jcahill

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by jcahill 4y ago
the typical romanization of arabic كافر is "kafir". the typical spelling of the slur associated with apartheid-era south africa is "kaffir". > one of the languages I speak why would i care which languages you speak yo
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by jcahill 4y ago
bumping the author's chain and bluntly suggesting that others (like myself) without much/any stake in openBSD's C compilers should stfu with the name flaming now, because the fact that it's still continuing in replies at
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by jcahill 4y ago
epistemic crutch token
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by jcahill 4y ago
I didn't downvote you. There are only so many phonologically near-optimal patterns to recycle into things that sound kinda-sorta like words, so you're bound to run into these things. You just pick your poison and hope that you don
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by jcahill 4y ago
it's a CVCVC word that most people can pronounce and the primary author likes for whatever reason. it's completely fine.
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by jcahill 4y ago
not for the joke it isn't; i am not, in fact, thinking of the racial slur; we all have google (but not all of us will idly assume to know the etymology of a project's name based on this); semicolons are awful punctuation
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by jcahill 4y ago
for prod you'll want mushrik or neocon
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by jcahill 6y ago
A screenshot of a tweet is already a low fidelity capture (cf. a web archive). Why would I want to alter it further? If I needed a tweet to look better than it actually does irl, I would screenshot something from Mastodon or Pleroma instead
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by jcahill 6y ago
As an archivist with work in Svalbard, I'm broadly in support of the notion here. But the 100 Classics approach to media that seems to be showcased in this provisional reamde fundamentally dooms the collection to irrelevance.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Fountain codes are seeing use in DNA storage encoding schemes. That's how I use them, at any rate.
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by jcahill 6y ago
HN comments are locked to further replies after 2 weeks. That doesn't exactly help. Sometimes, figuring out what considered discourse looks like in a certain area is an unbounded process. Sometimes it hinges on drive-by enlightenment b
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by jcahill 6y ago
> A giant saltation from most first world computer users being aware of Linux, to hardly anyone knowing what BSD is. You seem to have misread my first sentence. > Schade's few paragraphs here come across as equally gentle and hum
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by jcahill 6y ago
Certain groups have been serious the replication crisis for 10-15y, but academic culture at large is simply not cut out to discuss fraud in a 'street epistemology' sort of way, such as the way security researchers might discuss cy
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by jcahill 6y ago
End of April reporting, for comparison: > All but about 5 to 7 percent of the world’s museums are currently shuttered because of the coronavirus pandemic, said Peter Keller, the general director of the International Council of Museums. A
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by jcahill 6y ago
Sure, what do you want to know? I currently work on synbio × web archival. Some of us are cooking up futuretech aimed at storing all of IA (archive.org) in a shoebox. Others are working on putting archival tools in more normal web users&#x2
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by jcahill 6y ago
I'm running the Coronavirus Archive. Largest thematic archive on the pandemic, since January. I'm also teaching community biolab techniques to people in parts of the world without ready access to commercial COVID-19 test kits, on
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by jcahill 6y ago
GPT-3 is a neat party trick. But the things that'll be done with web archives* in the next 20y will make it look like the PDP-8. ~love, a web archivist * GPT-3 is trained on one
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by jcahill 6y ago
Is this an EFTA loophole? > It's also not apparent if such a setup is legal in the regions in which Icelandair flies, including the US and the European Union.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Well, almost anyone. If the Progenitors had been startup devs we'd probably be approximately spherical meeple in a webgl tarski's world with "facty" and "fucky" truth values.
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by jcahill 6y ago
MTG: Adam of http://www.mtgeloproject.net was very helpful for my nonprofit's last-minute effort to preserve the Planeswalker Points system. He has lots of interesting historical analysis. Competitive MTG can get very mathe
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by jcahill 6y ago
A comment I didn't post 7 hours ago (was busy): True. Yet this submission will have dramatically greater visibility than it otherwise would have because the HN facebook bot linked it 5 minutes ago[1]. As a web archivist, I've deal
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by jcahill 6y ago
I am a web archivist with an archival project on Svalbard that predates this GitHub initiative. Additionally, large-scale github-specific projects like https://gharchive.org (formerly GitHub Archive) have existed for some time.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Worth noting here that WSL has some special cursed package installer problems that can often be worked around with nix-based installs.
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by jcahill 6y ago
Most computer users of the first world are barely even peripherally aware of the existence of linux. Within FOSS, BSD holds more weight as a software license than as an OS family at this point. Try searching BSD just about anywhere, includi
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by jcahill 6y ago
This doesn't seem to work for evening, for reference.
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by jcahill 6y ago
isodatetime for ISO 8601:2004, and eventually[1] 8601-1:2019. python-dateutil for incomplete but stdlibbish ISO 8601:2004. python-edtf for ISO 8601-2:2019. However, the ISO 8601-2:2019 spec is something of a clusterfuck born out of EDTF. Mo
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by jcahill 6y ago
Updating is mostly relevant for unicode completionist families and emoji.
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by jcahill 6y ago
The other advantage of a font CDN is updating.
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by jcahill 6y ago
I'm similarly unclear on what sort of response you expect. There weren't many comments when I replied. My criticism was tailored to a fairly specific phenomenon: asymmetrically imaginative doomsaying that appeals to a vivid vignet
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by jcahill 6y ago
> The section I labelled as nonsense research was the stuff about the £2m. What is the relevance of that? >> Addressing the small balance sheet is of direct relevance. > This article is not his worst offending Your attitude towa

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