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by ktpsns 7y ago
Oh, there are several programs which generate such files, for instance some flatbed scanners. Also amongst Adobe Photoshop® professionals, for some reason multilayer TIFF is the format to go with (don't know why -- maybe because it is
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Double posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686
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by ktpsns 7y ago
tl,dr; QUIC is solving shortcomings of IPv6, amongst others the badness of remaining Ethernet and IPv4, by replacing TCP. This is one of the most beautiful and deep articles about our networking/IP world I've ever read. It's
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Side note: The perldoc is my favourite programming language documentation. It's well written, with pleasant examples, and really not so much API focussed but on concepts. I read it in 2007 when I learned perl (Perl5). An amazing langua
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by ktpsns 7y ago
The reliability comes if the tool is mature -- it doesn't matter whether it's a collection of CLI scripts or a big web frontend. In any way, it's clear that "a bunch of scripts" will remain the opposite of a big fra
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by ktpsns 7y ago
As a German driving a lot on the Autobahn and spending a lot of time in long distance trains (ICE), I can of course absolutely second that. However, Germany is not Germany, it depends very much on the region. For instance, on the large 4-
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by ktpsns 7y ago
A long and badly curated list of software -- at least from some I know, such as Trello or Freedcamp, they follow very different paradigms then Slack. They want to solve another problem. Slack pretends to be a child of IRC. There are plenty
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by ktpsns 7y ago
My experience is that trying to build "the silver bullet" always inevitably results in reinventing the wheel by finding a piece of software which solves the same problems after weeks of coding. That's probably why the classic
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by ktpsns 7y ago
So what prevents me from leaving the requested fields empty or even put wrong account names on it? What if I lie about my phone number? Will they call me to check wether it rings in my pocket? Will they write me an email to check wether I r
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Server hardware is actually quite expensive. End users "smart" phones are cheap hardware, running dumb software which renders them as terminals for the cloud. That's sad because smartphone hardware is quite capable of doing u
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Can confirm, being also a (not-that-young-anymore) German. Scam calls or phone marketing is very seldom here. I always assumed this is due to strict laws in Germany. Another thing is also that most people I know no more publish their teleph
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by ktpsns 7y ago
That's a good idea, but it requires the language ecosystem to be shipped with that kind of preprocessor. In the given examples (Java and Python), that's not the case. And the proposal fails if you comment out non-compiling code wi
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I have very good experiences with Gitlab CI: It just recompiles the PDF(s) from the repository within a minimal docker container (containing a full Tex Live repository) and pushes them online on a website (sFTP or similar). Also Gitlab allo
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by ktpsns 7y ago
> The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later. Has somebody a copy?
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by ktpsns 7y ago
There are plenty of XML template languages, for instance Genshi (for Python; http://genshi.edgewall.org/ ), which is kind of an extension to XSL. However, compared to text-only template engines, they are typically much slow
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Oh. I thought about written language, not about localization (as it comes up when being used in graphical user interfaces). As a non-native speaker in science, we always write out units (3 km or 3 miles), we write out dates clearly (July 2n
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by ktpsns 7y ago
So what's the definition of EU-en, compared to US-en or UK-en? I know the differences between US-en and UK-en, but I'm lacking facts about EU-en.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
The obvious problem is that comments have different semantics: They are used for additional information -- this is what Javadoc or Python's embedded documentation is for. Note that Javadoc (or Doxygen) solves this problem with another
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by ktpsns 7y ago
A propos Email address obfuscation: the only way to avoid spamming is not to post an human readable email address in the web. You can safely assume anything human readable as being machine readable. Form mailers with strong captchas are t
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by ktpsns 7y ago
On the other hand, AppImages are dead easy. They do not assume any host infrastructure installed which is especially handy if you are lacking root on a shared system.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Something you can do always on a Linux system as a user is to run the AppImage with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ./Your*.AppImage and, before that, put all the missing dynamic libraries in the same path. That t
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by ktpsns 7y ago
> A finger laser scanner [...] would be a gamechanger and could really speed things up and reduce lost or misrouted cartons. Full ACK. Recently stumbled over https://www.proglove.com/ which is in fact a gread ingredient.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I hardly can say how much I second you. This feels like a bad full screen interactive video simulation of a mobile phone screen in the browser.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
> [cars] do at least have a longer lifespan than a horse. (1.) "The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age" [Source: Wikipedia, Oldtimer] (2.) "The modern domestic horse has a lif
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by ktpsns 7y ago
As somebody paying for Spotify, I agree. As somebody who had a MP3 collection on his disk in the 2000s, I disagree. Without doubt, my wifi connection should make it easy and fast to synchronize music between my laptop and smartphone. Nevert
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Slightly OT: The linked Techcrunch article has a header image ( https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GettyImage... ) which exploits the ambiguity in the English word "terminal". Thi
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Didn't know the Zig Programming language before, but its website https://ziglang.org is really an outstanding example how a programming language should be presented: Many examples, comparisons with other language, and even
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Just in case somebody else wonders about a reference, its here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_integral -- as the WP page on elliptic curve says: "An elliptic curve is not an ellipse: see elliptic integral
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Strictly speaking, the sentence "I/O is faster then CPU", aka "memory access is faster then computations" is nonsense, because it compares apples with bananas. One could probably say "transfering x data between
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by ktpsns 8y ago
Or you use virsh and libvirt. And enjoy a CLI while still having libvirt. Seriously, this page only has videos. I don't want to watch them. Can you sum up why I shouldn't use libvirt, in a few sentences?

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