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tzot

274 karma · joined June 14, 2020

Just an earthbound misfit, I.
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tzot··on This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine
Not exactly what you meant, because here the css is included after XSLT is applied to XML: http://xsubs.tv/ice/seriesn%E2%84%96.xml
tzot··on Gravity is not a force – free-fall parabolas are straight lines in spacetime
> Light isn't redshifted on the way to us

Indeed; light is blue-shifted as its source is on its way to us (and is red-shifted as its source is on its way away from us).

tzot··on 1M Cell Minesweeper
Rather closer to 200k than to 300k, on the left side of the image.
tzot··on Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
You could have run this on a private window of the browser (and in that case, they would surely think you're a closeted gay).
tzot··on Euro English
3,50 € is the norm in Greece too. You say you regularly saw prices in the format <integral_euro>€<cents> in Greece? I've never seen that and I live in Greece; I surmise that either you don't remember correctly or that the set of the shops you visit is disjoint to the set of the shops I visit :)
tzot··on The longest train ride in the world (2019)
> Once in France, it’s a transfer onto the TGV (but not the high-speed trains

It's a little funny to say you transfer onto the Trains-à-Grande-Vitesse (high-speed trains) but not onto the high-speed trains :)

tzot··on αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
Perhaps it's not that costly (or you can circumvent costs) if you work at Google, like Justine does IIUC.
tzot··on αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
…εξακτεμάν! :D
tzot··on Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
And that is why I'd prefer if the quoted text was:

> Additionally, the higher 8 bits of ax, bx, cx and dx can be referred to as ah, bh, ch and dh.

So either “higher” or “high” would work.

tzot··on In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"
The grandparent obviously meant “latin i”; none of the three languages you mention have any latin letters, but at least Russian and Greek have some lowercase and some more uppercase letters with the same glyph/shape as latin ones.
tzot··on One hour of slow breathing changed my life
> Hindus considered breath and spirit the same thing

It's funny, because I just realised that πνεύμα(pneuma)/spirit in Greek has the same root as πνεύμων(pneumon)/lung: the verb πνέω(pnéo), which means I breathe.

This is not Mr Portokalos talking from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, people: πνέω is traced to the older Indo-European stem pnew- , and the whole point of my comment is that there is a lot of heritage in language through the eons from older cultures and civilizations.

Trivia: the suffix -μα (like in the words pragma, dogma, trauma etc) generally means “the result or the carrier of the verb's actions”, so like pragma (“thing”, what is/has been made/done), dogma (what one believes in; the firmness of the belief is irrelevant to the ancient word), trauma (“wound”; the result of being wounded), pneuma would be what is being breathed; and there's another connection to old roots: alcohol is «οινόπνευμα» (spirit/fumes of the wine), and alcoholic drinks are called “spirits”.

Fun stuff :)

tzot··on Bringing the print statement back
In any case, this can be done now with a helper class used as a decorator.

  >>> class At:
    __slots__= 'fun',
    def __init__(self, fun):
      self.fun = fun
    def __matmul__(self, arg):
      return self.fun(arg)
    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
      return self.fun(*args, **kwargs)

  >>> @At
  def square(x):
    return x*x

  >>> square(2)
  4
  >>> square@2
  4
tzot··on Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)
Unless time machines are involved, I would rather say that Lua is heavily influenced by awk :)
tzot··on The Art of Prolog (1994)
Don't try to locate it in “Open Access” at the top.

Look the page in a desktop browser. Directly below the book's cover, there's a “Resources”. To the right of that “Resources”, there are “Overview”, “Author(s)”, “Open Access”; and that “Open Access” is the one you want.

tzot··on Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly
You obviously meant 2049 (unless there's a much more compressible pre-montage version of the movie 2 commits before the final version, that is :) )
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