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by dleslie 10mo ago
Nah, git is terrible with binaries. But the SQL database can be rebuilt periodically; the problem being solved is replacing the git querying with SQL. Could even follow your record model, and use that as data to populate the db.
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by dleslie 10mo ago
Yes, I'm suggesting hosting it on GitHub, leveraging their git lfs support. Just treat it like a binary blob and periodically update with a tagged release.
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by dleslie 10mo ago
GitHub is intoxicatingly free hosting, but Git itself is a terrible database. Why not maintain an _actual_ database on GitHub, with tagged releases? Sqlite data is paged and so you can get away with only fetching the pages you need to resol
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by dleslie 10mo ago
There is no lock-in. It is normal to have accounts on multiple storefronts, and have multiple storefronts installed on your gaming PC; one can access multiple digital libraries on the same PC! Steam wins because it provides a superior produ
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by dleslie 11mo ago
Video Game asset and source control retention was _terrible_. Hell, it's still terrible. Prior to ~2010 we were simply deleting source code and assets for finished projects; either because they weren't owned by the developer due t
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by dleslie 11mo ago
What I really want is a plugin that starts an icecast server with a given song as a root, and continues to stream songs whose albums/artists are within a certain reference distance of the root on discogs/wikipedia/etc. So if
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by dleslie 1y ago
The snags arise when playing games that use specific anti-cheat measures. Which is particularly annoying these days because developers are forcing them to be active when you're playing single player. https://areweanticheatye
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by dleslie 1y ago
On the contrary, Sega has hired notable Sonic community members and published Sonic games they've made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania#Development
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by dleslie 1y ago
I use Emacs' org-mode to do this. Here's an article on how to accomplish this: https://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html
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by dleslie 1y ago
In the most recent election there were efforts to convince Canadians that fraud was occurring. https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/mislead... https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.
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by dleslie 1y ago
We separate election of candidates from policy referendums. Typically ballots only have a handful of names on them; municipal ballots tend to have more due to the size of council. Occasionally there's a great many, due to efforts like
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by dleslie 1y ago
Something as powerful and important as political control shouldn't be relying on something as brittle and vulnerable as software. Even NASA launches with software bugs, from time to time; and the electronic voting vendors aren't u
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by dleslie 1y ago
We hand count in Canada and don't have a notable accuracy problem, and ballot security is a rare concern. We manage that by having simple ballots which make voter intent clear while having the count being run by an independent, non-par
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by dleslie 1y ago
Most banks (all?) provide Interac cards that can operate with Visa/Mastercard protocols. They won't allow you to incur debt, but you can use them as a credit card. It's helpful when traveling abroad to places that do not have
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by dleslie 1y ago
Nothing shameful about attempting to use temporary, non-violent means to end the occupation of the nations' capital, and the blockage of border crossings, when the occupying group has produced a MOU that calls for the dissolution of Go
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by dleslie 1y ago
Different country, different Government, different protests. BLM was a nothingburger in Canada. The most similar protests to that would have been the Wet'suwet'en solidarity protests. Those lasted a few weeks and were ultimately r
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by dleslie 1y ago
The Government was unhappy with them because they were occupying the capital, blocking border crossings, and their MOU demanded that Parliament be dissolved, and that Senators and Bureaucrats who disagreed with the MOU resign; under the thr
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by dleslie 1y ago
Americans ought to adopt the Canadian Interac system.
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by dleslie 1y ago
Each bill of American paper currency has a unique serial number. In practical terms, this means that paper money is not guaranteed to be untraceable for transactions; particularly when engaging in the sort of transactions where large stacks
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by dleslie 1y ago
We did this sort of thing at SFU some 25-30 years ago; though we stopped short of running an OS and compiler on it, and it wasn't a group project. For those interesting in trying this sort of experiment, but wish to have some guidance
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AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors(npr.org)
3 points by dleslie 1y ago|1 comments
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by dleslie 1y ago
OpenWatcom is the preferred choice of those still writing DOS applications, but there are those that still use Turbo C++ for the nostalgia.
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by dleslie 1y ago
For those curious, here is a modern port of the C++ Turbo Vision that also supports Unicode: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
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by dleslie 1y ago
They have a deep incentive to drive users to subscribe, and that's directly at odds with keeping all of the document rendering open source. It makes a lot of sense for them to provide document features that are only available to subscr
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by dleslie 1y ago
For now, that's the entire collaboration component. It would make sense to build a portion of document rendering in that context which won't be found in the open source portions. A value-add to convince users to subscribe.
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by dleslie 1y ago
Interesting; it's an opinionated implementation of R7RS. Lost of deviations is here: https://github.com/yuriy-chumak/ol/blob/master/doc/R7RS-DIFF...
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by dleslie 1y ago
My prime subscription expires this week. Perhaps the correct response to this systemic incompetence is to simply no longer give them money.
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by dleslie 1y ago
In thirty years LaTEX will still be open source and probably will be maintained. Typst appears to be a mix of open source and closed source; the general model here tends to be neglecting the open source part and implementing critical featur
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by dleslie 1y ago
Wifi is as good as FreeBSD, because they share drivers. But yes, graphics drivers are a problem.
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by dleslie 1y ago
Shorts and music, for now. They'll undoubtedly expand it to all videos eventually.

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