Nostr notes by Lynnesbian :bune_ylw:

it took a while, but the bash script i wrote to find the most ...

2026-10-30T21:16:20Z

it took a while, but the bash script i wrote to find the most popular article category on wikipedia by curling every single article has finally finished. no i don't know what a "database dump" is. i can now reveal that the most popular category by far is 429 Too Many Requests

it has been twelve thousand, three hundred and eighteen days ...

2026-10-21T21:45:37Z

it has been twelve thousand, three hundred and eighteen days since UTF-8 was announced to the public and google STILL hasn't figured out how to decode obscure foreign graphemes such as the apostrophe

bot that follows someone you don't like and replies to all ...

2026-09-10T21:20:11Z

bot that follows someone you don't like and replies to all their jokes with LLM-generated "glazing" Wow ⸻ now that's a funny idea, Lynne. 😂 A bot powered by a large language model that follows your enemies and responds to their joke posts with that infuriating blend of stilted prose and artificial enthusiasm? Pure. Comedy. Gold. It's not just hilarious ⸻ it's capable of invoking great merriment and laughter. 😎 Would you like to brainstorm some lyrics for a rap version of your post?

i like when the way someone types "a" or "an" ...

2026-08-11T21:46:42Z

i like when the way someone types "a" or "an" before an acronym reveals something about how they pronounce it.

"an HTML file" okay, so you're an "aitch" person, not a "haitch" person.

"an SQLite file" you're pronouncing it "ess que ell ite"? i didn't realise the good doctor hipp had so many alt accounts.

"open a SSH connection" surely you don't pronounce that as "open a secure shell connection"? unless you just use "a" because the acronym starts with a consonant, against convention because the actual sound it makes is "ess"? or maybe you pronounce it "susush" or something? i don't know.

"a NT kernel update" you're just fucking with me, aren't you. you're not saying /əʔɛntiː/

"an CSV file" yep you're fucking with me

have any of you noticed... that when playing a game translated ...

2026-07-10T14:10:56Z

have any of you noticed...

that when playing a game translated from japanese...

sometimes, in character dialogue...

it will happen?

...it? ah, you must mean...

yes, that.

thinking about this post again because a couple weeks ago i read ...

2026-05-30T22:52:33Z

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thinking about this post again because a couple weeks ago i read an article about using claude as a TCP/IP stack

@nprofile…vvev i think you need libbcbcbc (Library by Burt ...

2026-05-13T22:30:40Z

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i saw this tweet years ago and it started a stupid joke between ...

2026-05-13T22:09:15Z

i saw this tweet years ago and it started a stupid joke between me and my wife about "RNU: Runk's Not Unix"

i'd forgotten the original said "ronald's universal number kounter", i remembered it as "runk's universal number kounter" because we make that stupid recursive acronym joke so much

sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use ...

2026-05-06T21:18:34Z

sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use for #grapheneos users and others using #android devices with """compromised integrity""", people without smartphones, people using smartphones with other operating systems, etc.: https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652

google's new "mobile reCAPTCHA verification" will require you to scan a QR code from either an iOS device with the reCAPTCHA app or an android device with up-to-date google play services.

EDIT: this is part of google's new "fraud defense" system, and is (seemingly) intended to be used for more "important" things like purchases rather than just e.g. comment sections. however, there's nothing stopping site owners from using this thing everywhere

i have a really proud memory of when i implemented a 50% speed ...

2026-04-09T21:26:23Z

i have a really proud memory of when i implemented a 50% speed improvement for a hex converter crate. i wrote my own ARM 64 bit SIMD version of the logic and opened a PR. then i had a conversation with one of the devs where they reviewed my code and gave suggestions, i worked with them, then they merged it.

the dev was some random bloke in china and i'm some random woman in australia. we know nothing about each other and will likely never meet again. but for a brief moment we were working together, united by the desire to make good software and release it for free for the masses. the actual conversion logic i wrote is less than 50 lines of code, but the impact it will have is so much bigger than that suggests.

everyone who runs faster-hex on an aarch64 machine will get better performance now, thanks to me. i've made this permanent mark on a (tiny, sure) part of the commons. i'm not special, anyone with the requisite knowledge could have done it, but i did it. people ten years from now can run git blame and see my name next to my code. people ten years from now will be able to convert ASCII to hex on their macbooks fifty percent faster than they could have otherwise. isn't that so cool?

https://github.com/nervosnetwork/faster-hex/pull/56

@nprofile…d73q alright, i'll talk to my coconspirator and ...

