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No, >> is just doing appending, cf. https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/redirection#appending_r...
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To be fair, this blog article is not much about python but more about the bash (shell), the weirdness of quoting and the miracles of exec(3).
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It is slowly dying. I see 0o123 as a notation for octal much more frequently then in the past. On the same line with 0b010101. Octal was a thing in the past, but is really seldomly used nowadays, in my impression.
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by ktpsns 5y ago
You are right. I just thinked of a pirated version of Adobe Photoshop I once run for years just by keeping the system time basically constant, without changing anything else. Inconsistencies in this "scheme" are easy to check, jus
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by ktpsns 5y ago
+1 for <?php if (isset($_GET['source'])) { highlight_file(__FILE__); exit; } This is such a useful and nice snippet I add to many of my PHP files. Open Source at its finest, literally "in p
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by ktpsns 5y ago
Oh I remember this also for setting older dates in VMs. In the end, it was a cat-and-mouse game as of course the authors of these softwares could easily detect such "temporal inconsistencies".
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Oh god this is horror! :-D
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The DFT is not trivial at all. The standard way of teaching goes over calculus (including complex numbers), introduces the original Fourier transformation and then discretization (numerical mathematics). Having a PhD in physics, let me asse
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by ktpsns 5y ago
https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/education-proctorio this one is really evil.
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> Added a new default brand theme named “Denim”. Well this is something one immediately notices when using the Mattermost app. Including the splash screen ( https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=meme+why&iax=images&
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Oh god, I remember cdrtools. It was such a cool software on the Linux desktop in the 2000s. Converting and Cloning CDs felt simple at Linux where it was notoriously challenging on Windows (I know I know. That's just my impression). Unf
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Wow, this is a relic of another time. Seems like most of the features date from the 2000s, when XSLT was a thing, or the 2010s. The name is also obviously a pun on Apache webserver, the defacto standard at that time. In the meantime, web se
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by ktpsns 5y ago
This page contains probably what most of us are looking for: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/A-Little-Exampl... It somewhat looks like a predecessor of YAML with some kind of header integrating s
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by ktpsns 5y ago
There is a Banana Pi variant with five network interfaces: https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_R1
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There is a fantastic (German) banking application for Mac OS X called https://moneymoney-app.com/ . I'd love to have some platform-indepdent clone for this software. GNUCash comes closest, but is somewhat complicated wi
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The Analog Thing: An open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer(the-analog-thing.org)
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Cannot second this enough. I wonder why so many people want to go to FANGG where a well funded startup can be so much more exciting and little to no insecurity as an employee.
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Stargate SG-1 was such an amazing TV series. I literally spent most part of my youth with watching Stargate and playing Starcraft. I don't believe Cheyenne mountain is for anything better then hosting the Stargate command ;-)
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Probably third party toolkits such as wxwidgets or Java AWT (the Swing predecessor)?
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It's called "single page application" and my guess is the most reason is "responsiveness" (which is however not true, you can lazy load anything with traditional HTML and a few lines of JS) and "smooth" tr
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by ktpsns 5y ago
Wow, I haven't used/seen panorama stitching with Hugin for over a decade. I got the impression that ultra-wide angle cameras/lenses are quite widespread nowadays, especially with smartphones. Furthermore, they do "online
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In case anybody is interested, the museum is http://www.computermuseum-stuttgart.de/
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Story time! When I was around 12 years old, I've tried so hard to understand the JavaScript code to render an analog clock within HTML. I did not learn yet about sine and cosine and it was really a miracle how the code could determine
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This is so true! For machine-learning and data science, tensors are largely what is called n-dimensional array. Numpy is a popular python library built basically around this data type. Mathematical tensors in a particular base (sorry for th
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In particular, this kind of mini embedded language interpreters can be great to build upon. For the folks who think LISP is dead and irrelevant (spoiler, it is not), think of https://www.lua.org/ as a prominent embedded lan
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Analogies such as this one are gold.
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I remember Camino and the first Firefox for Mac pretty well, and they both looked quite similar. Which is probably another reason why Camino, the wonderful brother, got forgotten.
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These two tools have so much better websites as Ghidra. Thanks for putting the links!
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iMacs stood for clean desktops with little hazzle. Now you need basically a docking station and tons of wires to connect your "legacy USB-A" equipment such as a goddamned printer or your goddamned Arduino board.
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I'm using Arch Linux (which is a rolling releases distribution) and just did an upgrade. Then visited this post and was pleased to try out the new features I did not know about "in real" on my desktop. The Linux OSS desktop i

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