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by bmn__ 6y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352943 (2012) 46 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074080 (2017) 41 comments
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> He wants to control […] how trans people are referred to, against their repeated requests Show the source or "it didn't happen", as they say on image boards. I want to make my own conclusion given the evidence. I place t
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I Designed a Free Music Font for 5M Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)(youtube.com)
3 points by bmn__ 6y ago|0 comments
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> If you are a core maintainer, and your job is to interact with this code on a regular basis, you're the de-facto expert on its quality (albeit with some personal biases). If you think the code you have to work on is bad, and peopl
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> We need a new language drawing inspiration This exists (optics/lenses), but most programmers don't know about it. I expect this to hit mainstream programming languages a few years later. I don't know of a simple, jargon-
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by bmn__ 6y ago
related: http://enwp.org/hydrothermal_carbonization
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> SmartGit […] GitKraken > I would be really interested in understanding why so many developers are reluctant to doing anything other than the Git command line. In the spirit of curiosity, I downloaded the two packages. SmartGit shows
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by bmn__ 6y ago
http://enwp.org/Z-variant
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> Claim #4 is "I am skeptical of the claim that voluntary pedophilia harms children" from 2006 until it was recanted 10+ years later. Correction of omission: he changed his mind 2016 or earlier.
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> The problem is not 'someone is not correctly following the serialization rules' Yes, yes, I pointed that out. grep "immediate cause" and "indirect root" > the serialization rules are quite terrible Did
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by bmn__ 6y ago
I work on the deserialisation. This is a one-liner in many programming languages.
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by bmn__ 6y ago
The problem is insufficiently analysed by the article author and the commenters in this thread so far. It is very superficial. The recent thread "Can’t use iCloud with “true” as the last name" https://news.ycombinator.c
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by bmn__ 6y ago
I wanted a copy a couple of times per year, but never considered buying. With some exceptions, they are available elsewhere as a gratis download. All hail https://enwp.org/Libgen https://enwp.org/Z-Library
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by bmn__ 6y ago
It's analogue to buying a book or movie. Of course you only get a copy of the material.
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by bmn__ 6y ago
I'm also interested in this topic and have surveyed the existing and am sad to report there is no excellent and universal solution, merely good enough ones. Adopting DBus goes a long way because it gives you introspection, GUI control
736.
by bmn__ 6y ago
I like to think that I have a pretty good grasp on the current landscape, and concur that a trend can be observed for new languages specifying their identifiers to be sigil-free. Types are an orthogonal concept, so this direction of thought
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by bmn__ 6y ago
Have you asked for help? I would really appreciate an honest answer. I'm putting out this question because your post reads like you never did, and I can totally see having a bad time when someone voluntarily shuts himself out of the co
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by bmn__ 6y ago
dlquant is criminally underrated. Command-line implementation: https://web.archive.org/web/2000/http://www.planetunreal.com... Related discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=color+qua
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List of Color Quantization Algorithms(github.com)
1 points by bmn__ 6y ago|1 comments
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> ﷽, a single glyph occupying anywhere from one to who-knows (I've seen 9) cells, depending on font, font engine, and terminal emulator That's a bug. Unicode standardises the width to one column, a compliant implementation must
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by bmn__ 6y ago
To me and hundreds of millions of others who live in actually safe places (and yes, with accurate statistics), it is mind-boggling that we would have to think about and avoid "specific cities or areas within larger cities". That
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> the US [is] still an extremely safe place. That's incorrect, a misleading exaggeration. In any ranking about safety, it does not occupy the extreme end, but around the median or average. It would be accurate to say that the US, in
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by bmn__ 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. Another spiritual off-shoot is Clementine / Strawberry. https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://strawberrymusicplayer.org/
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> unicode all violate the identifier rules […] library to sanitize this input Unicode standardises identifier rules. The default identifier as per UAX31-R1 can be checked with a regex: perl -E'say "my_identifier" =~
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by bmn__ 6y ago
"Latin characters" is short-hand for "characters from the Latin script", which is not the same as the Roman alphabet. Your post reads a bit muddled because you seem to be under the impression that nothing is standardised
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> If you want lexical scoping […], you have to ask for it in Perl. That's false. Lexical scoping was added in 1994. One cannot ask for it, it's always "on". > Python has safer defaults. The parable of the mote and
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by bmn__ 6y ago
Men's handbags exist. I have one which I am happy with. It is roughly 22×16×10㎝ on the outside and made out of black, tightly woven polyamide fibres (like backpacks) and is water repellent. It has a single broad strap, quite similar to
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by bmn__ 6y ago
> I think Elisa is the new KDE music player Just installed it. Holy fuzzy fuckballs, what a punch in the gut. There are icons, but no buttons and menus. Can't figure out how to add a music file, so the program fails at its fundament
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by bmn__ 6y ago
Don't look back, look forward. You don't need to abandon KDE over the perceived lack of a single feature. It's simply not enabled by default because tiling is esoteric. Run `systemsettings5 kcm_keys` → KWin and (re)assign key
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by bmn__ 6y ago
maybe https://youtu.be/6wPMh-3qYJM?t=3837 (5:47 - 1:03:52) (meanwhile obsolete)

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