rodelrod

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by rodelrod 2y ago
Basically he's saying that if the API is great you rarely need to read the implementation. To which: sure, in some blessed cases where the API was great to start with and nothing changed so you don't need to change the API or the
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by rodelrod 2y ago
This is only (theoretically) true in the sense that if you build the perfect abstraction, you should not have to think too often about it. Building good abstractions requires: 1. skill that is in relative terms rare in the profession; 2.
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by rodelrod 3y ago
Pop Shell has solved the problem, please don't rethink too much.
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by rodelrod 3y ago
"History is not true. You can change history. The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation." OK, you've discovered post-modernism. Next step is to avoid its pitfalls. The act
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by rodelrod 3y ago
Captain Okai should be in the Airplane cockpit with Roger Murdock, Victor Basta and Clarence Oveur [0]. Missed opportunity. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBZf0QdKdE
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by rodelrod 3y ago
“The famed Brazilian coffee owes its existence to Francisco de Mello Palheta, who was sent by the emperor to French Guiana to get coffee seedlings.” Small nitpick: at this time Brazil was a Portuguese colony and the monarch was called King
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by rodelrod 3y ago
Most of the comments here are assigning this as Plato's opinion. I'd just like to point out that Plato very rarely wrote in his own voice so it's very hard to say if it's his views or not that are being expressed. In thi
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by rodelrod 3y ago
> frankly you don't have enough information to say that there is no relation I'm not a scholar of this subject. If there is good scholarship out there presenting good arguments in your direction I'll take it. I was just he
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by rodelrod 3y ago
You're assuming wrong, I'm afraid. No relation to the city of Ur.
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by rodelrod 3y ago
The etymology is unrelated to the Sumerian city you link to.
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by rodelrod 3y ago
Original, primordial, the source. Comes from German.
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by rodelrod 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_blue,_red,_...
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by rodelrod 3y ago
I was going to chime in with "also Primephonic" and learned that Apple bought them a couple of years ago and this basically is Primephonic.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
I spent two years in a rough-ish public school. It was the hardest period in my life but it taught me very much about valuing people from all walks of life and especially on adapting my behavior to get positive outcomes in any social settin
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by rodelrod 4y ago
Best reference I could find is here: https://www.lalanguefrancaise.com/articles/espace-insecable Actually before the ":" specifically there should be a regular non-breaking space, not a narrow one. Except in
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by rodelrod 4y ago
CORRECTION: narrow non-breaking space goes before ";", "!" and "?". Before ":" you should use regular non-breaking space. That is, in France. In French-speaking Switzerland it's a narrow non-brea
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by rodelrod 4y ago
I think the point of the GP is that it inserts NO-BREAK SPACE instead of a NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE. If that's the case, it's a bug.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
This is mostly correct, but I don't see how it contradicts my statement. Did the 646 standard account for variable-width characters at all?
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by rodelrod 4y ago
A narrow non-breaking space, please.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
This space before the colon and other marks in French should actually be a narrow non-breaking space (U+202F) [0]. There's no key for it in the AZERTY layout. This has been a problem since the typewriter age. People having to get on wi
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by rodelrod 4y ago
I've built a (proprietary) telecom billing system with the same name back in 2005. I can't claim that as a particularly brilliant pun since the system we were replacing was called "BillGates" so it was kinda obvious.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
Madeira was initially settled by the Portuguese in the 15th century, 200 years after the end of the Portuguese Reconquista, so it's quite a stretch to claim that the "levadas" were "established by the Moors", even i
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by rodelrod 4y ago
"Aigu" does not take a trema. The feminine form "aigüe" does, and the trema is there because otherwise you'd pronounce it "/ɛɡ/" instead of "/ɛ.ɡy/". It does not change the so
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by rodelrod 4y ago
The two dots here are not an umlaut. They're a trema [0], which happens to look the same. It's used to break digraphs or diphtongs into separate vowels. Without the trema, this word would be pronounced something like "/e
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by rodelrod 4y ago
Or you can see it the other way around: soft-deletes are a pragmatic alternative to event sourcing that provides a lot of the value without requiring a team of super-humans and a radical redesign of the existing systems.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
> There's nice areas in the UK which are dying because everyone wants to live in some metropolitan area. Maybe because > My colleagues used to commute in by train from two hours away each day ?
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by rodelrod 4y ago
> The cost to purchase an entire house and the land it sits on is at that multiple or slightly more. Where is this magical place?
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by rodelrod 4y ago
Agenda opens every underlying file in the emacs session so I would assume it would work. I've never used encryption, though.
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by rodelrod 4y ago
"From its beginnings in 1843, when The Economist newspaper was founded by a Scottish hat manufacturer to further the cause of free trade [...]" [0] It is liberal in the classical sense and in my opinion this was quite transparent
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by rodelrod 4y ago
Putting it in these terms, what I'm trying to say is something like: geography → economy → old empire geography → economy → current day politics The biggest caveat to this is that the importance of geography is conditioned by

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