tzot

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by tzot 3y ago
> I should've recognized \s as the space character. … whitespace pattern .
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by tzot 3y ago
Is there one though? Or do you refer to the minutes-hand moving every 1 second?
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by tzot 3y ago
Firefox without a command character searches everywhere; you use a command character to restrict your search to a specific category (history, bookmarks, open tabs etc). Assumably Chromes does the same (ie without some prefix searches everyw
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by tzot 3y ago
You seem to talk about AI-controlled-NPCs in games, while GP starts from the article context about AI-controlled-PCs (player characters) and proceeds to generalize about using AI to solve problems outside games.
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by tzot 3y ago
I believe this native-accent is a common gag; Laurie also in one episode of House MD did the American-faking-a-British accent when he telephoned an overpond doctor in GB to learn more about the medical history of a patient. I also recall an
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by tzot 3y ago
Exactly! Hence the guesses: is it autocorrect or that the article author has heard the word but never seen it written that made them write it as “carrot”?
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by tzot 3y ago
Is it an autocorrect issue or the writer only-heard-never-read that the "^" character is called a “carrot”?
98.
by tzot 3y ago
From his nephew, one year older than me, in the sixth grade with whom we played football (soccer). He said that he heard his uncle talking to his mom.
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by tzot 3y ago
Ah, so it's my Firefox :)
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by tzot 3y ago
1. I had a similar issue in the fifth grade of elementary school (in my country, elementary school is 6 years with an extra year at age about 5 before pre-elementary school, then three years of middle high, then three years of optional high
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by tzot 4y ago
> > You now have [snip] > Didn‘t you just describe exactly what we have now? Calibas started with the words “You now have” and proceeded with describing what we have now. Your question suggests you tried to read between the lines b
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by tzot 4y ago
Then your favourite font must be Semi: https://www.dafont.com/semi.font
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by tzot 4y ago
We (neighbours to the east) sometimes say “If my grandmother had balls, she'd be my grandpa” as a meta on the other versions of the grandma jokes, but I searched and did like the Italian grandpa version.
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by tzot 4y ago
> Do note that postgres supports generating UUIDv4 without any extension, via the `gen_random_uuid ` function, since PG 13. (released sep 2020). > A lot of people still haven't realized this! (Apparently including OP author!) A l
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by tzot 4y ago
So rv0110.0 would not work?
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by tzot 4y ago
Is my knowledge of English lacking? Am I missing context perhaps? Is this a machine generated comment?
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by tzot 4y ago
They'd probably be better searching for sox , not play .
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by tzot 4y ago
The maximum compression for a video file of a movie is its script. Perhaps eventually the most common (and time-tested) piracy platform will be email. Or maybe newsgroups (are they still on?), but the message payloads will be losslessly com
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by tzot 4y ago
I think that my Android phone (a Chinese model with Android 11 Go) has the Android calculator, which IIRC was based on the old SGI Irix calculator. If to the right of the 4 basic operators +, -, ×, ÷ you have a vertical strip (greenish in
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by tzot 4y ago
It'd be dekaops, because the -cl- is part of “cy cl e”+“ops” (one round eye, with the one dropped because it's inferred). So “cycle” out, “deka” in.
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by tzot 4y ago
Yes, the identation is incorrect in the blog post (running the code would throw an IndentationError anyway); it's correct in the github code though.
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by tzot 4y ago
There's `contextlib.closing` for objects that do not support the context manager protocol and they should be closed. And then one can simulate defer in the spirit of the `atexit` module with a single context manager (say `finalizer`),
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by tzot 4y ago
Nobody expects the Spanish exceptions, you surely mean.
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by tzot 4y ago
There's a legend that no Finnish ever says what the current year is; by the time they… finish, they're wrong.
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by tzot 4y ago
> "ȃ" uses two bytes in UTF-8 "â" uses two bytes when encoded in UTF-8, while "ȃ" (which was what bzxcvbn supplied as an example and you pasted in the quoted section) uses three bytes when encoded in UTF
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by tzot 4y ago
Just a note about the Greek terminal form of sigma: when dealing with Greek numerals, ςʹ (the final form of sigma) is 6 while σʹ (the non-final form of sigma) is 200; they need to be differentiated whatever the font engine decides to render
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by tzot 4y ago
>> The researchers also created a smartphone app that can control the unit wirelessly and report real-time data on power consumption and water salinity. > No no no no. I was all onboard with this seemingly wonderful product until I
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by tzot 4y ago
Well, exo- means “outside” and xeno- means “foreign/alien”, so they both convey the same meaning. In any case, exo- is the opposite of endo- (inside) and auto- (self) could be perceived as the opposite of xeno-, so I would pair the ant
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by tzot 4y ago
Another disappointment is giving the definitions of “endonym” and “exonym” and then using them incorrectly in the same paragraph.
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by tzot 5y ago
I remember him in comp.lang.python (IIRC for a couple of years after 2000).

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