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by oever 3y ago
From the blog post: If your 1200 × 800 window is set to be scaled to 125 %, with the unified renderers, we will use a framebuffer of size 1500 × 1000 for it, instead of letting the compositor downscale a 2400 × 1600 image. The exp
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by oever 3y ago
I agree with the point's in Nix's favor except for 2. dynamically typed. Defining structs as part of the language would be nice. In fact, type checking is done ad-hoc now by passing data through type checking functions.
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by oever 3y ago
I see Nix as a powerful way to write config files. It is purely functional, so the only thing it does is create a build recipe. That build recipe is then run by other Nix tooling. A .nix file is either a config file itself or a function tha
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by oever 3y ago
Isn't that horrible UI-wise? The UI will ask for password and show '******'. The user then has to remove the last 6 stars and put in the OTP. A dedicated question for the OTP would be much better. Also, the password manager w
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by oever 3y ago
So the use-case is a to a very tentative optimization. This tentative optimization is achieved by introducing a very complicated algorithm that is not guaranteed to run in finite time. You could also check signatures when loading the data a
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by oever 3y ago
I don't. Why would you want to cope with that? When does it matter that multiple bytearrays give same graph?
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by oever 3y ago
I've yet to see a convincing use-case to canonicalize RDF graphs. The document cites these use-cases: There are different use cases where graph or dataset canonicalization are important: Determining if one serialization is isomor
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by oever 3y ago
2023-04-04T22:10:32 is the timestamp of Python-3.10.11/Misc/NEWS from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.11/Python-3.10.11.tar...
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by oever 3y ago
On NixOS, I think the release time or commit time is used: $ python3 Python 3.10.11 (main, Apr 4 2023, 22:10:32) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" f
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by oever 3y ago
If the address offsets can be randomized with a provided seed, then demonstrating reproducibility is still possible. Alternatively, randomizing the offsets when starting the program is another way to keep reproducibility and even increase s
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by oever 3y ago
Purrfect use of Occam's razor. They cut away the parts of the cat not needed for purring. Experiments were performed on eight excised larynges. The researchers built a cybernetic purring machine. "[subglottal pressure] was control
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by oever 3y ago
That sounds like a smooth experience. It would be great if FOSS operating systems would work just as well. I'm assuming you were going from functional pixel 5 to a pixel fold and that both were running a Android with a lot of proprieta
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by oever 3y ago
> a new iPhone that works perfectly and contains all my data and, for all practical purposes, is exactly as if my old one never broke. That is a very compelling convenience that all (phone) OS-es should strive for. I try out different ph
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Customization for the Forensic Police (2018)(sweethome3d.com)
47 points by oever 3y ago|1 comments
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by oever 3y ago
Adding syntax to improve readability of numbers is counterproductive. Improve the software the you use to read and edit the files. The extra syntax makes assumptions on what is easier to read.
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UK government digitally signed semantic data(thegazette.co.uk)
2 points by oever 3y ago|0 comments
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by oever 3y ago
> [...] human brain cells were transplanted into the brains of genetically modified mice. The discovery is that MEG3 is the molecule that is expressed when amyloid plaques form. It signals the neurons to kill themselves. Here's the
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by oever 3y ago
Value space is the set of values a type can have. A boolean has only two values in its value space. An unsigned byte has 256 possible values, so does a signed byte. A string enumeration has a limited number of values. E.g. type A ("Yes
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by oever 3y ago
This library can be used to create string class hierarchies. That, in turn, can help to use typed strings more. For example, e-mails and urls are a special syntax. Their value space is a subset of all non-empty string which is a subset of a
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by oever 3y ago
Purism acknowledges that battery life is abysmal. The phone has two modes: Idle and Standby. Idle supposedly gives 10h of battery and Standby gives 20h but no mobile data, no wifi, and no alarm. < https://puri.sm/posts&#x2
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by oever 3y ago
The battery of my Librem 5 (L5v1-05) only lasts a night when doing nothing. I charge it in the evening and in the morning it's nearly empty. This is with no SIM, just wifi. Kernel is 6.3.0-1-librem5 on PostOS 10 (beryllium). GNOME 3.38
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by oever 3y ago
Cryptographically signing GPS signals makes it harder to spoof GPS coordinates but does not stop it completely. A spoofer could obtain signed GPS signals from the time and location where they are claiming to have taken a photo and combine t
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by oever 3y ago
Contributing with a whitelisted public key is much easier but not common.
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by oever 3y ago
In the paper, the nanoplastics were measured in demineralized water that had been sitting in a regular disposable polystyrene cup (like the ones that people drink coffee from) for five minutes. So the measurement reflects the nanoplastics t
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by oever 3y ago
The video referenced armored catfish . There are multiple species known as armored catfish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_catfish
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by oever 3y ago
When microplastics break down they get smaller and become nanoplastics. Nanoplastics have been detected. Here is a paper that shows how to measure nanoplastics. Dilute solutions with polystyrene particles from 400nm down to 40nm were prepar
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by oever 3y ago
> eventually we'd like to use a first-class precompiled macro if such a thing becomes supported by cargo / crates.io Distributing binaries is what distributions are for. It does not matter if it is for macros or for the rest of
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by oever 3y ago
The whole package is not FOSS. Individual files might be. You are right that my assumption in this unusual arrangement is that the binary does not necessarily correspond to (the same version of) the source code.
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by oever 3y ago
If compilation is slow, use a binary cache or packages from your distro. Mixing binaries with source code means the whole package is not FOSS anymore. It is illogical to ship binaries for only part of a crate. Shipping binaries for the whol
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by oever 3y ago
Catch 22: first agree to the Microsoft GitHub ToS. Or you can use a friendlier service like the one provided by Codeberg. https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#...

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