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by skissane 1y ago
From your link: [InterceptsLocation("/Users/khalidabuhakmeh/RiderProjects/ConsoleApp12/ConsoleApp12/Program.cs", line: 3, character: 3)] they added a language feature which is sensitive to pr
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by skissane 1y ago
I thought what you said was missing important details, and it was worthwhile to state them explicitly. Even if you don’t see any value in that, maybe someone else will.
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by skissane 1y ago
Because you didn’t mention the fish exports. If they didn’t export all that fish, and still didn’t buy much, the US would quite possibly have a minuscule trade surplus with them instead of a tiny trade deficit
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by skissane 1y ago
That’s a .Net API, so not easily usable from native code. If they offered a C API instead, almost anything could feasibly use it. Plus, from reading that doc, it sounds like it only works on Windows if you enable “App-Local ICU” mode, in wh
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by skissane 1y ago
> Falkland Islands were also hit with a tariff that had little to do with the reality of a trade imbalance caused by anything other than they don't buy stuff. That they don’t buy stuff is only half the story. The other half is they
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by skissane 1y ago
Right, but I think other people here may be making the opposite mistake-“according to my interpretation of the statute what the Trump admin has done isn’t allowed”-ultimately your or my interpretation doesn’t count, it is the courts And I h
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by skissane 1y ago
> an exception for a specific reason is not "unreasonable" I doubt it is that simple. I don’t know how exactly judges are going to define “reasonable” in this specific area of law-but “reasonable” normally means not just that y
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by skissane 1y ago
> We have most favored nation status with most other countries, so they generally don't have any other nation that is getting better terms than we do. That's the point of the WTO. However, MFN status is full of exceptions. For
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by skissane 1y ago
That was stupid but also practically irrelevant-if an uninhabited territory has zero exports, you can set the tariff as high as you like, with no exports nobody is going to pay it. To be clear, I don’t agree with these tariffs and think the
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by skissane 1y ago
> Discriminates in fact against the commerce of the United States, directly or indirectly, by law or administrative regulation or practice… in such manner as to place the commerce of the United States at a disadvantage compared with the
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by skissane 1y ago
> Back in the ’70s, one relational database did everything. Transactions (OLTP) during the day and reports after hours (OLAP). Databases like Oracle V2 and IBM DB2 ran OLTP and OLAP on the same system; largely because data sets still fit
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by skissane 1y ago
> and the name of timezone The problem is that can be difficult to portably determine. One wishes POSIX had an API “give me IANA time zone name for current process” which would do the needful to work it out (read TZ environment variable,
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by skissane 1y ago
YDM is very rare; according to Wikipedia, only found in Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal, and Turkmenistan, and even in those countries it commonly coexists with other formats. I believe internationally that YMD and DMY are the two most common for
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by skissane 1y ago
> ISO 8601 does have some strange formats... Not that I’ve ever really had cause to use it in anger, but I like the idea of ISO week dates. Effectively, the ISO weak year (often differs from the calendar year in the last week of December
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by skissane 1y ago
And it is pretty clear that’s where most or all of these leaks actually came from, not from within Microsoft. e.g. the NT4 and 2000 leaks apparently came from Mainsoft I don’t know the current status of those source code access programs but
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by skissane 1y ago
I wonder… does the UEFI spec mandate any particular behaviour in these cases? Does the UEFI SCT test for it? Seems like an inconsistency which could be addressed by adding it to the spec and/or test suite. I guess the other thing I don
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by skissane 1y ago
> Fahrenheit's 0-100 is for now approximately the range of "normal" weather for the continental US, which is a useful if accidental property for Fahrenheit as a weather temperature system. Only if you live in the continent
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by skissane 1y ago
MBR and GPT can coexist on the same disk - MBR goes in sector 0, GPT starts in sector 1. Normally the MBR in sector 0 is “protective” (it just marks the whole disk as in use), but in theory you can create a “hybrid” disk in which the MBR an
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by skissane 1y ago
I’d love to know if any apps ever actually used the STREAMS support in Windows NT 3/4; I’ve never seen any
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by skissane 1y ago
> So I wouldn't be shocked if a Windows version wouldn't bring in enough money to make even a relatively easy port worth it. True, but I’m sceptical the Linux or OS/2 versions have ever brought in any money either. This lo
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by skissane 1y ago
Microsoft owns GitHub, and GitHub is crawling with Windows source code leaks… and I’m wondering it anyone at Microsoft really cares? Is it possible they’ve even made an intentional decision just to ignore it? If it were an Oracle source cod
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by skissane 1y ago
Interesting that it is available for OS/2 and not Windows. If you are already supporting Linux and OS/2, it isn't much more work to support Windows too–and will likely attract many more users than OS/2 support will The F
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by skissane 1y ago
> But Celsius as a temperature scale is no more logical than Fahrenheit Celsius is more logical: (1) the endpoints of Celsius are boiling/melting point of water (at standard atmospheric pressure). The lower endpoint of Fahrenheit is
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by skissane 1y ago
> The government pension is the main source of income for 47% of retirees vs superannuation's 33%. Yes, but that’s because the current superannuation system was only introduced in 1992, and when it was first introduced the mandatory
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by skissane 1y ago
> For temperature neither argument is objectively better. I think Celsius is objectively better in that: (1) its endpoints–freezing and boiling point of water–are more natural / less arbitrary / more fundamental than Fahrenheit
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by skissane 1y ago
I live in Australia where individuals are expected to fund their own retirement, and the government pension is intended just as a back-up for those who are too poor to do so. Everyone has an investment account ("superannuation", o
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by skissane 1y ago
> In fact, civil law is a lot more common, and that one cares less about precedents. For many civil law jurisdictions in Europe, I think the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights have changed this a lot in practice. Dutch or Fre
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by skissane 1y ago
> the X.500 directory system, a system from the 20th century which was never actually deployed X.500 really was deployed – never at the scale the designers originally intended, as a single global directory system – but, as an enterprise
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> The US had no immigration laws for the first 100 years, The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited US citizenship by naturalisation to “free white persons” of “good moral character” - yes, it didn’t technically bar immigration from peopl
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by skissane 1y ago
> not that i agree with that anyways (citizenship is stupid, borders are stupid, countries are stupid blah blah blah) Millions of people worldwide have values that are radically different from yours or mine or >99% of people reading t

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