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Comment · 4 years ago
A resignation made under duress is invalid under Canon Law. Benedict was under a death threat and the SWIFT system had been shut down in Vatican City as an extra lever to exert pressure. The day after Benedict made an announcement about resignation the SWIFT system for the Vatican was turned back on. There is more than this but there is significant evidence that neither did Benedict resign of unencumbered free will nor did he intend to fully resign the office of the Vicar of Christ but that he intended to "enlarge the office" to be a two-person role having an active and a contemplative/passive member which isn't possible.
Comment · 4 years ago
Francis isn't the Pope: Benedict is.
Comment · 6 years ago
One of the criticisms I heard recently about YAML is that there's no way to know if you received a full document or just a fragment since there's no grammatical structure for indicating the document is complete. While JSON and XML are far more verbose at least it's obvious if you didn't get the full document on transmission. Perhaps a compromise could be to use YAML as a compositional tool to emit XML or another more formal configuration format?
Comment · 6 years ago
How about a tool/script/program that converts a Google Takeout mbox file(s) to a SQLite database? I could make use of that...
Comment · 6 years ago
The article mentions that while the Apple ARM chips are faster per core, the Intel chips are faster at multi-core operations. How is that possible?

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