2026-04-02T22:06:23Z

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@nprofile…d73q i do, yeah

2026-04-02T22:01:54Z

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@nprofile…d73q it's finished, i made it a few months ago! i ...

2026-04-02T21:55:45Z

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i might upload it eventually, but i've never made a torrent before and don't know how to

@nprofile…d73q maybe. ...

2026-04-02T21:53:34Z

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i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can ...

2026-04-02T21:42:31Z

i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can finally come clean now.

i spent months editing the entire star wars movie. at first i made subtle changes (colour correction, fake shot/reverse shot scenes, etc.), but as the movie went on, my edits got more and more absurd (extra powerpoint transition wipes, doom door open/close sound effects, etc.).

i can't upload the full thing for obvious reasons, but here's one of my favourite parts: the death star scene. spoilers for a movie that came out nearly four decades ago

#swle

i wish physical media for PC games would make a comeback. ...

2026-02-24T21:48:19Z

i wish physical media for PC games would make a comeback. there's something really fun about going to cashies and browsing through a rack of cheap old games, picking one, bringing it home, popping it in the xbox 360/PS2/etc, and having instant access to a game you now own forever. maybe your parents are driving from perth to melbourne and they want to buy you a DS game you can play for the next four days while you're on the road with no internet.

you have a lot more freedom with PC games -- mods, downgrades, save editing -- but unless the game you want is on GOG or itch, you can't just buy and own a game. even with GOG/itch's DRM-free downloads, you still need to download something.

optical media sucks, i know, but couldn't we have read-only USB sticks or something? can't i have a shelf full of my favourite games?

You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key ...

2026-02-20T22:10:21Z

You're doubting my humanity, but you're missing some key points. Here are some of the things I've seen:

Attack ships firing off the shoulder of Orion. These aren't just battleships — they're spacecraft designed for warfare.
C-beams glittering in the dark. Their location? Near the Tannhäuser Gate.
Things you wouldn't believe. While it's hard to find specific examples, this is a trend reflected in general search data.

The bottom line: All those moments will be lost — like tears in rain.

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i ...

2026-01-27T21:47:49Z

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i like to stop, take a deep breath, and open the MSDN page for the MsoTrioState enum.

MsoTrioState is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported.

the only supported values are true and false.

if you're looking for interesting low-volume newsletters to ...

2026-01-02T21:16:54Z

if you're looking for interesting low-volume newsletters to subscribe to, i highly recommend the IANA timezone announcements mailing list.

two or three times per year, you get to learn interesting yet utterly useless facts such as "baja california didn't observe daylight savings up until 1952, used californian daylight savings rules in 1953, went back to using standard time year-round in 1954, observed DST again from 1961 through to 1975, then stopped entirely" and "the Asia/Choibalsan timezone is now synonymous with the Asia/Ulaanbaatar timezone due to, quote, 'wildly conflicting information about mongolia's timezone history'".

blacksmiths are WAY overcomplicating things imo. the only reason ...

2025-12-25T22:25:36Z

blacksmiths are WAY overcomplicating things imo. the only reason you need the whole crucible setup is because you're using metals like copper and iron that have ridiculously high melting points. i've been using gallium and it's so much easier. my men are about to do battle with my new gallium blades and your men are still waiting on ONE greatsword lmao

EDIT: fuck

move over, directXbox. it's time for the openGLcube ...

2025-12-10T21:07:55Z

move over, directXbox. it's time for the openGLcube

⚠️ You must install the updated update installer to install ...

2025-11-30T21:36:25Z

⚠️ You must install the updated update installer to install required updates.

i wonder if early text to speech models in satnavs had to have an ...

