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by pekim 14d ago
"A Note from LWN"
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by pekim 1mo ago
RevK's recent stratum 1 server hardware [0] is worth a look. As are the notes [1] that someone wrote up after using it in the UK NTP pool for a couple of weeks. [0] https://www.revk.uk/2026/07/time-for-somethi
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by pekim 1mo ago
The torus.c file start with this include directive. #include <_time.h> I'm not sure what that header file is, but commenting it out allowed for a clean compile for me
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by pekim 1mo ago
And for me in Chrome.
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by pekim 2mo ago
> I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong. You're right, it changed a few months ago. I find it more enjoyable now that you can continue to the end.
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by pekim 2mo ago
https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18). Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within 30 seconds. When you have attempted a
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An Agent Holds the Fort: Three Days of Autonomous Compiler Work(rue-lang.dev)
2 points by pekim 3mo ago|0 comments
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by pekim 5mo ago
It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem". https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD
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by pekim 5mo ago
I love singing, but I'm not very good at it. About 6 months ago I started attending a local Tuneless Choir[1]. It's just what I needed, and great fun. [1] https://www.tunelesschoir.com/
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by pekim 7mo ago
I posted about this last week [1], but it didn't get any traction. Although I used a link to the release page rather than the blog announcement, so maybe that was why. ho hum [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471
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Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/Bubbletea(github.com)
1 points by pekim 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pekim 7mo ago
I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases. [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet&#x2
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by pekim 8mo ago
Looking at https://github.com/stepandel/chroma-explorer/blob/master/pac... it looks like it's using Electron.
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by pekim 8mo ago
As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.
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by pekim 9mo ago
> Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11. Just the lines from the files are wanted, not the files names. It took me a little while to cotton on to that. Semi-spoiler follows. So you need to use the appropriate fla
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by pekim 10mo ago
Inserting elements in to a slice can be done quite easily since the introduction of the slices package to the standard library. https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Insert
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by pekim 10mo ago
I'm in the UK too. So I read the article courtesy of archive.is. https://archive.is/X33oQ
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by pekim 10mo ago
Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British
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by pekim 11mo ago
> and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.
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by pekim 1y ago
So if I'm understanding it correctly, it applies an xor operation on the pairs of cells. For example, click column A then column B. For each of the pairs of cells in the two columns, it performs B = A xor B.
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by pekim 1y ago
As the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes another request for every one of the images, ever
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by pekim 1y ago
The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB. But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice light weight is a 576kB favicon.
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Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary(theregister.com)
26 points by pekim 1y ago|4 comments
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by pekim 1y ago
I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo
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AI and Programming Language Communities(jerf.org)
4 points by pekim 1y ago|0 comments
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by pekim 1y ago
I do https://wordnerd.co/secretword/ most days. It has a similar interface to alphaguess, and I prefer both of them to midword's interface.
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by pekim 1y ago
It appears to highlight the letters that your guesses have narrowed it down to. For example if you had narrowed it down to after 'sudden' and before 'super', it would highlight 'su'.
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Policy of Transience(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
46 points by pekim 1y ago|8 comments
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by pekim 1y ago
That was fun. I got a score of 4174, and an average of 6.2 years off. Clothes and hair styles were quite helpful in 3 of the pictures. I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow.
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by pekim 1y ago
Oops, that'll teach me to read articles properly before commenting, rather than just skimming.

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