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by 1wd 1y ago
Only if the Windows Regional Settings List Separators happens to be "comma", which is not the case in most of Europe (even in regions that use the decimal point) so only CSV files with SEP=, as the first line work reliably with Ex
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by 1wd 1y ago
heptapod is GitLab with Mercurial support.
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by 1wd 1y ago
Oberon?
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by 1wd 2y ago
Does anyone predict economy/population/... by simulating individual people based on real census information? Monte carlo simulation of major events (births, death, ...) based on known statistics based on age, economic background,
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by 1wd 2y ago
Feynman has an interesting story about critical mass: > Los Alamos was going to make the bomb, but at Oak Ridge they were trying to separate the isotopes of uranium ... he saw them wheeling a tank carboy of water, green water - which is
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by 1wd 3y ago
Paper linked above https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ links to .wav sound files in the Data Availability section https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ht76hd... and 2
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by 1wd 4y ago
The quoted document has two similar sentences, one on page 3 includes Rust, one on page 5 does not: > Examples of memory safe language include C#, Go, Java®, Ruby™, Rust®, and Swift®. > Some examples of memory safe languages are C#, G
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by 1wd 4y ago
pipx might get this ability: https://github.com/pypa/pipx/pull/916
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by 1wd 4y ago
At least since the 2018 "Blood Moon" eclipse https://imgur.com/gallery/2tzJh9O https://twitter.com/JanCastenmiller/status/10229494886028820... https://www.theguardian.com
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by 1wd 4y ago
WPF is now open source (MIT licensed [1]), and its XAML control templates provide _as data_ a full declarative description of how a native Windows control is supposed to look like (in multiple Windows themes like Aero for Win7, Aero2 for Wi
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by 1wd 4y ago
Thanks. I had tried Reko and your description matches my impression. I hoped to try hunt down the DOS Tetris easter egg described on the original authors website. https://vadim.oversigma.com/Tetris.htm The executable is lin
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by 1wd 4y ago
Are there any decompilers for old x86 DOS com files?
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by 1wd 4y ago
"EGA to VGA transformation" like it was done for games like Indy3 would be nice. http://www.superrune.com/tutorials/indy3_ega.php (Even though some people still prefer the EGA version.)
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by 1wd 5y ago
What are the reasons for changing the allocation of bits in bf16 vs. f16? Why are there no (few?) similar alternative allocation schemes for f32 and f64? Was IEEE's choice perfect for f32 / f64? How did they know? Why not for f16?
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by 1wd 5y ago
Python 3 by default still opens text files using the legacy locale encoding.
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by 1wd 5y ago
Adding the tilting is a tiny tweak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21945633
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by 1wd 5y ago
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944573
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by 1wd 6y ago
Exactly right. I specifically remember someone excitedly telling me at the time that the VGA Indiana Jones "is completely photo-realistic!"
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by 1wd 6y ago
It still does not parse all ISO 8601 format strings: "ISO 8601, RFC 3339 and datetime.isoformat() are three slightly different and in some senses incompatible datetime serialization formats" https://bugs.python.org&#x
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by 1wd 6y ago
Nice! Do you have any plans to publish to PyPI? Is there an API to access numpy array containing the evaluated SDF volume?
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by 1wd 6y ago
Seems to be available on Amazon. (And worth watching!)
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by 1wd 6y ago
The initial Oberon OS is indeed from 1987, but there are many Oberons. The original Oberon GUI was the everything-is-executable-text one, not the ZUI. The ZUI was part of Thomas M. Frey's work for his dissertation "Bluebottle : A
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by 1wd 6y ago
Furthermore: "otherwise" translates to "andernfalls", which is basically "im anderen Fall" i.e. "in the other case".
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by 1wd 6y ago
Function names starting with "str" followed by a lowercase letter are reserved. So technically "str" itself and "str_" are not.
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by 1wd 6y ago
One more: https://github.com/microsoft/Pyjion
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by 1wd 6y ago
I did a similar test some years ago: https://imgur.com/a/jQUav#xVgi2ZA (Have you tried plotting some data?) I found some interesting and perhaps surprising results. (But I also acknowledge that it was very far from rea
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by 1wd 6y ago
Nim https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2zbk
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by 1wd 6y ago
C# has assembly binding redirection. https://stackoverflow.com/a/43366172/3679043
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by 1wd 6y ago
For example Turbo Pascal included a Language Guide book that documented the entire Object Pascal language with railroad diagrams: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturVersion7.0La...
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by 1wd 6y ago
I saw the initial discussions in 2018 and was intrigued enough to start writing a module for our VCS. But after a while I noticed it was (still) only a glorified notification system. I saw no advantage over email notification, and could not

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