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by pcdavid 2mo ago
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/
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by pcdavid 4mo ago
This might be useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/toxcancel (Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page).
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by pcdavid 7mo ago
Fixed
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Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video](youtube.com)
519 points by pcdavid 7mo ago|92 comments
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by pcdavid 1y ago
Isn't this what the european Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is about? See https://orcwg.org/cra/ and the work of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group in general.
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by pcdavid 1y ago
https://git.tricoteuses.fr/tricoteuses/a_propos has the French constitution and others (e.g. "Code Pénal": https://git.tricoteuses.fr/codes/code_penal/commits/branch/m... )
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by pcdavid 3y ago
This behavior is controled by the AUTO_CD option: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html . To enable it yourself: setopt AUTO_CD
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by pcdavid 3y ago
This sounds a lot like Shape Up from the guys at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
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by pcdavid 3y ago
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)
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by pcdavid 4y ago
FWIW, LibreOffice automatically inserts an actual Unicode NO-BREAK SPACE when I type ":" at the end of a word (if the language is set for French of course). If I insert an actual SPACE and then hit ":", it even replaces
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by pcdavid 4y ago
Relevant: https://jakarta.ee/about/faq/#collapse-1
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Obituary: Alex Blewitt(infoq.com)
2 points by pcdavid 4y ago|0 comments
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by pcdavid 4y ago
Yes apparently: https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/
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Tom Lord has died(berkeleydailyplanet.com)
156 points by pcdavid 4y ago|67 comments
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by pcdavid 5y ago
This is not representattive of modern Java, which has much better APIs. Since Java 11: public HttpResponse<String> fetch(String url) { HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient(); HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBu
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by pcdavid 5y ago
This analogy is not a new idea, see "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" by Dan Grossman at OOPSLA 2007: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1297027.1297080 PDF available here
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by pcdavid 6y ago
> It mostly goes to show that containerizing application code for execution in a managed environment in nothing new. I'm sure this was also done somehow in the mainframe world. Yes, it's called an operating system :-)
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by pcdavid 7y ago
It's necessary because the water used to cool reactors is rejected in rivers. In normal circumstances the temperature increase this causes is under control, but right now it risks endangering the wildlife in said rivers.
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by pcdavid 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Mov...
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by pcdavid 8y ago
And Emacs (C-x r t), and Eclipse (Alt-Shift-a to switch to rectangle mode).
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by pcdavid 8y ago
It invokes "ls" twice. There's no guarantee the maximum width obtained from the first invocation is still correct for formatting the result of the second.
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by pcdavid 9y ago
Pandoc ( https://pandoc.org/ ) can do it: pandoc -f markdown -t org -o marketing-checklist.org marketing-checklist.md
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by pcdavid 11y ago
p2 ( https://www.eclipse.org/equinox/p2/ ), the provisioning platform used in Eclipse, uses a SAT solver (specifically, http://sat4j.org/ ) to resolve complex plug-in dependencies (with version range
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by pcdavid 13y ago
The (probably very small) pieces of software on-board the Pioneer 10? It was launched in 1973 and has certainly never been touched since.
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by pcdavid 13y ago
This is most likely the inspiration: the company is named "Supertoy Robotics", and the A.I. movie was based on a Brian Aldiss short-story titled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long".