Another mislabeled country would be Israel, which technically should be labeled "Occupational", since Cohen is the Hebrew word for priest. Though in Judaism being a priest was hereditary, "Cohen" was not the given name of a person.
Posts made by Dragnslcr
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RE: Fun with maps
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RE: You won't agree with me. And that's normal.
@Watson said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.:
Think of armchairs and reading chairs and dining-room chairs, and kitchen chairs, chairs that pass into benches, chairs that cross the boundary and become settees, dentist’s chairs, thrones, opera stalls, seats of all sorts, those miraculous fungoid growths that cumber the floor of arts and crafts exhibitions, and you will perceive what a lax bundle in fact is this simple straightforward term. In cooperation with an intelligent joiner I would undertake to defeat any definition of chair or chairishness that you gave me.
—H.G. WellsI used to work for a company that did legal consulting for patent litigation. One of the other people there would ask interview candidates to come up with a definition of "pie". Inventing definitions of words is a big part of patent litigation.
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RE: Killed by Google
@Arantor said in Killed by Google:
The fact that American English is the less polluted version is the joke - after the migration in the early 1600s, American English has stayed closer to the language that is their common root (1600s English) than British English has.
On the one hand you have the fact that it is named after the country where it “originated” but that on the other, the locals speak more of a “dialect” of it than those they mock.
As a native Brit (“Englisher”) it was as much a critique of myself as anyone else. That’s why I wrote it the way I did, and added both and .
The same is true of the accent. The closest to the "original" (i.e. 1600s) English accent is in some of the more rural parts of the northeastern United States, where there weren't enough British soldiers to force everyone to change.
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RE: The absolute state of web storage protocols
@Tsaukpaetra said in The absolute state of web storage protocols:
Better make sure the file transfer protocol is secure.
Make sure that the file transfer protocol is secure, or that it's a secure file transfer protocol?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@hungrier It looks more like a half-pig, half-man-bear.
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RE: Getting kids jokes past the adult censors
@DogsB said in Getting kids jokes past the adult censors:
I’m honestly confused how this didn’t get caught at any stage.
From what I read elsewhere, it worked fine when the bags were originally manufactured and sent to stores. Since then, though, the domain registration expired, and whoever was supposed to renew it didn't.
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RE: Where does one shop for computer parts these days (USA)?
@Parody said in Where does one shop for computer parts these days (USA)?:
Micro Center runs physical stores, but does shipping as well. The store near me is very nice, with a wide range of computers, parts, peripherals, accessories, and things like electronic components and other hobby items I went to Radio Shack to get as a kid. Their prices are not always the lowest, but I like being able to drive over and look at things.
I'm a big fan of Micro Center, though it helps that there's a store in my city. When I put together a new system earlier this year, the person in the Build-Your-Own-PC department that helped me was really good (I haven't paid as much attention to PC components lately as I was 20 years ago). If you happen to live near one, I highly recommend them. If you're just buying through the web site, probably the only major advantage is that they don't have third-party seller crap.
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RE: SQLite in Python
@dkf said in SQLite in Python:
@HardwareGeek said in SQLite in Python:
3.31.1, and apt says that's the newest version available.
Version 3.42.0 (2023-05-16) is the newest available right now. I hate dealing with distributions that sit massively behind.
Based on the
apt
output earlier, it's Ubuntu 20.04, which is a 3-year-old long-term stable version. Ubuntu 22.04 (the most recent LTS) has 3.37, and Ubuntu 23.04 has 3.40. -
RE: Finding distinct ranges in a collection - C#/SQL
Basically, you can walk through the ranges and use a stack to keep track of the properties set. Create a list of start and end points in the ranges, sort the list by start/end point value, then loop over them. For each item, finish the previous range by setting the end point and create a new range. If the item starts a new range, push the item to the stack and set the new range's properties to the item's properties. If the item ends a range, pop from the stack and set the new range's properties to the properties of the item now at the top of the stack.
