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by skissane 1y ago
Tirzepatide somehow gave me a craving for apples. I used to occasionally eat them, now I eat them every day.
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by skissane 1y ago
So, Steam is planning to sell these at a loss, but isn’t planning to lock out third party OS? What’s to stop people buying them to use for completely unrelated use cases? I guess it depends on how big the loss is… if it is small, it might n
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by skissane 1y ago
Historically some systems did have more than three standard file descriptors - e.g. for MS-DOS C compilers, a de facto standard was stdprn was your printer and stdaux was a serial port - this was because while Unix by default starts each pr
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by skissane 1y ago
If one were adding this to the kernel, maybe rather than stipulating a specific protocol, assign them magic numbers; maybe JSON-RPC could be protocol 0x4a534f4e. An app could ask the kernel “which protocols does the pty master support?”, an
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by skissane 1y ago
My personal opinion-psuedoterminals should be enhanced to provide some mechanism for sending out-of-band data, like the existing TIOCPKT but on steroids. Maybe something like… if both ends support it, they can exchange JSON-RPC messages ove
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by skissane 1y ago
Speculation (watching this from the other side of the planet): Danielle Smith doesn’t actually want an independent Alberta; she wants the threat of one to use to extract concessions from Ottawa I think ideal outcome for her would be for ind
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by skissane 1y ago
> It's so wrong in every section I saw. Not talking about this tool, but in general-incorrect LLM-generated documentation can have some value - developer knows they should write some docs, but are starring at a blank screen and not
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by skissane 1y ago
> Attempting to annex in any way shape or form is currently nothing more than the musings of an old man, the only way any territorial changes could happen are through peaceful, mutually agreed upon transfer. A possible scenario: Alberta
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by skissane 1y ago
> So, if you're wondering what he means by "English Common Law", let me answer your confusion with another question: why doesn't Japan have Fair Use? “Fair Use” isn’t “English Common Law”, it is an American doctrine;
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by skissane 1y ago
I guess the question is… we know what our current propulsion technology is capable of… given a million years of further technological development, where will our technology be? The idea that, given a million years of further technological
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by skissane 1y ago
> The parent controls the subsidiary so a court or regulator having jurisdiction over the parent could order it to get what it needs from the subsidiary. But what if the parent’s jurisdiction orders the parent to order the subsidiary to
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by skissane 1y ago
Poor countries have these problems, yes, but they don’t stop whatever, they just add some expense to it. In certain areas of Mexico, businesses have to pay taxes to the local cartel, but if you do, they’ll leave you alone-and they know that
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by skissane 1y ago
Right… but how is that a problem for my proposal? I’m not seeing the issue.
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by skissane 1y ago
> Nope. Reason: the Fil-C runtime itself now relies on GC, and there's some functionality that only a GC can provide that has proven indispensable for porting some complex stuff (like CPython and Perl5). What if there was a flag you
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by skissane 1y ago
> Yeah, it panics when you use after free. I wasn’t talking about use-after-free, I was talking about memory leaks - when you get a pointer from malloc(), and then you destroy your last copy of the pointer without ever having called free
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by skissane 1y ago
> Like Java, you can just `new` or `malloc` without `delete`ing or `free`ing. Is your intention that people use the Fil-C garbage collector instead of free()? Or is it just a backstop in case of memory leak bugs? Can the GC be configured
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by skissane 1y ago
Recompile (or at least relink) the kernel to change drivers (or even system configuration) is a bit of a blast from the past - in the 1960s thru 1980s it used to be a very common thing, it was called “system generation”. It was found in mai
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by skissane 1y ago
Can’t read the Hebrew alphabet, but transliterated to Latin: “a shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot” - I find it fascinating that despite knowing close to zero Yiddish, it makes complete sense.. well, I know a handful of German words
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by skissane 1y ago
Cappadocian Greek is Greek heavily mixed with Turkish, to the extent that is arguably better viewed as a distinct Hellenic language rather than just a nonstandard Greek dialect. However, around a century ago, most Greek speakers were expell
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by skissane 1y ago
The history here is more complex than that… originally Irish was not an EU language because Ireland just used English… then as part of one the cycles of EU treaty renegotiation, Ireland successfully pushed for it to be made a secondary EU l
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by skissane 1y ago
Maltese isn’t an Arabic dialect. Yes, the grammar and phonology and core function words derive from Arabic, but more than half of the vocabulary comes from Italian/Sicilian-North African Arabic may borrow a few words from Italian here
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by skissane 1y ago
I have no idea what is going on then… works for me maybe has something to do with OS or browser versions? or maybe (for some reason) this works for some locales but not others?
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by skissane 1y ago
It’s okay… sorry I wasn’t aiming at you personally. A lot of the common language on this topic irritates me, but people can’t be blamed for repeating what they hear others say… I think we call that phenomenon “culture”
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by skissane 1y ago
I think a very useful term here is Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP) - subclinical ASD - you have significantly more of the traits than the average person does, but they are not strong enough or not disabling enough to merit a clinical diagnosis
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by skissane 1y ago
> Mild/high-functional autism, as far as I understand it, is not even an illness but a variant of normalcy. Just different. As someone who actually has an ASD diagnosis, and also has kids with that diagnosis too, this kind of talk i
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by skissane 1y ago
Well, if you run this Javascript: Intl.DateTimeFormat([],{"timeStyle":"medium"}).format(new Date()) It should return the current time, formatted according to your locale and user preferences. By contrast, this s
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by skissane 1y ago
> Definitely, but on the other hand, I do think that picking your head office's time zone as the "canonical" What happens when you move your head office to a different time zone? e.g. Oracle moved their HQ from California
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by skissane 1y ago
Operating systems generally allow user override of locale settings, and browsers generally respect that; I use a locale which officially has 12 hour time as its standard (Australian English), and I always override it to 24 hour time in user
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by skissane 1y ago
> "Our customers aren't in UTC" is often a compelling reason. This doesn’t work as soon as you become a global business… because if you tell a customer in Asia that it resets at midnight in some US timezone, what are they
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by skissane 1y ago
> Finally, one lead put their feet down and mandated that setting timezone to PST should be the first thing all applications do and db columns should be considered PST unless otherwise required. That seems to me like a really bad mandate

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