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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Believe you meant to write that _accents_ are used to mark stress that's outside the normal rules
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Objectworks (iirc) used := but left it as is ie 'untranslated'
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
This brings us to Sanskrit, which holds as its highest virtue the strict correspondence of spelling to sound, much to the dismay of learners who must at an early stage tackle the complex sandhi rules that enforce this.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
I spent the first 50+ years of life under the misapprehension that there is a singer/actress called Barbara StreisLand
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Most of my feed is sourced from one of our wretched right-wing daily newspapers (Briton here) - despite diligence in not reading any of these articles, rather instead selecting to hide from this particular source, which I've attempte
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
There is a broad tendency in software to jump onto whatever the big FAANG guys are doing. The trouble with this is often that they are working at a vastly bigger scale than you are, hence their solutions are vastly overfitted to your proble
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
This is an important feature in fact, as otherwise the space of possible solutions grows to include nearly all 4-letter nouns (and verbs) +'s', and this is too large. I believe that regular pasts in -ed are also excluded for the s
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
It's true that most kids used their computers just to play games (plus ça change ..). However for me as one of those kids who did love programming my ZX Spectrum as well as the odd game, there were a couple of fun crossovers: - Working
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
For anyone wondering about the funky asterisk against some of those identifiers, the docs say: An identifier declared in a module block may be followed by an export mark (* or -) in its declaration to indicate that it is exported
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
There was more to VB than just guis though - one could use it to build COM components far more easily than with C++ - the fact that a string was just String rather than the miasma of competing flavours that abounded in Visual C++ was worth
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Guilty here, but have been doing so for so long that it's largely muscle memory at this point and the original rationale has been lost. In mitigation, it certainly used to be the case that you were likely to come across a broad variety
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Nice summary. Tradition dies hard, especially in these isles - my old nan maintained that decimalisation was the greatest con ever perpetrated on the British people!
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
There is always money to be made by peddling the idea that you can bypass those pesky programmers and get Don from accounts to write his own applications instead. See also: most low-code / visual programming environments.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Using in a header file => complete no-no. Using in a cpp file => absolutely fine.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
I hope there are suitable caveats around the Genesis text being mythology - I'd hate to imagine far-future generations scratching their heads at how otherwise technologically sophisticated people could image that this stuff was true.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Since most of the relevant training data is likely to be punters kvetching about Microsoft, it'd be amusing to see if this would propel it into an angry rant about its boss.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Is this part of MySQL's policy of "do the thing I've always done, no matter how daft or broken that may be, unless I see an obscure setting telling me to do the new correct thing" ?
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Or record and broadcast yourself saying "this elevator is going directly to HELL" in a spooky Vincent Price voice!
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
The analogy with alchemy was very on point; this stuff is an Eliza de nos jours, a clever parlour trick and for sure not without its uses, but it is not intelligence in any meaningful definition of that term. A lot of folks are dismissive o
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
I wonder if Groovy doesn't allow one to produce a more user-friendly DSL, whilst retaining the benefits of integration with the java ecosystem? No strong personal opinion here, but have been coincidentally reading up on Groovy and ment
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
YouTube has numerous similar mechanisms that people have made out of Lego, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-YeqGynlw
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
What XSLT really needed was a gui where you could play with the template and the input and see the output change in real time, a little like how those regex websites work. With a few colours and arrows to elucidate what bit was doing what.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
As someone who has circled back into Java land recently after a number of years away, it is startling the extent to which the use of XML in this environment has boiled away to nearly nothing (the only XML file in our projects is the Maven P
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
A caveat here is that a good value for epsilon is dependent on the magnitude of the value you're abs'ing.
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
They did a series of public debates after the money burning, and one gets the impression that of all the genuinely ground-breaking stuff they did that this stunt is the one that actually backfired and that they came to, if not completely re
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
There was a documentary on the KLF on tv just last night - apparently Bill went over to the US to do the audio with Tammy and it was very nearly unusable because she wasn't in time with the track - she was used to working with her own
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Brenda is described as having a "thick British accent" which is tantalising vis a vis how they met as it suggests she is from the UK, but unfortunately otherwise meaningless as there is no such thing as a (single) "British ac
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Lions are mentioned in the Odyssey, implying that Greek listeners would have been familiar with them. I'd always assumed these were some sort of mountain cat, but that map suggests no, actual lions!
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
It's important to distinguish a language from its writing system. The Japanese writing system is a basket case to be sure, but that doesn't say anything about the language itself. My decidedly rudimentary knowledge of the language
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by tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Reminded me of this classic about irradiated cows messing with a computer at a railway junction: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html

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