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by troupo 2y ago
Because search in different languages needs to be aware of that language's peculiarities. Including but not limited to things that English doesn't have or only has in vestigial forms like grammatical cases, complex word morphology
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by troupo 2y ago
I would add: you should look for alternative solutions when you need to search anything other than English.
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by troupo 2y ago
> For those who can't, offer maintenance but no major new features for the original version. How do you imagine doing that? > Being wedded to mistakes made in the past for fear of breaking current usage is the root of all program
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by troupo 2y ago
> Why are inbuilt globals allowed to be modified? Because that was the original behavior, and you can't just change that behaviour, or half of the web will break (including that 3rd party lib and every web site depending on it) >
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by troupo 2y ago
manufacturing and building anything out of them in the required scale
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by troupo 2y ago
Are Ukraine's rather successful incursion into Russian territory and successful strikes against oil refineries and airfields deep inside Russian territory escalations or red lines? I can never tell which is which with Russian apologist
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by troupo 2y ago
Screen readers should read those tags differently. em is emphasis, cite is citation etc.
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by troupo 2y ago
I've seen this referred to as something like "Scroll content, don't scroll the app". And of course we now have Apple of all companies where they botched that even in native apps (like settings)
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by troupo 2y ago
I still don't know how to switch to the JSON-only view the few times that I need it. And I hate that quite a few extensions have a vague "just set X in settings" in their README's where X doesn't show up in the auto
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by troupo 2y ago
> If there were problems with the margins or which types of apps were allowed regulations should have tackled that instead. Yes, and no. So, regulations did say: you can't prevent users from using other default apps than the ones yo
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by troupo 2y ago
That's why I can't believe it keeps appearing on HN's front page :D
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by troupo 2y ago
1. There's no evidence that Drakon was used in aerospace industry beyond claims made by a single person: Drakon's author 2. Drakon is pushed as a generic programming tool despite: lacking generic programming facilities, lacking an
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by troupo 2y ago
> The only seemingly verifiable claim I can find to DRAKON's lineage in aerospace has to do with the Fregat upper stage It's not verifiable. It's once again co-authored by Drakon's author, and there is no other indepe
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by troupo 2y ago
Yeah, that's what Wikipedia diagram does, too: it uses a lose/extended form
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by troupo 2y ago
> I think the reason is that it has aerospace heritage It's very doubtful that Drakon has airspace heritage. Any claims to this are made by one single person: the author of the language.
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by troupo 2y ago
Drakon cannot handle a trivial algorithm like quicksort, much less a real-time system
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by troupo 2y ago
--- start quote --- users will get new default settings for dialing phone numbers, sending messages, translating text, navigation, managing passwords, keyboards, and call spam filters Additionally, the App Store, Messages, Photos, Camera, a
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by troupo 2y ago
By Drakon standards it doesn't follow the "one true way": - the main execution path must be the leftmost top-to-bottom "skewer" - there's no recurse (AFAIR) in Drakon, and there were heavy debates on how to exp
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by troupo 2y ago
It's amazing that this keeps being submitted to HN and keeps being featured. The people pushing this couldn't come up with a way to represent a simple quicksort in it [1]. Why does this keep appearing? https://forum.dra
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by troupo 2y ago
> If you know that 'd' ... and that 'w' > When you later learn that '$' > when you learn that y As if that doesn't require you to remember things. In the end I always, without fail, see people co
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by troupo 2y ago
> It's easier for me to remember (for example) 10 nouns that can be combined with 10 verbs than to memorise 100 shortcuts. 1. There are no nouns or verbs in Vim. There's a haphazardly built combination of letters that are labo
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by troupo 2y ago
> It's one command that implements And you know this command how? You discovered it how? > That's my entire point! I learned the majority of Emacs and Vim commands well back in the mid-90s. Indeed. And now you complain about
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by troupo 2y ago
> Emacs `M-x sql-connect` is much easier for me to do than to look up, in VS Code, what shortcut has been assigned to the extension I use And the knowledge of `M-x sql-connect` came to you how? In a dream? Commands in Emacs are undiscove
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by troupo 2y ago
This is the bazaar version of enshittification. In that the software becomes worse for the user, but for different reasons than in the commercial world. In the end users lose anyway
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by troupo 2y ago
I'm desperately trying to figure out this response, and I can't. Meanwhile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280221
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by troupo 2y ago
> but want to use Mypassword69! for everything That... That is literally what these "security practices" force you to use. You literally used an example of the ubiquitous "at least one uppercase letter, one special charac
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by troupo 2y ago
Just because you randomly use as aster*sks doesn't make the world a slur. No, it's not used only in negative contexts.
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by troupo 2y ago
I used subpoena as an umbrella term, there are multiple ways to get that data. E.g. here's Facebook's report: https://transparency.meta.com/reports/government-data-reques... In July-January 2023 they received
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by troupo 2y ago
What draconian laws does EU apply to foreign companies? Try to come up with examples of companies that don't have offices and legal and commercial presence in the EU. BTW remind me what's your take on the US banning Huawei in the
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by troupo 2y ago
> I'm guessing you're not a huge proponent of free speech? Is Musk such a proponent? His professed absolutist views have been shown to be a lie and farce many times over

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