talideon

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811.
by talideon 11y ago
No, and the situation was and still is a lot more complicated than that. The relationship between Unionism and Protestantism and Nationalism and Catholicism was and still is much more grey than many realise. The current situation with North
812.
by talideon 11y ago
I think the Wizball theme is an even better example of Martin Galway's work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFYzjU-C3mA Takes a while to get going, but it's sublime.
813.
by talideon 11y ago
In biographical information, sometimes, but rarely in the middle of an article.
814.
by talideon 11y ago
Oh, without a doubt. ARM assembly is a joy to code, much more so than any other. It just feels... right. There's no fluff and cruft and, at the same time, it didn't feel like there was anything really missing. RISC processors have
815.
by talideon 11y ago
It might be an interesting adjunct to how a part of the tech community treated one of their own with acceptance but beyond that, no, not terribly relevant. If anything, that's entirely incidental to the story, other than the fact that
816.
by talideon 11y ago
The way I hear it[1], she did the instruction packing on a pub napkin, while IBM were devoting quite a bit of computing horsepower to do the same thing. [1] Vague recollections of an article in Acorn User. I'd really have to dig out th
817.
by talideon 11y ago
With ARM involved, there's some continuity there with Acorn's original BBC Micro, which gives me the warm fuzzies.
818.
by talideon 11y ago
Even using optipng would've been an improvement: the image could've been reduced by 10% by running it through that.
819.
by talideon 11y ago
I'm not sure you're reading that right. Everything with a higher population density is a city state or a tiny island nation. Excluding those, it's the country with the highest population density in Europe, with a population d
820.
by talideon 11y ago
You can't effectively criticise a language without actually knowing it. That's why you're being downvoted. The example you gave is using the lowest level primitives to printing with zero syntactic sugar. It's equivalent
821.
by talideon 11y ago
Ryanair have gotten a bit better, mainly due to the actual experience of buying tickets from them online recently becoming much less of a hassle than it used to be. Still, there's no chance they'll go easier on carry-on and checke
822.
by talideon 11y ago
Time to start working around that by using composition not inheritance! No, wait, that won't work. To make composition work, you still need to be able to share interfaces.
823.
by talideon 11y ago
You're wrong there. I know that, because unlike you, I work for a domain registrar. And let me tell you something. There are actually people there who purposely trawl WHOIS looking for invalid data, just so that they can submit WHOIS i
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by talideon 11y ago
'Relays' isn't a big deal. In fact, it was already a requirement for registrars to deal with registrants in the first place. After all, registrars were required to send out WDRP notices and potentially schedule a domain for d
825.
by talideon 11y ago
I wrote that ICANN were laissez-fair about enforcement, not that they didn't enforce these rules. The difference is when they enforce them. In the past, they encouraged an honour system through the use of WDRP emails. In addition, th
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by talideon 11y ago
We already had a requirement to reveal contact information to LEAs with just cause. At least here in the EU, we can't go revealing data to just about anybody who asks for it due to data privacy law. I'm taking another read over th
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by talideon 11y ago
> No. They will require PO box providers to be accredited with ICANN and subject to all these crazy rules, giving you no privacy. What makes you think that? ICANN's requirement is that you provide a valid address you are contactable
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by talideon 11y ago
[Disclosure: I work for a domain registrar based in the EU, and I implemented pretty much 95% of the company's infrastructure as far as us acting as a registrar goes.] I think there are some major misunderstandings around what ICANN ar
829.
by talideon 11y ago
Even gTLD operators are special little snowflakes in their own way: if the EPP RFCs and ICANN regs give them any leeway to do something silly, they'll do it. Some of them, such as Neustar, don't even bother responding with correct
830.
by talideon 11y ago
You might enjoy this, then: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by talideon 11y ago
It's a classic chicken and egg problem. IPv4 is still "good enough" as far as most people are concerned, so even with the squeeze on available addresses, there's just not quite enough need to come over the inertial again
832.
by talideon 11y ago
Except unlike those, we actually know the effect that the likes of methane and carbon dioxide have on the atmosphere, and thus demonstrates more than just a spurious correlation.
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by talideon 11y ago
One quick clarifying note: the reason he said in the video that bottles have an edge is because he was treating it as a planar manifold. Topology is an interesting area of study.
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by talideon 11y ago
Yeah, the 3D klein bottle is to a real 4D klein bottle what a circle is to a sphere.
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by talideon 11y ago
I think the confusion here is that you're taking what he's saying in terms other than those of topology. In topology, you deal with manifolds. Manifolds have no thickness , but they do have area. In topology, there's no such
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by talideon 11y ago
Yup, and those are its nice nicknames.
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by talideon 11y ago
The thing is, the commit message is part of the commit, not something separate from it. Irritating as it might be, this is good for traceability. What I do to avoid that is work on a separate branch, rebase against master, then review the c
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by talideon 11y ago
You could truthfully say that your klein beer glass was always empty, no matter how much you put in it. :-)
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by talideon 11y ago
The rim of your bowl is the edge: it's a point where the curvature changes suddenly. But that's not the important thing: the important thing is that not only is there only no edge, but only one surface. Let's talk topology
840.
by talideon 11y ago
I'm afraid not. The Daily Mail is an awful rag. One of its nicknames is "The Daily Hate".

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