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by talideon 2y ago
TBH, I'm surprised they had almost 2000. I would've thought they'd be around the 500 mark.
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by talideon 2y ago
What does the EU have to do with any of this. The article is riffing on a wacky and impractical idea a PhD candidate had. The bottle cap thing was irritating the first few times, but really isn't that big a deal. AFAIK, the EU has no c
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by talideon 2y ago
That's the cartoon the Language Log post is commenting on. It's even included at the top of the entry.
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by talideon 2y ago
I was with you right up to the last sentence. There is no "larger political program of obfuscation" here", just sloppy use of terminology.
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by talideon 2y ago
No, it's neither. A creole is defined by its origins: it's a complete language that has developed out of a pidgin.
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by talideon 2y ago
No, it's not. A researcher might an average Joe, but that doesn't mean that the average researcher is the same as the average Joe.
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by talideon 2y ago
Look, if you're going to get picky, it literally is at least an order of magnitude faster. And in addition, Hz for Hz, the eZ80 is much faster than the Z80A, which is what people would actually be comparing it to.
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by talideon 2y ago
Tcl's magic is mainly from uplevel and upvar as they allow you to do crazy stuff with the callstack to enable all kinds of metaprogramming. It's not a lot of magic, but it's very powerful.
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by talideon 2y ago
A Pollyanna is somebody who's cheerful and optimistic to a fault , i.e., even when it's unjustified. The plot summary of the book is likely not what you should be reading as it's become an idiom. Something like Wiktionary or
130.
by talideon 2y ago
Fine for me. I just got a HTTP warning and nothing else. ~~I believe Android uses toybox, not mksh.~~ It does use toybox, but toybox doesn't appear to include a shell.
131.
by talideon 2y ago
Not if it was done competently. Shar files and the likes shouldn't contain NULs, even if they contain compressed data. The appended data should be binary safe.
132.
by talideon 2y ago
Obviously the likes of Juniper, NetApp, Sony, Netflix, &c., know something you don't. Also, FreeBSD is fairly heavily used in Germany.
133.
by talideon 2y ago
I recommend the Consent-O-Matic plugin. It automatically rejects consent on almost all sites I interact with on a semi-regular basis.
134.
by talideon 2y ago
Skylark also. It's essentially Python with anything more than primitive recursive functions cut out.
135.
by talideon 2y ago
An interesting thing about these is that they may have started as cancer cells that escaped their original host jellyfish.
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by talideon 2y ago
I'm genuinely surprised this hasn't happened already!
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by talideon 2y ago
No, Utah is less than half the size of Spain or France. That's vastly less than the size of Western Europe. So, while it's an impressive accomplishment, it's not "size of Western Europe" impressive.
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by talideon 2y ago
I had to make a point of getting a company phone. If I didn't, it would've meant allowing my employer's IT department access to my phone, including the ability to read arbitrary data and to be able to wipe it. That's a b
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by talideon 3y ago
That's not Turing complete. That's still primitive recursive. You're going out of your way make it loop for a really, really long time, but it's still guaranteed to terminate, and thus isn't Turing complete, even if
140.
by talideon 3y ago
Aren't Horn clauses enough to make a language Turing complete?
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by talideon 3y ago
I've a similar question to GP, but from a slightly different angle. I can see the attraction of using a Turing complete language, but on the other hand, an important properly of a build system is that it ought to halt at some point. So
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by talideon 3y ago
We have dilsk in the Republic too, but it's more of a thing along the Atlantis coasts, not so much the east coast.
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by talideon 3y ago
I wouldn't say that Dulce/Dilsk/Dillisk is 'lesser known' at all! And along the west coast of Ireland, it's also commonly eaten, and works great as a flavour enhancer in stews.
144.
by talideon 3y ago
It's still present. It wasn't deleted. The order of comments shifted based off of voting.
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by talideon 3y ago
They're not being asked to give up their IP rights: they can create new franchise entries. It's about making the original z-code files redistributable. How OpenAI and text adventures could possibly fit together is beyond me, thoug
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by talideon 3y ago
In that case, you're not actually competing in the competition, and that kind of thing _is_ useful. However, it'd be very much against the spirit of the competition to take those answers and use them as your own, and that's r
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by talideon 3y ago
If you can't "stop in a dime" somewhere you might expect pedestrians, either the speed limit is too high or you're speeding. You mention drivers cutting in front and pedestrians running out into the street, but not drive
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by talideon 3y ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle isn't nonsense, but good sense. What is nonsense is how the fossil fuel industry uses it as a shield to avoid taking responsibility for the damage they do to the world.
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by talideon 3y ago
It is, and blatently so.
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by talideon 3y ago
Citation, please?

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