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by dghf 17d ago
> snarky comments How was my comment snarky? The YAML maintainers may have intended YAML to be a superset of JSON, but failed by not incorporating some obscure feature of it that bore on whether it was streamable or not.
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by dghf 20d ago
YAML is (or at least, is declared by its maintainers to be) a superset of JSON, making any JSON document also a valid YAML document. So surely if YAML is streamable, JSON must be too? Or are the YAML maintainers incorrect?
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by dghf 28d ago
The right to a trial by jury in civil suits where the sum in dispute is greater than US$20 is a universal natural right?
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by dghf 1mo ago
Point of pedantry: federation usually implies a federal government, and the UK is a unitary state.
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by dghf 1mo ago
1) Most Commonwealth countries are republics, not monarchies. 2) The monarchies in the Commonwealth countries are ruled by different crowns; but, for historical reasons, most of those crowns are worn by the same physical head. (But not al
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by dghf 1mo ago
The Scottish NHS has always been a separate organisation, even before devolution, created under a separate Act of Parliament. It's just that it used to be answerable to the UK government (specifically to the Secretary of State for Sc
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by dghf 3mo ago
No, that's en-GB-Yamyam.
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by dghf 3mo ago
According to Wikipedia: - Jehan (Old French form of "John") -> Jan - Jan -> Jankin (diminutive) - Jankin -> Jackin - Jackin -> Jack
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by dghf 3mo ago
Traditionally, yes; these days, perhaps not so much. The author Jack London was originally John London. John F. Kennedy was familiarly known as Jack ("Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"). The British racing driver John Stewart
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by dghf 3mo ago
Apologies, didn't notice when I got the link from YT's "Share" button. Won't make that mistake again. Comment is now to old to edit: for convenience, here's the link without the parameter -- https://
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by dghf 4mo ago
> a compelling story about a sentient toaster "Howdy-doodly-doo! Anybody like any toast?" https://youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=YbQfnZbrCe01Bicy
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by dghf 4mo ago
I keep on meaning to try these out: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/
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by dghf 4mo ago
Yes, it seems to be promoting the idea, popular in New Age writings, that Celtic Christianity was a separate denomination (or what Rome would have considered a heresy); and that just doesn’t seem to have been the case.
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by dghf 4mo ago
But was it doctrinally different from Chalcedonian Christianity to justify its own colour on the map. Wikipedia suggests no, which chimes with my understanding: some local minor differences in practice, but nothing like the Christological d
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by dghf 4mo ago
But the graphic suggests that Celtic Christianity was in some sense theologically distinct from Chalcedonian Christianity, and that doesn't seem to have been the case. The main ways that the Christians of Ireland and Britain differed f
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by dghf 4mo ago
What is going on with Celtic Christianity? Was it really as distinct from Roman Catholicism (and for as long) as the graphic suggests? Also, why no Cathars/Albigensians in the south of France during the 12th & 13th centuries?
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by dghf 4mo ago
One of the only episodes of Blake's 7 I really remember is "Orbit", in which Avon and Vila play a game of cat-and-mouse aboard a shuttle that's been stripped back to the wiring but is still doomed to crash into the plane
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by dghf 5mo ago
The manuscript is ~1200 years old, but the poem was composed earlier. The Venerable Bede, who died in 735, includes it and the story of its composition in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People: according to that story, it was c
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by dghf 5mo ago
I was under the impression that the "machine elves" were very different from the tiny people described in this article.
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by dghf 5mo ago
The Wannadies had to go with "You & Me Song" https://youtu.be/t_e_45Szprk?si=4JVZHZzguqm3SFHN
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by dghf 6mo ago
The ones in the UK are much more minimalist: logos and symbols rather than detailed drawings.
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by dghf 6mo ago
That mentions app stores, but I can't see anything about device-level age-verification there. Also, does Ofcom have the power under the Online Safety Act to mandate app-store verification (or device-level verification, for that matter)
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by dghf 6mo ago
> it is fundamentally the UK’s fault by requiring such draconian measures It would appear the UK doesn't: > Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, praised Apple for the decision, especially since it’s not required to implement
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by dghf 6mo ago
To counter your downvoters: > Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, praised Apple for the decision, especially since it’s not required to implement age verification for the iOS or its App Store under the region’s Online Safety Act. -
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by dghf 6mo ago
> Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, praised Apple for the decision, especially since it’s not required to implement age verification for the iOS or its App Store under the region’s Online Safety Act. https://www.engadg
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by dghf 6mo ago
Apologies, I was specifically replying to your last sentence, "Every other drink has to use in metric."
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by dghf 6mo ago
Many Americans do claim to use imperial units. They’re wrong, but they do claim it.
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by dghf 6mo ago
But that just means the quantity has to be expressed in metric units, possibly in addition to imperial, correct? E.g. I currently have a carton of milk in my fridge that’s labelled “2272ml 4 pints”.
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by dghf 6mo ago
This is why I get agitated when Americans claim to use imperial units. If they did, their pints would be the correct size.
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by dghf 6mo ago
I think I've heard something similar -- that subjects have duties while citizens have rights. But of course, citizens typically also have duties -- commonly, the duty to take up arms to defend the state -- and subjects can legitimately

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