If you are looking for a monotonously increasing, sortable ID, you might then want to consider ULID[0] which predates UUID v7/v8. It is probably not the right choice if you require a cryptographically strong and unique…
Ah concur, so long as the Scoattish pronunciation's brought in line wi' a proper Manc twang: «I put the roobbish out in the mornin’, then catch the booss wi’ a goon tucked down me kecks» («I take the rubbish out in the…
I am struggling to understand which specific problems that pertain to the use of mlock(2) you are alluding to. Java is an example of the most widely deployed garbage-collected language in production around the world,…
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For the very same reason why the wisest of the ancient and medieval rulers were patrons of science, even if the value of scientific discoveries was not immediately apparent at the time. It is called enlightenment and…
Since categories have been invoked, we are discussing semantics. «As a whole» leaves unclear whether your example means the kind itself, its members generally or every member without exception as they are three distinct…
> “Cats meow” is “about” the whole of what makes up the category as opposed to parts of it. No. That is, at best, a highly informal proposition and, at worst, a frivolous disposition masquerading as a definition of…
I can't answer the why question, but out of all Germanic languages, only Faroese has retained the plural indefinite article, although its use is restricted to nouns that 1) only occur in the plural and 2) indicate «a…
«cats» in «cats meow» and «apples» in «I like apples» are not categories, they are bare plural noun phrases with generic reference. They refer generically to members of the relevant class, rather than naming the class…
That is a relatively recent change. In the 80-90's, the most popular destination for Australians was the UK: Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance fame) and many others moved up there.
It is a conspiracy – one of the many for which history has been inconsiderate enough to preserve evidence of.
For rural areas, lower frequencies are better because they mean longer distances ↝ fewer cell towers but also less density. Conversely, higher frequencies mean more density, shorter distances and more cell towers. The…
There are historical and cultural reasons for that. Even though hiragana can be traced back to the 5th century, the educated and elites continued to use kanji exclusively until the 20th century, whereas hiragana was…
> Japanese could be written with the Latin alphabet very well, if a set of kanji radicals were retained and inserted before a part of the words, to disambiguate their meaning. Sort of. The adoption of a Latin script…
Not numerous but specifically Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan – all four countries speak Turkic languages, and they chose to do so to align themselves with Turkey. The adoption has been rather slow,…
Australia (2018), New Zealand (2018), US (2017), Iceland (2025), Switzerland have shut down 2G networks. In Norway, Telia shut down 2G in 2025, but Telenor is holding out until the end of 2027. In Sweden, Telia is…
There is no need for two penny sarcasm. I deliberately stopped short of invoking golden parachutes and the numerous other escape hatches available at that altitude, as I am perfectly aware they exist. I am equally aware…
In the current legal framework, AI can't be held accountable, a human being is required. That is what the CEO is for – to be on the receiving end of beatings and flogging if the business they are at the masthead of effs…
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The GCC assembly syntax is not a monstrosity, it was a necessity given how GCC represented the intermediate representation of the code. Historical GCC docs actually explain the rationale of the design pretty well.…
The correct assembly syntax is a matter of convention and personal preference – not a category error. Historically, some ISA's have adopted the «src, dst» convention, whilst others have preferred «dst, src». We should…
Firefox has also adopted and supports Manifest v3, but Mozilla did not adopt all of Chrome/Chromium’s Manifest v3 restrictions. In Chrome/Chromium, Manifest v3 largely replaces extension-controlled network blocking with…
Registers are very much real, and their number being available at the ISA level will continue to matter regardless of the actual number of shadow registers. Being able to store, e.g. 10 vs 5, local variables in a larger…
Competing RISC designs tanked for a number of reasons, but not just because Intel and AMD started pumping money into their products. RISC vendors were in the business of selling hi-end workstations and servers that…
To recover the past working context, not necessarily looking up a specific command (but that, too, – on certain occasions). I also hold over a decade worth of zsh history and revisit it from time to time to reconstruct…
