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Statistics disagree: Rank Country Ethnic Fractionalization Index Cultural Diversity Index 63 Switzerland 0.575 0.418 85 United States 0.491 0.271 159 North Korea 0.002 0.002 Ethnic, Linguistic and Religi
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Presumably that point was somehow related to Ratatouille?
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According to [1] the previous mayor was Adriana Krnáčová [2]. There's not much information there. Can you elaborate why she was disastrous? There seems to be a connection to the Blanka tunnel complex [3]? [1] https://en.wiki
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You can also use the for making pretty pictures of Quaternion Julia fractals. It uses non-unit quaternions, but typically intersects a plane with the 4D solid: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/quatjulia/ Apparently
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> The `pip` package is not actually bundled with your Python distribution It is bundled, as mentioned in the link [0] you posted: "pip is an independent project with its own release cycle, and the latest available stable version is
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Why not bundle twine like pip? In fact, why not merge the twine functionality into pip?
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The reference manual seems to need some love: https://pijul.org/manual/reference/log.html Is it pijul log or pijul changes? Also I see a huge block of ~30 nested blockquotes below the "Usage" title that
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So in D it's impossible to work with files if their filename is not Unicode?
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I think that was just some idea that was discarded. "Seems that we've reached the consensus: we release Python 3.10 after Python 3.9. We maybe release Python 4.0 at some point if there's a significant backwards incompatible
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https://gitlab.com/surfsara/email2trac allows updating Trac tickets from email replies. (I have not used it, but I know it's actively maintained.) The default Trac search is very simple, sometimes maybe too simple
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Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab
(octobus.net)
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Guido van Rossum has written about the background of this in Python here: http://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-pythons-integ...
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I'm not sure. I get the impression with such old-school macro languages (like M4) you have to use a lot of quoting tricks, evaluation order hacks, and use low level primitives like divert and dnl to build up even the simplest of useful
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M4 is of historical interest, but nowadays it seem just using a templating system would be much better in almost all cases, no? Modern systems like Jinja2 or T4 are IMO actually more powerful, easier to to use, maintain and debug, and just
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https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2018-May/0060... says "Manual updates of 60.0 will be the initial update mode, as we often do for a new release, because of the breadth of fixes and improv
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The parentheses are actually not required: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-July/15433... Why not "as" syntax: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/
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Is ActivityPub-based federated Git part of that future? https://github.com/git-federation/gitpub
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Similar: https://rhodecode.com/ Dual licensed AGPL / commercial https://kallithea-scm.org/ GPL3 fork (pre-AGPL)
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"Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten." https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Million-to-one_chance
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This calculator doesn't seem to support RPN though: https://github.com/numworks/epsilon/issues/35 Too bad. There's always https://www.swissmicros.com/
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If you don't want mercurial named branches then don't use them. Use mercurial bookmarks instead. They can do everything a git branch can do. Mercurial also has anonymous heads that actually allow Mercurial to be much more flexible
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One problem I have with Tkinter is scrolling. In other frameworks I just say "this frame (containing lots of widgets) is scrollable" by setting one property to true and it just works. Including vertical and horizontal scrolling, m
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And the problem is old and well known e.g. by game developers. For example "A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part Three: Matters of Scale" by Sean O'Neil from 2002 [1] discusses rendering problems at planetary, star-system an
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Those billboards are an alternative (the more traditional) impostor type. The octahedral impostors replace these billboards with a geodesic polyhedron of octahedral symmetry. Basically it subdivides the sides of an octahedron to approximate
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What kind of Lisp system was used to run this? Would it work with any Common Lisp? What other things are required, like libraries or a database etc.? I'm guessing reddit.asd lists some: :tbnl (a toolkit for building dynamic websites) :
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Knusperli could also refer to a type of bread. https://wiewowasistgut.com/schnelle-fruehstueck-broetchen-mi... https://www.deal.ch/deals/brot-des-monats-coop-naturaplan-bi... http://fddb.inf
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Fluent UI is probably mentioned because "Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI)" (short: Fluent UI) used to mean Ribbon UI, long before the Fluent Design System existed. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us
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I'd also like anonymous branches, phases and obsolescence markers.
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Chicken Scheme does this. https://www.call-cc.org/ And Bigloo Scheme. http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/fp/Bigloo/doc/bigloo-3.html And Gambit Scheme. http://gambitscheme.org/
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Yes, thank you! (So I indeed remembered a few things wrong: It was about a read- and write-FIFO, not about a flip-flop and latch. And the speed improvement factors were not mentioned.)
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