. Nor does it imply that someone isn't educated if they don'

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