bloak

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by bloak 9d ago
It wasn't a semantic argument; it was a question, or two questions. It's possible, in fact likely, that the Budesamt für Verfassungsschutz has a clear idea of what rechtsextrem (I'm guessing that's the term they use) mea
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by bloak 10d ago
Technically, I think, that first sentence, by Austen, uses a passive participle but does not use a passive voice for any finite verb. I don't think that advice to avoid "the passive" is intended to apply to that situation. Fo
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by bloak 13d ago
LLMs are impressively multilingual, though. I just asked ChatGPT a question and told it to reply in Latin. It seems to have done a reasonable job, though it's hard for me to judge: I suspect it knows Latin a lot better than I do. One t
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by bloak 19d ago
"I before E except after C, but only when the sound is E" is the version I've heard, so "weird" (and "weir") are not exceptions. (In standard British English the vowel in "weird" is /ɪə&#x2F
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by bloak 1mo ago
"Codex could not find bubblewrap on PATH. Install bubblewrap with your OS package manager. See the sandbox prerequisites: ... Codex will use the bundled bubblewrap in the meantime." I think neither the bundled bubblewrap nor the U
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by bloak 1mo ago
It says "requesting sexual content of a minor". I'm not sure how to parse that. My brain is jumping back and forth between "requesting stuff from a minor" and "stuff that is inside a minor".
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by bloak 1mo ago
Bubblewrap gets a bit confused inside a Docker container. If anyone knows how to run Codex inside a Docker container on Linux without it constantly complaining about a broken bubblewrap, please tell.
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by bloak 1mo ago
I never thought of the DVR as a particularly significant development. I thought of it as just a replacement for the VCR. That's what it was for me. But perhaps in some areas DVRs were used to a greater extent than VCRs had been?
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by bloak 1mo ago
That rule wouldn't work very well if the person who destroyed the evidence isn't the person suspected of the crime and it is unclear whether the person who destroyed the evidence is a friend or an enemy of the suspect. So I think
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by bloak 1mo ago
Rare, certainly: there are plenty of vanity publications that were chucked into the bin by almost everyone who was unlucky enough to be given a copy. Precious? Well, with the help of an electronic friend I found ISBN 978-3-8365-7349-8. Appa
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by bloak 1mo ago
Since you seem to know about this, what are the actual rules about "destruction of evidence" in your jurisdiction? What does the accused need to have known for a crime to have been committed? (Common sense tells me that the accusa
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by bloak 1mo ago
Which country are you in? Here in GB it is expected that dogs will be under control, and in any case their owners are responsible for any damage they do. Cats on the other hand ... people have devices to scare away cats, though I'm not
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by bloak 1mo ago
I don't know much about the USSR but I'll just put this here: 1. If the children didn't have enough vitamin D, wouldn't a pill be a much cheaper and easier solution? 2. There seem to be other possible reasons for prescri
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by bloak 2mo ago
On the other hand, if everything about you is boring, that in itself may begin to seem suspicious. "I borrowed this old phone from my stepson because my own phone got run over by a steamroller at a vintage vehicle show" is the sor
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by bloak 2mo ago
There are so many different options, it's confusing. But a "proper" 7 kW charger can cost over £2000 to install if your house isn't wired in a convenient way, while installing an ordinary socket outside might cost about
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by bloak 2mo ago
It was expressed in a strange way but I assume what they meant was that if the former student goes bankrupt within the 7-year period then the student loan is not cancelled.
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by bloak 2mo ago
I'm being pedantic here, of course, but "nation-states" is perhaps not the right expression to use for that era. Nation states are primarily a thing of the nineteenth century ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by bloak 2mo ago
Why exactly? "Error logging" is mentioned there as an alternative. I would have thought that if you can do telemetry you ought to be able to generate a local log file that is readable enough for the customer to feel confident abou
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by bloak 2mo ago
I used to have a device with a physical button which, when you pressed it, would beep and add 30 seconds to the time. However, sometimes it would beep and not add 30 seconds, and sometimes it would add 30 seconds without beeping, so you alw
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by bloak 3mo ago
Not necessarily. Which country were you in and when was this? (I don't much like this Internet confusion where half the time people don't know what country they're reading about. At least this article has "Canadian"
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by bloak 3mo ago
I think the problem with Russian names in particular is that a Russian name has three parts (e.g. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky) and different parts get used in different contexts, depending on who's speaking, level of familiarity and
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by bloak 3mo ago
Yes, I agree, but really we shouldn't even be comparing "arrests" and "fine". The latter is a punishment, and the former is a practical measure to prevent a future crime (such as destruction of evidence) or to preve
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by bloak 3mo ago
Are we talking about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska#Author's_re... (I've not read it, of course, and don't know whether I'd consider it inappropriate for school libraries. Ho
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by bloak 3mo ago
Some stuff is public domain, though!
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by bloak 3mo ago
To be fair, pointy knives are unnecessary. At least I haven't found a use for them, though I stab myself with them occasionally when unloading the dishwasher. Some people will tell you that they need a pointy knife for cutting tomatoes
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by bloak 3mo ago
There are lots of world flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Flag_Simple.sv...
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by bloak 4mo ago
Also [soft violin music] when it's a Bach cello suite.
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by bloak 4mo ago
Someone should make a list of all these weird overreactions. Didn't they turn one flight around because a passenger found something scribbled in Arabic script inside the inflight magazine (I think a previous passenger had written out a
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by bloak 4mo ago
Yes! "Of the five pay-checks I mentioned above, no less than three are rubber-stamped with the words 'death stoppage'. When a miner is killed at work it is usual for the other miners to make up a subscription, generally of a
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by bloak 4mo ago
Apart from The Economist, I don't know anyone who says "the Americas". If you asked a random person what Columbus discovered, what would they answer? Round here I think most people would say that Columbus discovered America.

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