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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, I remember this! At some point they even claimed the term "Windows" was too generic to be protected, and they wanted to use it for the project...
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by bambax 2y ago
I think it varies by geographical zones. While the Incas were a violent empire, it seems the Caribbeans were indeed populated with peaceful communities?
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by bambax 2y ago
Interesting! However, while MIDI is 'working' (notes are highlighted when played), it doesn't produce any sound? But sound is produced when when clicking on the keyboard with the mouse...? Is there a setting somewhere to fix
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by bambax 2y ago
> The normal human reaction to being swarmed by galloping cavalry is to flee Yes, and that's why crowd control with mounted police is still very effective today.
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Saxon's free version, which IIRC only implemented 2.0.
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by bambax 2y ago
Sure, but that's not the fault of the format itself, is it? You can write extremely long enumerations in any natural language -- that's the author's fault.
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by bambax 2y ago
> Elements are for data. Attributes are evil This is like, your opinion, man... ;-) You can devise your schema any way you want. Attributes are great, and they exist in HTML in the form of datasets, which, as usual, are a poorly-specif
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by bambax 2y ago
> CSS selectors have spent the last few decades reinventing XPath YES! This is so true! And ridiculous! It's a mystery why we didn't simply reuse XPath for selectors... it's all in there!!
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by bambax 2y ago
I used to do a lot of XSLT coding, by hand, in text editors that weren't proper IDEs, and frankly it wasn't very hard to do. There's something very zen-like with this language; you put a document in a kind of sieve and out co
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by bambax 2y ago
> I want to get XSLT 3.0 working properly first May I ask why? I used to do a lot of XSLT in 2007-2012 and stuck with XSLT 2.0. I don't know what's in 3.0 as I've never actually tried it but I never felt there was some f
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by bambax 2y ago
> When doing the refactoring, they needed to provide new implementations for every opcode. Someone accidentally turned Math.abs() into the identity function for the super-optimized level. But nobody noticed because it almost never ran —
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by bambax 2y ago
That's also my experience.
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by bambax 2y ago
What version(s) of Corel's apps used the ribbon? Not CorelDraw 2024 according to this screenshot: https://www.coreldraw.com/static/cdgs/product_content/cdgs/e... (I'm a happy user of CorelDraw
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by bambax 2y ago
Ok, you're right, it's irrelevant to a discussion about the OS; the point I was trying to make is that this old machine is robust, it can be taken apart, completely, and screwed back together, and still work fine. Not all machines
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by bambax 2y ago
Motherboard is from 2009, is on every day, sometimes stays on for a week. Not one problem so far; not sure what I would do if it failed though!
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by bambax 2y ago
My primary machine is still running Win7; every time I say this here I get a lot of flak, the only result of which is that every time, I'm a little more afraid to confess it; but I will not move to a more recent version of Windows. Eve
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by bambax 2y ago
No accountability or consequences for anyone is the motto of the Trump administration (or indeed Trump himself, who is a convicted felon).
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by bambax 2y ago
> The Signal chat group, I concluded, was almost certainly real. Having come to this realization, one that seemed nearly impossible only hours before, I removed myself from the Signal group Why? Why not stay in the group indefinitely (
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by bambax 2y ago
Yes, but that's insane, isn't it? Whi's going to buy a Tesla now? Eco conscious left wingers hate Musk with all their heart, and right wingers hate electric cars or any mention of climate change. Who's left?
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by bambax 2y ago
I made a webapp a couple of years ago that works in most browsers, including on mobile: https://www.babeloop.com/
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by bambax 2y ago
The level of math and/or tech understanding in the French political "elite" is abysmal. These people graduated high school, and went on to college without doing any math AT ALL after 10th grade ("seconde"), and prob
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by bambax 2y ago
> These aren't dumb people. Yes, they absolutely are. I agree with the rest of your comment, they aren't interested in privacy or security, want generalized surveillance, and are world-class liars. But they are also pretty du
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by bambax 2y ago
Listening to the debates in the lower chamber (Assemblée Nationale) and the arguments of those arguing in favor of backdoors clearly show they do not have a clue how any of this works. They are not clever players doing double-bluffs. They a
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by bambax 2y ago
"Searching" doesn't mean much without information about the ranking algorithm or the search provider, because with most searches there will be millions of results and it's important to know how the first results have bee
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by bambax 2y ago
> I thought we were free speech people The US were never the land of free speech (or of the free). It's all marketing.
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by bambax 2y ago
OVH supports object storage and managed relational databases. It's not on the level of AWS at the moment, but getting there fast.
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by bambax 2y ago
I will not visit the US, for any reason (work or pleasure) while Trump is president (or indeed any Republican is president).
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by bambax 2y ago
This explanation and demo is super clear. It would be interesting to dig deeper into the "thinking" part: how does an LLM know what it doesn't know / how to fight hallucinations in this context?
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by bambax 2y ago
Yeah, "static" may not be the correct term, and sure, everything is a file. Yet +x makes a big difference. You can't chmod a list of weights and have it "do" anything.
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by bambax 2y ago
I'm confused by the language here; it seems "model" means different things. To me a "model" is a static file containing numbers. In front of that file is an inference engine that receives input from a user, runs it

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