shellac

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by shellac 29d ago
The river Taff flows through Cardiff, and 'taffy' was used as a derogatory term for Welsh people from this origin. I can't pretend I've heard anyone use it since the 80s.
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by shellac 5mo ago
'Anonymisation' schemes are a little like encryption, in that they just get monotonically weaker over time as people work out attacks. But the attacks tend to be much worse. I work in academic open data publishing, and the netflix
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by shellac 5mo ago
--DRESS means your clothes with fall off.
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by shellac 6mo ago
I think this has just been fixed. A bit of dark mode was leaking into light in the css.
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by shellac 6mo ago
My (really limited) understanding is that 'British subject' was the status of people in the British empire. It's now reduced to just some people born pre-1949 in Ireland and India. They have many of the rights of citizens, an
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by shellac 6mo ago
Then somebody needs to let the government know, because the relevant 1981 act is "[a]n Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality". In that 'British subjects' are a quite limited subset of citizens. Mo
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by shellac 8mo ago
No, Braun invented the cathode ray tube.
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by shellac 8mo ago
It's in the article. Not sure it had his name, but certainly his family name since he looked for records concerning his relatives.
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by shellac 8mo ago
Curses, I was close. Also: yikes to the design.
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by shellac 8mo ago
Not exactly true, but they deprecated absolutely everything that made it a date. It expresses deep regret in the medium of annotations: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/1.2/api/java/util/Date.html (I can&
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by shellac 8mo ago
Are you saying WebDAV doesn't support range requests?
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by shellac 8mo ago
> This isn't a pyramid? Thank you for saying this. It immediately drove me crazy.
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by shellac 9mo ago
Academic publishing is _notoriously_ profitable. Authorship and the bulk of the editorial process is done by others for free, and these days you often aren't even creating a physical copy. Their overheads are really pretty minimal. Wha
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by shellac 9mo ago
> Instead of journals getting revenue from subscribers, they charge authors an “Article Processing Charge” (APC) Just to be clear this is specifically _gold open access_. There are other options like green (author can make article availa
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by shellac 1y ago
> QL-looking for the Spectrum I was going to object, but probably right to just skip the horror of the true Spectrum keyboard.
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by shellac 1y ago
It sounds like this will include Teesworks, one of the dodgiest land deals of recent years. For a small investment two people essentially held the entire thing to ransom and secured options on an astonishing amount government money. You can
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by shellac 1y ago
The author works in Google developer relations, and while devrel aren't quite marketing they will use the latest and greatest Google hammer.
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by shellac 1y ago
The article states "I currently run an Ampere Arm server in my rack with Linux and ZFS as my primary storage server" and this is just explaining how to try it out on the Pi, which I found surprisingly interesting. I am glad people
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by shellac 1y ago
> Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support? When your kernel stopped support over a decade ago (iirc) it does seem inevitable that distros will slowly evaporate.
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by shellac 1y ago
It's a minor thing, but: > Most of my open source work followed Unix philosophy, so the packages did one thing at a time. Nobody has suggested that libc -- to take the most obvious example -- is against the Unix philosophy. Debates
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by shellac 1y ago
> Containerization executes each Linux container inside of its own lightweight virtual machine. That’s an interesting difference from other Mac container systems. Also (more obvious) use Rosetta 2.
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by shellac 1y ago
If I had to guess, colima? But there are a number of open source projects using Apple's virtualisation technologies to run a linux VM to host docker-type containers. Once you have an engine podman might be the best choice to manage con
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by shellac 1y ago
Java has two somewhat related projects in this space, and it does add a substantial cost to language changes (assuming you commit to keep expression trees up to date). https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/ is the
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by shellac 1y ago
Not that you have to use all caps for acronyms, e.g. scuba, radar, laser.
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by shellac 1y ago
Trade deficit is a partial view of matters, and may not mean much anyway. It's a partial view in that there are a bunch of things it doesn't cover like inward investment. And it may not mean much in the same way my household runs
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by shellac 1y ago
Hard links are only used on HFS+. APFS has snapshot support.
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by shellac 1y ago
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in legislation in the UK and Ireland, and offers protections for signatories of the convention. (Edit: Oh, and the Bill of Rights gives parliamentarians quite an extreme ver
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by shellac 2y ago
> over pip It's a much more complete tool than pip. If you've used poetry, or (in other languages) cargo, bundler, maven, then it's like that (and faster than poetry). If you haven't, in addition to installing depende
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by shellac 2y ago
What do you mean by 'assignment or creating a new object'? It assigns chat to ... whatever RubyLLM.chat returns. Do you mean the function could have a clearer name?
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by shellac 2y ago
This has been a thing for quite a while. Thunderbolt is, in part, PCIe over serial (now USB C). There have been GPUs in external boxes, so it is undoubtedly possible, but I don't think they have many users. Edit: BlackMagic was what I

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