kwk1

7 ms·

1.
by kwk1 3mo ago
What you are talking about is sometimes called "basic research": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research
2.
by kwk1 6mo ago
There is promising news on the development of OpenCASCADE front: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QQRAAF-occt3d-8-kerne...
3.
by kwk1 6mo ago
Yes, the OpenCASCADE 8.0 release is very promising. There's a FOSDEM presentation from this year by one of their developers which shows what's in the works.
4.
by kwk1 7mo ago
In the LLM space, it's LoRA, not LoRa. Not great!
5.
by kwk1 7mo ago
I've seen it elsewhere, but it's definitely annoying. For example KDE's build assistant tool: $ kde-builder --help ... Supported command-line parameters: https://kde-builder.kde.org/en&#x
6.
by kwk1 7mo ago
This is supported on Codeberg (and Forgejo instances in general) via the "AGit workflow", see https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
7.
by kwk1 7mo ago
> Basically nobody ever died from leaky pipes I know you're probably intending to only remark on leaky water pipes, but: The New London School explosion was caused by a leaky pipe. It killed 295 students and teachers, and led to the
8.
by kwk1 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate
9.
by kwk1 7mo ago
It's not meant to be a link, rather "X (formerly Twitter)"
10.
by kwk1 8mo ago
Yep! Shepherd × Goblins https://spritely.institute/news/shepherd-goblins-update.html https://shepherding.services/
11.
by kwk1 8mo ago
I checked and it looks like the root-required issue has been addressed with a --relocatable flag, and there are a few options as well for needing to untar, e.g. producing an appimage format output.
12.
by kwk1 8mo ago
If I may jump in, here's a neat one: https://www.braillerap.org/en/
13.
by kwk1 8mo ago
Is `guix pack` not sufficient for this? https://guix.gnu.org/manual/1.5.0/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...
14.
by kwk1 8mo ago
They are the ecosystem shapers, let them figure it out.
15.
by kwk1 9mo ago
Often I've seen font websites have a sort of "font hello world" preview image, and adding something like that here would be great. Apparently they're called "type specimens".
16.
by kwk1 10mo ago
I recently learned those have a name based on their dimensions: https://88x31.nl/
17.
by kwk1 10mo ago
Incus is specifically an LXD fork.
18.
by kwk1 10mo ago
From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes: > they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a m
19.
by kwk1 11mo ago
"Inversely proportional" for what it's worth
20.
by kwk1 11mo ago
A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym
21.
by kwk1 11mo ago
The packages in question don't come from the distro's homepage.
22.
by kwk1 11mo ago
A technical term for this is "sunset provision": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision
23.
by kwk1 11mo ago
If you're using a Debian derivative these keys should be in packages distributed with your distro with trust coming from that
24.
by kwk1 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
25.
by kwk1 1y ago
Is there a difference between people and goods?
26.
by kwk1 1y ago
KDE Linux is the new one, Neon's been around for years. https://kde.org/linux/
27.
by kwk1 1y ago
Another tantalizing possible connection for two other Sea Peoples groups, the "Sherden" and the "Shekelesh" sure sound pretty close to "Sardinia" and "Sicily", but I'm not sure if there's an
28.
by kwk1 1y ago
(Pokemon) Emerald
29.
by kwk1 1y ago
> Bananas probably vary a great deal. Yep, and I probably should have mentioned, this was one of those giant, GMO-esque bananas, and it had a very thick, perhaps 1 cm skin, the interior of which was kinda fuzzy, such that peeling it was
30.
by kwk1 1y ago
Once upon a time, I was peeling a banana in a dim and very dry room, and I'm pretty sure I saw a spark, perhaps caused by the same phenomenon.

More ›