monista

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by monista 4y ago
Obviously, just use Alt-X butterfly ...
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by monista 4y ago
I find some irony in that some 20 years ago, while there were pure-html web apps, eg. web-chats using <meta refresh...>, there were also java applets (remember the <applet> tag?), which were fast and used common inet-family sock
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by monista 4y ago
Now, with all the <div><div><div><div>div</div></div></div>s in doesn't look so useful ...
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by monista 4y ago
For some reason they don't mention ukrainian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_programming_language which, according to some sources, was used to program soviet ballistic missiles.
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by monista 4y ago
I wanted to point to FOSS (GPL3) alternative ProcessHacker [1] which I'm using for years, and found out that their github link [2] now redirects to systeminformer [3], looks like repo rebranding, wasn't able to find it mentioned a
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by monista 4y ago
The genre he works in is often described as hyper-realism.
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by monista 4y ago
That's what constitute a great book: many meanings can coexist there, and one isn't not right reading it this or that way.
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by monista 4y ago
I agree about Definitely Maybe, or, rather, I disagree that it can be read as humorous, but can't agree more that it's great, considering its philosophical or psychological depth.
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by monista 4y ago
Rather programmer than software engineer, I think that that time, his work was mainly just calculate something, not to write software products and such. Incidentally, the spirit of the book fits both communistic, and hacker's views: wo
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by monista 4y ago
Sorry for nitpicking, but it's believed now that Great Pyramids were built by well payed, well fed laborers, not by slaves.
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by monista 4y ago
You're rather inaccurate though. Not sure if you're talking about "Ruby for fun", but anyway: - you wrote it for your own son; - you're distributing it now on CC BY 4. So, no, we're not at risk of losing good b
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by monista 4y ago
Thank you, I guess I'll switch.
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by monista 4y ago
Weird that Bibliogram doesn't work for you, for me, the main instance never worked, but most of other instances do work (both directly and via PrivacyRedirect addon).
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by monista 4y ago
This is a funny example of a dark pattern: along with undoubtedly evil entities like anti-human-rights groups, you mentioned big pharma, probably to promote your anti-scientific agenda.
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by monista 7y ago
Didn't see anyone mentioned these two pearls: C (K&R) program that calculates PI number by measuring circle that is its code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... Perl one-liner that
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by monista 7y ago
You probably referring to FreeBSD man, OpenBSD is slightly different: https://man.openbsd.org/wc.1
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by monista 8y ago
It's a shame that most people here and everywhere, when asked about Kateryna Yushchenko, would at most recall the wife of former ukrainian president, and almost noone heard about another ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko, author of one of
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by monista 8y ago
There is a detective [novel by Douglas Preston]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaur_Canyon ) (2005) exploiting the high value of fossils.
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by monista 8y ago
Well I know that there are examples in some of 8k+ djvu files on my hard disk (mostly old textbooks), as I learned about this problem many years ago from live experience. But I couldn't invent a method to find an example deliberately,
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by monista 8y ago
While of course it's an issue with any scanned docs, the DjVu compression method makes it harsher, as, say, you can end with _all_ '8's in document replaced with '3' (or, say, 'h's with 'n's), at
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by monista 8y ago
Let me assure you, this does exist in the wild. I spotted it many times, especially in documents scanned 15+ years ago, when space and bandwidth were an issue and people did anything to reduce file size, at the cost of quality. It was rare
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by monista 9y ago
I tried to "Create my nbox" (or "Generate an address") and it sent me to Chrome addons site. Is it Chrome-only web service?
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by monista 10y ago
Most obvious problem is: define offensive. What other people take as offense doesn't look offensive to me at all, and vice versa. There are other problems too. The only way to fight offenses is to restrict phrasing to Common Universal
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by monista 12y ago
Using Firefox (guess Chrome way is similar): 1. Turn off javascript 2. Load the page, you see only spinner 3. Right Click on the spinner => Inspect element 4. You see evil div element with id="preloader" 5. Right Click on it =&
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by monista 12y ago
Graphit, Graf(f)it, Grapheme, Graphol (graph-all), Graspit(e), Graphograph (as in tool to graph a graph :)
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by monista 13y ago
Another misconseption is that talking about monads people usually mean 'magic' monads, in first place IO, but also State and more, while other monads like Maybe are not so magic, and common things like lists are also monads, thoug