Here's some Python code (all I have available at the moment) that seems to work.
query_result = [(1, 1000, 1), (100, 200, 2), (250, 350, 3), (300, 350, 4)] range_endpoints = list() for i in query_result: t = ("min", i[0], i[2]) range_endpoints.append(t) t = ("max", i[1], i[2]) range_endpoints.append(t) def keyfunc(t): return t[1] range_endpoints.sort(key=keyfunc) print(range_endpoints) stack = list() stack.append((None, None, None)) # Dummy value that marks the start and end of the set of ranges final_ranges = list() first_endpoint = range_endpoints.pop(0) current_range = [first_endpoint[1], None, first_endpoint[2]] stack.append(first_endpoint) for t in range_endpoints: if t[0] == "min": current_range[1] = t[1] - 1 final_ranges.append(current_range) current_range = [t[1], None, t[2]] stack.append(t) elif t[0] == "max": # Check for end of a range that ends at the same point as the previous range if t[1] > final_ranges[-1][1]: current_range[1] = t[1] final_ranges.append(current_range) stack.pop() current_range = [t[1] + 1, None, stack[-1][2]] print(final_ranges)
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RE: Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN
@masonwheeler said in Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN:
@Dragnslcr Go to Google Maps. Type in "Peabody, MA" and pull it up. Zoom out a bit. Sure looks like a part of Boston to me!
It's not my fault that you don't understand how municipalities work.
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RE: Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN
@masonwheeler said in Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN:
This happened in Peabody, MA, which is part of Boston
This is why everyone thinks you're an idiot.
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RE: Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN
@sockpuppet7 said in Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN:
Yeah, isn't it amazing that the US military has an interest in what might be flying over the country?
Protip: "UFO" does not mean "Space Alien"
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RE: Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN
@mott555 said in Re: In other news today... Rhywden is being an ANGRY GERMAN:
As far as I know, my state (Nebraska) is the only state that splits electoral votes up by congressional district.
Nope. Maine does as well.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@hungrier said in Quotes Out of Context:
@Dragnslcr The professor, in the cave, with a torrent of dildoes
If you go by the movie, that may not be very surprising.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@Gribnit said in Quotes Out of Context:
@carnage said:
dildo in a cave with torrents
Is that some weird new edition of Clue?
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RE: Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake
@onyx said in Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake:
@dragnslcr said in Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake:
Or option 3, the filter is on the web page and not the source code.
Well, it's on Github as well, so no, AFAIK.
Could be a post-commit hook in git, but fuck knows.
Yeah, that's pretty fucked up then.
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RE: Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake
@anonymous234 said in Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake:
@cabbage The big question here is, does it affect variable names? I'd guess so, but there's probably no way to know.
I don't know which one would be more ish
- Blindly applying a profanity filter to source code, potentially causing major breakage of everything
- Actually putting the time into making a profanity filter that only filters comments and strings
Or option 3, the filter is on the web page and not the source code.
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RE: Guido van Rossum goes on 'permanent vacation' from Python BDFL position
@dkf said in Guido van Rossum goes on 'permanent vacation' from Python BDFL position:
It paved the way.
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let you say that you really did mean integer floor division, but you didn't have to say it and many of the indifferent programmers (PhD students, etc.) working on the code at the time didn't. You could argue that they were wrong to do that, and I wouldn't disagree much, but the world is full of wrong and we're the people who sometimes have to clear up the shit.If a programming language has something that lets people write code, and they fix the language, people complain that it broke backwards compatibility (e.g. this thread).
If a programming language has something that lets people write code, and they don't fix the language, people complain that the language allows code (e.g. many things in PHP).
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RE: Guido van Rossum goes on 'permanent vacation' from Python BDFL position
@bb36e said in Guido van Rossum goes on 'permanent vacation' from Python BDFL position:
PEP 572 seeks to add assignment expressions (or "inline assignments") to the language
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RE: Windows Update removed my Home Group
@cheong said in Windows Update removed my Home Group:
@loopback0 Actually I complained about it... apparently Microsoft does not care.
You don't say!
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@lorne-kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@blakeyrat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@potatoengineer The concept is here to stay, the real question is "what is Bitcoin's 'stable' value, and will any currencies take the crown from Bitcoin anytime soon?"
If you can answer those, you're a prophet.
"Zero, and no."
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RE: I hate fashion and I hate progress
@gribnit said in I hate fashion and I hate progress:
@aygeeplus Brutalism is kidding itself calling itself brutalism. Where are the immense crushing presses? Where are the spinning blades? Where, when you come down to it, is the serious chance of death or bodily harm unless you like walking close to walls?
Doesn't everyone want to work in Bowser's Castle?
