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Arabic speakers have a comparable system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet#Compariso...

The same frustration due to the same bad habit led me to look into implementing lazy loading in SumatraPDF, but unfortunately the code is structured in such a way as to make it a v…

Reminds me of the quotation attributed to Edgar Degas, who it is said was in a conversation with Jean-Louis Forain that was interrupted by the state-of-the-art technology that the …

One fun historical tidbit is that St Teresa of Ávila died on the night of the 4th to the 15th of October, 1582.

The interracial marriage ban precedes Roe v. Wade by over 6 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

Not very specific, but he says: "In my parents' house, there were a lot of books: all the great authors of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, translated foreign authors. I spent my…

That passage reminded me of a remark by the 2002 French Fields Medalist Laurent Lafforgue: "My specificity today among French mathematicians is not to know more mathematics than ot…

Reminds me of the American TV show "What Would You Do?", of which there are many videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatWouldYouDo It tends heavily to revisit certain the…

Why would they list the movies? Seems counterproductive since you could then broadcast which torrents are monitored.

There's also more nuance than that, in that the Liberals' position changed substantially over time. Gladstone's party was one that very much believed in lowering taxes and lowering…

Note that the article is talking about the Commons, not the Lords. Still, it fails to mention the Reform Act 1867, passed by a traditionally landed Parliament and which substantial…

Reminds me of a Udemy Unreal Engine course where the instructor would pronounce APawn* as "APawn star", which Udemy's subtitle generator would suitably render as "a ** star".

Could you please provide evidence for your claims?

GP presumably meant the weapons of mass destruction Donald Rumsfeld claimed Saddam Hussein was developing in "seeking the means to strike the United States and our friends and alli…

Was it? I recall the kuro5hin analysis of the leaked Windows 2000 source code[0] that said: >there is nothing really surprising in this leak. Microsoft does not steal open-source c…

Is Ada actually considered a legacy language in the same way COBOL is now? What languages have displaced it for new software in the safety-critical areas that it gained ascendancy …

Similarly, the effect of media coverage can also be thought to be visible in perceptions of race relations. When polled, Americans say that their local race relations are still nea…

You are quoting critics negatively assessing a popular composer, whereas the article talks about how music now praised by critics largely fails to engage the public. (Note that Fid…

Parkinson's law in software is real. As Jon Blow often says, our computers are basically supercomputers that are astoundingly bogged down by bad software development practices. The…