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by talideon 2y ago
I'm scratching my head here. HATEOAS is the core of REST. Without it and the uniform interface principle, you're not doing REST. "REST" without it is charitably described as "RESTish", though I prefer the term
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by talideon 2y ago
Browsers have never really supported feeds. Even Firefox really only supported feed auto-discovery. There are extensions that implement feed readers, but browsers are ill suited to be feed readers. Most people who consume feeds do so via a
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by talideon 2y ago
Use whatever elements you need from Atom. Atom is a functional superset of RSS 2.0, and if you're hit with analysis paralysis, using only the functionality that exists in RSS 2.0 in your Atom feed. Atom exists because RSS is ambiguous
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by talideon 2y ago
One thing though: is you're adding "RSS" support, use Atom for the feed, not actual RSS. Everything supports Atom that supports RSS, it's no harder to implement, less ambiguous, less prone to breaking, and has a richer v
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by talideon 2y ago
Given the way that tables work, the concept of a 'length' is a fuzzy one. However, the '#' operator will give you the last index of a table, which for tables used as arrays is pretty much what you want. There's also
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by talideon 2y ago
These days, Lua is a better alternative. Rexx isn't a bad language, but it's very dated. It's better than recommending BASIC, but only marginally. We have better alternatives these days. Also, are there any decent embeddable
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by talideon 2y ago
The lack of an M.2 slot is a massive disappointment. I was really hoping it'd have one as that'd make it a viable desktop machine. A micro SD as primary storage just doesn't cut it anymore.
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by talideon 2y ago
It would probably be an idea to point out here that those are decoupling capacitors used to reduce noise. Capacitance isn't the point with them, but that they pass AC while blocking DC. Not that the capacitance hurts, mind.
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by talideon 2y ago
The Arabic writing system is an abjad, not an alphabet. The two kinds of system are closely related (the Phoenician script was the origin of both the Greek alphabet and the various Semitic abjads and was itself an abjad) but are not the sam
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by talideon 2y ago
When some form of phonetic writing is developed, it's almost invariably syllabic. If anything, the very intuitiveness of syllabaries is why all alphabets, abjads, and abugida originate from a single source while there are many syllabar
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by talideon 2y ago
More likely the Roman calendar.
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by talideon 2y ago
Yes, Starlark is a relatively sane option, but the benefit of a language like that isn't simply that it's sandboxed, but also that it's not Turing complete because it only allows for primitive recursion and thus is guaranteed
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by talideon 2y ago
The world doesn't revolve around the US, you know...
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by talideon 2y ago
That period of the '90s and early 2000s were a bit of a golden age when it came to education. I very much doubt I'd have been able to afford third level if it wasn't for when I went. The full grant and the fact that fees were
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by talideon 2y ago
Oof! Too soon!
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by talideon 2y ago
That's not really how TY works in Ireland. It's about broadening horizons, not "extracurriculars". Third level admissions have been done via a points system based on your top six Leaving Certificate (final second level e
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by talideon 2y ago
It's an extra year of your kids at home, and potentially trips abroad. We couldn't afford the trip to France during my TY, so I skipped the trip, but did TY. While this was the '90s and my parents didn't earn enough to p
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by talideon 2y ago
He was born in '76, so it's possible his school was a trial school a few years earlier, but doesn't seem likely.
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by talideon 2y ago
It's nothing like a gap year. It's just less academically focused.
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by talideon 2y ago
Not in my school: the vast majority who took it (this was the '90s, when it started) were the ones doing almost all honours. It heavily depends on the school, I would guess, however, but often those who need "more time in the oven
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by talideon 2y ago
I was in one of the first years that did transition year, and it was almost nothing but good for me. It got me much more out of my shell and I was able to do subjects I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. Art, in particular, thoug
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by talideon 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41807954
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by talideon 2y ago
I believe you have Osiris access at least since Patch 7, when they opened things up to modders.
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by talideon 2y ago
Your "plural singulars" have been the normal way of doing things in much of the Anglosphere outside of North America for quite some time.
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by talideon 2y ago
No, English was not formed the same way as creoles are. A creole is a language that develops from a pidgin. That's a process of increasing complexity. English underwent _simplification_ due to significant contact with non-native speake
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by talideon 2y ago
You'll also be happy to learn that there's an issue open to deprecate them: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/78125 It's been open since 2018 though. You might find it worth a read.
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by talideon 2y ago
Again, the blame for that is at the feet of those who wrote the .pth file, not the mechanism itself.
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by talideon 2y ago
I searched all my machines and could only find simple ones, all related to some legacy crud for setuptools, one of which was a way to get eggs (which nobody should be using these days) to work. They're barely a thing these days and mos
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by talideon 2y ago
The right solution would've been to remove all the stops. They defeat almost the whole purpose of the roundabout.
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by talideon 2y ago
If .pth files are the worst thing you can find to complain about, Python's doing pretty well. That horrific .pth file in question is better placed as the feet of its creators than the mechanism itself.

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