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It really wasn't a bad operating system. In fact it kind of blew its (lame) Win9X predecessors out of the water! I ran on Win2000 for years before finally switching to Linux. Of co…

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Actually, the introduction of Old Norse in Britain began in the early 5th century and by the time of Beowulf, Old English was still more than 90% a Nordic language. The Norman inva…

When the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons arrived in England around fall of Rome in the early 400s, the "official" language was Latin (as Britain had been a Roman colony since 43 AD) wher…

Not really. It does however help drive home the point that such interjections were unlikely to be used by speakers of Nordic languages in order to begin a tale. (On the other hand …

Nevertheless I do think it is safe to say that such interjections were used, at least on a day-to-day basis. (Bear in mind that relatively few Old English texts survive to this day…

I agree with Dr. Walkden here. While it was used as an interjection at times (just as it is today when someone exclaims, "What?!") in the context of the opening line of Beowulf "hw…

To be fair, the origins of "hello" go back much further than 600 years. Variations of it appear in Old Icelandic from almost 1000 years ago, and if you look at Old English texts fr…

Most LLM's these days tend to be strongly "left-leaning". (Grok being one of the few examples of one that leans "right".) Personally I'd prefer if they were trained without any pol…

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FWIW it's a fairly straightforward algorithm. In C++: bool balanced(const string& text, const string& open, const string& close) { size_t length = text.size(), brackets = open.size…

Next up: 64-bit booleans for the win!

And for the love of God, please don't do 0[src].

I couldn't get it to do much. Also noticed a subtle bug here: next = compile(read(buffer), cons("halt", NULL)); C doesn't guarantee the order in which arguments to a function are p…

Or maybe we can know them equally well? The function f(x) = x(0^(sin(πx)^2)) for example "requires" infinities, but only returns integer values.

OK, but surely only because the exact value of 1 exists in the first place.

Ah, good catch. I forgot to scale the point properly! How does the updated sketch look? EDIT: Plotting it out as a point cloud seems to confirm your suspicion. Without scaling: htt…

That's a neat approach! So basically something like this: https://editor.p5js.org/spyrja/sketches/eYt7H36Ka

Kind of? If you want the points to be more randomly-distributed, something like this would probably be a better approach: https://editor.p5js.org/spyrja/sketches/eYt7H36Ka

In this particular case it was simply a matter of not enough corner cases defined. I was however using property-based testing, doing things like reversing then un-reversing the UTF…

It's just a convention I use for personal projects. Back when I started coding in C, people often just opted to go with one or two character variable names. I chose three for local…

Well it is a pretty old codebase, the whole project is written in C. I haven't done any Rust programming yet but it does seem like a good choice for modern programs. I'll check out…

Just as an example of what I am talking about, this is my current UTF-8 parser which I have been using for a few years now. bool utf_append_plaintext(utf* result, const char* text)…

True. But then again, backward-compatibility isn't really such a hard to do with ASCII because the MSB is always zero. The problem I think is that the original motivation which ult…

I really hate to rant on about this. But the gymnastics required to parse UTF-8 correctly are truly insane. Besides that we now see issues such as invisible glyph injection attacks…