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Crunching Numbers with AVX and AVX2(codeproject.com)
2 points by epilys 4y ago|0 comments
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by epilys 4y ago
It sounds like the old joke "my IQ test came back negative".
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by epilys 4y ago
Here's how to do the same thing in Fontforge (with .otf file ready for download) https://gist.github.com/epilys/95869773037d3d2235d324bd5a048...
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by epilys 4y ago
Because it was designed for webmail frontends, which can communicate with servers from the client side.
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by epilys 4y ago
It's actually in the original IMAP4rev1 RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501#section-2.3.1.1 Using UIDs is opt-in, by prefixing `UID ` in front of some commands. There are indeed extensions that add more `U
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by epilys 4y ago
Go to online markets of furniture models which have online preview (necessary) If you then look at the request that loads up the preview, the dae/obj file is usually there.
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by epilys 4y ago
I'm just a nobody, but I wouldn't trust the Intercept on OPSEC advice. From a purely technical point, they did fail to protect their sources when they exposed Reality Winner to the US government.
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by epilys 4y ago
I made my own mutt-like CLI client from scratch. https://meli.delivery/ Webassembly demo: https://meli.delivery/wasm2.html Git: https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli
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W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization(w3.org)
313 points by epilys 4y ago|217 comments
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by epilys 4y ago
I haven't been to the British Museum, but my understanding is it's exhibiting mostly non-british artifacts? Returning it all must pose an existential threat to the people in charge of it.
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by epilys 4y ago
Looks great and I see it has a lot of positive reviews. Out of curiosity, since this is a a high-stakes equipment since it's used for safety, did you have to get a certification of any kind to sell it commercially? I also see you ship
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by epilys 4y ago
You might be interested in ragtime video game covers. There are lots of videos of a ragtime piano player called Tom Brier who *sightreads* video game music notation. That is, he plays a score while reading it for the first time. He's i
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by epilys 4y ago
My native language is Greek and it has grammatical genders. It's not a "problem" for native speakers because children soak nuanced details incredibly fast. You never hear kids have problems with it, only non native speakers,
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by epilys 4y ago
It's "bad" but it sets up some important details you'd need to understand the context of a lot of stuff you see afterwards.
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by epilys 4y ago
Fun fact: Lynch's collaborator, composer and sound designer Dean Hurley noticed the "Laura Palmer Theme" in MIDI format forms literally twin mountain peaks in this particular visualization: https://www.vulture.com&
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by epilys 4y ago
FYI, plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac. It means bottom-of-the-bag in French, so the plural form would be bottoms-of-the-bag. Like the plural of sibling-in-law is not sibling-in-laws. Worthless fact of the day!
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by epilys 4y ago
What would narc syndicates turn to if cocaine, heroin etc were legalized and commercialised in both developed and underdeveloped countries? There have been news reports on cartels dealing on avocado, but can organised crime survive as it is
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by epilys 4y ago
The name is meaningless but the similarity ends there. Basically, left politics were heavily suppressed after WWII. The then-famous Greek Resistance was left-wing self-organized militia. After WWII ended though, the British armed right wing
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by epilys 4y ago
The political party is calling itself socialist, but it's fiscally conservative, supports the free market and Keynesian economics. It's considered center in Greece.
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by epilys 4y ago
For context, this person was part of PASOK[0], one of the two political parties that created the Greek debt crisis and is rife with corruption scandals [1][2][3][4][5]. She was removed from the party some days ago. The other political party
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by epilys 4y ago
The disclaimer is probably unintentionally funny: This demonstration tool is not connected to our real grids: therefore you can feel free to go to the limits and test out all constellations that interest you.
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Advent(2) – The System Call Advent Calendar: Starts Today(osg.tuhh.de)
3 points by epilys 4y ago|4 comments
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by epilys 4y ago
"Welcome to the Advent(2), the Advent calendar of the Operating System Group at the Hamburg University of Technology. Every day of December, we will open a door and find a system call, a concept or an interface of Linux. Behind each do
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by epilys 4y ago
Xenophon, the author of Anabasis, also wrote a treatise on hunting, which includes suggestions for naming hounds: > Give the hounds short names, so as to be able to call to them easily. The following are the right sort: Psyche, Thymus, P
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by epilys 4y ago
Some context for the symbolism that I think is missing from the article. The person in the engraving is seen leaving a sphere containing an Earthly world. The term for this sphere is mentioned in the second sentence of the article, «firmam
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by epilys 4y ago
Here's also a read-only NNTP/Usenet bridge for HN you can self-host https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py/blob/main/examples/h...
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by epilys 4y ago
I've written an AGPLv3 no-js link aggregator with tags in Django/sqlite3 which I self host at https://sic.pm but without an active user base. You can self host it for your own community however: https://gith
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A Minor Gotcha in Open(2)(nessuent.net)
2 points by epilys 4y ago|0 comments
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by epilys 4y ago
Here's a single file, no dependency nntp / Usenet server library in python3 I wrote. It includes an HN gateway as an example. I have used it with slrn (tui), meli (tui), pan (gui) and thunderbird (gui) https://github.co
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by epilys 4y ago
Sounds really exciting! Mir interpreter has the same limitation. Have you examined incorporating mir in your analysis?

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