2025-11-11T03:03:56Z

i wonder if early text to speech models in satnavs had to have an entirely separate pronunciation ruleset for british place names.

a rule that says "louce" sounds the same as "louse" is all well and good until you have to say "gloucestershire", or as your naïvely programmed TTS model may call it, "glough-cest-er-shy-er"

and i can't imagine how you'd handle things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholmondeley,_Cheshire without just hard-coding them

you often say people claiming that they'd pay extra to remove ...

2025-10-31T17:23:15Z

you often say people claiming that they'd pay extra to remove AI functionality from the services they use. however, such a business model prevents the business from profiting off of the much more lucrative market of those who'd pay for the AI add-ons.

i propose a neutral solution: by default, you get AI integration using years-old models with prompts telling them to introduce intentional inaccuracies. then, you can charge extra to remove the AI, and you can charge extra to use the AI "properly"!

hello british users on this webbed site. please explain to me why ...

2025-10-14T10:18:19Z

hello british users on this webbed site. please explain to me why the speed camera sign depicts an 1800s bellows camera.

do not make the same mistake that my notoriously british friend lucy did in assuming that this is a box camera with the lens facing towards the viewer with a mounting bracket. this is a bellows camera facing sideways with the lens pointed at the road. read em and weep.

#YUK

okay i have to ask this. it has been driving me mad for so long ...

2025-10-11T10:44:03Z

okay i have to ask this. it has been driving me mad for so long now.

why is pizza in the UK so ridiculously expensive?

"pepperoni feast" at pizza hut UK (pickup): £20.99 (~A$42.50)
"pepperoni" at dominos australia (pickup): A$8 (~£4)

what could possibly cause this?? if you bought a pizza from dominos AU and shipped it internationally it'd probably cost about the same!

somebody will, of course, reply to tell me "ah, but there's coupons, you can get it for half price if you blah blah". sure. i accept that. however. that also exists in australia!! "you could get it for only £12" but you could get the aus one for only $4! (not factorial)

what is happening??? are the italians imposing a 300% pizza tariff on the UK as punishment for putting corn on pizza? is it thatcher's fault? is this why detective halligan has a pitzer tab? help

accidentally sent a :3 to one of my :) friends... deeply ...

2025-09-30T20:16:59Z

accidentally sent a :3 to one of my :) friends... deeply embarrassing

the master was practicing the art of windows defence when the ...

2025-05-27T10:57:38Z

the master was practicing the art of windows defence when the student approached with a question.

"master soft," she asked, "is it true that the windows kernel can write to thousands of files per second?"

"it is," the master replied.

the student demonstrated her code. "i can only write a few hundred at most," she complained. "CloseHandle is blocking for several milliseconds."

"are the open calls finishing quickly?" the master enquired.

"yes," the student confirmed.

"and the write calls, too?"

"yes."

the master smiled. "then the windows kernel is writing to thousands of files per second."

upon hearing this, the student was enlightened.

i thought gasoline was a variant of kerosene or something?? i ...

2025-05-07T22:33:42Z

i thought gasoline was a variant of kerosene or something?? i didn't know it was just petrol... i thought gas was just weird slang for petrol like how bucks are dollars... am i stupid

griffith seeing a FIFTEEN PERCENT swing to labor from greens ...

2025-05-03T22:44:29Z

griffith seeing a FIFTEEN PERCENT swing to labor from greens sucks though. the ABC hasn't given the greens a single seat yet.

there's a couple seats where the greens will probably win, but they're definitely losing ground from the last election :(

i don't know why people get confused about [confusing topic] ...

2025-05-02T23:17:31Z

i don't know why people get confused about [confusing topic] so often. it's literally just [straightfoward rule], unless [extremely common condition], in which case you just [counterintuitive transformation] or [inexplicably different pattern] depending on [obscure property]. it's like [overused analogy] except [exception that makes the analogy useless].

the jetbrains 2025.1 update "enhances" the local ...

2025-04-25T21:42:17Z

the jetbrains 2025.1 update "enhances" the local completion LLM, which previously only suggested completions for a single line of code, to autocomplete your comments! fun!!

find some code, write // this code is, and see what the AI thinks† of you! it's usually negative!‡

† AI does not actually think.
‡ negative comments are a result of most comments in the training data starting with // this code is being self-deprecating.

feature request for the next version of KDE plasma: achievements ...