If you are looking for a monotonously increasing, sortable ID, you might then want to consider ULID[0] which predates UUID v7/v8. It is probably not the right choice if you require a cryptographically strong and unique…
Ah concur, so long as the Scoattish pronunciation's brought in line wi' a proper Manc twang: «I put the roobbish out in the mornin’, then catch the booss wi’ a goon tucked down me kecks» («I take the rubbish out in the…
I am struggling to understand which specific problems that pertain to the use of mlock(2) you are alluding to. Java is an example of the most widely deployed garbage-collected language in production around the world,…
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For the very same reason why the wisest of the ancient and medieval rulers were patrons of science, even if the value of scientific discoveries was not immediately apparent at the time. It is called enlightenment and…
Since categories have been invoked, we are discussing semantics. «As a whole» leaves unclear whether your example means the kind itself, its members generally or every member without exception as they are three distinct…
> “Cats meow” is “about” the whole of what makes up the category as opposed to parts of it. No. That is, at best, a highly informal proposition and, at worst, a frivolous disposition masquerading as a definition of…
I can't answer the why question, but out of all Germanic languages, only Faroese has retained the plural indefinite article, although its use is restricted to nouns that 1) only occur in the plural and 2) indicate «a…
«cats» in «cats meow» and «apples» in «I like apples» are not categories, they are bare plural noun phrases with generic reference. They refer generically to members of the relevant class, rather than naming the class…
That is a relatively recent change. In the 80-90's, the most popular destination for Australians was the UK: Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance fame) and many others moved up there.
It is a conspiracy – one of the many for which history has been inconsiderate enough to preserve evidence of.
For rural areas, lower frequencies are better because they mean longer distances ↝ fewer cell towers but also less density. Conversely, higher frequencies mean more density, shorter distances and more cell towers. The…
There are historical and cultural reasons for that. Even though hiragana can be traced back to the 5th century, the educated and elites continued to use kanji exclusively until the 20th century, whereas hiragana was…
> Japanese could be written with the Latin alphabet very well, if a set of kanji radicals were retained and inserted before a part of the words, to disambiguate their meaning. Sort of. The adoption of a Latin script…
Not numerous but specifically Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan – all four countries speak Turkic languages, and they chose to do so to align themselves with Turkey. The adoption has been rather slow,…
Australia (2018), New Zealand (2018), US (2017), Iceland (2025), Switzerland have shut down 2G networks. In Norway, Telia shut down 2G in 2025, but Telenor is holding out until the end of 2027. In Sweden, Telia is…
There is no need for two penny sarcasm. I deliberately stopped short of invoking golden parachutes and the numerous other escape hatches available at that altitude, as I am perfectly aware they exist. I am equally aware…
In the current legal framework, AI can't be held accountable, a human being is required. That is what the CEO is for – to be on the receiving end of beatings and flogging if the business they are at the masthead of effs…
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The GCC assembly syntax is not a monstrosity, it was a necessity given how GCC represented the intermediate representation of the code. Historical GCC docs actually explain the rationale of the design pretty well.…
The correct assembly syntax is a matter of convention and personal preference – not a category error. Historically, some ISA's have adopted the «src, dst» convention, whilst others have preferred «dst, src». We should…
Firefox has also adopted and supports Manifest v3, but Mozilla did not adopt all of Chrome/Chromium’s Manifest v3 restrictions. In Chrome/Chromium, Manifest v3 largely replaces extension-controlled network blocking with…
Registers are very much real, and their number being available at the ISA level will continue to matter regardless of the actual number of shadow registers. Being able to store, e.g. 10 vs 5, local variables in a larger…
Competing RISC designs tanked for a number of reasons, but not just because Intel and AMD started pumping money into their products. RISC vendors were in the business of selling hi-end workstations and servers that…
To recover the past working context, not necessarily looking up a specific command (but that, too, – on certain occasions). I also hold over a decade worth of zsh history and revisit it from time to time to reconstruct…