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by cjm42 1mo ago
As da_chicken pointed out, it's also a problem if you want to record a date like February 29, 1700, which is a perfectly valid date in the Julian calendar but simply doesn't exist in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. Dates are mes
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by cjm42 1mo ago
Which is one of the reasons that the Perl DateTime library just implements the proleptic Gregorian calendar (i.e. "let's just pretend we've always used Gregorian and the Julian calendar never existed")
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by cjm42 2mo ago
This is the classic example of why you should always set the foreground color when changing the background color. Otherwise you end up with <code> blocks that are black-on-black. It probably works fine if your browser is in dark mod
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by cjm42 7mo ago
Does it allow truly persistent mosh connections? I can't remember which iOS client it was, but I've used one which forgot I was connected if I left the app for long enough. The mosh process was still running on the server, but m
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by cjm42 11mo ago
I believe the primary use-case for devices like this is debugging "Why isn't this server rebooting?" without driving to the datacenter. Good luck figuring that out with AnyDesk or SSH.
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by cjm42 1y ago
I've had decent results with html-pdf-chrome[0], which automates printing to PDF from Chromium or Chrome. [0] https://github.com/westy92/html-pdf-chrome/
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by cjm42 1y ago
The most reliable fix is to get Windows to use UTC for the hardware clock, which is usually the default on Linux. (It's more reliable because it means the hardware clock doesn't need to be adjusted when DST begins or ends, so the
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by cjm42 2y ago
Not to me. It says "System Initiative is an Intuitive, Powerful, and Collaborative replacement for Infrastructure as Code" but I still don't understand what it does or why I would want to use it.
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by cjm42 2y ago
https://purismspc.com (the backup domain they registered after the 2018 outage) is sort of working. It responds, but links all go to puri.sm so they don't work, stylesheets don't load, etc.
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by cjm42 3y ago
He meant approximately half a bit. Base64 uses 64 characters, which means 6 bits per character. 50 characters gives you about 5.64 bits per character. Unlike Base64's 3-bytes-equals-4-characters, that never comes out evenly.
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by cjm42 3y ago
Let's face it, the Perl 5/PCRE regex syntax is atrocious. The only reason it exists is that (? was a syntax error in earlier regex syntaxes, so it could be redefined to mean anything. Raku is an attempt to design a sane regular e
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by cjm42 3y ago
I made a silverware holder custom-fit to my silverware. I found a half-inch thick HDPE cutting board at a restaurant supply store, cut it to fit my drawer, then drilled holes in it and inserted short wooden dowels to hold the stacks of silv
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by cjm42 3y ago
redhat-release is a symlink to /etc/centos-release: $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)
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by cjm42 3y ago
I've been using Joplin for a while now, syncing via Nextcloud. One tip: I set up a cronjob to export into a Git repository so I have a complete history. The core of the script is: joplin sync joplin export --format=raw "$tm
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by cjm42 3y ago
MATE is a GNOME 2 fork created to continue its development without the radical turn of GNOME 3. Cinnamon is actually a GNOME 3 fork created to turn it back into a more traditional desktop environment. XFCE is not a fork of any version of GN
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by cjm42 4y ago
My browser can't even read that. It renders as "In Hamlet, Act [2163], Scene [2168]..." (where [2163] means a small box with those 4 digits). What font do I need to install to be able to read that as "In Hamlet, Act IV
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by cjm42 4y ago
Just for fun, I tried again today with a new chat: Q: Who was the first US president whose surname begins with "R"? A: The first US president whose surname begins with the letter "R" was John Quincy Adams. Q: Adams does
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by cjm42 4y ago
It is: Contractors' Handbook: The Expert Guide for UK Contractors and Freelancers (3rd Edition; 13 Nov. 2017) by Dave Chaplin (ISBN-10: ‎1527216039; ISBN-13: 978-1527216037)
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by cjm42 4y ago
The problem is that if you don't already know the answer, it's hard to tell the difference between ChatGPT giving you the correct information and ChatGPT authoritatively spouting the wrong information. Here's a chat I had tod
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by cjm42 4y ago
xfce4-terminal, because I switched to Xfce when GNOME went on their "reinvent the UI" trek. I was happy with the UI I already had, thanks very much.
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by cjm42 4y ago
The Babylon 5 space combat game that was cancelled late in development. Think Wing Commander, but in the Babylon 5 universe as a Starfury pilot. https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5:_Into_the_Fire_(G...
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by cjm42 5y ago
The bill would eliminate Daylight Time and redefine Eastern Standard Time etc. to be the same offset they currently are during daylight time. https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/623...
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by cjm42 5y ago
The big problem with this is that mobile Safari on iOS won't autofill passwords for sites using WWW-Authenticate. It used to, but that feature got dropped years ago, which really ticks me off, as I regularly use a couple of sites that
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by cjm42 5y ago
They could at least provide an indication when delivering the spam that "Twilio believes this message is spam and will block your account if you try to resend it".
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by cjm42 5y ago
I believe https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL would be the closest Perl equivalent, but it's not my field and I haven't used it.
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by cjm42 5y ago
That's the way I read it, although I don't understand why they're focusing on installation. That seems like choosing a car based on how long it takes to change the oil. I'd be more interested in a benchmark of how much
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by cjm42 5y ago
If I type "3 + 6 + 9" as fast as I can, then hit "=", I only get 18 about half the time. Sometimes I get 12, sometimes 15, occasionally something else. This is with a iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.4.2. It's ridiculous.
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by cjm42 5y ago
I've always liked NearlyFreeSpeech.net's FAQ on "Should I make my own backups?" [0] which begins: Yes. Assume that we are storing crates of sweaty dynamite on top of the servers that hold your important data and design y
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by cjm42 5y ago
And if you try to say emoji.length, you'll get an error: No such method 'length' for invocant of type 'Str'. Did you mean any of these: 'codes', 'chars'? Because as the article points out, the &
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by cjm42 6y ago
Yes, it would cause issues with hosting services that use CNAMES in the way they were intended. e.g www.example.com might be CNAMEd to example.bigwebhost.com so that bigwebhost can change the IP addresses used by example.com without having

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