philkrylov

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by philkrylov 4y ago
> Many claimed to build a ternary computer, however nobody (to the best of my knowledge) completed the project. I know of at least one such project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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by philkrylov 5y ago
Have you seen https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/ZFS_on_Boot ?
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by philkrylov 5y ago
> jails require you to create a chroot and network interface, They don't: you may chroot to /, share the host's network interface, or disable networking.
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by philkrylov 5y ago
IMHO every such collection of Bash tips should include information on POSIX shell compatibility of each construct. Wait, has the author written a whole book on Bash? Does it ever mention the existence of other shells? P.S.: It does. But not
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by philkrylov 5y ago
Running a disk defragmenter and a GW-BASIC number crunching script in parallel under DESQview taught me lots of things, e.g. repairing data from what'd been the FAT16 HDD partition before.
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by philkrylov 5y ago
AFAICR, the feature one had to pay for was ROM containing PowerPC code. It made Apple-compatible PCI cards much more expensive than x86-compatible. Especially video.
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by philkrylov 5y ago
I would really like to use TeXmacs for preparing linguistic publications, which may include multilingual text. TeXmacs does not seem to support Unicode combining diacritics. E.g. when I paste `бе́ля` in a TexMacs document, the accent is ren
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by philkrylov 5y ago
TeXmacs is great; however, the lack of OpenType gpos/gsub table support, e.g. for combining diacritics, prevents me from using it in production.
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by philkrylov 6y ago
This: https://starling.rinet.ru/Texts/Starostin_Glotto.pdf
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by philkrylov 9y ago
SAS DATA steps create new datasets (table) from one or more input datasets. As far as I understand the author, Bistro creates just a new column in an existing table.
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by philkrylov 9y ago
Hmm, isn't that nearly exactly the same what PostgREST has been doing?