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RE: Nope
@hardwaregeek said in Nope:
@dcon Name anything, anything at all. The most wholesome thing you can possibly think of.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Stay-puft-marshmallow-man.jpg
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RE: WhatsApp's illegal
@jaloopa said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@e4tmyl33t I thought they were frowned upon even, and I want to make this perfectly clear, even if they said Jehova
Depends on which time period you mean. Certainly by the 1st to 2nd Century CE, Judaism had ended religious executions. I'd have to do a bit more digging to see if I can find anything about ending them earlier than that.
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RE: WhatsApp's illegal
@dragnslcr said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@rhywden said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@boomzilla The Ten Commandments are a good example for this.
You can argue for ages about the implications behind a single word.
To tie in with your example, I've seen arguments that it shouldn't be "Thou shalt not kill" but instead be "Thou shalt not murder".
There is no argument. The Hebrew word is murder, not kill. The only people who think there's an argument are people that use a bad translation.
To add the details, Exodus 20:12 says "לֹא תִרְצָח" (Lo tirtzach), "You shall not murder". Elsewhere in the Torah, the verb used for killing (e.g. execution) is הרג (Harag).
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RE: WhatsApp's illegal
@rhywden said in WhatsApp's illegal:
@boomzilla The Ten Commandments are a good example for this.
You can argue for ages about the implications behind a single word.
To tie in with your example, I've seen arguments that it shouldn't be "Thou shalt not kill" but instead be "Thou shalt not murder".
There is no argument. The Hebrew word is murder, not kill. The only people who think there's an argument are people that use a bad translation.
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RE: Trump's survey
@benjamin-hall said in Trump's survey:
@blakeyrat That's exactly how the Democrats blamed Republicans during the part of the Obama administration when they controlled the Senate.
At the time, getting rid of the filibuster was generally unthinkable. Now, both parties assume that if they try to filibuster anything, the other party will simply remove the filibuster rule.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@gąska said in Quotes Out of Context:
@mott555 said:
Mine is 2.5". Is that big enough?
@mott555 then said:
I guess I could put some truck nuts on it.
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RE: A new cartridge-based gaming console: brilliant or brillant?
@sirtwist said in A new cartridge-based gaming console: brilliant or brillant?:
@the_quiet_one said in A new cartridge-based gaming console: brilliant or brillant?:
Again, not as slow as delivery trucks.
Bullshit. Amazon Prime can deliver a 30GB game on a Blu-Ray faster than you can dowload it on sub-Mb DSL, like my co-worker’s shitty, oversubsribed Verizhit DSL.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum said:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
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RE: A new cartridge-based gaming console: brilliant or brillant?
@masonwheeler said in A new cartridge-based gaming console: brilliant or brillant?:
- Cartridges may be more expensive than discs, but given that most big modern games sell for more than NES/SNES games did
No, they sell for quite a bit less, adjusted for inflation. New games are $50-60, which is the same price range as SNES games in the 1990s.
For example, you can get an SSD big enough to hold a AAA game for under $25 retail. Wholesale, it'd be even less than that.
And Blu-ray discs are under $1 retail.
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RE: Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage
@cabbage said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
@boomzilla You're missing @Greybeard's point. Given that these funds are constrained to paying out the money to charities, the only possible path to using these funds as a tax evasion strategy is this:
- Rich person sets up a dodgy charity that they control and can withdraw money from as cash.
- Rich person donates lots of their income into a donor-advised fund, rendering it tax-exempt
- Rich person instructs the donor-advised fund to give their money to the dodgy charity
- Rich person withdraws their money from the dodgy charity
@Greybeard is saying that the donor-advised fund is completely superfluous in the strategy above. It could just as well look like this:
- Rich person sets up a dodgy charity that they control and can withdraw money from as cash.
- Rich person donates lots of their income directly to the dodgy charity, rendering it tax-exempt
- Rich person withdraws their money from the dodgy charity
As such, the idea that these funds are being used - or even plausibly could be used - by greedy rich people to line their pockets at the taxman's expense is nonsense.
One of the most important parts of tax evasion is being able to hide the evasion. The more layers you have, the easier it is to hide.
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RE: Pacific Rim robots are less advanced because they aren't designed the way we design robots.
@xaade said in Pacific Rim robots are less advanced because they aren't designed the way we design robots.:
@polygeekery said in Pacific Rim robots are less advanced because they aren't designed the way we design robots.:
My suspension of disbelief only goes so far. Pacific Rim taxed it way too much
Honestly, I couldn't care if there was a story.
