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And I was thinking you have a life to live at lest in holiday seasons... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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No! I stand by my statement. 
Yesterday solar transit at Greenwich was at 11h 57m 52.624s whereas today it was at 11h 58m 22.523s.
Thus today, noon to noon, is 29.899 seconds longer than yesterday.
If you want that in radians, then it's 3.1301611127 versus 3.134504411585 (just to 12 sig.figs.)
Like I said - the days are getting longer. 
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I am going to be very out of character and observe:
Why is it that it has become a "crusade" as to what words of cheer are given to who and when?
Isn't ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing great to just get something positive once in a while? No additional cost or strings attached?
Risking soapbox level: The alleged "war-an-xmas" is just plain bogus. Always was. A political rallying cry to try to draw support with, for lack of concrete values, tapping into creating unwarranted offense. Like many things, repeat it often enough and it begins to take on the perception of truth. All I need to do is look at any street - pretty much anywhere in the US, and I can see that there's all the seasonal recognition you can ever want (and more). Except for those who insist that everyone believe as they do. That, by the way, has absolutely NEVER GONE WELL.
Bob's got a funny hat and is attempting to electrocute himself to some and expected to come down the chimneys bearing gifts to others.
Time we, at least on CP (and perhaps more clever than many others of our species), take the lead by no longer being duped. Who in their right mind would take offense at being wished a "Happy Holiday" . . . without some degree of brain-washing to convince them that "Good Will" is offensive!
"Everyone" has some reason to see this as a joyful season - why look for ways to ruin it?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Who in their right mind would take offense at...
That's offendophobic! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Your local university has a safe space for you!
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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God forbid!
Thomas Jefferson said it best:
Quote: I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm pretty sure that's because the 21st of December is the first day of winter and not the first day of Christmas 
That said, I tell people "happy holidays!" because:
- It applies to everyone.
- I'm not a Christian myself.
- To me it's not just about Christmas, but a Happy New Year as well (which is also a holiday, or at least a day off work).
- They are holidays and people use "holidays" and "Christmas" interchangeably anyway (even the ones that don't make an issue out of Christmas).
A Dutch shop recently advertised with "Happy Holidays!" and a lot of people got butt hurt because they preferred the word "Christmas".
The shop explained that it meant all holidays in December (we have Sinterklaas on December fifth too, but that has become another political debate because of "Zwarte Piet").
Anyway, you can't say anything these days because people are whiny little bitches
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Sander Rossel wrote: people are whiny little bitches
Ooh, you beast.
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So close to Christmas too, I hope this didn't get me on the naughty list 
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The Nice List is exceedingly short these days.
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Well, technically it's Saturnalia (Roman), or Mithras(mas) because the early Christians moved their birthday to match existing celebrations - but what gets my goat is religious types muscling in on "Bring A Tree Indoors And Get Drunk With Your Family" Season ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Hey, I'm celebrating Midvinterblot.
I'll get you your horse head for Mari Lwyd.
The tree is just for show.
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So... what (or whom...) are you sacrificing this time?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I prefer horses, and kings. But the kings we don't eat.
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Gift-Giving - the Festival of Janus if I recall. Certainly Roman festivals - Wikipedia[^] a good way to drum up membership.
As things have turned out, Janus is the prototype/template for the modern politician.
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Typical exclusionary behaviour, totally biased against Australians and New Zealanders!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: So does Google think that mentioning the C word will offend people?
It'll offend their own staff.
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I tried to implement unicode matching in my DFA based regex engine.
The trouble is that the ranges are huge (ranges of characters that are letters for example, for matching \p{L} and the like)
Keep in mind, below performance is related to time it takes to *generate the code* not time it takes the code to run (which is pretty constant.)
Most of my engine is optimized for ranges so this is usually fine, but I just learned that it's pretty much impossible? (i never like to use that word but there it is) to optimize a powerset construction to work with ranged data better, because computing the optimization takes longer than the time the optimization would save!
So to transform an NFA to a DFA with unicode could take an hour. 
This means I can't use the algorithm i've been using for years (due to its simplicity and runtime performance characteristics)
I now know *why* modern regex engines are almost always NFA, not DFA, and I think it's because of unicode. This despite the engine being less internally efficient than DFA.
So now I need to learn to make an NFA based runtime matching engine efficiently and there is very little I can find online.
I did find a tutorial on building it that's rather nice, but it's in Swift which is a really weird language and I'm not sure I'm up for the learning curve just for this one bit of code. I guess I'll have to be though. Funny, because I'll only ever use it to learn how to do this particular thing, probably.
I feel kind of embarrassed for not knowing this for years, until I ran face first into it. I always thought I could optimize the powerset construction for ranges, and I planned to eventually but nope. You have to do it a character at a time.
Time for rolex 2.0 so i can build slang a proper tokenizer.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I said "QUIET DAY TODAY, ISN'T IT?"
... tumbleweed blows slowly past ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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 the piano -among the other- is so what great
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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