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by Pinus 2y ago
Now I want to see a print sample! =)
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by Pinus 2y ago
A facsimile of a NASA design manual that’s fifty years out of date must be considered a geek’s edition, and the geek’s editions of Harry Potter novels do cost hundreds: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/harry-potter-and-t
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by Pinus 2y ago
I’d say a lot of the complexity comes from the fact that there are at least four things — Jack, PulseAudio, Pipewire and the ALSA userland stuff, which the article fails to mention — that try to solve more or less the same problems (probabl
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by Pinus 2y ago
Ah, of course. Thanks!
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by Pinus 2y ago
I’m not sure I understand the bit about time-ordered values being a better fit for B-trees. Actually, I’m sure that I don’t understand it... If anything, I’d naively assume that inserting already-sorted values would be a worst case, alway
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by Pinus 2y ago
One thing that always bothers me with both matplotlib and gnuplot, is that they literally seem to have a command (or function call) for everything. To set the tick size for the third-level ticks on the Y axis, you call set_third_level_y_tic
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by Pinus 2y ago
Why so many packages? Does it mean that all of them have some critical flaw, and are so hard to fix (for some reason) that everyone just starts from scratch instead of fixing an existing one?
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by Pinus 2y ago
CVE-2019-6446 seems to be in the right ballpark.
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by Pinus 2y ago
Hang on, doesn’t numpy use C (row major) array ordering by default? checks docs Seems like it does. However, numpy array indexing also follows the maths convention where 2D arrays are indexed by row, column (as does C, by the way), so to
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by Pinus 2y ago
"Won’t we lose platforms that aren’t Linux or BSD?" Well, as a mostly-mac user these days, a sane Makefile that I can understand and fix is much preferrable to some automake-generated monstrosity that does not work... Which leads
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by Pinus 2y ago
There are many legends about fissile material, or even “bomb kits” hidden away in some of Sweden’s many hollow mountains. According to Wilhelm Agrell’s book “Svenska förintelsevapen”, the foundation for one such legend is as follows: There
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by Pinus 2y ago
I don’t know about Denmark, but on the north side of the Sound, all construction contracts seem to go to chains of subcontractors fourteen levels deep, where minor details like workplace safety get lost around level five or so, and the fell
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by Pinus 2y ago
Let me put in a word for The National Museum of Computing, www.tnmoc.org in Bletchley Park, where you can see the real thing (I can’t remember which state of refurbished/rebuilt/replica it is), along with a replica bombe, EDSAC (b
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by Pinus 3y ago
I seem to remember that at least some TELNET clients would default to "dumb byte pipe" mode if run on some other port than 23. However, I can't find anything supporting this memory, so quite possibly I'm wrong...
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by Pinus 3y ago
Is there a good introduction to CMake for those of us on the receiving end, i.e., we’re trying to build a package, maintained by someone else, which uses CMake? Things like how to tell it where to find this other package that I just built (
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by Pinus 3y ago
I’m not sure anybody really wants them to exist (except themselves, obviously). Current law, more or less by accident, allows them to exist, and since this touches on the principle of openness in public administration, which is a bit of a
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by Pinus 3y ago
The Internet is not only bad — it is now possible to sign up for notifications when somebody registers at your address (it’s on the Skatteverket web, somewhere). However, Sweden being Sweden, I suppose you will still have to prove that th
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by Pinus 3y ago
No. The idea here is that the workings of the public authorities should be open to scrutiny. Hence, all documents (correspondence, working documents, the lot!) are public, except those that are explicitly made secret, and it takes national-
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by Pinus 3y ago
"Map showing the triangulation across the Andes, 1744. Bibliothèque nationale de France." Fancy, I didn’t know that Sangis, Torneå and Kemi were in the Andes! :-)
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by Pinus 3y ago
I’m not familiar with modern (or any, for that matter...) car navigation systems. Do they have a big "NO!" button? The ones I have seen seemed very intent on planning one route, and then following that, no matter what. If you coul
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by Pinus 3y ago
It is a purposely malicious take! The question was why the GNU project has put itself in a place where it cannot assign resources to the GIMP project, to make GIMP more like what the average person wants it to be. The GIMP developers say
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by Pinus 3y ago
Because GNU are on a Mission. They’re not out to make things people want, they’re out to make things people ought to be wanting (according to them). This is not necessarily bad - the world needs some idealists - but it does interfere with f
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by Pinus 3y ago
Ages ago, when I was in college, a "numerical methods" course was more or less obligatory... has that changed? Anyway, toying with a slide rule is a fun way of making these things very obvious, because you are essentially working
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by Pinus 3y ago
This is probably slightly irrational, but it pains me to see how many slide rules go unsold at auction sites, and probably end up being thrown away. Admittedly, most of these are school rules of which there are thirteen in a dozen, but I se
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by Pinus 3y ago
In RMS’ message that started that discussion, he stated that the GNU project intended to provide two languages — one Lisp-like (which I assume eventually became Guile), and one with a more algebra-like syntax. Did anything ever come out o
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by Pinus 3y ago
I remember actual hardware terminals doing this. I also remember keeping it turned off, partially because it was slow (as many others have already said), but also because I felt weird when scrolling one line at a time. As I remember it, the
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by Pinus 3y ago
4 November, actually. All Saints’ Day gets a bit confusing in Sweden, because there are two of it — one on 1 November, which is not a public holiday, and one on the Saturday after, which is. The one on Saturday tends to catch people by su
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by Pinus 3y ago
Considering that this happened last Saturday, and today is Thursday, i.e, it has only been five days (more like four, since it's still early morning, local time, on Thursday) I find it extremely unlikely that all books have been return
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by Pinus 3y ago
Or the classic "what is the difference between print(foo) and return foo", which pops up on Stack Overflow every now and then.
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by Pinus 3y ago
Autotools was a perfectly reasonable way of solving 1993 problems with 1993 tools. Whether it still makes any sense in 2023 a different matter... Having said that, given the choice between a non-working autoconf build scheme, and a non-work

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