gourlaysama

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by gourlaysama 2mo ago
No, this only removes parsing CELT inside an ogg container (because CELT itself is going away), not support for ogg itself.
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by gourlaysama 5mo ago
> Talk about the war on Christmas! Not just a war on Christmas, but an actual war too: this led to a whole bunch of Christmas riots throughout England, including Canterbury's famous "Plum pudding Riots", where rioters ende
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by gourlaysama 6mo ago
And things get even crazier in Part 2 [1]. [1]: https://www.filfre.net/2026/03/the-mystery-of-rennes-le-chat...
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by gourlaysama 1y ago
Putting API contracts aside, the problem is also that people use a package manager as if it was a code snippet manager. As in, "how do I check if a string starts with a shebang" should result in some code being pasted in your edit
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by gourlaysama 1y ago
The app in the Google Store is no longer maintained, hence the warning. It is however available in F-droid [1], and the newer versions don't need the secondary app and do everything internally. [1]: https://f-droid.org/
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by gourlaysama 4y ago
There are GUIs based on mpv that provide a user-friendly interface and just use mpv for playback, see Celluloid [0]. [0]: https://celluloid-player.github.io/
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
See the Linux documentation's "How the development process works" [0]. The way a changeset goes from a developer's machine to the root is reasonably similar (it usually gets pulled through a number a intermediate trees,
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
Yes, it works the same. Since mpv 0.34 it even looks for yt-dlp first, and fallback to youtube-dl otherwise. Before that you had to set an option, or just symlink youtube-dl to yt-dlp.
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
Unicode has both MICRO SIGN (U+00B5) and GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (U+03BC). The former is the one on (most) people's keyboard, and it shouldn't be used to type actual Greek.
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
> FWIW this is literally the first time I’ve encountered someone claiming that it isn’t science fiction. Well, there's Science Fantasy [1]: Jedi and the Force are very much Wizards and Magic. I've heard it called Space Fantasy,
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
There is a new mount syscall in Linux 5.12, see "ID remapping in mounts" [1], that should help with all the permission madness, eventually. It allows different mounts to expose the same content with different ownership, and in gen
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
On Firefox you can go to `about:processes`. It lists tabs by process, and includes the PID (on Linux; no idea about other platforms). You can also directly kill tabs and processes from there.
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by gourlaysama 5y ago
To be fair, this is more a Rust Syntax Reference Sheet than any kind of cheat-sheet. It basically has everything. It's useful to quickly lookup the syntax for something you never use, for example. Or to browse and discover things you d
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by gourlaysama 6y ago
That reminds me of the two anti-tanks fortresses disguised as houses as part of the Toblerone line [1]. Those two were the only ones visible from the road by people (i.e. tourists), so they made them a bit less scary. The Tim Traveller did
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Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking(developers.redhat.com)
4 points by gourlaysama 6y ago|0 comments
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by gourlaysama 6y ago
This seems to misrepresent why people bother naming things. It's not like mathematicians are spending their time randomly naming every object/property/structure/... they encounter just for the sake of it. A "Kähler
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by gourlaysama 6y ago
> Did this used to be open knowledge and scrubbed now? The [edit: wikipedia] article mentions that he was "director of radio operations of the Psychological Warfare branch in the Office of War Information at Allied Force Headquarter
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by gourlaysama 7y ago
The Scala release checklist [1] is a good example of a release checklist with both automated and manual steps. [1]: https://github.com/scala/scala-dev/issues/645
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by gourlaysama 7y ago
> With the deprecation of Adobe Flash Player, there is no longer a need to identify users on 32-bit version of the Firefox browser on 64-bit version operating systems[, ]reducing user agent fingerprinting factors. Good. User agents alrea
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by gourlaysama 7y ago
The 8-part series this comes from (starting here [1]) was a really good read. Very informative, regardless of one's stance on emoji. [1] https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2018/08/emoji-part-1-in-the-be...
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by gourlaysama 8y ago
There are differences between Chinese and Japanese stroke order. See the animCJK [0] project for support for Japanese kanji and kanas (demo: [1]). [0]: https://github.com/parsimonhi/animCJK [1]: http://gooo.
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by gourlaysama 8y ago
> I was curious as to whether this had already shipped for other platforms or not. AV1 support is available on all platforms behing the flag; this release just enables it by default on Windows [1]. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozill
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by gourlaysama 8y ago
> Nothing is handling the order because there is only one buffer being written to. Ah, that's what I was missing. Thank you, that makes sense.
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by gourlaysama 8y ago
This is probably a stupid question, but doesn't the PTY itself already have that out-of-order problem? I mean that it reads both file descriptors and does interleave them in the end. If it didn't they could still colorize things a
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by gourlaysama 8y ago
> [...] for compatibility reasons. For compatibility with DOS 1.x no less [0]! That's 37 years and counting of backward compatibility... [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=...
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The Internet has made defensive writers of us all(pchiusano.github.io)
67 points by gourlaysama 12y ago|38 comments
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by gourlaysama 12y ago
I am not sure I agree with all of OP's argument, and I don't really care for the whole "version numbers as a marketing message" thing, but for me SemVer fails miserably when it comes to binary compatibility versus sou
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SSL Connectivity for all Central Repository users Underway(blog.sonatype.com)
6 points by gourlaysama 12y ago|0 comments
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Scala 2.12 Roadmap(scala-lang.org)
86 points by gourlaysama 12y ago|62 comments
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by gourlaysama 12y ago
AbstractFunction, Function, Product and Tuple are all still limited to 22. Increasing the limit would create too much bytecode, and in the current design, lifting the limit is just impossible (without runtime code generation or custom class

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