You give me giant robot and giant monster and say fight, I don't need a reason or a story. Mostly because the more reasons you give, the more obvious it is that the concept makes no sense.
You must be one of the 10 people actually looking forward to the Rampage movie.
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RE: Fork Valve
@stillwater said in Fork Valve:
@blakeyrat said in Ask the entrepreneurs advice:
@stillwater said in Ask the entrepreneurs advice:
As in the company that makes steam?
Yeah they make steaming turd software.
What is it about steam that pisses you off?
It's @blakeyrat, so I'm going to guess "existing".
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RE: Venmo social feed is dumb
@onyx said in Venmo social feed is dumb:
Hell, I avoid PayPal like the plague, let alone RandomService #984582.
Fortunately for you, Venmo isn't just RandomService #984582, since it's owned by PayPal.
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RE: Commuting WTF Thread
@dfdub said in Commuting WTF Thread:
@dragnslcr said in Commuting WTF Thread:
PRO TIP: Watch out for the third rail!
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Only for very specific fetishes.
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RE: Commuting WTF Thread
"Attention passengers, this train will be standing by due to an unauthorized person on the track ahead of us."
PRO TIP: Watch out for the third rail!
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RE: Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with setting up an endowment as a charitable fund. Donations go into an investment account, and the returns go to the charity every year. If you're looking for something that will be better at providing long-term (more than 20 years) funding, then this kind of endowment is a great idea. I've donated money to a couple different such funds.
Of course, this should be clearly stated up front. Saying that donations will go to some charity, when they instead go into an investment fund, is a dick move and probably fraud. But if you tell people that it's an endowment fund, there's nothing wrong with it.
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RE: Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers)
@adynathos said in Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers):
@dragnslcr said in Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers):
Thanatos?
More accurate == Less funny
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RE: Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage
@xaade said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
@boomzilla said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
@gąska I think the alumni who keep pumping money in are pretty ridiculous too.
See this is the deal.
I'd feel a sense of, not moral obligation but something, if I were pumping in money to my university if it meant cheaper tuition and enabling others to go.
Knowing it just goes to yet ever more expanding expenditures without benefiting the students is a downer.
I suppose I could donate to a scholarship, but finding one that has my university as a requirement could be difficult.
Look to see if your university has a foundation or other endowment fund. My fairly small state university has a foundation with hundreds of different funds. If there aren't any that you like, you can work with them to create a new fund that fits your exact purpose (I did this for a fund at my university's foundation).
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RE: Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage
@xaade said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
@blakeyrat said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
@xaade said in Silicon Valley people are all greedy asshole human garbage:
Honestly, I don't need a 5 star spa at college.
But the NCAA football team does and they're responsible for millions in Nike sponsorships.
Great. They can pay for the spa then.
The football team, or Nike? Because it's probably Nike.
I think people tend to greatly overestimate how much tuition money is spent on athletics. At any school with a major sports team, almost all of the money spent on athletics comes from the income from athletics (tickets, merchandise, donations, sponsorships, etc.). At some schools, one or two sports (usually football and basketball) pays for the entire athletic department.
I doubt there are many, if any, universities where they could have a new science building if it weren't for the football team.
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RE: I had to hear this now so do you
From what someone said today, the original recording is "Laurel", which was then altered in specific ways. It's actually some pretty interesting research into how the brain processes various frequencies.
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RE: Architecture talk! Fast, safe, write-optimized db
@blakeyrat said in Architecture talk! Fast, safe, write-optimized db:
@dragnslcr I thought the point of a timescale database is that it added enough database that you could see a "snapshot" of your data at any particular point in time. Am I wrong?
Because if so I'd think the meta-data would really slow down the insert performance.
I think you are, yeah. A time-series database is optimized for constant writes, primarily by physically storing the data ordered by time. It's good for things like monitoring and logging, where you're mostly just appending data to the end.
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RE: Architecture talk! Fast, safe, write-optimized db
Not sure if it would meet all of your needs, but you could try testing a time-series database like https://www.timescale.com (an extension for Postgres).
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RE: Blakeyrat's adventures in dealing with Google's shitty broken asshole shit
@blakeyrat said in Blakeyrat's adventures in dealing with Google's shitty broken asshole shit:
You fucking can't. Google has declared: if you want to control a home computer from a work computer, you must use your home account on the work computer.
They did? SSH and RDP/VNC seem to work fine for me completely independently of my Google accounts.