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by idoubtit 2y ago
> If the author is here, please understand that there is no "native" UI toolkit for Linux or BSD. You're wrong. When a library is native to some system, it does not mean that it is always shipped with the system. It mean
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> I once read a horrifying fiction story about a pre-industrial culture that used nuclear reactions in open piles of uranium ore The real world was worse than this fiction. It's easy to find pictures of old advertisements for radioa
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I've experimented a bit with bzip3, and I think the results in the readme are not representative. I think it's a handmade pick, with an uncommon input and unfair choices of parameters. And it's made with a HDD, which skews th
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I've reached the same conclusion, and I've been using zstd unless I want extremely fast (de)compression with lz4. And even when I still have to use gzip (the format), the executables of libdeflate are fully compatible and noticeab
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No, a <dialog> element will be displayed at page load if it has the "open" attribute. There is no need for JS. The usual handling is with the JS API, but it's possible to handle it with CSS only. For instance, display t
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> Also, are there online scans of the tablets? Maybe the problem is not the scarcity of scholars, but gatekeeping? With a few minutes of searching the internet, you would not have written that inappropriate question. Tablets are 3D objec
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> The percentage of revenue from Google has fallen every year since 2016. "Fallen" is too strong a word: Google still provided 81% of Mozilla's revenue in 2022. This share probably decreased in 2023, but that's mostly
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The change was decided by the French president, Emmanuel Macron. The windows were dirty with the fumes but not damaged at all. But he wanted to add some modern art to the monument. If he manages to leave his own mark on Notre-Dame, the ne
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by idoubtit 2y ago
A "fake controversy", really? The article mentions that the Venice Charter, which the France signed, "calls for the preservation of original work unless absolutely necessary" (from the OP). Several patrimonial organizati
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I was interested in this, but my 3 runs in their recommandations engine were almost complete failures. Their author list is plagued with homonyms.My first search had Dostoievsky in my 3 favorites. He was then recommended twice to me. It see
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by idoubtit 2y ago
Many years ago, I lost my work because of this "unique UI" and pledge never to use Gimp again, unless its behavior changed. When you open a non-Gimp file, for instance a PNG, and you want to update the source file, you need to &qu
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by idoubtit 2y ago
I've read the transcript of the video for the first two questions, "What's The State Of Elm?" and "What’s Evan Working On?". After 12 minutes of chatting, I could still not grasp the beginning of an answer to t
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> hopefully hooks will be super short and this won't be a major issue. Even if a PHP project has a policy of short hooks, I think hooks impede clarity. public string $countryCode { set (string $countryCode) {
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Thanks for correcting me, and sorry for the error. I should have checked before writing.
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I'm just a PHP programmer for work, but I worry about the orientation PHP has chosen. As French people say: better is the enemy of good (Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien). The two new language features bring a higher language complex
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I've tried to find more context about the two letters (1939 and 1940) that Gandhi sent to Hitler, but I still don't understand their purpose. Gandhi had been facing the British Empire for years, he knew that sweet admonishing lett
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I can agree with the "lyrical philosopher" quote, but for anyone with a background in science that think that Bruno Latour was a "serious man", I suggest reading the book that made him famous: "Science in Action&quo
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It's strange to start a list of "books that you may never have heard of" with a novel which is a nominee to the 2020 Hugo Awards. I suppose that most of the regular readers of sci-fi haver heard of it. A nitpick about the thi
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The OP's definition of "US graphic novel" is apparently a comics that has a story similar to an adult's novel. In France, a "roman graphique" also means something akin to "film d'auteur". I thoug
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The "Vallée blanche" you mentioned is not very far from "Val d'Arly" or "Val Thorens" in the Alps. Both words "val" and "vallée", and also "vallon", come from the Latin "
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I used this last year, with a relative success. I was asked to fix a Python code written by an intern that was no longer there. The code used external libraries, but did not declare any. I had only a zip of the source code, without any libr
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by idoubtit 2y ago
According to the latest official (CDC) statistics in the USA: - 9 % of adults are severely obese, - 42 % of adults are obese (it was 30 % some 20 years before), - 74 % of adults are overweight.
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It may be soothing to focus on a few individuals who acted "with integrity and admirable values". The Guardian has a few articles about diplomats that recently resigned because they wanted no collusion with clear crimes against hu
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The post is about 3 web frameworks for server-side development with Python or NodeJs. What does "vanilla" mean in this context? Are you really coding web applications with plain Python or plain NodeJS? Does vanilla mean there are
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> the hyphen-minus is too narrow. You can replace the minus signs with a wider dash, but that is semantically wrong and also a pain in the arse. In this case, an alternative to "-", U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, is "−", U+2212
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> That is because CSS is a different Chomsky Grammar than HTML and EMCA - intentionally not Turing complete CSS has been Turing complete for many years. You can simulate Turing machines with pure HTML+CSS, e.g. https://github.
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> you can most likely do more with Apache than you can with Nginx Apache having more features than Nginx is debatable. Apache has probably more unofficial modules, but that's irrelevant to the core developpers. With the official mod
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Some attacks did not rely on mod_rewrite. For instance, the splitting of response headers. The Apache vulnerabilities list provides a short summary of each: https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html The
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Almost all the Git commits of Koodo have the same message: "fix bug". https://github.com/koodo-reader/koodo-reader/commits/master/ I'm really not confortable with projects that treat the G
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Over the last decade, I think I've only used `reflog` twice. The only case I remember clearly was to help a co-worker that had created a local mess, starting with a `git pull` (meaning a merge) on the wrong branch then piling onto that

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