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by talideon 4y ago
It was literally her job as head of state. That's part of what heads of state do. Now, being antimonarchist is a fine thing - I'm one - but not having an understanding of the duties of a head of state, elected or not, is a whole o
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by talideon 4y ago
That's more a matter of what circles you're in. Most people I've encountered have been much more moderate, separating the human being, who deserves to be mourned, from the institution.
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by talideon 4y ago
As an Irishman, while our two countries might not have always gotten along well, she always came across as a good person who took her role seriously and executed as well as anyone could. RIP.
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by talideon 4y ago
Preferred by whom? I've never encountered a use case where A4 was too skinny. And it certainly never stopped anyone from making paper airplanes from whole sheets at school. A4 folds neatly to sheets of the same ratio, which is its part
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by talideon 4y ago
Except it has little to do with the metre other than being an earlier attempt at an objective measurement.
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by talideon 4y ago
But then it wouldn't be US Letter. There are other paper sizes based around the A series that fit relate back to it as part of a geometric progression, which means stuff fits neatly together. For instance, the C and DL series, which ar
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by talideon 4y ago
Fahrenheit was defined the way it was not because it was "invented to be useful and practical", but because a mixture of brine to set 0℉ was easy to concoct reliably. That's as close as it got to being "practical".
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by talideon 4y ago
That isn't correct. The pendulum definition was actually something called a "universal toise". Burattini suggested defining a unit called the metre based off of this, but it was found to be unworkable because it's not th
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by talideon 4y ago
The maximum bound for most gTLD registries is ten years (have a dig around the ICANN website if you'd like to check), not fifteen. Sure, there might be a ccTLD that allows you to register a domain for longer than that, but I'm not
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by talideon 4y ago
Just PiS taking the piss.
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by talideon 4y ago
If you want its direct ancestor, then it's perfectly true. The etymology further back than that would be irrelevant, and also unattested.
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by talideon 4y ago
I think that the main benefit of sortition is that you end up with a set of people without any need to get re-elected, and that it's this that lends them the ability to make better decisions because their careers don't depend on i
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by talideon 4y ago
Wrong Patrick: kalzumeus is Patrick McKenzie. Patrick Collison's site is patrickcollison.com, and he's 'pc' on Hacker News.
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by talideon 4y ago
That's the thing about stuff like that: it's sometimes unreasonably effective and ends up replacing the thing it was meant to be a step towards.
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by talideon 4y ago
It's actually PEP 621 ( https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/ ) that the OP meant to refer to. IIRC, there's work ongoing in Poetry to allow it to support PEP 621.
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by talideon 4y ago
Skip lists: 90% of the benefits of more complex tree data structures, with a fraction of the complexity.
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by talideon 4y ago
JSON isn't mean to be efficient, but to be a good compromise between being human readable/writable, easily generated/parsed by a machine, and familiar. CBOR and BSON make more sense, to be frank, for any use case I could thin
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by talideon 4y ago
BBC BASIC was/is the wonderful lovechild of BASIC and BCPL, and was a joy to code in back in the day. Significant amounts of the regular user applications that weren't CPU bound for RISC OS were coded in it, and most of the rest w
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by talideon 4y ago
Go's error handling is one of its single worst features. It would be much better if if had supported algebraic data types (which would also eliminate two other abominations: `iota` and `nil`, with the former being replaced by type cons
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by talideon 4y ago
Possibly, but then you have the issue of refresh rates to deal with. That said, Japan has a very odd electrical grid. Or rather it has _two_ grids, with one in the west running at 60Hz and the other in the east running at 50Hz. SCART didn&#
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by talideon 4y ago
> So are artists all idiots? No, and GP didn't remotely imply anything like that. In fact, your examples are exactly backwards. Let's take the quote you're likely referring to. > An idiot with a plan can beat a genius w
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by talideon 4y ago
There are a few good reasons why almost every AWS API is on V2. Firstly, the earlier ones were the Wild West and took differing approaches to things. A good example of how things were is SimpleDB, one of their first public APIs, which uses
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by talideon 4y ago
Japan used NTSC, not SECAM. Are you sure you weren't using a multisystem TV or that your MD wasn't modded for SECAM?
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by talideon 4y ago
Could somebody update URL on this so it points at The Guardian directly rather than bouncing through Google?
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by talideon 4y ago
Cool! I like Nordic/Embracer.
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by talideon 5y ago
No, because voting in the form of likes and retweets are part of the problem.
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by talideon 5y ago
(a) Requiring login would reduce what little utility Twitter has. (b) That's impossible, but a linear timeline with people who I actually know comes close.
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by talideon 5y ago
It's _really_ easy to disempower extremists. (a) Linear timeline. (b) Stop injecting stuff into people's timelines. (c) Hide like and retweet counts from anyone but the person who made the tweet. (d) Add a cooldown period on tweet
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by talideon 5y ago
The one true algorithm!
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by talideon 5y ago
> Most often, brits will then get angry and just leave... If only we could've gotten them to do that eight centuries ago...

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