phoebos

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Exeter University approves deal with Saudi Arabia to train military officers(theguardian.com)
1 points by phoebos 1mo ago|0 comments
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FastLapackInterface: Allocation-free (eigen)decomposition for Julia(dynarejulia.github.io)
4 points by phoebos 5mo ago|0 comments
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Apple vs the Law(formularsumo.co.uk)
5 points by phoebos 1y ago|0 comments
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by phoebos 2y ago
It was self-assessed: > When we say ‘vigorous’ we mean activities that make you sweat, increase your heart rate or increase your breathing. Please think about vigorous activities that you may have done at home or at places of work other
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by phoebos 2y ago
It's small compared to the size of the card, sure, but not small for typical modern lithography techniques.
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Posix.1-2024 is published(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
173 points by phoebos 2y ago|84 comments
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Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement(npr.org)
2 points by phoebos 2y ago|0 comments
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How to decarbonise transport – in 15 steps [video](youtube.com)
3 points by phoebos 3y ago|1 comments
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The inscrutable nature of UK rail ticketing(devever.net)
9 points by phoebos 4y ago|3 comments
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by phoebos 4y ago
As you noted, I said that the problems stems from sudo not setting PWD, hence `sudo make` doesn't inherit PWD. I'm not calling that a bug in sudo, but it was a bug in the specific makefile which assumed PWD to be set always. A goo
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by phoebos 4y ago
I mostly agree (I was working with sudo make install in order to package neatroff). However, most of the build scripts which generate binary packages for distros etc use `make install`, usually with DESTDIR set, so it's not irrelevant.
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by phoebos 4y ago
I would say it is a make bug in that POSIX make has no good way to get PWD. Not necessarily a bug even, but an annoyance.
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by phoebos 4y ago
Yes, the official Lua implementation is written in a very widely supported subset of C, so is probably one of the most portable languages along with C. Lua might well be a bit more concise for a task like this string processing, but in such
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by phoebos 4y ago
The separate tools you're probably thinking of are `pkgconf` and `pkg-config`.
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by phoebos 4y ago
Everyone and their dog can compile C, and the initial purpose of this project was to get something working on Windows. As you say, this is a relatively uncomplicated program, and there's certainly no need for higher-level features. Is
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U-config – A new, lean pkg-config clone(nullprogram.com)
71 points by phoebos 4y ago|52 comments
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by phoebos 4y ago
There is now a proposal to add CURDIR to POSIX: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1626
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by phoebos 4y ago
Reminds me of these ( https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/about.html ) digital garden style personal websites.
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sudo make install(bvnf.space)
66 points by phoebos 4y ago|35 comments
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by phoebos 4y ago
Which they're also not trying to do. It's just a cool project, shared for those that want to use it.
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by phoebos 4y ago
https://wiby.me
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by phoebos 4y ago
Except, of course, that they're not selling anything.
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DuskOS(git.sr.ht)
4 points by phoebos 4y ago|1 comments