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by erk__ 7d ago
$ \mathbb{X} $
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by erk__ 7d ago
Simon Oxley designed quite a few of the most well known animal logos in the tech world today including GitHub's Octocat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Oxley
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by erk__ 23d ago
Paint.net actually just recently got ownership of paint.net, it only took 22 years: https://www.xda-developers.com/after-22-years-paintnet-downl...
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by erk__ 1mo ago
Interestingly IBM have made LEGO sets of various mainframes. I believe that they have been giving them away as prizes and such, there is also a few other companies with LEGO sets listed on the page as well: https://domjant.hu&#x2
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by erk__ 2mo ago
Deno started in Go, but was rewritten in Rust before 0.1
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by erk__ 2mo ago
There is also MLKit which is pretty interesting in how it handles memory, it is region based with some fallback to garbage collection. https://elsman.com/mlkit/
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by erk__ 3mo ago
Usually it's Rewrite it in Rust, but both work I guess
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by erk__ 3mo ago
Last week Adafruit received a demand letter from Flux.ai, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121 Yesterday Adafruit updated their blog with a link to the complaint: https://blog.adafruit.co
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Adafruit vs. Flux [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
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by erk__ 4mo ago
There is actually work on adding autodiff to Rust, maybe not really first class citizen, but at least build in: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/autodiff/index.html (it is still at a pre-RFC stage so it is not someth
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by erk__ 4mo ago
Will this be the reason for the Stoll prize to be set up? Instead of a medal it should be a klein bottle of course.
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by erk__ 5mo ago
GitHub have some quite nice feeds If you want all the commits from a repo you can do something like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/.atom And if you now only is interested in the num modu
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by erk__ 5mo ago
YouTube still does <feed xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2
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by erk__ 5mo ago
Hasselblad still uses it in their advertisement to this day
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by erk__ 5mo ago
How does that work with SpaceX's product called X (formerly known as Twitter)
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by erk__ 5mo ago
Also it is quite a leap to the conclusion that HVDC eqipment will not have long lead times as well especially since there are quite a few less companies making it.
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by erk__ 6mo ago
This is what they already are doing, the article is behind a paywall so no clue if they say it there but you can for example see this article about it: https://www.etechvolution.com/p/byd-megawatt-flash-charging-...
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by erk__ 6mo ago
What news media would you recommend?
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by erk__ 6mo ago
It's not OpenType that can execute wasm it's a experimental extension in HarfBuzz so compared to this it does not work online since it is not enabled for the HarfBuzz builds in Chrome or Firefox. Which makes this more cool to show
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by erk__ 6mo ago
The history section of the repo clears it up [0] > LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello. Aseprite used to be distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2, but was moved to a proprietary l
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by erk__ 7mo ago
Another one just popped up recently though it does not have a lot of coverage if anywhere yet: https://corporate.e-boks.com/loesninger/e-wallet/e-boks-id/
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by erk__ 7mo ago
Well they provide that if you want. they have both a OTP dongle, a OTP loud speaker and one that uses FIDO U2F (though you need to pay for that one). https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/how-to-use...
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by erk__ 7mo ago
It is actually at least two agencies that is working in that direction, The Danish Road Authorities is also working on it: https://www.fstyr.dk/nyheder/2025/dec/faerdselsstyrelsen-tag...
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by erk__ 7mo ago
Well the last annual report I could find actually says that they got a return of 17.65% so 3% would be pretty bad https://wikimediaendowment.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annua...
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by erk__ 8mo ago
There is a couple libc implementations: - c-ward [0] a libc implementation in Rust - relibc [1] a libc implementation in Rust mainly for use in the Redox os (but works with linux as well) - rustix [2] safe bindings to posix apis without usi
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by erk__ 8mo ago
xAI bought Twitter a bit under a year ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqjq11202ro
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by erk__ 8mo ago
tbh I don't think that really counts when it is a tool made by the sqlite developer.
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by erk__ 8mo ago
tbh I think it is just a question about time before flask guy has something to sell: https://earendil.com/
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by erk__ 8mo ago
Tbh I thought that was clear when I used the phrase "unscientific".
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by erk__ 8mo ago
Then it would not be unscientific.

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