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by LukeShu 6y ago
That's even a problem with a few pieces of GNU software. The GNU documentation on how to use the software is Free, but if you want to contribute to it, you might need to acquire some pricey and non-Free specifications. For instance:
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by LukeShu 6y ago
The article was originally written in 1996, and describes GNU policy. As a cultural artifact, it's been incredibly effective but is now outmoded, as what it describes is very solidly the norm, as you note. So today it serves as a sta
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by LukeShu 6y ago
(1996)
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Because I don't have Google's services on my phone, I have two always-visible notifications that never go away: "Telegram" / "Push service: tap to learn more" (tapping opens https://github.com&#
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by LukeShu 6y ago
You asserted > It's not a cynical marketing ploy like you describe - it's functional. I believe the parent comment is saying that the closing-force varies closely with price; as price goes up, so does the force required to cl
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Not just letters! "^X" indicates "X, but with the control-bit flipped", where the control-bit is the left-most of ASCII's 7 bits. 1001000 ASCII 'H' 1000000 "ctrl bit" 0001000 ASCII
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Presumably because enough people clicked "vouch" on the comment because chrisseaton pointed it out. The majority of that user's posts are dead, with the oddball here or there that has apparently been vouched for.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
1. I believe the parent post was referring to non-web-developers taking web-developers down a peg, not anyone taking themselves down a peg. 2. I used a small 2007 laptop well in to 2018, and I believe that the software I wrote was better fo
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by LukeShu 6y ago
(You're making me remember things I haven't thought about in a long time :) my apologies if some details are off) The simple definition of a shader is "a shader is a program that runs on the GPU instead of the CPU" (or a
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Yes and no. Specifically with regard to compiling: OpenGL 2.0 introduced the "GLSL" shader language, which is a C-like language that compiles to run on specific GPUs. OpenGL has an API call that says "given this GLSL string,
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by LukeShu 6y ago
The kernel mediates access to the GPU, isolating between processes, but it doesn't abstract over them very much to provide a uniform API for wildly different GPUs. The kernel exposes more-or-less the low-level API of the GPU chip itse
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Did you say that backwards? On my lap, the screen of my laptop is 17"-20" from my face. At a desk, the monitor is usually about 28" from my face.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> The myth of 1x, 2x, and 3x being "preferred" is just an Apple-ism And a GTK-ism.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
That's the approach that https://crt.sh uses. https://www.lukeshu.com/blog/crt-sh-architecture.html
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> netcat is (a bit, due to BSD vs GNU) more portable Note that GNU doesn't have a netcat implementation. There's a netcat implementation that calls itself "GNU netcat", but it isn't actually associated with GNU,
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by LukeShu 6y ago
They don't work at all in Firefox, so... for any Firefox users, yes.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Indeed, this is what I see https://i.imgur.com/jVWhV49.png with Arch's Firefox 83.0 on Parabola (downstream of Arch). It seems that the issue is the "LatinModernMathJax_Monospace-Regular" font being broken.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Surely the "Mathematical Monospace" set of characters have merit in being allowed on HN, this misuse of them notwithstanding?
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> If you get a 1500 on your SAT A bit OT, but: I was going to say that the 1600 point scale hasn't been used for years (since 2005, when they switched to a 2400 point scale), but it turns out that they went back to the 1600 point
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> However, if you subvert that simplicity, it doesn't have ... destructors But it does have that, `runtime.SetFinalizer`. Sure it's clunky, and that's probably intentional: It's just there to be there as the escap
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by LukeShu 6y ago
After reading both of those articles... what's the reason behind it? The first article gives us nothing but definitions (it's oriented toward the consumer, so it doesn't spend any time prescribing vendor behavior). The seco
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I know that they share code, and that the Oracle Java team commits to the OpenJDK code. If they're actually the same right now, idk, bit it's often been the case that they aren't. It's often been the case that the Open
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by LukeShu 6y ago
First of all, when I say "Java", I mean OpenJDK; things might be different in the Oracle side of the world. My naive answer was going to be that, from Java's perspective libcairo is part of the underlying OS. But when I wr
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> Leave it on Git, accept pull requests, check it once a week/month, you're good. That's exactly it, this is essentially a contributor saying "hey, there are a bunch of contributions, can a maintainer please check i
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here. It looks like people are contributing, but that the contributors are realizing that the maintainers/leaders have all vanished. So really there are 3 poss
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by LukeShu 6y ago
The email seems to imply that it's "dead" in that while it has an active community and active contributors , it doesn't have any active maintainers .
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Yep!
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Not just what 'aaronbrethorst said; Cairo isn't just a 2D graphics library, but it is the foundational 2D graphics library that underpins most of the modern GNU/Linux desktop: It's what's used by gstreamer, GTK+
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by LukeShu 6y ago
">" is the prompt on MS-DOS, and "_" is the cursor. Somehow this has resulted in ">" or ">_" being the terminal "icon" even in unixy parts of the world; looking at the generic &quot
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by LukeShu 6y ago
From the 1999 FAQ: http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/reqs.html http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/mmubuy.html

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