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by shellac 2y ago
Those who don't remember OpenDoc and Cyberdog might want to get reading.
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by shellac 2y ago
Most torrent clients I know support UPnP and/or NAT-PMP to request port forwarding from routers. As you say, it just isn't going to work for many people without this. I run a BitTorrent service for an academic institution, to diss
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by shellac 2y ago
I swear this was done deliberately to cause maximum confusion.
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by shellac 2y ago
Not noted there, but I think use in headlines is restricted to the US (?). This does illustrate the problem with over use.
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by shellac 2y ago
Worth noting that the author of this letter works at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, where JET is located. 'Abingdon' was a clue but they could have filled in the detail.
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by shellac 2y ago
Yes, a minor thing but concur that it is definitely peculiar.
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by shellac 2y ago
The last table is an awful lot of chrome only bits, many of which are a pretty bad idea on the web.
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by shellac 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this bot has been operating for much longer than the article suggests (April this year), and truly is a pain. I work in academia and see a lot of ill considered web scraping by ML / AI researchers, but Bytespider i
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by shellac 2y ago
Are there free ones? Seemed to be $5.
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by shellac 2y ago
Thanks very much for clarifying that. It did seem unlikely: I remember NSString (ask you parents...) supported this level of unicode equivalence, and it was quite a burden. Normalising does feel like the only tractable method here, and if y
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by shellac 2y ago
The (standard) ripgrep regex engine has full unicode support. My reading of that is that it should handle such equivalences like matching the decomposed version.
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by shellac 2y ago
Ah, it may never have reached the UK. Conversely you've probably never heard of the Oric-1 or Dragon 32. The 8 bit boom was quite a time.
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by shellac 2y ago
I assumed this would a Spectrum user. How wrong I was: don't remember any Atari machines from that 80s 8-bit generation.
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by shellac 2y ago
I've done this, but in the other direction, by public transport. Neither end of the Ridgeway is particularly convenient for public transport. Avebury is quite close the western end, and has buses to Swindon (and then trains to London).
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by shellac 2y ago
Worked fine on an iPad, or is that not Mobile Safari?
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by shellac 2y ago
It is mentioned: > ...Researchers are now working on several next-generation LIGO-type observatories, both on Earth and, in space, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna;...
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by shellac 2y ago
It's working out well as a 'forever' language: I can understand and use java code from the dawn of time (aka late 90s, but more realistically 1.5, 20 years ago), and Goetz seems to being doing well keeping that going. The cha
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by shellac 2y ago
Ah, I somewhat see the confusion. Green OA doesn't require the publisher to publish other versions for free, it just means you are allowed to publish them. Typically you'd publish them via an institutional repository, preprint ser
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by shellac 2y ago
> You pay the publisher a large sum of money for the “right” to self-publish the preprint, and they still paywall it There's no APC with Green OA, so what money are you talking about? Green OA is regular publishing, but with self ar
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by shellac 2y ago
At this point nothing ought to be inserting BOMs in utf-8. It's not recommended, and I think choking on it is reasonable behaviour these days.
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by shellac 3y ago
I think you have to appreciate just how egregious the behaviour of Microsoft was in the 90s. We're talking about systematic attempts to use their absolutely dominant market advantage to move into new areas and kill rival technologies,
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by shellac 3y ago
You find that _less_ scary? Turing-completeness doesn't entail file access etc. etc.
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by shellac 3y ago
> it would be more appropriate to "apologize" for something that would be considered solely the "fault" of the application Is this in part a US vs English difference? I used to work with somebody from Texas who was co
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by shellac 3y ago
Ditto. Having had to update python code over the years, this looked much easier than python migrations. To be honest moving earlier python 3.x code to current 3.x is comparable, so good job ruby devs.
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by shellac 3y ago
You're never more than a couple of corners away from the Covered Market in Oxford-land.
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by shellac 3y ago
Yes, it conflates a structural vs nominal type difference (i.e. punning 'bark'), with a classic variance issue. Ignore the tree. Suppose you have _seals_, who are plausibly 'barkers' in the same sense as dogs. Take an ar
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by shellac 3y ago
> the more posh types in Clifton on top of the hill In the 70s Clifton wasn't really posh either. Like many cities at the time the affluent had moved out to the suburbs (e.g. across the Downs or Gorge). Difficult to believe now, of
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by shellac 3y ago
(Late reply, sorry) Well currently you can't get at the AST, only (with some hairy code) bytecode. (The use cases are post-compilation) But suppose this work did enable that. What Paul is saying is that there are intermediate represent
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by shellac 3y ago
And as a companion piece I really enjoyed Paul Sandoz's 'Code Reflection' talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbk9_6XA_IY , which considers how java code might understand java code. The sort of thing that ena
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by shellac 3y ago
> Michael Polanyi's _Personal Knowledge_ pretty much killed logical positivism, because he showed that no scientist is in the fully objective position that was required to set up and evaluate the experiments. That's an unusual

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