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by fernly 11y ago
> Although exxo binary itself is statically linked, included C extensions (if any) are not. All required shared libraries must be installed on the target machine. For example, if you use lxml, you must install libxml2. This is a major sh
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by fernly 11y ago
Meta? You want meta? Try byterun [1], a full Python bytecode executor written in Python... [1] https://github.com/nedbat/byterun
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by fernly 11y ago
A good story. Pity it is marred by a number of uncorrected OCR errors: many "h" scanned as "b", 1/0/5 scanned as I/O/S.
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by fernly 11y ago
Aren't there issues at the bytecode level? I've been studying bytecode and ceval.c and I know there are significant differences in the bytecode set, as well as in the code object and function object. So what would a "Python 2
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by fernly 11y ago
Garage sales. You need a VCR, a CRT tv, some tapes. Everything well-used and crufty. Getting scarce but they do show up. Maybe look for "estate sale" signs, you're more likely to find these things when relatives are clearing
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by fernly 11y ago
It only has 400lbs carrying capacity. Batteries to give it a reasonable distance -- maybe a kilometer over rough country? -- would eat into that.
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by fernly 11y ago
I find that link very frustrating. The writer just babbles on about this "method" but I can't find anywhere he concisely defines it. Well, spells it out clearly at any length -- I don't think "concise" is in hi
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by fernly 11y ago
Repair Cafe is a volunteer organization that applies exactly this insight by holding free "repair cafe" events in which volunteer fixers fix anything for free. There are many local branches, if you are a fixer, volunteer for the n
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by fernly 11y ago
It's a smaller project, but I've made small contributions to PyInstaller and found the lead people to be very agreeable.
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by fernly 11y ago
The irony is, Qt _IS_ a cross-platform GUI, where you build your UI once and it looks like Windows on Windows, Mac OS on Mac OS, and the look of whatever window manager on Linux.
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by fernly 11y ago
> htmlPy is a wrapper around PySide's QtWebKit library... Based on my experience using Qt (via PyQt) this is kind of puzzling, and the very limited doc doesn't do much to unpuzzle me. QtWebKit is basically a rendering engine wr
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by fernly 11y ago
Thank you, that was informative. But something seems very wrong to my uneducated understanding. Quoting the Vox writer, >The issue here is depreciation. When a firm buys a computer, the value of that purchase erodes with time. A $2,000 c
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by fernly 11y ago
Not a very informative page. What is the printing technology? Typebar, daisy-wheel, dot-matrix? (The ribbons look like they would fit either of the latter two.) What does the "display" provide, one line of type you can correct bef
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by fernly 11y ago
Some of us first heard of Bode's Law[0] in childhood in the late 1950s, from reading Heinlein's "Time for the Stars"[1]. I have never forgotten a throw-away remark by one of the characters, when Earth's first-ever s
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by fernly 11y ago
But isn't automation the most effective way to higher productivity? The zero-sized workforce is clearly the most economical one for the employer, and where's the union then? And it is precisely the loss of a big percentage of avai
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by fernly 11y ago
> try anti-fungals and see if the patients get better I got the impression that the disease symptoms result not from the mere presence of the fungus, but from progressive damage over a long time. So, if you don't start to treat unt
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by fernly 11y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by the statement that he is asking "campus authorities" to "overrule" his firing. Why would he want to continue working there, or, how could he expect to be able to work in a department after indic
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by fernly 11y ago
What "traditional diet"? The diet that supported hunter-gatherers was very different from that of early agriculturalists, which was different again from urban populations pre-refrigeration and pre-transport (refrigeration + railro
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by fernly 11y ago
Right. Could you POSSIBLY design a less-helpful, less-informative page?Maybe one with even more annoying keyhole-cropped images? Maybe! But you could not possibly under-improve on the random little rainbow bug bottom right that does nothing
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by fernly 11y ago
Right! So all we have to do is establish a base on the moon, build a mining and smelting facility, build a fabrication plant, build a rail-gun launcher, operate all three long enough to fling at least 10e7 tonnes [1] of finished aluminum pa
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by fernly 11y ago
Quoting further, "the mass and scale of the sunshades will also be similar to current terrestrial civil engineering projects such as the Chinese Three Gorges Dam [20], and require a mass production of coated thin material equivalent to
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by fernly 11y ago
Indeed Project Gutenberg[1] has for a number of years been putting out-of-copyright books online. They take great pains[2] to make sure the books are no longer in copyright. Another very important difference is that PG books are proofread b
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by fernly 11y ago
Did a bit of casual internet stalking and found LinkedIn[1] and Facebook[2] and wikipedia user page[3]. The Facebook was updated with birthday wishes in February but nothing recent. [1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/denne
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by fernly 11y ago
OK, grumpy person here. Awesome work for a young person, but. I launched the mac version and pressed enter. Just as I was forming the thought, oh, flappy bird, the flying thing went down into barrier. My macbook emitted a very loud and unpl
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by fernly 11y ago
Some samples in English translation: http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_...
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by fernly 11y ago
For an English speaker, studying Lo[gj][lb]an is like taking a dive from C++ into APL or Haskell. There are whole new ways of representing expression. This is why they are not to be compared to Esperanto, whose syntax is deliberately famili
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by fernly 11y ago
At least one Mythbusters episode has been filmed there. This one[1] for sure, I think a few other driving-oriented ones. (However it is not the same as the Alameda Naval Air station, a big open runway where they have done a number of episo
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by fernly 11y ago
duckduck the phrase "generate graph paper" -- there are many sites offering a wide range of PDFs generated to your specs.
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by fernly 11y ago
Dhalgren[1] is a rich, interesting book but it really isn't SF, and is very much a product of its era, the 1960s-70s. I think it is in part a fantastic re-imagining of Delaney's own early years as recounted more prosodically in &
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by fernly 11y ago
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