BlackFingolfin

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by BlackFingolfin 3y ago
> "Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS" which is the undisputed gold standard in mathematical typography. It is? Do you have any supporting evidence for this claim? I just had a look at a bunch of recent articles, and I w
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by BlackFingolfin 3y ago
FYI one of the things I like about Julia is that it also can execute shell commands via backquote syntax, in a very nice way (e.g. interpolating arrays just works). E.g. try files = split(read(`ls`, String)) firsttwo = files[1:2]
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by BlackFingolfin 3y ago
OpenCL was created by Apple...
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by BlackFingolfin 3y ago
I think you may be mixing up some memories? tortoiseCVS was (is?) a Windows product and has nothing to do with BBEdit (which only runs on MacOS). I don't recall BBEdit ever imposing restrictions on CVS repositories (and I used it exten
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by BlackFingolfin 4y ago
That is pretty amazing. Kudos to the authors, I never would have believed emulating an Apple II on an 8088 in a way that is actually usable would be remotely possible. The story in the README is also worth reading! E.g. > At the time we
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by BlackFingolfin 4y ago
Doesn't this apply to every mature and widely used language after a few years of evolution?
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by BlackFingolfin 4y ago
The x86-64 extension was made by AMD, though, not by Intel. So if at all the license would have to be obtained from AMD... Interestingly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 says this: > x86-64/AMD64 was solel
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CoWasm: An alternative to Emscripten, based on Zig (demo: Python in the browser)(cowasm.org)
130 points by BlackFingolfin 4y ago|21 comments
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by BlackFingolfin 4y ago
You can do so by defining a custom keyboard layout. This is quite convenient with Ukelele https://software.sil.org/ukelele/ : you can take any existing layout (e.g. the one that is currently active) and then change all
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by BlackFingolfin 4y ago
I greatly enjoy reading his articles, but I wonder why he seemingly refuses to put a date on them?
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
That sentence doesn't even make sense.
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
Maybe because tons and tons of software build with GNU make, not with Ninja, and if you want to be able to build that software, you need GNU make? Also, Ninja by itself is not really a replacement for GNU make. Rather it's a tool one c
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
Replace ctrl by alt and that's macOS hotkeys. Except there are a ton more which one can use (but of course doesn't have to use)
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
To be fair, the your second link points to the documentation of an ancient version; the new docs don't seem to mention semver (I still don't think what they are doing is reasonable, but ...)
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
Citation needed? What other important fire safety rules are "missing" in e.g. (from TFA) South Korea, China, Sweden, Italy, or Germany?
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
"Seems" to, but does he? He goes on about how "never been convicted or found guilty of doing shit", points out (correctly) that anyone can allege anything on the internet -- but I don't see him actually deny any of
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
It's made by Oracle
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
I think also this podman blog post from a few days ago is relevant: https://podman.io/blogs/2021/09/06/podman-on-macs.html
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
I heartily recommend using `tig blame` from https://jonas.github.io/tig/ -- it allows you to interactively navigate the blame history; navigate to the line of interest, press one key to see details of the commit that l
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by BlackFingolfin 5y ago
In my experience, any sufficiently deep study of any subject requires introduction of at least some degree of specialized terminology ("jargon") to be able to express things precisely and concisely. Sure, you can try to avoid th
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
This is really cool! But note that OP uses larger cells (`int` = 32 bit in the C version, `Int` = 64 bit in the Julia version) while GalaxyBrain seems to use 8 bit cells. Not that I expect this to make a major difference (but perhaps a mino
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Thanks! Just tried to add it to feedly but unfortunately it still gives me an error, reporting that it can't find feed. Will have a look at the source to see if I can help figuring it out, once I am back at my computer.
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Any chance you could offer an RSS or Atom feed?
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Where do you get such a $3 pedal? I only found ones starting at maybe $10, and they seem to be crap based on reviews.
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Anecdotes are not data. I can easily counter yours with mine: I use such a dongle a lot whenever I am presenting on conferences etc, and have been doing so for many years (even before the all-out for USB-C/Thunderbolt on MacBooks, ther
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Sorry for the nitpick, but I find the title rather confusing; shouldn't it rather be "Rust front-end for GCC"?
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Except it didn't even average one an hour in the worst year
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
Moreover, the worst year was 1992, which isn't in the 80ies last I checked...
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
As a research mathematician, I happily use "sonst" in e.g. case distinctions (well, in my undergrad lecture notes; papers are written in English ) and wouldn't use "andernfalls" as it is simply too long :-). Moreove
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by BlackFingolfin 6y ago
With "media server" I generally meant: "device hooked up to the speaker and AV receiver for video playback, couch surfing, perhaps the occasional game (mostly via emulators). Yeah, adding the microphone and camera is going be

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