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> It's less pronounced with diacritics, but enter Unicode normal forms: you can represent š either as š, or s followed by a diacritic. When you want to compare two strings, you hav…

> it really is also a tool to best codify spoken language of the Slavs (in a sense, it is trivially provable that Cyrillic script is better adapted even to languages which do not u…

If a search engine (be it Ecosia, Qwant, DDG or Google) is used by someone who is running uBlock Origin, does it benefit the company running the engine or does the cost of queries …

> For example, the German "Ich sehe die Frau mit dem Fernglas" (I see the woman with the binoculars) is _unambiguous_ because "die Frau" and "mit dem Fernglas" match in both gender…

Are there any advantages to using the official Reddit app instead of something like RedReader? https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader

The noun is not the issue but rather the scope of uniqueness: >Now, given two log files (log file from day 1 and log file from day 2) we want to generate a list of ‘loyal customers…

> Host: (always present, not always visible) Hostname can be skipped in file URI and localhost will be assumed, maybe that's what the author meant.

Does visiting pages A and B on day 1 and visiting page A on day 2 also make the sentence true? I think that's the source of ambiguity (or maybe it's ambiguous to me only because En…

Yup, it's also very useful for doing stuff like checking archive integrity after upload (got bitten by it once when uploading some archives via FTP) and syncing with cloud - I've h…

I specifically mentioned mounting ( https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/ which may use some additional storage space depending on the caching configuration) whereas you seem t…

What is the advantage of using Spacedrive over mounting the network disk with rclone ( https://rclone.org/ ) and using any other file explorer?

Slightly off-topic but I can't resist the urge to ask. Why is the logo ( https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/wuffs/main/doc/logo... ) no longer shown in the readme? I was pret…

>in your opinion what is the difference between a Republic and a Democracy? To keep things simple: democracy -> majority rule republic -> majority rule + no inheritance of public o…

Isn't it a matter of words changing meaning over time? Could it be that what James Madison called "democracy" corresponds to "direct democracy" in modern understanding and "republi…

Would adding the account to a mail client so that it logs into the account via IMAP on PC/phone startup help or does Yahoo require a login via the web interface?

What are the 'gotchas' that Java has but C does not?

I was responding to the person mentioning 100km/h as the correct answer (firstlink).

I think you are thinking about a case where someone goes 120km/h for 1 hour and then 80km/h for 1 hour instead of going over a fixed distance at 120km/h and then going over the sam…

Wouldn't UseCompressedOops flag alleviate the issue for smaller heaps?

I'd probably suggest --force-with-lease just to be sure ;)

It won't work in cases where the stories require images or interaction but for text-based stories I use curl | html2text | less Just to be sure ;)

Libraries written in SQL. I'm sure one can search for let's say a snippet that will create a date dimension table for a data warehouse and copy it but it's pretty clunky compared t…

I agree regarding SQL views - it's probably the most frequently used way of reusing SQL code. > And even across vastly different domains, even if not directly reusable, SQL queries…

>As much as SQL could be better, it's a very strong local optimum I mostly agree, though I think that SQL's popularity comes mostly from network effects. > Yeah and what's wrong wi…

It's true though. Relational algebra is a very nice abstraction but SQL as a language is subpar to say the least. SQL is really unergonomic, it's difficult to reuse SQL code which …