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by enriquto 2y ago
By the same author https://levien.com/phd/phd.html
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by enriquto 2y ago
Happy to see the neverending fruits of using Euler spirals in place of Béziers. Very few people can boast of such influential phd work.
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by enriquto 2y ago
But strings are often the most common case (or even, the only case that is needed). And they need much less punctuation. Compare: a=1 b=2 c=3 with {"a"="1", "b"="2", "c"=&quo
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by enriquto 2y ago
> I like the syntax to send typed values from the terminal: Incidentally, this syntax shows a notation that is clearly superior to json (at least for non-nested stuff). If all you need is this, you'd be better off by avoiding json
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by enriquto 2y ago
> (...) switch to a less permissive license. License "permissiveness" is a relative concept. From the point of view of the users of your software, the GPL is more permissive than MIT, since they have permission to see the sour
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by enriquto 2y ago
surprisingly unrelated to spivak
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by enriquto 2y ago
Sounds like a company problem then; not a license problem.
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by enriquto 2y ago
I don't understand. Are you afraid of being able to see the source code of the program you are going to use? You are not forced to look at it, if you don't want to.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> 5. sed, if you count that (I do) If they count sed, they should definitely count vimscript !
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by enriquto 2y ago
As a user, that is precisely the main drawback of the bsds (as much as I love them, especially OpenBSD). If I'm using a bsd in some third-party computer, some icky middleman may have changed stuff in the system for which I'm no
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by enriquto 2y ago
Newton made his own iron gall ink according to a recipe found in his notes [0]. By using the same recipe you can sort of feel a connection to him... Also, think about it when you hesitate to "reinvent the wheel" or "perform
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by enriquto 2y ago
> I think my favourite feature of this repo is the `README.md.d` directory. The real power move here would be to embed the images as verbatim sixel inside the README file. Thus you could cat README and see them in all their glory.
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by enriquto 2y ago
Please, nobody tell these people about Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner" piano music.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> I wanted to publish it to the play store, get exposure and share what I have made. It's not clear what you mean exactly with "exposure". But if you only care about sharing your work, it may be better to publish it on f-
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by enriquto 2y ago
pdf2ps a.pdf vim a.ps # take a look at it, maybe you see how the font is called cat a.ps | sed 's/Comic Sans/Times/g' > b.ps # may be slightly more complex ps2pdf b.ps
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by enriquto 2y ago
One would rather say that ymal, toml, xml, etc. are wheel reinventions of plain text files.
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by enriquto 2y ago
Is there another Elaine? Avril is also listed as an artist in many other lucasarts games, including Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Also in Prince of Persia (just for the title screen [0], if I understand well). Definitely, she&#x2
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by enriquto 2y ago
> They could just have a “quick edit” mode, a “read” mode and a “power user mode”. Would the density of these interfaces increase or decrease? An actual power-user would master all the shortcuts and would prefer a zen experience where on
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by enriquto 2y ago
By the great Avril Harrison, one of the artists behind the Monkey Island games, whose likeness is said to have inspired Elaine!
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Do you believe that you could implement the Airbnb interface without any CSS or Javascript? No, I don't. It has scrollable maps, for example. Those require a Javascript-operated canvas. What I don't understand is why it nee
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by enriquto 2y ago
I honestly don't understand what the whole issue with web design is about (it's as far away as possible from my domain of expertise, so this is a statement of ignorance, not of arrogance). A "motherfucking website" witho
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by enriquto 2y ago
In 80 years our grandchildren will look at Assange and Snowden like today we look at Sophia Scholl. Great heroes that remained a beacon of sanity while the world was going crazy around them.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> This blocks JavaScript that isn't explicitly licensed exactly the way they want, right? The way you want. Nobody forces you to run this plugin. You can run this plugin, or not, or even change the plugin source code to better f
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by enriquto 2y ago
> A camera takes a picture of what it sees. All images taken with digital cameras have been filtered by a pipeline of advanced algorithms. Nobody ever looks at "what the camera sees". What kind of savage would look at an
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Insanity for anyone who worked in ecosystems like go, c#, rust On the other hand, I can easily pick a part of the "C ecosystem" that suits me really well, for there is so much choice! In rust, I'm stuck with some conven
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by enriquto 2y ago
Carbon capture is obviously inconsequential; but it would seem that even emissions reduction is a useless endeavor, wouldn't it? All extracted carbon will be eventually burned. Burning it sooner or later it's not such a big deal
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by enriquto 2y ago
I'm really confused by the aulos... How does such a short pipe produce these low notes? By the looks of it I would expect it to sound two octaves higher.
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by enriquto 2y ago
That is not true. I use gnu tools compiled with musl libc.
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by enriquto 2y ago
> Containers are not designed to be security boundaries. So you'd prefer your graphics system to act as a security boundary? Seems very weird to me. Containers are clearly the right tool for this job, for they can run as well for
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by enriquto 2y ago
> an application that has access to your display can do stuff with other applications. Well, of course, that's the whole point of using "applications", isn't it? To change the state of your data! Regardless of x11&#x

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