mkotowski

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by mkotowski 7mo ago
> Has anyone proposed Unicode code points for them? There is "Background for Unicode consideration of Cistercian numerals" ( https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20290-cistercian-digits.pdf ) And also one i
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by mkotowski 1y ago
Many keyboard layouts use the right alt as the AltGr key for additional characters like language-specific letters or currency symbols (or at least many European ones do). As for the right ctrl, by association with the AltGr, I usually map i
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Bricklayers for Stronger 3D-Prints now open source [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mkotowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 2y ago
Still much better when it fails at the first step. I once got myself in a bit of a struggle with Windows 10 by using "ł" as part of Windows username. Amusingly/irritatingly large number of applications, even some of Microsoft
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by mkotowski 2y ago
I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so. Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland: 1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1
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by mkotowski 2y ago
Actually, in English it is pronounced the same as in Czech and Polish: /hɛhɛ/ or /hihi/ (as far as I know). Both are written respectively as "hehe" and "hihi" and are valid expressions for denoting la
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Did You Know? Windows Has Never Had a "System Tray" (2021)(howtogeek.com)
7 points by mkotowski 2y ago|4 comments
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Hyphen War(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by mkotowski 2y ago|1 comments
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by mkotowski 2y ago
> (There’s precisely one thing like this I’m aware of terminal emulators adding in recent memory: clickable links, ca. six years ago.) And they are often disabled by default, as a potential security risk. We don't get to have fun th
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by mkotowski 3y ago
Maybe LocalSend? https://localsend.org/ Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and macOS. Seems quite cross-platform. Can confirm it works smoothly for Linux and Android at the very least.
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by mkotowski 3y ago
Seems to be a variation of this "story bait" from around 2021: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-chec...
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by mkotowski 3y ago
I guess this refers to OCI image format from Open Container Initiative: https://opencontainers.org/ Here is Containerfile from the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Con
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by mkotowski 3y ago
Yes, but now you can run into risk of becoming 1000-tabs-open junkie like me :-) Off-topic, but given how people try to apply LLMs to everything right now, I am surprised there is no extension or something similar to help manage bookmarked
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University of Minnesota Gopher software licensing policy (1993)(nic.funet.fi)
72 points by mkotowski 3y ago|36 comments
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by mkotowski 3y ago
There is: > Web app for hosting asciicasts > https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-server and > Web player for terminal session recordings > https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-play
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List of stories set in a future now in the past(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mkotowski 3y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Opinion of a Polish guy: In my eyes, English is pretty bloated, when seemingly almost every concept can have three or more alternative words, each from a different source. It is all matter of perspective, I suppose. :) I think such feeling
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Actually, lingua franca originally refereed to a pidgin bridge language (also called Sabir) in use mostly by sailors and traders in the Mediterranean Basin. While it also borrowed from French, it was mostly based on Italian dialects from wh
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Lately, there seems to be an avalanche of tools like DALL-E, was there some breakthrough that helped make these thinks more viable to run publicly? And concerning creating a logo with such tools: Is there any consensus on an eventual copyri
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Part of it was, yes. But going by the image from the tweet, there are many regions recovered, that belonged to the Second Polish Republic and still contained quite sizeable Polish-speaking population. [0] [0]: https://commons.wik
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Some more examples: - apparently ancient Egyptians had this problem with their own past, but I don’t remember where I read this. If anyone has a source, I would be thankful. - pre-indoeuropean language families in Europe, only Basque remain
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Quite funny, when I read the title before checking the link, I first thought exactly about Poland voting preferences. For anyone interested: the difference in voting exists, because the east part of Poland is less developed and more rural i
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America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them. (2020)(nytimes.com)
7 points by mkotowski 4y ago|5 comments
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by mkotowski 4y ago
> But from a tool perspective both rust and golang support easy static binary creation […] Honest question: As someone who knows C++ and CMake, what Rust and Go do to make it easier?
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by mkotowski 4y ago
Honestly, I think part of this perception is the fact that things developed in Rust are more likely to advertise themselves as such. For example, I know that micro text editor is developed in Go only because I checked. I have no need to kno
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> Also w for szcz makes no sense. Propbably an attempt to use a letter similar to <Щ, щ> graphically. > Why "x" instead of "z" in cz/sz/rz etc. sounds? I think it is something picked up from Esperan
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Bit studios: for the next 7 days This War of Mine profit goes to Red Cross(store.steampowered.com)
2 points by mkotowski 5y ago|0 comments
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> ASCII is enough to write English, or, at least, it used to be back when ASCII was a multi-byte encoding for Latin! I know of both the over-strike method for traditional typewriters and extended ASCII. But I have no knowlede of a ASCII
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> Will there be Unicode email addresses? Apparently, yes. [0] > making things more equitable for other languages and cultures Well, yes. People often hate how compilcated Unicode is, but they also tend to forget that even ASCII was n
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by mkotowski 5y ago
That does remind me: why that even is a thing? Ordering days of a week from zero can make sense since there is Monday/Sunday as a week start divide, and this can be seen as a bypass (0/7 as Sunday and 1 as a Monday), but with mont

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