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811.
by skissane 2y ago
> Overstaying a visa in any other (developed) country does not result in this kind of detention. The US doesn't have a monopoly on immigration horror stories: Australian immigration illegally detained an Australian citizen for 10 mo
812.
by skissane 2y ago
> Schengen is different from EU. Schengen isn't "different from EU". It originally was separate from EU, but since 1999 has been an aspect of the EU. Per Wikipedia: > Originally, the Schengen treaties and the rules adop
813.
by skissane 2y ago
For example, sed. macOS sed doesn't support long options. Not even --help or --version (Running an older version of macOS so can't completely exclude this has been updated in a newer version, but I'd be surprised to learn tha
814.
by skissane 2y ago
That’s not true… both the RS-25 SSMEs and the SRBs were reused - however, the extent of refurbishment required between flights was so extensive, time-consuming and expensive, that it erased much of the benefits of reusability
815.
by skissane 2y ago
So they think the UK's main centre-left party has an "unwritten rule" against female leaders, when its main centre-right party very obviously doesn't (having a female leader right now, its fourth, and having just last mo
816.
by skissane 2y ago
> no women have ever been elected to this role although the rules don't forbid it The same is true of the role of Leader of the UK Labour Party–but I wonder how many people would suggest that the UK Labour Party has an "unwritt
817.
by skissane 2y ago
> funny how you move the goal post from 1998 to early 90's. I didn't "move the goal post from 1998 to early 90's". We are talking about OpenVMS which was given that name in 1992. So the "goal post" has
818.
by skissane 2y ago
The protocol isn’t but its deployment is - real-world deployment is predominantly mobile. That’s nothing to do with the inherent technical features of the protocol, it is a consequence of market history
819.
by skissane 2y ago
I don’t agree it is “revisionist” history. Yes, people used phrases like “open source code” prior to 1998, but without a clear and universally agreed meaning - pre-1998, “open source” could just mean the source code was available under unsp
820.
by skissane 2y ago
> But despite its name, OpenVMS is still actually not open. This is a very anachronistic complaint - DEC renamed VMS to OpenVMS in 1992, and at the time “open” had nothing to do with “open source” since that phrase wasn’t even coined unt
821.
by skissane 2y ago
It doesn’t because you can negotiate a bulk discount. If you want all the titles, they’ll sell that to you - for a huge fee, but still a big discount off paying for them all individually. So essentially it prevents mass scraping by individu
822.
by skissane 2y ago
> It’s frustrating that tarball urls are a proprietary thing and not something that was ever standardized in the git protocol. I think there’s a lot of stuff which is common to the major Git hosters (GitHub, GitLab, etc) - PRs/MRs,
823.
by skissane 2y ago
As an Australian, I can look up the ownership of random properties in the US for free. But if I want to do the same for a building on my own street, I have to pay a US$11 fee per a property searched. The US has a reputation of being a hyper
824.
by skissane 2y ago
Review it to find what?
825.
by skissane 2y ago
This is a public forum and anyone can reply to anyone else… if you want to post a message to someone privately, you can always use email
826.
by skissane 2y ago
> It seems that you think that because you are a 'legal immigrant' or descendant of such that you are somehow better or more proper than an illegal immigrant. This is funny because the people you vote for only see that distinct
827.
by skissane 2y ago
Some Irish Protestants were descendants of recent immigrants from Britain, others were descendants of Irish converts from Catholicism. Consider for example, Edmund Burke (the famous conservative philosopher) - he was born in Ireland to a Ro
828.
by skissane 2y ago
> All the farms were owned by an elite mostly British class living in England which was a direct hold over from Feudalism. I think that’s a misconception-yes, there were a significant number of absentee landowners from England, but they
829.
by skissane 2y ago
> that blows up and burns up its own products more often than not This false. SpaceX’s current product is Falcon 9/Heavy which “blows up and burns up” very rarely. Starship isn’t actually a product yet, it is an R&D program. If
830.
by skissane 2y ago
Yes “MACRO-32” [0] is what I’m talking about and is still around - from Alpha it was ported to Itanium and now x86-64. Although to clarify, my understanding is it doesn’t take machine code as input, rather macro assembler source code - alth
831.
by skissane 2y ago
DEC had a similar problem when porting VMS from VAX to Alpha - significant chunks of it were written in VAX assembly. They came up with a rather ingenious solution - a compiler from VAX assembly to Alpha. And that was carried forward into t
832.
by skissane 2y ago
It hasn't got anything to do with parsing algorithms, which is the closest connection between this topic and the Chomsky hierarchy. Rather, it is due to the history of C. In the 1960s, a team in the UK (based at the University of Cambr
833.
by skissane 2y ago
I think it comes down to legal risk appetite. If you go by what the law says on its face – yes, you need either approval from Congress or the Secretary, and probably the Secretary has made clear they are unlikely to agree to use whatever po
834.
by skissane 2y ago
Historical reasons: early C compilers didn't actually keep track of what the type of the LHS was, so they needed `.` vs `->` to properly disambiguate. Later C compilers did start tracking that, so the difference in syntax was no lon
835.
by skissane 2y ago
> Because congress has to pass a law to let them, states can only choose to stay on standard time year round Does Congress actually have the power to stop a state adopting whatever time zone it wants? 15 USC 260a(b) expressly supersedes
836.
by skissane 2y ago
`->` shouldn't be necessary to begin with... if the LHS is a pointer already, `.` could just auto-dereference it instead of generating an error like it does now.
837.
by skissane 2y ago
> If, say, Republicans drafted a bill to split red rural areas off CA into its own state, as often proposed, what sane Democrat would ever support it knowing that it means +2 Republican senators in Congress? > The only way it could po
838.
by skissane 2y ago
In C you can use `[0]` as a postfix dereferencing operation... ugly but it works. I use it a lot in GDB. But I agree that Pascal does it better here, the dereferencing operator should have been postfix all along. The thing I really wish C h
839.
by skissane 2y ago
I don't think so. The article links to an image of the 1930 journal article – https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53180372w – it doesn't look like it has been republished, it looks like something clos
840.
by skissane 2y ago
This doesn’t make any sense - chemically espresso and filtered coffee are very similar. There are some subtle differences which contribute to the differences in taste between them, but it seems unlikely those make any contribution to choles

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