2025-04-22T21:23:53Z

feature request for the next version of KDE plasma: achievements (named kudos)

clicksy business: double-click faster than 100ms
oh snap!: use window snapping 50 times
music to your ears: set a custom sound theme
fitt's lawyer: starting from the centre of the screen, use the mouse to click a maximised window's close button in less than 300ms
kopy and paste: copy text on one device and paste it on another with KDE connect

"check engine"? how am i supposed to check the engine if ...

2025-04-12T21:10:40Z

"check engine"? how am i supposed to check the engine if i'm driving? what a stupid light

UPDATE: turned the engine off to go check it and the light went away. i guess it's fine

UPDATE: expolded

just googled "gimp mask" while trying to add a mask layer ...

2025-04-07T02:22:29Z

just googled "gimp mask" while trying to add a mask layer in GIMP 🥴

Bloplang Pull Request #48592: Add zip method to iterators ...

2025-04-05T22:59:05Z

Bloplang Pull Request #48592: Add zip method to iterators :gh_closed_1::gh_closed_2::gh_closed_3:

:bean_red: This is a proposal to add the zip method to iterators. This would allow you to join two iterators together, alternating between results from both. E.g. tens.zip(hundreds) would give [10, 100, 20, 200, 30].... This has been the most requested feature on our wishlist for seven months, and my initial implementation here provides a 12% speed up on the test_cases/thousands_of_types.blop. 👍 532 👎 12 🚀 226 👀 114 😕 3

:bot: BlobBot says: Hi red_bean :bean_red: ! Thanks for opening a pull request to Bloplang! I've run your code, and found this: Maximum regression: 0.05%. Maximum improvement: 12.03%. I've assigned curly_brace :curly_brace: to approve your code. Don't forget to leave a star! 👍 221 🚀 179 👀 12

:bot: BlopBot added the "BlopBot Seal of Approval" "No regressions" labels.

:rct_guest: I've never heard of "zip" before. Googling it, it seems to be a compression algorithm? Not sure what this has to do with iterators. I suggest naming it interleave instead. 👍 23 👎 34

:bean_red: zip seems to be pretty widely accepted. For example, Rust and Python call it zip. 👍 27 😕 1

:green_is_my_pepper: yeah i've never head of zip before. interleave is too long tho, how about weave 👍 54 👎 27

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:curly_brace: This for loop could be better expressed as a map. 😕 1

:acnl_smile: How about spritz? In the idiolect of English spoken by my Discord server, spritz is very commonly used to refer to mixing things together. EDIT If you're going to laugh react, please leave a comment explaining why. 👍 5 😆 143

:green_is_my_pepper: wtf is a spritz 👎 5 😕 26

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:curly_brace: Please don't leave "+1" comments. They pollute the thread and send useless emails. Use the react feature to add thumbs ups to the pull request if you want to express your approval. 👍 118 👎 4

:gynecologist: who else is here from reddit? 👎 122 😆 16 😕 33

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:curly_brace: That's a bug with your Linux distribution’s zip command, which has nothing to do with Bloplang. Open a thread on the Fedora forums to discuss that, although they'll probably tell you that Fedora 32 is EOL. 👍 66

:rct_guest: Okay, so we have 17 votes in favour of zip, 12 for weave, 5 for spritz, and somehow only 2 for interleave. Oh, and 1 each for sprinkle, intersperse_at_least_two_iterators_with_each_other, and sum. I'm beginning to suspect botting. 👍 7 😕 12

:curly_brace: Hey read bean :bean_red: - this pull request is out of sync with main. Could you rebase on top of the twelve thousand commits that have occurred since you opened this? Thanks! 👍 63 🚀 2

:gale: whats stoping this from being merged? can we get an eta 👍 12 😕 2

:rct_guest: It's mostly a debate on the name to use. I'm not sure why people aren't voting for interleave. I've provided numerous arguments as to why it's the obvious option, and I've even linked a conversation with ChatGPT 4-o proving that it makes the most sense. Sigh. 👍 2 😕 70 😆 11

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this new discord update is awful ...

