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by yuubi 8y ago
It seems to be more a function of the vi-like in use. Old-school vi behaved that way, but (at least some) vim interprets ESC [ A close together as a movement command.
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by yuubi 8y ago
Not emacs (it means kill-region there, which deletes the text between the cursor and the mark and saves it in a holding area, fairly close to what windows does when you hit ^x, except the holding area is fancier). This readline behavior fol
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by yuubi 8y ago
A real problem for some is that standardizing power adapters interferes with the sale of original manufacturers' adapters. The authentication mechanism looks to be designed to fix this revenue leak.
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by yuubi 8y ago
You can see only about half the sky that way, which means usually getting almost as good a fix as with a roof mount antenna. For best results, you want the satellites to be as far apart as possible in the sky (measured by angle from your po
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by yuubi 8y ago
I think we're talking past each other. I'm responding to the comment about the heuristic where for the most part trap (somewhere) means UB. Maybe it's UB only because implementation-specified is too onerous and it didn't
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by yuubi 8y ago
It is an exception to the apparent pattern in which behaviors that trap on one of the early C targets were later declared undefined. Given the standard, it's obvious why i=i++ is undefined: it modifies i twice between sequence points.
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by yuubi 8y ago
Copy on write is for fork. Threads share memory, so you specifically don't want to CoW.
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by yuubi 8y ago
UTF-16 has a limit on the size of a code point because a code point is either a single normal code unit or a pair of surrogate code units, each encoding 10 bits of the code point (I think I used the right terminology). UTF-8 has a natural
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by yuubi 8y ago
It looks like the sixth bit is used as rubout (even though per wikipedia, the 0x1f code, letter-shift, was normally used for that purpose).
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by yuubi 9y ago
Arabic? I think the are cases where letters are joined or not by default, but sometimes need to be forced to the other state, depending on meaning that the text layout engine isn't expected to be able to figure out.
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by yuubi 9y ago
Also, man doesn't work the same way as the lower powers of 10. The lower powers 10–1000 take a prefix of 2–9 to multiply them, and omitting the prefix means one. 1 ichi 2 ni 10 juu (not ichi juu) 20 ni juu, literally two ten 100 hyaku
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by yuubi 9y ago
Some libraries supposedly collect statistics on books used in the building, measured by counting books in the to-be-reshelved area, for use when lobbying for funding.
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by yuubi 9y ago
A standard tape horror story is that the old drive ended up out of alignment and later died, then the replacement, same type, was aligned properly (or just differently) and couldn't read the existing tapes.
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by yuubi 9y ago
Anything left in space will likely be destroyed or stolen. Anything in stations (ships, parts, materials, etc) and your cash will still be where you left them. If that's a player-owned station that changed hands while you were out, or
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by yuubi 9y ago
I seem to remember that the installation directions included something to limit memory size, and trying to install without reading the directions would fail well before opening a listener port.
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by yuubi 9y ago
I think a capybara's size is unusual for a rodent, but YMMV.
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by yuubi 10y ago
Refining iron or aluminum from ore takes significant energy because you're basically un-rusting it, and that reaction naturally runs the other way; recycled metal gets to reuse that energy investment. I thought the glass process was ba
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by yuubi 10y ago
> unaccountably Maybe because in ASCII-63 the _ codepoint meant left-arrow (which was preserved in at least smalltalk systems much past the 60s)?
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by yuubi 10y ago
That reminds me of "Common Draft", a collection of contract language apparently meant to be included by reference in a doc that specifies parameters. An example usage: http://www.commondraft.org/#ConfKExpress (I&#
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by yuubi 10y ago
CDMA system time is already defined as free of leap seconds. --- 3GPP2 C.S0002-A section 1.3 "CDMA System Time": All base station digital transmissions are referenced to a common CDMA system-wide time scale that uses the Globa
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by yuubi 10y ago
If the cert is revoked, the revocation notice only needs to be published until the expiration date instead of forever.
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by yuubi 10y ago
Under 50. Used "Terro Ant Killer II", which is syrup that contains borax and works about as well as the original formula that contained arsenic.
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by yuubi 10y ago
Sounds like someone meant to use CR1 after CR0, but someone bit-swapped the CR-number bus so you have to encode 4 in the instruction to get 1 where it needs to go.
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by yuubi 10y ago
> "What do you mean? You can have any bin mentioned on the spec sheet." Reminds me of the ancient story of the electronics manufacturer that sourced some resistors or whatever from Japan for the first time. The spec called for
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by yuubi 10y ago
Think of it from the player's point of view. If you send someone not-quite-trusted or of fallible security $10 worth of btc, then the worst that can happen is you never see it again. If you give them your cc (or worse, debit card) numb
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by yuubi 10y ago
At the time, before browsers were standard equipment, ftp was a normal way to obtain software. There were gui ftp clients available at the time, but I have no idea how people usually got those (whether dialup bbs, downloading with the bund
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by yuubi 10y ago
ftp ftp.netscape.com
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by yuubi 10y ago
In practice, there's often no useful difference between a thin cloud of vile-smelling smoke and a thick cloud of fruity-smelling vape: many people would prefer to avoid both. (Also, the vape cloud leaves much more residue than smoke di
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by yuubi 10y ago
And the one person I know who had tried various ways to quit over the years got a vape set, tapered down gradually to no cigarettes over about 6 weeks (I think on day 1 she only had half a pack instead of her usual ≥ 1 pack habit), and hasn
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by yuubi 10y ago
The default condition of cables is that they can conduct much more current than is safe, and it takes extra effort to limit this. (Yes, there's a limit to what you can put through a wire, but it's enough to melt the metal, and you

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