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by ktpsns 3y ago
Interestingly, adding my own business locations to Google Maps here in Germany is quite a cumbersome process. They send postcards with one time passwords in order to initially verify that I am somewhat owning that places.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
KDE had an offline manpage HTML renderer for decades. Instead of "man gcc" you just typed "help:/gcc" into KDEs default web browser, Konqueror. And this still works today. The manpages look as beautiful as the given
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ASTO Cloud: Utility Tokens for Analog Computing(astocloud.de)
3 points by ktpsns 3y ago|2 comments
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Sharing airtime will be the same with LiFi as with WiFi. I don't see a reason why moderate movements within a room or even within a building, if short interruptions within door frames are acceptable, should be a problem. LiFi basically
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Give the angle not only in radians, but also in units of tau https://math.fandom.com/wiki/Tau_(constant) ;-)
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by ktpsns 3y ago
This pops up on HN regularly. Was extensively discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25398027 Interestingly, we have a similar "BASIC line numbering" system in our company. Allows for easy traversing th
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I think the main reason for disabling color output is the programmatic use of the output. It is easy to remove color within pipes (c.f. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17998978/removing-colors... ), however qui
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I think what that company (anabrid) does is exactly building an FPAA.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
If you like this stuff, you might enjoy https://the-analog-thing.org , an open source modern analog computer. The company behind that project wants to make integrate all that on a single chip.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Asked ChatGPT by posting the Video transcript. Reply: "The message you submitted was too long, please reload the conversation and submit something shorter." There are still tasks left to be done in the LLM world ;-)
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Readers who liked this also enjoyed this classical visualisation: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html This blog has a number of other philosophical reads worth a few dots and pixels in your visualized
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by ktpsns 4y ago
This is a really nice article. tl,dr: Regexp with backrefs can "solve" NP-hard problems and thus theoretically can parse HTML, but in practice they are not the right tool to do so.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
The interpretation you never asked for: The data exhibit a strong preferential attachment [1] behaviour, i.e. you can draw a line in a log-log plot (despite only a semilog plot is shown). This is typical for real world data. [1] https:&#x2
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by ktpsns 4y ago
It's also the stars as background image. You don't see this stuff nowadays, it would be too low-pixel non-fancy. White little pixels on black background where so sci-fi in the 1990s.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
What are the best recommendations for modern day low latency RPC? Google protocol buffers? Or some message queue such as ZeroMQ?
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by ktpsns 4y ago
If you don't need all that cloud operations/deployment infrastructure, self hosting a website from home in 2023 is as easy as it was in 2003. Get a DDNS, do the NAT port forwarding, run some apache/nginx/whatever and pus
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by ktpsns 4y ago
LOL, I expected this to mean "Cathode Ray Tube-free in 2023". I think I was CRT free in 2013. I was a late adopter.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Mac OS X used to ship with a wide variety of open source software such as Samba or CUPS. Most of that stuff is removed nowadays but some is still present. Many networking services can be easily activated using the settings app.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
I can confirm that Kate allows to edit files over FTP/SFTP/SMB and many more smoothly, which works over the KIO virtual file system. You can display the (remote) file tree on the side bar and files are uploaded at save (CTRL+S). W
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by ktpsns 4y ago
I stepped into Gentoo at the age of around 15 and it was probably the best Linux distro for a teenager nerd. Time and curiosity was plenty and Gentoo sucked up/consumed all of them. As a grown up with a job, I even find Arch on desktop
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Funnily this reminds me of how racket defines a language ( https://beautifulracket.com/explainer/lang-line.html ). Or how basically a shebang line does the same for any kind of script ( https://en.wikipedia.org
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Interestingly, the author mentioned both M-expressions ("never implemented") and Mathematica (with a number of interesting links). Mathematics expressions are quite close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-exp
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by ktpsns 4y ago
tl,dr; (extracted from the article itself) > In a sense this is like a generalization of a fixed point combinator.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Funny how similar this sounds to wireguard, the trending yet simple open source VPN technology. Basically the messages are IP packets there ;-)
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Having to say that here: the shared Webspace hoster used for this project is superb. the most nerdy German spaced provider i ever met. https://uberspace.de/en/ it is pay-what-you-want and truly into Unix philosophy an
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by ktpsns 4y ago
I think some of the shown examples exhibit dark patterns in CSS authorship. For instance, unneccessary nesting happens when you use a CSS preprocessor such as LESS or SASS and basically structure/nest your CSS following the structure o
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by ktpsns 4y ago
The examples in the README are really not the best. Anyway, given from the examples for me this reads as a language to write hacky onliners of code which are probably easy to write once but hard to read anytime after. One moment... we had s
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by ktpsns 4y ago
In the age of Desktop Siri, this feature could also be very risky to ship if it fails for the masses the same way as clippy, the MS word assistant, failed 20 years ago.
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by ktpsns 4y ago
I guess there is no easy answer for that. Here is an interesting blog post which resembles closely my opinion: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/11/13/function-coloring.html Edit: And of course there are alternat
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by ktpsns 4y ago
Slightly off-topic: I find async in python awful. The idea and concept is great, but the implementation of coloured functions in python is terrible. It remembers me of the "transition" from lists to iterators (mainly python2 to 3)

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