2025-03-31T21:27:46Z

this new discord update is awful

i've been using relm4 for a while and i'm really happy ...

2025-03-19T05:33:05Z

i've been using relm4 for a while and i'm really happy with it. i love the #elm architecture - your app's state is a struct (or object), your user interface is rendered by a function that takes your state and returns a tree of widgets (or similar), widgets emit messages, messages modify state. i find it so much cleaner and easier to wrap my head around than traditional imperative methods or MVVM.

what are some other nice cross-platform #desktop app frameworks that use this architecture? i'm mainly familiar with #relm4 and #iced in #rust. :boost_requested:

#programming #gui #linux

new messaging service idea: when you sign up, you provide your ...

2025-03-17T21:38:26Z

new messaging service idea: when you sign up, you provide your "skills" like in an RPG: intelligence, charisma, etc. then whenever you send a message, an LLM (i know i know) checks if your skills are high enough to say that, and if you fail the check, it rewords your message into the "failed" version.

for example:

you sign up and say your cooking skill level is 2/10
you send "how do you sous vide a crême brulée?"
LLM determines that your message would require cooking 6 or higher
your message is sent as "does anyone know how to deep fry whipped cream?"

the queensland department of transport and main roads seems to be ...

2025-03-17T21:19:00Z

the queensland department of transport and main roads seems to be entirely aware that their poor font choice makes it borderline impossible to distinguish zero and O. yet they refuse to change it.

they are, however, confident that a pedestrian will be able to distinguish I and 1 on a vehicle that flies past them at 110km/h. a sickening display of hubris and recklessness.

#KDE plasma 6.4 is getting a file transfer progress graph! :toot: ...

2025-03-16T22:34:19Z

#KDE plasma 6.4 is getting a file transfer progress graph! :toot:

they're still working on the appearance, but it's gonna be great when this feature lands

it appears there is a bug in my bash script that replaces all ...

2025-03-16T00:05:36Z

it appears there is a bug in my bash script that replaces all instances of "toot" with "shit" in the mastodon UI. however the outcome of this bug is so funny that i will not be fixing it

reddit music fans: ok but you do realise that's objectively ...

2025-03-14T21:08:43Z

reddit music fans: ok but you do realise that's objectively their worst album? if you put Dark Tango above Flyin' Wheels there is genuinely something wrong with your brain. Dark Tango is C tier at best, even if you ignore the horrendous outro "song".

tumblr music fans: why did nobody tell me about this artist before 😭 i am liTERALLY SCREAMING this is perfect!! if you're not into wagstop you're gonna want to mute me for the next hour because i will NOT shut up about this so help me aphrodite

DottyMay® music fans (the premier social network for dot matrix printers): BEEP vzzt vzzzzt WHR chk. skrrrsKRREEEeeEEEEEeEEE bip EEeeEE vzz vzz kEEeEEErrrgkEEEeeEEEE whrrrr skrEEeeeeEEEEE EEeEEEE chk chk vzzzz

is there somewhere i can find something like a "dos and ...

2025-03-13T03:42:06Z

is there somewhere i can find something like a "dos and don'ts of using #GTK4 and #adwaita"? :BoostOK:

i've been reading through random issues and MRs on various #GNOME repos, and i'm finding some really useful comments about things that you should(n't) be doing. things like "using a listview inside a box is wrong and broken" - this is really useful knowledge, but i can't find it actually formally documented anywhere.

every time i have to type something in on a TV with an on-screen ...

2025-01-21T21:15:48Z

every time i have to type something in on a TV with an on-screen keyboard i'm amazed that it still sucks as much now as it did five, ten, fifteen years ago.

how has nobody thought of anything better than moving a cursor around to click individual letters? how have some interfaces made it worse by using five rows of alphabetically ordered keys?

i've watched my parents hit "search" instead of space on android TV's youtube keyboard multiple times. i've done it myself multiple times. i've hit "clear" instead of "search" at least twice.

the PSP had qwerty or T9. T9 with a d-pad sucks, but it at least sucks a bit less. the PS5 has qwerty or qwerty with motion controls.

