froh

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by froh 11mo ago
funny how the association of "party leadership" is some socerlest regime, while we're talking US politics.
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by froh 11mo ago
> The emergent forms are much more interesting than they have any right to be for such a simple system. hehe I wonder if this is how evolution in nature "comes up with" beauty :-D
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by froh 11mo ago
List of large sailing vessels - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_sailing_vessels not the longest but top notch tonnage the French Wikipedia lists it at 13 278 GT https://fr.wikipedia.org
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by froh 11mo ago
Slonneger, Kenneth, and Kurtz, Barry L.. Formal syntax and semantics of programming languages : a laboratory based approach. United Kingdom, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. as the Amazon app wants to switch country and closes if I
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by froh 11mo ago
I think GP means "parents" as a class of not so tech savvy people in your family who need to be protected from naively installing malware. and the purported purpose of notarization is "blessing" trustworthy software.
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by froh 11mo ago
The point is: the X11 spec is much more complete.
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by froh 11mo ago
> Everything built on top is up to the implementation developers. and that's exactly creating the problem: Window management for example is left as an excercise to the reader. thus (my point above) the WSLg interop for graphcial a
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by froh 11mo ago
yup. it's american english for "oh this must be hard for you. how can we help you to cope?" and no intent to change. a better response would rather be: "We're sorry, we were not aware. please can we meet and you h
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by froh 11mo ago
I to this day think the move from dsssl to xslt was the biggest mistake in the SGML to XML evolution. they went from a clean scheme based standard to a human-unreadable "use a GUI tool" syntax. st text serna was a wysiwyg XML FO r
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by froh 11mo ago
in _reality_ it gives stack owners full proprietary control. specifically the wslg stack does not enable Linux gui apps to smoothly integrate with the Windows window manager, because some bits are missing in the Windows Wayland stack, clipb
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by froh 11mo ago
Yes and your response in the whole thread reading top to bottom was the first one that really taught an old dog a new trick. I've been using gnu on x11 since 1991, been annoyed by fellow student's audio streams on my work station
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by froh 11mo ago
colorbrewer has proven high contrast gradients and also color blind options. a cli command with two options, console (color) and HTML opens all doors, right?
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by froh 1y ago
yes. and the two nuggets I took were looking a Unix pipe as a concurrent processing notation and pointing out that the Unix R&D for great notations (or the communication thereof?) stopped right before splitting, cloning and merging con
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by froh 1y ago
there is a lovely book about them "born to pull"
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by froh 1y ago
? they are not four but twelve different (!) base colors. they are calibrated and are very light proof i.e. degrade much slower over time, "look the same" after years. what's your background in understanding how printing wor
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by froh 1y ago
from the way you say this, it seems you confuse cost free with freedom, free software being about the latter, just implying the former.
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by froh 1y ago
this page is fun. and it has a large number of algorithms "explained" Ikea style. I think it's great to explain them to others. I think it doesn't work as a teaching tool per se. it needs someone who understands the al
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by froh 1y ago
here you go: https://idea-instructions.com/merge-sort/ and I think in this discussion we marvel the presentation, not the algorithm per se.
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by froh 1y ago
saitoha/libsixel looks alive and kicking to me https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commits/master/ the x server (OP link) is inactive indeed
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by froh 1y ago
yes. and: kleptocrats. "thieves govern" captures the into-my-pocket better than oligarchs "few govern".
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by froh 1y ago
what's the state of graalpy these days?
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by froh 1y ago
RWE is not the oil or coal lobby. they pay for coal and gas. never would they ever finance a nuclear power plant. to them .02€/kWh (wind/solar) is _super_ sexy/profitable. the fossil fuel lobby is in Texas, Middle East,
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by froh 1y ago
the system API is not syscalls but libc. so why does it feel strange?
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by froh 1y ago
Finland is the world's first and only such facility so far. the law to build it is pretty universal, the world has essentially agreed to not export nuclear waste. associating the progressive innovative green party with blocking progres
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by froh 1y ago
and a municipality willing to have the German finale nuclear waste storage in their backyard. the Söder Challenge is Legend:-)
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by froh 1y ago
> Germany, long a symbol of anti-nuclear politics, is beginning to shift. err, no. it's not. industry lobby tries again and again, yes, and party officials parrot that lobbying, yes. but no: there is no Endlager (permanent spent
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by froh 1y ago
they refer to it's precursor, as per a sibling comment.
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by froh 1y ago
yes, contemporary editors and tools like treesitter have decided this debate in favor of plain text file representation, exactly for the reasons you give: universal accessibility by general purpose tools. xslt was a Diana like pre-parsed re
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by froh 1y ago
having created a dependable a/b update for firmware (with failure detection and fallback), I can confirm this alone is a very very tricky challenge. and I can confirm the good / great threshold. my point is that given a high en
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by froh 1y ago
I think your version _is_ the simplest thing that works: software updates are part of what needs to work in embedded. else you brick devices and have to send technicians to the device, right?

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