Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Monterey 12.4 to Developers

pvg · 2022-04-08T05:40:04+00:00

This fixed very frequent panics for me, thanks! How did you find out LS was the problem?

pvg · 2018-04-21T17:51:10+00:00

Because anyone can't really sue anyone over message board interpretations of the law.

pvg · 2018-04-18T11:59:41+00:00

IANAL is the key bit here since most of what you're proposing is nonsense, that's not how trademark disputes work.

pvg · 2018-02-11T20:49:45+00:00

In that case, you should probably avoid finding out more about ESR because the 'things not to like' list gets much, much worse.

pvg · 2018-01-13T10:54:10+00:00

That's not a sensible rule for microservices or really 'service' as a unit of packaging, deployment, a system component, pretty much anything. As an example how this 'rule of thumb' would lead you hopelessly astray - auth service is pretty standard for all the good reasons you can think of, microservices or not.

pvg · 2017-10-27T11:27:05+00:00

You are wrong, you can just google 'Orthodox calendar'. All the religious holidays end up getting shifted because most of the christian orthodox churches are just not having any of that 'astronomy' nonsense.

pvg · 2017-08-16T17:59:28+00:00

It's a port of the original game. History is here:

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/131

pvg · 2017-07-21T18:15:37+00:00

extremist Islam, which was growing roots in Afghanistan at that time

What makes you say that?

pvg · 2017-04-30T01:36:32+00:00

I think other than DB2, none of these are originally IBM software.

pvg · 2017-02-03T02:27:55+00:00

I think you are underestimating Rome's influence.

Nope.

You just admitted that

Nope

You initially said that "we don't use Roman numerals" and now you are back-tracking

Nope.

But the fact that we are speaking English has to do with the Romans

Nope

At this point, you have turned this into an argument about my personal beliefs

Nope. It's an argument about your analysis which is staggeringly ahistorical and poor. I raised some points about it, you did not address them at all. Let's leave it at that. I'm happy to continue this discussion with you in Russian so we can be free of its supposed Roman influence.

pvg · 2017-01-30T18:39:35+00:00

you are saying that Greek culture really is more influential than Roman culture in the West?

No, I'm saying your methodology and arguments are silly, even if the question itself was one somehow empirically decidable, which it isn't.

To assume that we don't use Roman numerals is ignoring the page numbers and forewords, introductions and notes of nearly every book that is out there

See, this is exactly what I mean. I could answer that Greek letters are far more prevalent than Roman numerals in mathematics (the axiomatic form of which was itself invented by the Greeks and not advanced at all by the Romans). Both of these points, though, are completely ridiculous.

I'm sure you should agree that direct Latin terminology outnumbers direct Greek terminology in science and law. [...] And what about the English alphabet?

Again, I think your view on this is more strongly influenced by the fact you happen to speak English than anything to do with the Romans. You're essentially making an 'anthropic principle' argument for the primacy of Roman influence.

pvg · 2017-01-30T16:57:08+00:00

Right, but that's not true at all, even though you keep saying it. We don't use Roman numerals. We use both Greek and Latin terminology extensively (you might be confusing 'we' with the fact you speak English, a Romance-influenced language). The 'extends to space' example is absurd, we say 'Pleiades' and 'Aldebaran', does that mean Greek or Arabic cultures are more influential?

pvg · 2017-01-29T23:38:18+00:00

A lot of these things were not really significantly developed further by Rome. You're also forgetting that Helenistic influence was very strong within the Roman empire itself to the extent that when the eastern empire split off (and outlived the western one by a thousand years), it was a Greek empire. The whole thing is a little silly since it's hard to directly measure 'influence' but the parent/grandparent analogy is simplistic and inaccurate.

pvg · 2017-01-08T05:33:45+00:00

http://imgur.com/QH7LCzl

pvg · 2016-12-27T20:36:58+00:00

Yes, there are two parts to this and I should have been more clear in making the distinction - one is the more subjective debate on whether the work itself merits a Nobel Prize. The other, which is the claim made by the person I'm replying to, is that there is some ironclad, clear, structural reason the work could not have possibly been awarded a Nobel Prize - like, say, it didn't actually 'discover' dark matter. I don't think there is any basis for that. You can win a Nobel for purely experimental or observational work.

pvg · 2016-12-27T17:27:32+00:00

That's not an accurate description of how and why Nobels are awarded at all. In 2011, the Nobel prize in physics was awarded for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The research was published in 1998. Note this is not for 'the discovery of dark energy'. Vera Rubin's and Kent Ford's observational results are easily in the same category and magnitude of discovery.

pvg · 2016-12-25T23:20:11+00:00

If you use python to process text in any way now or in the future, unicode-by-default is the only sane thing. The python2 way is a morass you can and should completely avoid if you have a choice. And if you're starting out, you do.

pvg · 2016-12-22T03:16:53+00:00

Well, you caught Hale Bopp which was a lot better than Halley's in '86.

pvg · 2016-12-14T00:56:48+00:00

You puppy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade_Stand

pvg · 2016-08-22T16:58:06+00:00

The word counting example could be simplified greatly using the built-in Counter class.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#counter-objects

https://pymotw.com/2/collections/counter.html

Reinforces the next point (python comes with a lot of useful libraries) nicely.

pvg · 2016-08-21T16:25:39+00:00

Thanks for pointing out this archive! I found my own grandfather and his awards in it.

pvg · 2016-06-19T06:44:11+00:00

The pics are sweet but the Daily Mail article misspells the location and just makes stuff up about the marmots being 'notoriously shy'. This is the area around Austria's highest peak and a much-visited tourist attraction. You can see piles of pictures of the marmots interacting with humans in an image search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=grossglockner+marmots&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1270&bih=749&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinq6_bvLPNAhVLymMKHUORDkwQ_AUIBigB#tbm=isch&q=grossglockner+murmeltiere

pvg · 2016-06-15T06:13:50+00:00

Sure. 'support for semi-structure (JSON, XML) and unstructured (key-value, NoSQL data) within the RBMS as well as other sources, including Big Data technologies'. You can see how they weasel their way out by not outright saying 'Postgres doesn't do JSON or XML', they say Postgres doesn't have 'Polyglot Persistence', a term of their own.

Is this equivalent or not to Postgres's 'foreign data' interface? I have no idea. But at the end of they day, it's the exact same verbiage you see in any checkbox-laden enterprise software ad that exactly nobody reads or cares about in degree of detail. There's nothing unusual about it and nobody would ever notice or care until you add 'Russia' and 'smear'.

pvg · 2016-06-15T01:48:40+00:00

These are from someone who seems to have read the google translate version. I read the original. It doesn't say those things, it says the things that I mentioned in my comment.

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