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by skissane 1y ago
> Are they actually UNIX Conformant? That PDF just says they've entered a trademark license agreement. They're not listed in the conformance database. They were an official UNIX – https://www.opengroup.org/openb
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by skissane 1y ago
Our son kept on buying games using Steam and then getting refunds for them in order to buy another one instead I told him to stop, because I was worried that too many refunds might result in Valve taking action against the account Still, wh
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by skissane 1y ago
> This is the wrong question to ask. The right question to ask is what is preventing other payment processors from seamlessly getting in front of the customer, at every retail location, and online? Here in Australia, most places accept U
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by skissane 1y ago
> Acting as self appointed global censors. (Eg. not allowing adult games on Steam or Itch.io) It seems extra illogical when you think of how much money they make from subscription adult websites, even brothels-in countries that have lega
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by skissane 1y ago
> Beyond that, the needed name to download from PyPI doesn't necessarily have anything at all to do with the name used for an `import` statement. And a given PyPI download may satisfy multiple `import` statements. I think this is a
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by skissane 1y ago
Not necessarily-while many languages which accept shebangs use hash as a line comment introducer, others don’t, but nonetheless will accept a shebang at the start of a file only. e.g. some Lisp interpreters will ignore the first line of a s
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by skissane 1y ago
One issue – ISO C defines setvbuf (configure buffer mode and size of a stdio stream) but not getvbuf (get current buffer mode and size). On many platforms with non-opaque FILE, you can implement your own getvbuf by peering inside its undocu
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by skissane 1y ago
Suppose I have such a begin block without the correct corresponding end block - will Python itself give me a syntax error, or will it just ignore it? It might be “built-in syntax” from a specification viewpoint, but does CPython itself know
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by skissane 1y ago
This is cool, but honestly I wish it was builtin language syntax not a magic comment, magic comments are kind of ugly. Maybe some day… (I realise there are some architectural issues with making it built-in syntax-magic comments are easier f
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by skissane 1y ago
I remember installing MGR (or at least trying to), but I couldn’t really work it out. I was only a teenager, probably my early teens. I remember exactly where I got it from - InfoMagic’s 1994 Linux Annual 4 volume CD-ROM set. Although that
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by skissane 1y ago
Isn't the issue here just that io_uring needs to be enhanced such that, when a seccomp-bpf filter is installed, the filter gets called to approve each SQE, before it gets executed?
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by skissane 1y ago
From what I understand, it is just giving people access to AI models with minimal censorship - so illegal content [0] is still disallowed, but otherwise you can do what you want. And I’m sure a lot of that will be sexual material, but that’
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by skissane 1y ago
This doesn't happen for me, due to ArgoCD–the kustomize YAML is in a PR, and when it merges to the main branch, ArgoCD automatically deploys it. And yes I've found ArgoCD removes most objects when they are deleted from Git.
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by skissane 1y ago
You don’t need to mandate it, heaps of people who are obese or overweight are eager to take it, because they are sick of being this way, worried about the long-term health risks, feel the societal sigma, etc. For many such people who curren
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by skissane 1y ago
I’ve never used Helm charts. I learned K8S in a shop in which kustomize is the standard and helm is a permitted exception to the standard, but I just never felt any reason to learn helm. Am I missing out? Sometimes the limitations of kustom
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by skissane 1y ago
> Writing a BIOS for a new machine in a single afternoon. Those were the days... This was not a BIOS in the sense of the PC ROM-BIOS, it was an OS module containing device drivers - the equivalent in PC-DOS is IBMIO.COM, in MS-DOS it is
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by skissane 1y ago
I am speculating it may be covering aspects of his personal life, e.g. describing family conflicts from his perspective-and I can understand why his family might not want to air that “dirty laundry” in public. Decades from now, many of the
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by skissane 1y ago
> It was such an unexpected thing. I mean we had totally assumed that this was going to be a level playing field, that PC- DOS was going to be priced the same as CP/M, the same as the UCSD P-System, and that we were going to let the
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by skissane 1y ago
> I tried CP/M-86, and found it to be different, but not better. Comparing PC-DOS 1.0 to CP/M-86 1.0, I don’t think there are huge differences in features - maybe FAT12 is a more efficient filesystem; PC-DOS records file sizes
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by skissane 1y ago
It could be something like the Australian Electoral Commission-which is widely respected as an independent apolitical government agency
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by skissane 1y ago
I think the intention behind things makes a big difference. The tests you are talking about were deliberately introduced as a scheme to deny a racial minority the right to vote; my idea has a very different intention behind it. Of course, I
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by skissane 1y ago
A radical proposal: there is no minimum voting age, but to enrol to vote you must pass a civics exam-so a 12 year old who passes the exam can vote, but a 50 year old who fails it (or refuses to sit it) can’t. I really doubt this proposal wo
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by skissane 1y ago
> The more I think about it, I can't help but think that pedagogy is borderline quackery I had this high school computing studies teacher, I’ll call her Dr B. She knew absolutely nothing about the subject she was supposed to be teac
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by skissane 1y ago
> but Algol really does seem dead Unisys still actively maintains their MCP mainframe operating system, which is written in an Algol superset (ESPOL/NEWP), and comes with a maintained Algol compiler - https://public.suppo
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by skissane 1y ago
Contemporary COBOL (the most recent ISO standard is from 2023) has all those things and more. Rather than rejecting such features, COBOL was just slower to adopt them-because conservatism and inertia and its use in legacy systems. But there
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by skissane 1y ago
> They switched from 30-day to 90-day refills. Suddenly, patients had to think about their medication four times a year instead of twelve. Adherence rates shot up almost immediately. When I have a “refill” (here in Australia we call them
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by skissane 1y ago
You are right but it is more complex than that… e.g. as I mentioned earlier, (as an Australian) I will usually say “the US” not “America”, but in certain contexts - talking to younger children for example - it will be the other way around
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by skissane 1y ago
I think we’ve been talking past each other here - because you are talking about receptive language (understanding what other people say), and on that topic I said at the start the same thing as you are saying now - whereas I’ve been talking
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by skissane 1y ago
> unless it’s like, the news Yes, but that’s part of the point: in the most formal registers, “America” is incorrect-if you’re a lawyer drafting a legal contract, or an academic writing an article for a peer-reviewed journal on internati
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by skissane 1y ago
You are suggesting that preferring “the US” to “America” is due to myself being “contrarian” or “individualistic”, but I don’t agree-I’m not just describing my own personal usage, I’m describing my experience of the usage of other people ar

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