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by tzot 2y ago
Your ex-boss made you angry and you left code that will make the life more difficult for whom? Only your ex-boss or more people? Who gets punished for what you perceive as one person's mistake?
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by tzot 2y ago
Yep, the ones in Athens can be refilled too.
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by tzot 2y ago
Simon Tatham's Mines Windows exe stands at ~180KiB as seen at https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
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by tzot 2y ago
OK, I give up; I can't find an easter egg, except maybe for the simulated “curve reflection” on the spectrum on the right (but I wouldn't call it an easter egg, so most probably it isn't what you mean).
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by tzot 2y ago
Indeed on rereading my question I see it was not phrased correctly. Yes, the `journal_size_limit` affects the maximum journal/wal file that remains on disk if larger than that — and by the way ensures that these files are not deleted o
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by tzot 2y ago
Is there a point for the PRAGMA journal_size_limit when we set the database to WAL mode?
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by tzot 2y ago
OTOH the phrase “a thousand million” for 10⁹ is not that uncommon. From what I've seen, in places where billions/trillions are mentioned and it's important that the number is accurately specified, a representation with digits
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by tzot 2y ago
“Scientifically standard” are the SI prefixes. So, given the ambiguity of what 1 gigastar is (1/1000th of 1 terastar or a really huge star?) one should say “10¹²s of stars” maybe.
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by tzot 2y ago
“Stegatography” can be an even more appropriate choice if you speak one of the languages born around the European side of the Mediterranean sea.
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by tzot 2y ago
Even if “paleo-” means “old” and “archaeo- / archeo-” means “ancient”?
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by tzot 2y ago
Perhaps you misread -247°C as -274°C?
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by tzot 2y ago
So, arrow keys, SPACE un/holsters weapons, End flip 180°, Del/PgDn for strafe left/right. How do you fire the weapons?
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by tzot 3y ago
I just love this typo: > After serveral retries
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by tzot 3y ago
I am not sure, but I believe -fomit-frame-pointer in x86-64 allows the compiler to use a _thirteenth_ register, not a _seventeenth_ .
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by tzot 3y ago
I believe here ASCII was used not as in ASCII-the-standard but as “ASCII” in ASCII-art. I also believe that ASCII art should actually be called “monospaced Unicode text” since people doing ASCII art have been using as many codepoints as we
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by tzot 3y ago
This is a nice trick using full outer join! My question to wood_spirit still stands, though.
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by tzot 3y ago
> All the other non-left joins are just syntactic sugar and can be expressed using only left join…? A “vertical join” (SQL UNION) is one of the “non-left joins”. How can you transform a “vertical join” to a “left join”?
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by tzot 3y ago
TCL does for quite some years now use real integers (unbounded size) and floats (float8) whenever possible. By the way, the article does not specify versions of languages, so: $ tclsh % puts $tcl_version 8.6 % expr "9
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by tzot 3y ago
As I understand it, when you heat water, you give energy to all of the water molecules that start moving faster in their random direction. So molecules that were directed towards outside the water mass are “directly” extracted, and the res
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by tzot 3y ago
Did you get a green light to make that joke here?
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by tzot 3y ago
> I think Heinlein nailed it in Stranger in a Strange Land. Also in _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ he made the research of what is humour be one of the primary self-assigned directives of Mike (the accidentally created GAI).
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by tzot 3y ago
The word “dedicated” does not correspond to verifiable facts, since `units` can do dimensionless / unitless calculations just fine; it is already a calculator with units built-in, and the example you provided only intensifies the impre
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by tzot 3y ago
While on the subject of etymology, spelling the Greek word “dilemma” (δι+ληπ+μα) incorrectly does not help with providing a definitive answer as a Greek. I'm not starting a flame war, I just make an observation (and as it happens, I&#
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by tzot 3y ago
$ units You have: 100 km per hour / 0.956 sec You want: gravity * 2.9629132 / 0.33750567
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by tzot 3y ago
> I'm really reaching here, but an ID that omits special characters is easier to extract from a url, since it can be double-clicked in a URL bar to select it, whereas a GUID with hyphens forces the user to select the beginning and t
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by tzot 3y ago
The fastest variant I know of this algorithm is the one found at https://stackoverflow.com/a/3796442/6899 : import itertools as it def erat3( ): D = { 9: 3, 25: 5 } yield 2 yield
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by tzot 3y ago
Yes, ranked wants with artificially restricted phrasing have exactly this problem you describe.
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by tzot 3y ago
In the context of an absolute ranking system, the choice is to act towards the higher-ranked want vs the lower-ranked want, so the resolution is simple: the higher-ranked wins. If one values completion over incompleteness, then one can prio
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by tzot 3y ago
If one can absolutely prioritize their “wants” (no “want” has equal rank with any other), then any choice between two of them is simple: choose the higher ranked and “sacrifice” the lower one, right?
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by tzot 3y ago
Is the etymology really needed in this case to know how to pronounce "c"? I believe in -ce- -ci- -cy- the c is an s, while in -ca- -co- -cu- the c is a k. Perhaps the etymology is needed to know how to write a k/s sound you

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