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by jcynix 9mo ago
Hundreds of millions in revenue and three acquisitions in 2024 — what’s behind Bending Spoons’ success? | Sifted https://sifted.eu/articles/bending-spoons-italy-startup-ipo
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by jcynix 9mo ago
In Android I usw Termux which is a more or less Debian installation. But I understand that it's some kind of "generation conflict" where younger developers are more web centric than oldtimers, who know about the command line
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Nice exercise, and as a local solution obviously better than all this "give your data and trust me" stuff. But why must everything nowadays be a browser-based tool? I'm still happy with tools like pdfunite from https:&#x2F
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Nice one, really helpful! Minor nit: the input on mobile auto-capitalizes, so a link starts with "Www" which I find mildly annoying. You could force the input field all lowercase with <input type="text" autocapi
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Oh, "once upon a time" I did set emacs to be my login "shell" and emacs can call other binaries via execve, handle sub processes, etc. Worked as expected. Getting a Linux or Unix system to boot without a proper shell wou
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by jcynix 9mo ago
And especially the ulimit command mentioned, which is mostly unknown to folks nowadays, it seems.
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by jcynix 9mo ago
The [[…]] built-in test version was introduced in Peter Korn's korn shell, ksh88 IIRC. As where various other modernized notations like array variables, process substitution or $(command) as a much more readable version of the
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by jcynix 9mo ago
The [[…]] version was introduced in Peter Korn's korn shell, ksh88 IIRC.
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Good read thanks. I totally can relate to the choices problem. It's rather easy with physical books (or was, as we have little room left for even more books ;-0) but ebooks are "dangerous" too. Regarding cameras, it's h
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by jcynix 9mo ago
There has been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang for ages, ... And even much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%28programming_language%29
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Geo fenced Wikipedia exists already, as a number of apps are available which offer regional maps with localized Wikipedia additions, see for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OsmAnd
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by jcynix 9mo ago
Optical reasons, aka depth of field. Exceptionally well explained in Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ Depth of field - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by jcynix 9mo ago
A simple, almost analog, solution is some nightlight which can be manually turned on or off, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSL3Q7PW
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by jcynix 10mo ago
The sense oft smell must be one of the oldest senses, think of small entities swimming in some "primordial" soup looking for nutritious stuff. What I found most interesting to learn about our sense of smell some years ago is that
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by jcynix 10mo ago
Nice! It describes, among others, Sid Sackson's "Lines of Action" (LoA) from bis inspiring book "A Gamut of Games" which describes a large number of games which can be played with just paper and pencil or a checkerb
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by jcynix 10mo ago
> My hypothesis is people will get burned out on this unguided learning via LLMs [...] I'm less optimistic. Already 20+ years ago many people complained if you pointed them to books which answered their questions in depth. The stand
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by jcynix 11mo ago
> retried 1/2/4/8 Minuten apart That's generally not very clever, as it will impose an unneeded burden on a receiving server which actually has temporary resource problems, and it will collide with greylisting, for ex
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by jcynix 11mo ago
I'll second Max Richter's Sleep. Timeline by Edith Progue might interest you too. The later is my favorite xcalm down" CD even before Max Richter's, when I'm too restless to sleep. And maybe Glitch (music) might be
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by jcynix 11mo ago
> Are we just shittier engineers, is it more complex [...] Both IMO: first, anybody could buy a computer during the last three decades, dabble in programming without learning basic concepts of software construction and/or user-inter
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by jcynix 11mo ago
BTW, the author "mjd" is the author of the excellent book "Higher-Order Perl" which is available online at https://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
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by jcynix 11mo ago
Hmm, so what about these modern high density hard drives which store track parameters for their servos in on-board flash (aka OptiNAND)? Do we get "spinning rust" which might loose the information where exactly it stored the data?
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by jcynix 11mo ago
> Would you pay per view? Yes, but only after viewing, of else I'd pay for "editorial" or AI generated slop which would be generated like link farms pointing to Amazon etc. And that's the chicken-and-egg problem ...
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by jcynix 11mo ago
418? Nice I'll think about it ;-) I would, in addition, prefer that "402 Payment Required" would be instantiated for scrapers ... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference
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by jcynix 11mo ago
Sand is the world's second most used natural resource and sand usable for concrete gets even illegally removed all over the world nowadays. So to continue your analogy, I made my part of the beach accessible for visitors to enjoy, but
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by jcynix 11mo ago
If you control your own Apache server and just want to shortcut to "go away" instead of feeding scrapers, the RewriteEngine is your friend, for example: RewriteEngine On # Block requests that reference .php anywhere
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by jcynix 11mo ago
As of now I have to care for my (digital) backups, that is, I cannot ignore them for N years. I had to copy things from discettes to magnetic tape, from tape to hard drives, etc. I have to periodically check my backups if they are restorabl
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by jcynix 11mo ago
>where do you keep secret.txt exactly? Hidden. Encrypted. And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book. Which you have more than one copy of, because you like it that much. And you need copies to
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The joy of rediscovering Perl – Eskild Hustvedt(blog.zerodogg.org)
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by jcynix 1y ago
> A lot of people hate that, they want a tool that has all relevant to their tasks front and center [...] A lot of people don't even know how to use their tools properly. I remember when I was teaching a number of Perl courses to p
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by jcynix 1y ago
Interesting idea. But the voting will fail for reasons already stated. And somehow your idea sounds like the "old" Google+ from before 2018(?). Take a look at how Usenet worked (and still works, although stuttering) it had filters

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