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  • I think it's more like an uncanny valley phenomenon. Or it could be that humans are largely neotenous and other primates haven't developed that trait, so they remind us of old, or diseased members of our own species at a unconscious level.

    Or it could be both. Strange hairy men that live in the woods? Avoidance response activated.

  • You seem to be familiar with Bash syntax. But others may not be.

    If by this you mean that the Bash syntax for doing certain things is horrible and that it could be expressed more clearly in something else, then yes, I agree, otherwise I'm not sure this is a problem on the same level as others.

    OP could pick any language and have the same problem. Except maybe Python, but even that strays into symbolic line noise once a project gets big enough.

    Either way, comments can be helpful when strange constructs are used. There are comments in my own Bash scripts that say what a line is doing rather than just why precisely because of this.

    But I think the main issue with Bash (and maybe other shells), is that it's parsed and run line by line. There's nothing like a full script syntax check before the script is run, which most other languages provide as a bare minimum.

  • There can't be a comma missing from a motto which is itself entirely missing. They threw it in a ditch a few years ago. (I'll be honest, I thought it had to have been at least 10 years at this point, but Wikipedia says otherwise.)

  • The example picture at the top of the article is weird.

    The window title reads "nano" but the software running in the window is Pico, Nano's now deprecated (and strangely-licenced) spiritual parent. Or it's Nano hacked to have a Pico header which, while somewhat fitting with the theme, that would be even more weird.

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  • Illiteracy possibly. Almost certainly more people will be less able to read older texts.

    If that's going to happen anyway, they could do worse than adopt Pinyin or some variant of it. Or they might prefer something like Bopomofo if they don't want to use Western characters for whatever reason.

    Either way, any decision like that is likely to be 20-30 years away at minimum, and that's assuming literacy rates start going down, which they might not. I doubt Xi gives it any thought at all.

  • The vowel you're talking about is "ə", also known as "schwa". It's probably the most common vowel sound in all varieties of English - in defiance of spelling - but it occurs in lots of languages. (German often uses it as the sound for final e, and French still retains it in some words and dialects for the same thing too.)

    As to how common it is in English:

    "Thə vowəl yo~ə're talking əbout is "ə" also known as "schwa". It's probəbly thə most commən vowəl sound in all variəties of English."

    In some varieties ə moves closer to ʌ, a similar sound that's a little further back in the mouth. Links go to Wikipedia where there are sound files to listen to.

  • If I was Finland, I would continue as if Russia had changed nothing at that camp, however reassuring the changes there might appear to be.

    Even if it's "only" a training camp now and not a fully operational military installation, I'd still not let my guard down just in case the Russians decide to take a "special training exercise" over the Finnish border. That is the sort of thing they like to do, after all.

  • I feel like there could be a decent intermediate option here. It quickly glosses over page sizes and then talks about the modulus operator, but misses the fact that bitwise operations can emulate modulus for powers of two, which is generally the sorts of sizes that pages tend to be, and bitwise is generally much faster than the division that modulus performs.

    In short, x % z is generally equivalent to x & (z-1) when z is a power of two and is often much faster.

    Now, I get that the compiler might be clever enough to turn a modulus operation of the right size into a bitwise operation, but it's still necessary that the programmer specify that power-of-two size for their circular buffer in the first place.

    I would be curious as to whether this "greyer" magic has any benefit when not performing the page table hack.

  • One take I saw on it was that he has no case because the local authority were not responsible for the harm caused to him, such as it is.

    Sure, he feels aggrieved because of the local authority's refusal to accede to his demands to search the landfill, but that's secondary. Had he never pursued it they would not have had to say no.

    In his shoes, I'd be sick to my stomach every single day, but I might have given up sooner nonetheless. I'm pretty sure that due to sheer bloodymindedness he's now in deep with various financial backers who were hoping for a return when he succeeded... and now he owes them money.

    Basically, if this doesn't stop him, I'm not sure he'll ever stop trying.

  • TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word "delete".

    In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that'll never happen.

    And in the sense that once you're known to them you'll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you've little chance of winning, yes.

    But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that's what this article is about.

    One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don't like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren't also doing a bunch of other heinous things.

    And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.

  • You're overreacting too far the other way. Sure they're not saying he was a duck, they're saying he was a goose, but for many practical purposes, those two things are the same.

    Furthermore, they said what they said in the way that they said it to foment precisely this sort of confusion (or because they're equally confused. Take your pick.). Did they go on to explicitly say "not an actual communist, but a bit like one"?

  • Sometimes, programs that need to start up an editor will honour the $EDITOR environment variable, which should contain the name of, or full path to, a user's preferred editor.

    It's not set by default though, and a lot of things will naturally default to vi or even ed. Something to be set in a .profile, .bashrc or similar.

    $VISUAL is another variable that is used for similar purposes.

    The resemblance to certain two letter commands is not entirely a coincidence.

  • The blog writer got his account on SO restricted.

    As I said elsewhere earlier today, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they've made a mistake.

    Here the mistake appears to be treating Mangione's account differently to those of other alleged and actual felons, but secondarily, taking retribution against anyone having the absolute audacity to point that out.

    We should all be praising the Emperor's new clothes and none of that truth stuff.

  • She probably figures that what they're doing isn't as bad - as terrible as it is - as whatever their retribution would be if she did that.

    What she needs to do is cook them all a nice meal with no poison in it whatsoever.

  • Depends where you are. In British English, it's "strik(h)-neen". If you're not sure what it is where you are, it probably ends the same way as how you pronounce "iodine".

    (And you probably pronounce iodine's siblings "chlorine" and "fluorine" with "een", not "yne", which is kind of strange when you think about it.)