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by milliams 1y ago
We've seen where that ends up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
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by milliams 1y ago
Its keybindings aren't identical to vim. They're very similar in many places, but are also different in quite common things like deleting lines etc. (dd vs xd)
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by milliams 1y ago
Mohan vowed: "I’ll never put another supplement in my body again." Maybe just don't do such large doses?
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by milliams 1y ago
While ~29% of the dictionary words come from French, in any written or spoken sentence the number falls dramatically. All the small joining words we use and the core of our grammar is Germanic. See Rob Word's "Is English really a
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by milliams 1y ago
I just compiled the code provided in the article and the compiled WASM module is 22kb. Not saying that it makes it the right solution, but a 45× difference is not insignificant.
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by milliams 1y ago
Well there's been skim ( https://github.com/skim-rs/skim ) for a while as a fzf equivalent in Rust.
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by milliams 1y ago
Perfect. It looks like it's moving in a very good direction.
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by milliams 1y ago
Ah, great. Thanks for the reference.
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by milliams 1y ago
The admonition at the top: Currently, the default build backend for uv init is hatchling. This will change to uv in a future version. makes it seem like it's not yet stable, or at least feels like they're still not encourag
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by milliams 1y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing this succeed. A question: given that common pattern of forks of this codebase over time which seem to have a common theme of confused/transferred/disputed ownership, are there plans for an actual
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by milliams 1y ago
It would need to be put in the context of what a normal annual die-off is. I expect it's not 0%, and perhaps it's normal for keepers to need to re-establish some fraction of their hives each year. Of course, 50-60% sounds alarming
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by milliams 1y ago
Does SQLite have GIS capabilities (like PostGIS provides for Postgres), or is this storing the data as traditional database primitives?
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15 Years of OsmAnd(osmand.net)
3 points by milliams 1y ago|0 comments
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by milliams 1y ago
Covered by a similar article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392948
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by milliams 1y ago
I think they've forgotten to tell us what the product is.
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by milliams 1y ago
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one brief moment of inspiration. There's a lot of spadework first, of course, but what clinche
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by milliams 1y ago
Software is a gas: https://blog.codinghorror.com/software-its-a-gas/
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Planetfall(somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
354 points by milliams 1y ago|106 comments
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by milliams 1y ago
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. The
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Removal of Deepin Desktop from OpenSUSE Due to Packaging Policy Violation(security.opensuse.org)
44 points by milliams 1y ago|10 comments
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by milliams 1y ago
> If possible, it should use some form of solar energy, such as that of the body. Am I missing something here?
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by milliams 1y ago
Nope, it's really true. I can't speak for CS programmes, but in areas like bioinformatics I have first-hand experience of people (aged ~21/22 years) not understanding what file is or what a directory is. I think they're
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by milliams 2y ago
Indeed. See Ann Reardon's recent video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaYJgmPvCg
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by milliams 2y ago
Interesting recent video on ISBNs and their relationship to barcodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68vS8CTBL3k
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by milliams 2y ago
It feels rather rude to the volunteer developers to accuse them of enshitification. Especially when it's not even true in this case as enshitification implies trading the user experience for shareholder value - there's no share ho
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by milliams 2y ago
Presumably referring to Konqueror, the old KDE web and file browser which could embed all sorts of viewers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror#File_viewer
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by milliams 2y ago
Those were the good old days.
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by milliams 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
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A possible future of Python in the browser(lukasz.langa.pl)
149 points by milliams 2y ago|94 comments
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PEP 517 build system popularity(labs.quansight.org)
3 points by milliams 2y ago|0 comments

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