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by JdeBP 1y ago
Only the North Americans. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's amusing that it isn't truly a circle. It's a box with rounded corners and the corner rounding radius chosen to be half the box width. There is probably not a simple CSS trick like that for doing the correct 2D projecti
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It has a fairly direct analogy in some languages. A C♯ programmer reading the above will immediately recognize the analogy to .Select(), .ToArray(), and so forth from LiNQ. * https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet&#x
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's almost nothing in there that's like C or C++. But there's a definite influence of .NET and C♯ with things like null-coalescing, null-conditionals, and interpolated strings.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As noted when this has been submitted in the past, this history pretty much stops in 2008, even though the copyright year has been changed since. It also confuses, as computer people are prone to doing, a disclaimer with a disclosure . B
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's nothing stopping it. systemd doesn't do anything particularly special when opening a datagram socket that magically prevents it from receiving broadcast datagrams. There's no difference between Kea opening the socke
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I'm not seeing anything new that prompted The Grauniad to report this, this week in particular. Maybe it is because it's news to Anglophones. But Jakob Engel-Schmidt has been talking about this in the Danish news since April&#x
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The unequivocal direct evidence that the Bourne Again shell is based upon the Bourne shell is Richard Stallman saying so , back when it was written in 1988. "Foundation staff member Brian Fox is now implementing an imitation of the Bo
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. Kea is making several of the same mistakes all over again, despite being in a good position to have learned from them. It yet again runs as the superuser serving requests from potentially hostile clients. In fairness, a lot of DHCP se
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Has been. It was done two and a bit years ago, and the change has even reached Debian now. (-: * https://packages.debian.org/source/trixie/isc-dhcp * https://isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/
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by JdeBP 1y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44390258 .
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I would be surprised if has not. There have been lots of tools over the years where the idea was to present a command-line interface compatible with Sendmail's message submission mode, and hand the mail over to a smart host, possibly
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I've seen both, over the years; programs that have shims, and programs whose checks are ridiculous because they'll just fail at compile time if the standard language feature they are checking for is not there. But a lot of the tim
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The Bourne Again shell is not based upon the Korn shell. There's a very big clue in its name which prior shell the Bourne Again shell started out to clone. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It being 1982 and a story about the lead developer of LisaGraf, working on that very thing, it is certainly unlikely to be a GUI form. But block mode terminals that did forms had been a thing for over a decade at that point. Not that this
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The now removed stuff, in the original, talking about a blue whale was somewhat odd.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. The developer actually chose Zig initially. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034961
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Ironically, given the mention of vi, it is ex that is what red_admiral is looking for. (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The developer actually explained, on Hacker News just over a month ago, some of the engineering choices that ruled out nano. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034961
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You realize that you're asking this in a discussion of a tool that is intended to be installed out of the box on Microsoft Windows, where vi is not installed out of the box, right? Your "everywhere" doesn't include th
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There's an underlying assumption about "target audience for this editor" that you both share, that others, I suspect quite a few others, do not. For starters, there's your assumption that there is "syntax" to b
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You should raise that as an issue. If things like that get in early enough, they get heard. And it wasn't just similar. It was literally the same. EDIT.COM simply started QBASIC up with a special flag. One could just run QBASIC wit
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The opposite, if anything. Very little was written against the old semantics, with most of the time the supplied C library providing what was needed, and so the code that did rely upon old semantics barely got exercised. A little-used s
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You are looking at the wrong legislation. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, Ashton Schottler was discussing the E.U. right to repair legislation this last weekend. * https://youtube.com/watch?v=K_lAdaecL30&t=484
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Oscar Voss was updating some of xyr other pages as recently as 2018. * http://alaskaroads.com/home.html
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Possibly, but it wouldn't be the first time that people took a field that was supposed to be an originator name and made it something else entirely. There's a field in the Volume Boot Record of disc volumes, in the PC compatible w
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The aspersions are yours and yours alone. And the provenance far from being apparent actually took some effort to discern, as it involves checking out whether and what sort of editorial board was involved for one thing, as well as looking
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And no-one said that there was anything wrong, the inference being yours. But it's important to bear provenance in mind, and not get carried away by something like this more than one would be carried away by, say, an article on Medium
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This has a single author; is not peer-reviewed; is not published in a journal; and was self-submitted both to PhilArchive and here on Hacker News.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It wouldn't have been Matthias Andrée's makel, then. * https://git.maandree.se/makel Or unmake. * https://crates.io/crates/unmake Or checkmake. * https://github.com/checkmake&

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