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Since IPA uses a lot of unicode characters, would it be that much of a problem? IPA, imo, usually has a very specific look to it that wouldn't be confused with "normal" text.

This is unrelated to multicore, but Ocaml is a language I want to like. I wanted to learn OCaml with the make a lisp project. That is, until I realized it doesn't have Perl regex built in (yes, I have been spoiled by Python, which has practically everything in the standard library). The best way to get Perl regex was a rarely updated 3rd party library which was missing key features like lookahead and lookbehind.

Does this blog post even contain evidence of the court's leaning? From what I gathered yesterday, the court was hesitant to shake up the software industry. This post seems to just contain the author's hunch/desire?

Also, it'sincredibly condescending, calling people who don't think APIs should be copyrightable "morons" and "stupid".

It's pretty wild that the largest discussion site on the internet with untold numbers of young kids on it regularly has NSFW posts hit the top or second page.

It makes me wonder if Reddit will try to push down or altogether ban NSFW content a la Tumblr because of the site's popularity.

I unironically miss forums. It was a completely different experience from post/comment based sites because everything was one thread, but the biggest thing I miss is that forums were usually pretty well moderated, smaller, and devoted to one topic.

Reddit is the de facto site for making a community on, but there's something to be said for the focused insular forums of just a few years ago.

I agree that voting with your wallet doesn't affect large companies. However, for me, not using Amazon is about ethics and choosing less evil companies. Honestly, and I think others would agree, Amazon has had a declining user experience for years now (product names are nonsense SEO soup and the brands are fake/knock off brands) and not using Amazon can be as much practical as ethical.

I'd certainly like to hit Amazon with trust busting regulations, but I have to settle with being "personally responsible" in the meantime.

I would rather just not use clocks than do this. Yes, it would be "better" if we shifted clocks every day, but that's not practical for mechanical clocks.

You may could get away with monthly realignment, but even with that I hate setting my watch even twice a year and I imagine others would too.

I have to constantly look up US imperial amounts. I like that the imperial system is sometimes based on twelves, the problem is where it isn't (volume is based on doubling, inches are successive halving). It's really easy to divide things into halves, quarters, and thirds in imperial, where in the metric system you have to round.

Honestly, a system completely standardized around twelves or sixties would be near optimal.

I know you can use emoji as variables in Ruby. Unsure if you can in Python.

Imo it's fine to allow Unicode. Latin will still be the de facto standard character set, but it allows international users to code natively and allows for Easter eggs.

Every time I want to sit down and write an elm app I have a great time until I need to do anything complex.

Reading this comment caused me frustration.

The only workaround I've found to be effective is selecting a few letters on one end of your intended selection and using ctrl+arrows to precisely select.

Even that's too generous. It's got to be just going to a socket somewhere that redirects to `/dev/null`

I heard a Reply All episode about the use of CompStat in NYC, which is just a manual algorithm for predictive policing. It started as a useful tool to prevent crime, but devolved into racial profiling as officers began to downgrade crimes in their reports to make their numbers look better, until eventually it resulted in racial profiling and arresting people on false charges.

Thanks. Currently stuck on the wrong side of their paywall.

I would hope. In my experience, sometimes government offices can be specific about payments.

For example, my sister had to pay a speeding ticket and the courthouse only accepted cash and money orders, iirc.

It all depends on where you get arrested/whatever.