akavel

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by akavel 11y ago
A nice solution was used during development of the Go language: a tool for code rewriting (it was called "go fix"). It allowed the language authors to quickly and easily transform large swaths of code in the standard library, an
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by akavel 11y ago
As I wrote above: "It made the task much more fun for me and allowed me to finish after I got a serious case of "author's block" trying to code it in Java." In other words, I did like it! :) I haven't used SML
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Wainfan Facetmobile FMX-4(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akavel 11y ago|1 comments
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by akavel 11y ago
SPOILER WARNING! Nice read at the end of the article: "[...] Naturally, this does not qualify as "seeing" in any human sense, and from a scientific perspective it certainly doesn't mean that we somehow solved computer v
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by akavel 11y ago
Thanks for this comment! I was curious recently for some "layprogrammer" info on differences between Qubes and GenodeOS; although this is not a full blown article, I find it interesting and valuable (and only the second bit of suc
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by akavel 11y ago
I've used Yeti[1][2] to write an Android app for personal use (on Nook Touch) that I couldn't force myself to write in Java. It made the task much more fun for me and allowed me to finish after I got a serious case of "author
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by akavel 11y ago
Quoting a fragment of the last paragraph: "With [...] private companies planning to profit off of lunar resources, the moon is about to become a much busier destination." Are there really such plans? Can anybody explain what the
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Process for speed-writing a book(psgraphics.blogspot.com)
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Nuitka translates Python into a C level program(github.com)
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by akavel 11y ago
Given that people coming to them have their info from somewhere , there might be chance they could succeed through asking those visitors where exactly do they have the data from, and then trying to contact/file the complaint to this s
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by akavel 11y ago
Interesting! Quick feedback: some I believe issues in the current version, in the "assorted examples": - "4 apples + 5 oranges * 18 friends" ― wasn't that meant to be "(4 apples + 5 oranges) * 18 friends"?
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by akavel 11y ago
Have you tried asking for help with how to invent/build contents & fun-factor on the TIGsource forums? There seems to be a section dedicated to "the non-programming aspects of game-making": https://forums.tigso
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by akavel 11y ago
Regarding "future for tech-aware users will be browsers in [...] container/VM", see also Qubes OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/screenshots/ https://www.qubes-os.org/ https://www.
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by akavel 11y ago
I believe that there are actually some third-party libraries for C, which evolved in the open-source ecosystem since K&R, which potentially provide quite much interesting stuff. At some point I've stumbled upon some string library
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by akavel 11y ago
If I understand correctly, the main goal here can be summarized in the quote below: "The motivation: modeling Docker containers as regular processes [...] we want processes to behave just as if they weren’t running inside a containe
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NixOS: FreeBSD support(github.com)
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The Myth of AI(edge.org)
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by akavel 11y ago
The text of the article currently seems to talk about Colombia 's “national cultural patrimony” -- I couldn't find much about Spain; was it edited? was the earlier text quoting Spain?
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by akavel 11y ago
Did you maybe have a look at SILE [1][2]? (I'm not affiliated, but it got me interested very much and I believe it may become a worthy successor to TeX in future.) [1]: http://video.fosdem.org/2015/main_track-types
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by akavel 11y ago
@rhytmvs Have you considered using SILE [1][2] instead of LaTeX (and maybe even InDesign)? (I'm not affiliated, but I believe it may become a worthy successor to TeX in future.) [1]: http://video.fosdem.org/2015/ma
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by akavel 11y ago
Have a look at StuntRally too, if you're after well executed OSS games: http://stuntrally.tuxfamily.org/ It does have some initial weirdness and getting used to in the GUI, but it plays really great and looks stunning
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by akavel 11y ago
Please do let me know too if you publish it. Also, please seriously consider publishing it even without/before cleaning up. TIA!
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by akavel 11y ago
In my opinion, this preference should be additionally reinforced by noticing that "older" means of communication actually do also "suffer" from the same issue: reading books, papers, leaflets pre-Internet, you too should
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by akavel 11y ago
As much as I like the premise of the article, I see two serious problems, that would need to be resolved for the "magic wand" tool to be useful, and it's not very obvious for me how: 1. What about templates ? If there's
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by akavel 11y ago
Re: "I wonder if someone could take advantage of this" I believe that microorganisms patentability would indeed introduce a whole lot of problems for any human being. Starting with what's apparently already happening with pl
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by akavel 11y ago
Noteworthy: For the Cambridge researchers, the French attack is an “I-told-you-so” moment. Five years ago, EMVCo and the UK Cards Association both dismissed their attack as improbable or impossible.
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by akavel 11y ago
Thanks. The problem is, I actually have already read the appropriate sections of the FAQ & some rumpkernel.org pages, but I'm still confused. (I've written my original question out of frustration that things didn't become
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by akavel 11y ago
Actually, I've asked my question after trying to do some basic reading on my own, but it only deepened my confusion, unfortunately. I vaguely remembered that "rump kernels" seemed to mean "assume we're on Xen/K
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by akavel 11y ago
Uh, so only FS for now? That's sure nice, and a nice start, but I really thought there's more to it. Thanks for the clarification & and details. (I remembered that Haiku got network drivers from some WhatsitBSD, so I thought
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by akavel 11y ago
I'm not sure if I understand well the "rump kernel"/"anykernel" idea as implemented in NetBSD. Could anybody please help me with that - specifically, how this differs from a microkernel? My current idea is that

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