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by kps 11mo ago
> we hope to use direct solar power to operate CI/CD nodes only during sunshine hours Status: CI down due to cloud issues.
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by kps 11mo ago
Not everything in the world is passive end-of-the-line presentation. JPEG-XL is the only one that tries to be a general-purpose image format.
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by kps 11mo ago
> (in Rust?) Looks like that's the idea: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/462919304
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by kps 11mo ago
Long ago, users looked forward to updates. Users were positively excited about updates. Users were willing to pay for updates. What changed? > If you are using my service and I need to make backwards incompatible changes to my system,
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by kps 11mo ago
> “How about making widows fast?” Will AI spare the children as well?
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by kps 11mo ago
You can tell who's really old when they have a CDC sticker… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CDC-Logo.svg (Now I want one.)
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by kps 11mo ago
Uses colours I can't read (even with `env TERM=dumb …`)
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by kps 11mo ago
> What flavor are hydrogen protons? Sour. A high concentration of hydrogen protons (low pH) tastes sour.
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by kps 11mo ago
The Canadian outbreaks were driven by traditionalist Mennonites. Neither social media nor immigration (20th/21st century, anyway) were significant.
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by kps 11mo ago
> Denmark (they have a longrunning dispute regarding an island near greenland) That was resolved in 2022 by dividing Hans Island. Canada now has a land border with Denmark.
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by kps 11mo ago
>then again I'm not certain when the change to 9-track happened 1964, with the IBM 360's 8-bit bytes.
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by kps 11mo ago
Sure, but that's a different level with different considerations. The JSON parser shouldn't care about things like ‘files’ with ‘locations’; maybe it's running on some little esp8266 device that doesn't have such things.
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by kps 11mo ago
Another way to look at this example is that, for the parser, this is not an error. The parser is doing its job correctly, providing an accurate interpretation of its input, and for the parser, this is qualitatively different from something
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by kps 11mo ago
>there’s not good support for very low power devices that use WiFi That's what Thread is for.
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by kps 11mo ago
For some degree of future-proofing you'll definitely want a device with a Thread radio. (I've done paid work on Matter so I'll avoid giving possibly-tainted opinions on any particular vendor's products.)
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by kps 11mo ago
So `apt-get upgrade $PACKAGE` has ridiculous semantics that no one would expect, and the actual syntax for upgrading a package is in neither the man page nor the command help.
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by kps 11mo ago
Wait 'til you hear about vibe coding.
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by kps 11mo ago
There are *nix terminals that will let you bind shortcuts that don't conflict with terminal control keys. Konsole and KDE stuff in general will let you set Mac-style bindings (with some config effort), though I personally use mlterm.
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by kps 1y ago
It's 2025. Respect `:prefers-color-scheme` or don't specify colours at all.
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by kps 1y ago
To be fair, POSIX-compliant shells are allowed to exclude `.` and `..`, and some do, and POSIX says this may be required in the future. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V...
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by kps 1y ago
Needs a catchy name. - 1960s: IBM and the Seven Dwarfs [Univac RCA NEC GE Honeywell CDC Burroughs] - 1970s: IBM and the BUNCH [Burroughs Univac NEC CDC Honeywell]
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by kps 1y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-07-26
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by kps 1y ago
> so that for example ctrl-a will always go to the beginning of a textbox no matter the application And Control-W will always erase word no matter the application? This is actually a major reason I use KDE: I can , with some effort, cha
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by kps 1y ago
Spot on and I don't even mind.
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by kps 1y ago
You can tell me a joke about Python, but I'll need someone to interpret it.
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by kps 1y ago
Not Pĳthon?
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by kps 1y ago
I dishwash my keyboards (Kinesis contoured) every year or so. Just rinse thoroughly, don't use high-temperature drying, and wait for it dry completely before powering on.
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by kps 1y ago
"status": 451 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7725
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by kps 1y ago
Which has inadequate tests and gets it wrong? (‘All of them’ is an option.)
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by kps 1y ago
Double-clicking originated with the Macintosh because Jobs wanted a single-button mouse above all else. We're used to it now, but they had training exercises to teach people to double-click because it's undiscoverable and takes pr

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