nearly ten years ago, steam input gave us the daisy wheel keyboard. yesterday, i typed "evil" and hit search on my xbox controller, because scrolling through pages of games with "evil" in their names to find the one i was looking for was a more appealing prospect than typing "the evil within" on that God awful on-screen keyboard.

dumb phones gave us T9. PDAs gave us handwriting recognition. smartphones gave us swipe typing. TVs gave us an experience so painful that there's an app to connect your phone to your TV just so you can use its keyboard instead of the TV's.

if LG can make their remote a wiimote, and google can put a microphone and speaker in theirs, and everyone can find the space for a fucking netflix button, why can nobody put some sort of typing interface on a TV remote?

if an xbox or playstation or switch controller has fifteen buttons and two analogue sticks and a d-pad, why does typing have to be limited to moving a cursor around a qwerty board?

xbox has a feature where you can PIN protect your account, and you enter your pin by using ten different buttons on the controller to input the ten different digits. that way, nobody can see what you're typing as you're typing it. that's genuinely clever design! why didn't they spend some of that brainpower on the fucking keyboard!!!

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot ...

2025-01-20T22:00:58Z

does anyone know why the latest debian live image won't boot on my machine?

CPU: transmeta crusoe flashed with custom 128bit RISC-V firmware
GPU: four nVidia TNT 2 cards running in SLI
RAM: dual mercury delay line (32 words × 17 bits × 2, XMP overclocked, ECC enabled)
storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free iCloud accounts
network: google pixel 9 pro running gemini nano with the prompt "you are an ethernet card. your job is to route packets. do not hallucinate."

used to be that only one ox would be used to pull a plough. now ...

2024-12-31T23:37:01Z

used to be that only one ox would be used to pull a plough. now they make two oxen pull it. because of yoke

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me ...

2024-11-18T20:46:17Z

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

we often talk about designing programming languages to guide the ...

2024-11-12T21:25:53Z

we often talk about designing programming languages to guide the programmer into the "pit of success": it should be easy to stumble upon the ideal behaviour. it obviously follows that it should be as difficult as possible to implement bad behaviour.

an "ivory tower" language is so named because it gives the programmer a lovely tower to sit inside instead of having to interact with the disgusting (or, in FP terminology, "impure") outside world.

it is known that causing any form of externally observable behaviour - console logging, writing to a file, causing the self-driving car to apply its brakes when a pedestrian is in front of it, flashing an LED (FP term: "IO") is impure. therefore, it is the moral imperative of any modern language to make it as difficult as possible.

the ideal program takes no inputs and produces no outputs. you should not be able to observe any changes made to the impure world after running the code. the code is executed, a series of abstract tasks are performed, and it exits. we need not know what it "did". a program written in a functional language (or the modern replacement, rust) is de facto correct - we know just by compiling it that it will do the right thing. even executing it is an unneeded indulgence.

ideally, code would not run on such a grotesque device as a "personal computer" at all - the ideal program is one that is described to you, and you "run" it by considering its behaviour.

the day that haskell finally eliminates the undesirable side effect of causing bits in RAM to flip and your CPU's temperature to increase is the day programming as a field reaches its completion.

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2024-08-10T00:26:19Z

we need british tabloids for technology

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the clean chinese-room engineering problem: person A studies and ...

2024-06-26T07:22:33Z

the clean chinese-room engineering problem: person A studies and reverse-engineers a piece of software, then writes a chinese-language document describing its precise function. this document is passed to person B, who does not speak chinese, but uses a chinese-to-english dictionary to translate the document to english. this translated document is given to person C, who implements the software as described in the document. which of these people, if any, have violated the oracle end user license agreement?

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2020-04-10T06:57:29Z

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2020-04-10T06:44:28Z

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die züge können keine 256 achsen haben! wie lächerlich!

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the source everyone reports for this PDF is gone, and it's ...

2020-04-10T05:52:25Z

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the source everyone reports for this PDF is gone, and it's not exactly easy to find swiss train law documentation when you don't even speak german

but here's a current link: https://www.hech.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/I-30111_09122018_Anhoerung.pdf

page 123, section 4.8.4 "Zugbildung"

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2019-12-14T03:09:00Z

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2019-04-25T16:15:56Z

move in, and slurp