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In some discussion about Arabic rendering on another website[0], it was pointed out that the Basmala is its own codepoint in part because it is (or was?) a legal requirement on Pak…

Is this a knowing joke? Switzerland's largest (very much in both senses) coin is 5Fr, around 6 USD. Not a token amount by any means, though it wouldn't even cover most public trans…

Natural selection can only work at the granularity of whole organisms, since they're the things that compete and reproduce. There is no finer pressure on specific concepts like eff…

The GP is talking about DMT, not the mushroom mentioned in the article.

> What they call a "trigger" is apparently a theorem proved by some more powerful system. (Or just assumed as an axiom. That's cheating, and it will come back to bite you.) A trigg…

This is a point I was also wondering the whole time. The vulgarisation of literature happened all over Europe at varifying times and in different stages. We don’t see these as chan…

>Some programming languages (Kotlin, Swift, Rust, Typescript...) already do something similar for possible null pointer access: they require that you add a check "if s == null" bef…

Could you clarify what's going on in the Zig docs[0], then? My reading of them is that Zig definitely allows you to try to divide by 0 in a way the compiler doesn't catch, and this…

Providing a device doesn't require picking a standard issue model of phone. IT departments often support an employee's choice of phone (or at least, choice of manufacturer) provide…

Interesting that they settled on a standard model at all. The announcement implies that the university is responsible for phone maintenance and repair, which makes sense as a motiv…

> it is not "Safe Rust" which is competing with C it is "Rust". It is intended that Safe Rust be the main competitor to C. You are not meant to write your whole program in unsafe R…

> There were certainly a lot of people running around claiming that "Rust eliminates the whole class of memory safety bugs." Safe Rust does do this. Dropping into unsafe Rust is th…

No, Exchange ActiveSync (as the other commenter correctly identified it) really allows an admin to wipe your device - ostensibly of mail, but often of all other data as well.[0] If…

What I'm most curious about, and what the docs are light on detail about: does this mean Thunderbird complies with remote deletion requests (which IIRC, the Exchange protocol suppp…

>You don't think businesses take advantage of situations for more profit? That's not the point. Businesses are obviously happy to raise prices under the confusion of other changes,…

> Where's the law preventing stores from imposing an accounting fee for multi-item purchases, conveniently totaling a few cents? Where’s the law preventing someone from doing this …

> I mean, feeling sand compress in subtle ways and being able to map that mentally to an object that might be hidden in the sand seems like literally touch plus normal world modell…

Probably because it’s unclear what this pedantry about synecdoche contributes to the discussion. Many people (including journalists at the state broadcaster) happily refer to the w…

>Is there any reason you can't spoof literally all of that? I think that’s what is being insinuated.

>I've been drinking raw milk probably since I was 3 year old, like most kids in my relatively underdeveloped country before I moved to the US. Why do you think this is a strong eno…

The repo is sparse on the details unless you go digging, which perhaps makes sense if this is just meant as the artifact for the mentioned paper. Unless I’m wrong, this is mainly a…

It is likely too late for many existing contracts with packages built-in, which probably also overlap with the longest-working (and thus most expensive) engineers.

Isn't the consensus from climate scientists that emission reductions are totally necessary, and there is no solution which is solely based on capture of greenhouse gases or cooling…

I don’t exclusively use vertical splits - often I opt for a four-corner split if I need more than 2 panes at a time. But your avoidance of vertical splits likely comes for the same…