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by idoubtit 7mo ago
The weirdness is partly in JSON . In the JSON spec, the slash (named "solidus" there) is the only character that can be written plainly or prefixed with a backslash (AKA "reverse solidus"). See page 4, section 9 of the l
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by idoubtit 7mo ago
> That's the default output when using json_encode with the JSON_PRETTY_PRINT flag in php. JSON_PRETTY_PRINT is irrelevant. Escaping slashes is the default behavior of json_encode(). To switch it off, use JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES.
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
0AD's web site is rather bad at describing the game, but Beyond All Reason is even worse. I rarely play, so I had never heard about it. Both focus on details, forgetting the main points. After reading BAR's homepage and the FAQ, I
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
Most European people know about Odysseus, but few have read Homer, even in translation. I one met a visiting Iranian academic just after I'd learned about the Shahnameh. I'd also read the opinion of a French scholar who thought it
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
I think it depends a lot on the history of the language. My native language is French, and since long ago various authorities try to normalize and "purify" the language. This is why the gap between spoken French and written French
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
> That seems a bit too optimistic to be a valid argument. I think you misunderstood, since that's not about optimism. Years ago, smart students from all over the world could hope for a successful career in American research. Now, in
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
Wikidata is a FRBR-compatible public database of books. I don't know if it's good enough for the kind of books the author wants, but in recent years the quality of wikidata greatly increased for the books that deal with (about 100
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
> Is this really that hard to type? Your link is irrelevant. It points to OpenBSD which uses rc, not sysv. The 3 lines of this rc startup script use a file of 400 lines of shell with commands that don't exist in SysVinit. With sysv,
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
The world is vast, and I doubt that every mechanical engineer has studied steam engines, and that it makes a difference in the end. Most modern programmers don't learn COBOL60 or Commodore BASIC. Modern mathematician very rarely study
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by idoubtit 8mo ago
Comparing MermaidJS with Kroki is a bit like comparing PDF.js to Adobe Acrobat. I don't think either is better than the other, they're just for different use-cases. With MermaidJS, converting a diagram inside a web page requires a
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
For anyone opening the link and wondering why the expected "gleam.toml" is missing: the project contains 2 Gleam sub-projects. The server/ directory is the BEAM server (no framework) and the client/ directory is the glea
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
This a very verbose and confuse article. Mixing P/LI and IMG/BR is wrong. I think the situation could be explained with two points: 1. The autoclose syntax does not exist in HTML5, and a trailing slash after a tag is always ignore
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
The reporter rightly queried other researchers about this article, and all of them were skeptical that a "supply shock" could be the cause, or even the main cause. My own skepticism is because the death rate went down many months
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
I've read thousands of books. There are good novels everywhere, and no country has the exclusivity of any theme. > One is the depiction of desolation and human loneliness before the American continent was developed into a prosperous
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
The title makes it look like Public Domain is universal, while the article does mention that this list is only about the USA. > On January 1, 2026, books published in 1930 enter the U.S. public domain. The Copyright laws are different in
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
Not much... I wrote a few times to my local MPs ("député", as we call them in France). I usually got a response, though I suspect it was written by their secretary with no other consequence. In one case (related to privacy against
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by idoubtit 9mo ago
That's my experience. I'm not a Python developer, and installing Python programs has been a mess for decades, so I'd rather stay away from the language than try another new tool. Over the years, I've used setup.py, pip,
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
> If you use Caddy that's even the default behavior - it tries ZeroSSL first and automatically falls back to Let's Encrypt if that fails for whatever reason. No, that's false. It's the other way around. “If Caddy cann
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
1. Die Wand (1963, Germany). The Wall. Marlen Haushofer. An excellent novel, simple, yet moving. Why do we live and what is our connection to nature? 2. Fifth Business (1970, Canada). Robertson Davies. I've read thousands of novels, so
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
> Another good book is "Eichman in Jerusalem" I've read at least two articles authored by historians that thought this book was full of factual errors and misunderstandings. One of them had studied Eichmann's life and
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
Your mileage may vary, because the workflow you described does not suit me. I rarely want to put on hold my commit, work on a new one, then go back later to the former commit. Most of the time, when working on a new commit I have a few chan
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
So they suggest to write scripts in Python rather than shell because Python is stable, probably installed on the target machine, has a big standard library, and is more readable. Many people do so. That's the bright side of Python. The
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
What was unclear in that article is that the XML is usually embedded in the invoice. For instance, Factur-X is the mandatory format in Germany, and it's a PDF which contains a metadata block with a XML EN16931 content. This XML will us
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
So, a handful of persons "believe that OpenStreetMap is a creation of Chinese communists" and are removing specific data from OpenStreetMap, and the OP explains why this is stupid but innocuous. But that's not the first time
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by idoubtit 10mo ago
> Codeberg is a fork of Gitea, itself a fork of Gogs. Codeberg is a website powered by Forgejo which is a fork of Gitea. > Both forks originated for "philosophical" reasons, not technical ones Gitea forked because one develo
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by idoubtit 11mo ago
Adding new functions and alternative syntax has a long-term cost for PHP and the projects that use the language. I don't see much value in the new features of PHP5 announced on https://www.php.net/releases/8.5&#x2F
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by idoubtit 11mo ago
Are the new features really readable? I have no idea what this code from the OP is meant for: #[SkipDiscovery(static function (Container $container): bool { return ! $container->get(Application::class) instanceof ConsoleApp
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by idoubtit 11mo ago
A small correction: drivers from the EU do not need a UK license; the driving license from their own country is valid in the UK, even post-Brexit. And the exchange scheme only applies to residents of Great-Britain. So those bloody foreigner
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by idoubtit 11mo ago
I share many of the author's delights. I would add another source of "short little difficult books": old books, written in an old form of your modern language. My native tongue is French, so in my case it was Rabelais' &
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by idoubtit 11mo ago
The post has many links to OpenBSD's man pages, FAQ and manual. But I thought it was quite unsatisfying, even common tasks are missing. Or at least I couldn't find them. I had a test case in mind while reading the documentation: r

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