dasyatidprime

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by dasyatidprime 6d ago
if table --warble farble; then :; else table_ec=$?; echo "Garble warble farble! :(" >&2; exit $table_ec; fi Works in dash/bash/zsh at least; not 100% sure whether the behavior of $? on the command in an if test is
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by dasyatidprime 10d ago
They wrote “if and why”.
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by dasyatidprime 14d ago
If there were definitely no legal encumbrances, surely they'd want to keep shipping the version with the proprietary codecs in, because that would make them a superior option for users who need those? AFAICT someone upstream thought th
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by dasyatidprime 15d ago
That doesn't sound right to me at all. I'm pretty hazy on the specifics of VA-API, but I wasn't under the impression that the graphics hardware carries 100% of the decode implementation nor had codec licenses attached to it,
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by dasyatidprime 16d ago
Do you have any information on how the actual patent licensing is set up for Vivaldi? I wasn't able to find much on it, though I see the note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vivaldi that it “automatically down
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by dasyatidprime 17d ago
This is one of the the cases where “the language model won't necessarily respect IP law” is really relevant. Individual users may be able to get away with this because they're too scattershot to sue, and users in some jurisdiction
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by dasyatidprime 17d ago
I'm not an experienced video editor, but I don't think the bulk of video editing involves generating new content on the fly except for narrow cases like adding titles, which is where an AI would easily be able to lean on scripting
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by dasyatidprime 17d ago
And to bring up a likely reason: my impression is that H.264 and AAC still have active patents that apply to the major implementations, and those are not licensed gratis for all uses, and that applies more heavily to the encoding side. Ra
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by dasyatidprime 25d ago
My impression is that one of the social effects of domain names being cheap and easy to get (at least among many vaguely technologist-adjacent cohorts) is that failing to invest in a 2LD for a new thing winds up seen as tacky, sort of an “i
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by dasyatidprime 1mo ago
That doesn't follow. I'm pretty sure they're talking about the effect of nominal wage stickiness: you're not constantly renegotiating your rate, so when there's fluctuations in relative value, it matters what unit t
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by dasyatidprime 1mo ago
A single SQLite ‘connection’ can be ATTACHed to multiple database files (which appear as separate prefixed schemata, but you can do things like joins across them) and it seems to work properly if some are read-only and some are not!
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by dasyatidprime 2mo ago
For those interested in the history of alternatives to port numbers: Chaosnet[1] in LispM/ITS times used names for describing which service was being requested. On the TCP side, a spec for requesting services by name has existed since
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by dasyatidprime 2mo ago
TeX uses -- (double hyphen) for producing an en dash and --- (triple hyphen) for an em dash, and that's pretty darn longstanding and well-established. And FWIW, the English writing conventions that I learned use em dashes as punctuat
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by dasyatidprime 2mo ago
There is an ISBN URN namespace, but I don't know whether anyone maps it to anything. https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/isbn
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by dasyatidprime 2mo ago
I don't have experience with the Fedora version specifically, but forum/email bridges tend to run into problems with differing expectations of the medium. This is even more true if it's not clear from the beginning that other
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by dasyatidprime 2mo ago
I use a layout with an AZERTY-style shifted digit row for coding (and for everything else). A quick check of one C++ codebase I've been working with shows ~20× as many instances of digit-row symbols as digits (18× for QWERTY digit-row
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
FWIW, the common utility library Serapeum offers ‘op’ which it claims is from GOO, which is quite similar as a short positional function utility macro without being a reader macro that has more potential for character clashes: (op (> _ 0
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
That's the source! That's the one I remembered but couldn't find! Thank you.
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
Having skimmed the article, I think he's correct about the most common use of macros (by far the single most common type of macro I write in CL is a body-to-lambda transformation, though being able to tweak the sugar makes a differ
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
Notably, Yukihiro Matsumoto took substantial inspiration from Lisp while designing the Ruby language. You can see historical Lisp terminology in the Ruby interpreter sources (at least last I checked, which was a long time ago), like the use
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
> So what I usually do is compile a list of melodic hooks from popular songs my students enjoy. Every so often, we’ll play them and let the student try to pick them out on the piano or their instrument of choice. As someone who had ongoi
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
The copyright to the Outlook binary isn't owned by the users either, even if they're running it on local hardware. The Opus 4.8 weights are (we assume) the same between users, but the conversation/tooling state is not shared
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
> it's much easier for everyone involved to ship a server binary like Valve has done for ages This is drifting some from the original specific topic toward the broader conflict, but, not for everyone involved, surely? Will the aud
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
Most of the problem with browning is the physics: it requires temperatures well above boiling, but the default microwave absorber is water which will tend to saturate around boiling temp. But physical cookware design can be used to make it
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
You might both be interested in https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwav... regarding the history of microwave cooking (not mine). The microwave oven wasn't known destined to be relegated to lo
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by dasyatidprime 4mo ago
That's called CESU-8. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/tr26-4.html
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by dasyatidprime 5mo ago
Not what anyone was talking about. Training corpus ≠ inference engine.
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by dasyatidprime 5mo ago
The dependency cycle is actually the functional mechanism of the code, because they subvert the dedup mechanism in the package manager using a random generation trick. Each recursive copy of the dependencies takes up a little bit more space
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by dasyatidprime 5mo ago
The tag list at the top of the page includes “satire”.
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by dasyatidprime 5mo ago
I think this is just semantic drift (though I am broadly sympathetic to “boo semantic drift”). I see this business use of the term as treating the “mind attuned to being immersed in” and “habitually, automatically reaches for” sub-meanings

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