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Lame journalism. If they're struggling with spelling of basic surnames like Paczyński, Brzęczyszczykiewicz or Gżegżółka then what will they do if they come across harder ones like …

It would be nice if the site had an explanation why the decimal 0.1 has no finite representation in base-2 system. In short it's about factorization of the base of the system - bas…

Oak Park guy is a little fish. Nuernberger trial was mostly a vae victis show. They hanged few high level Germans and left tens of thousands of war criminals free. Adenauer's gover…

Serialized usually is prohibitively slow in case where there are more than few concurrent users.

Consider a system with PID driver that samples temperature every 15-30min. Measures are not 100% regular, so we have to substract dates to calculate time duration between samples. …

US is not a vivificaing spirit of everything that happens on the planet. Ukrainians wanted to go their own way. Moscow didn't wanted to lose strict control over them, so they went …

Looks like nitter doesn't work anymore. I am unable to find a working instance https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

Cyanotoxin hypothesis Daily cycles on this graph [1] and oxygen surplus can be explained by hyperactivity of organisms that do photosynthesis - cyanobacteries and algae. Something …

> distinct from the public The sad thing is that a large chunk of people in Russia actually support him. Even educated ones. I saw a shocking interview with an academic (who even l…

I heard that Slavs are considered PoC in the USA. You can always claim that you have Czech babushka.

I have different experience. Soros & co are really operating a political engineering project in eastern europe. He is funding many NGOs here, to the point where regular people hear…

Well, the article also fails to mention that the Soviet Union exported food products during this famine. People starved because of confiscation of goods and mandatory food continge…

I had same thoughts. Uppercasing the first "character" is a wrong way of achieving titlecase. 'dz' digraph may be expressed in few ways: dz - \u0064\u007a, 2 basic latin block code…

Reality is more nuanced. Main problem the Palestinians have is that they are in conflict with Israel. State of Israel is treated very generously by US public, journalists and polit…

Contemplate 2 methods of writing a 'dz' digraph dz - \u0064\u007a, 2 basic latin block codepoints DZ - \u0044\u005a Dz - \u0044\u007a dz - \u01f3, lowercase, single codepoint DZ - \u…

Price is in €, not $/£. English language is used as international language, not to designate anglosphere countries as the target market. ['en-US','en-IE','en-GB','en-ZA','en-AU','d…

You inspired me to check java world. // 0.0d / 0 equals 0x7ff8000000000000 (NaN) // Math.sqrt(-1) equals 0xfff8000000000000 (NaN) // 0x0p+0d is a funky way to specify 0x00000000000…

What is wrong in having different hashes for different numbers? https://float.exposed/0x0000000000000000 https://float.exposed/0x8000000000000000

"Split" means that you have defined division, which implies having rational numbers. In the beginning there were only Natural numbers. -1 appeared the moment one decided to define …

Avro, heh. 1. avro schemas are defined in JSON 2. there is no way to define a map with null values, this does not work: [{"type":"map","values":["string","null"]},"null"]

Date formats are pure fun. ['en-US','en-IE','en-GB','en-ZA','de-DE','es-ES','nl-NL','pl-PL','ru-RU','cs-CZ','sv-SE','fi-FI','lv-LV'] .forEach(lang => console.log(lang + ': ' + new …

Somehow the rest of the anglosphere doesn't use that format.

Americans using cal/foot/elbow/galon system of measurements is quirky, but bearable. AM/PM thing is silly, but bearable. Malformed MM[/-.]dd[/-.]yyyy date format is one of the most…

> how communists act OP is more or less correct. As a person who lived behind the iron curtain I can recommend you "Captive mind". It is non-fiction set of observations of an intel…

lombok is the holy grail of java boilerplate removal. With proper usage of spring-data, spring-cloud-stream, spring-* lomboked java code can be very terse. If you follow convention…