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by talideon 4y ago
Except that's not what they claim, at least not in the way you're claiming, which seems deny that there are men and women out there with sex genes other XY and XX and that intersex people don't exist. Because when people clai
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by talideon 4y ago
It's contextual. Whichever you mainly play, you call it 'football'. One of the side effects of us having three kinds of football!
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by talideon 4y ago
First, I'll preface this that what I'm about to write is meant as an endorsement of HTMX. What HTMX does should've been a W3C standard a decade ago, and I've my fingers crossed that some day I'll be able to do wha
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by talideon 4y ago
HTMX is the perfect example of a project that, like jQuery, exists to be replaced with a W3C standard. And I don't think the people behind it would feel at all bad about that, as it fills a real niche that ought to have been filled a d
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by talideon 4y ago
Welsh and Scottish Gaelic are more similar than they may seem at first, but took very different routes. The closest languages to Scottish Gaelic are Irish and Manx, however, as all are descendents of Middle Irish, and shared a common litera
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by talideon 4y ago
There are plenty if you know how to look for them, though some, such as grammaticalised palatalisation, are incidental, and others, such as the preservation of the habitual are more obvious. That said, the various Celtic languages are thoug
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by talideon 4y ago
What you're seeing is an echo of a dead language that's turned into a tradition.
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by talideon 4y ago
It's cognate with 'deich/déag' in Irish and 'deg' in Welsh, both of which mean 'ten', which is an interesting artifact, and likely down to 'dau ddeg' being one of the ways in Welsh of saying
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by talideon 4y ago
It's not, not really. Consider where you pronounce 'm' and 'p': they're both bilabial consonants. It's pretty typical in Celtic languages to have initial 'consonant mutations' where a sound in a
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by talideon 4y ago
That's not really the point here: this counting system is what's leftover from various Cumbric (an extinct language related to Welsh) dialects, which is what makes this interesting. Yan = (welsh) un = one; tan = (welsh) dau/d
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by talideon 4y ago
That's entirely unsurprising. We have a related problem in Ireland around bogs: bogs have historically been cut for fuel, and are not a renewable resource because they don't reform that quickly. Yet you have people treating them a
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by talideon 4y ago
The Troubles didn't start because of people pushing for a United Ireland. They started as a consequence of the violent crackdown against the civil rights movement. The IRA was a largely spent force up until then. It's very impor
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by talideon 4y ago
The ARM2 wasn't tremendously different from the ARM1. And the ARM was the major differenciator for their products, unfortunately. It was the beating heart of the Archimedes and RISC PC and the one differenciator they had. Because the M
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by talideon 4y ago
There's zero microcode. You can go into the StrongARM period and beyond before you're hitting anything like microcode. It's anathema to the basis of RISC CPUs. IIRC, you'll only start finding it when there's a need
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by talideon 4y ago
Such as? My first guess is that you're referring to macros, but I'm also guessing that you might be referring to its lack of homoiconicity.
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by talideon 4y ago
Yeah, his skill is in hucksterism. That can be used for good (Tesla), but it can also be used for ill (all the hyperloop nonsense). But he's still a huckster.
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by talideon 4y ago
Then why did you think I was pushing back against something?
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by talideon 4y ago
Except Musk didn't start Tesla, he bought it. Yes, he gets referred to as a "founder", but that's a whole other sordid story.
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by talideon 4y ago
There are a lot of things like this in the boltons library: https://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/iterutils.html#bolt... It's nice to not have to depend on anything external, but boltons is something I jus
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by talideon 4y ago
I'm not pushing back against anything. The ARM ISA family has two distinct phases. I'm just stating that the original ISA and the current ISA are two distinct beasts. Both are pragmatic in their own way, but the motivations betwee
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by talideon 4y ago
That's not the case at all. Some elements of the original ARM ISA were carried over (such as the barrel shifter - they were an influence from VLIW architectures, and a common enough task to justify their inclusion), but many of the erg
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by talideon 4y ago
ARM64 or ARM26/32? Because they're quite different beasts. The original ARM ISA was designed with the idea that people would and could write software directly in it. ARM64 was not.
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by talideon 4y ago
This falls apart with any comparison with email. Email is a pure push protocol that assumes all actors are trustworthy. Messaging in the vein of ActivityPub, is pull: you might be able to opt in to receiving messages from anyone, but you do
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by talideon 4y ago
That has little to do with supporting specific languages and environments though, and more to do with those languages not have a good method to do CA installation. I have no idea about Node.js, but Python will just use the regular trust sto
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by talideon 4y ago
Because that is an offical EU domain. Email coming from that domain is official EU correspondance. If the EU wanted to run a mail system available to all EU citizens, it would make more sense to register "civitas.eu" or some simil
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by talideon 4y ago
You can do this kind of thing with OpenSSL, but it's... arcane.
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by talideon 4y ago
Could you elaborate? Where is it missing support for Python? It just generates TLS certs for local use, and where would Cygwin, npm (a package manager), and Emacs (a text editor) even figure in any of this?
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by talideon 4y ago
PHP 5 and onwards have had a lot of resources put int o making it fast. The surprise for me is how close Python is getting to closing that gap.
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by talideon 4y ago
I think a bigger thing to point out is that it's within shouting distance of PyPy, and there's plenty more work that can be done to make it faster. Next up is a mini-JIT, which should help in places with tight loops.
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by talideon 4y ago
That's a whole other issue. PyPy and CPython have conflicting aims, which is partly why it never replaced CPython as the defacto default Python runtime. Also, PyPy is much slower for stuff that's only going to run for a short time

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