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by skissane 2y ago
> ryao's above proposition is the converse, that only Win32s in DOS+Windows ME was adequate to running this, and that the prior Win32s in DOS+Windows 98 and DOS+Windows 95 was not. Win32s was for Windows 3.x only Win32 for 9x/M
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by skissane 2y ago
> It might run on 3.1 and 3.11 via win32s It won't. I see lots of calls to CreateThread/etc in the source. Win32s didn't support threads.
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by skissane 2y ago
It would definitely attract some people. An old friend of mine (from our Catholic high school), who almost never goes to Mass, told me he’d be willing to venture back if it were in Latin, just for the experience. We started looking into i
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by skissane 2y ago
Pretty much, although it also depends on your mind's reasons. If you start from the assumption that Christianity is true, and some people know this, and others don't – you have to ask why the people who don't know it, don&#
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by skissane 2y ago
> The laws I’m complaining about don’t do anything remotely similar yet. They would if the fundamentalists had their way. I don't know who you are calling "fundamentalists" – I personally think the term should be restricte
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by skissane 2y ago
> The idea that a great way to get lots of ordinary people to become practicing Catholics is to literally conduct services in a dead language nobody understands is an extraordinary claim. Lots of religions have liturgical languages which
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by skissane 2y ago
You can’t “cure” someone who doesn’t want to be “cured” and doesn’t believe there is anything wrong with them. And trying to forcibly “cure” religion may potentially constitute the crime of genocide under international law
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by skissane 2y ago
> This distinction might sound very important for people within one of those religions, but it sounds pretty trivial from the outside. Changing secular law to reflect religious law versus directly applying religious law, who cares? The r
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by skissane 2y ago
> Instead of abortion we can take the fetus out, put it into an artificial womb then let it be raised as an orphan or whatever. It should make both sides happy, IF they are both being honest about their motives. I think very few people w
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by skissane 2y ago
> It was certainly not in Latin. It was either in Hebrew of in Greek. I think it was very likely mostly Aramaic, possibly with some Hebrew mixed in (certain set prayers, with Torah readings in Hebrew followed by extemporaneous Aramaic tr
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by skissane 2y ago
> Few people in the church, including the priests themselves, are fluent in Latin (there's a story told, I think by Francis himself, about an diocese in England that required priests to pass an exam to give a Traditional Latin Mass,
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by skissane 2y ago
> I prefer this over the nuts who decry Sharia law while wanting to implement a Christian equivalent. The idea of a "Christian equivalent" to Sharia law is actually very fringe. The near unanimous teaching of Christianity, from
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by skissane 2y ago
> The concept of Liberal in the US is different from liberal in Europe. In Europe "liberal" means supporter of low taxes, small govertment. The concept in the US has to do with sexual liberation and sexual freedom more than eco
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by skissane 2y ago
In Catholic theology, God is believed to be Goodness itself – in a sense, identical to Plato's Form of the Good (but going far beyond Plato's idea at the same time). Hence, anyone who loves Good loves God... so a person who truly
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by skissane 2y ago
> Francis spent the last couple of years creating new cardinals to stack the College in what - he hoped - was a more progressive direction. I don't think that was necessarily what he was doing. He tried to rebalance it to include a
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by skissane 2y ago
Which is a problem for some Protestants who insist that only Christians can be saved... but not necessarily for Catholics. The belief that only Christians can be saved has actually been condemned by the Catholic Church as a heresy (Feeneyis
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by skissane 2y ago
> It's quite a bit above our pay grade to proclaim categorically who supposedly cannot be redeemed; it verges on blasphemy. And the idea that atheists can be saved isn't novel in Catholic teaching – it is implicit in the Holy O
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by skissane 2y ago
> It's only when speaks ex cathedra that his teachings are considered infallible. That's the infallibility of the extraordinary magisterium. The Catholic Church also teaches that the Pope possesses the infallibility of the &quo
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by skissane 2y ago
> Otherwise… I have no idea why the judge would just cave to the prosecutor’s argument like that. A lot of judges in lower courts just aren't that good... the best legal minds gravitate to the top of the system, the judges at the lo
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by skissane 2y ago
> But from my point of view, it's more of a demonstration of the problem with governments that are designed to have a very strong executive. Eventually you get an executive that really sucks, and when that happens they can do a lot
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by skissane 2y ago
> the very first time I allowed it to look at my codebase, it hallucinated a missing brace (my code parsed fine), "helpfully" inserted it, and then proceeded to break everything. This is not an inherent flaw of LLMs, rather it
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by skissane 2y ago
> Corporate software wouldn't care that the UI hung, you're getting paid to sit there and look at it. The article says the thread had been hung for 5 hours. And if you understand the root cause, once it entered into the hung st
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by skissane 2y ago
Is there any DVB-T equivalent?
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by skissane 2y ago
There’s a big risk that you end up creating a scheme to compensate for technological disruption in one industry and then fail to do so in another, based on the political clout / mindshare / media attention each has - and then the
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by skissane 2y ago
There exist image generation models that were trained on purely licensed content, e.g. Getty’s. I don’t know about Adobe’s specifically-but if not, it seems like a problem Adobe could easily fix-either buy/license a stock image library
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by skissane 2y ago
> they have a legitimate argument that this is an unexpected, undeserved, unfair calamity for them, threatening to derail their lives, and lives of their dependents, across the entire sector - and therefore that laws should be changed to
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by skissane 2y ago
No, sorry, no real idea. I'm sure Unisys would be happy to help but they'll likely charge you an arm and a leg.
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by skissane 2y ago
> Both in big picture sense like high fructose corn syrup vs sugar cane, but also on ingredients. This is an interesting one. I was of the impression that HFCS is worse for you than sugar cane, but in the past when I've repeated tha
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by skissane 2y ago
> I suppose you'd do it the same way any North Korean operative would. What you are describing here is something any country could do – yes, it is conceivable that Australia's intelligence agencies could use bribery/ha
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by skissane 2y ago
> Australians can be legally compelled in secret courts to install backdoors in the companies in which they are employed, and gagged from telling the company itself or any journalists (see the Access and Assistance Bill). My thoughts on

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