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by pjtr 8y ago
Memorizing gender: I hear the trick is not to do it separately ("1. I know the word 'Mädchen'. 2. Its gender is feminine.") but as an integral part of the word ("1. I know the word 'das_Mädchen'."). A
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by pjtr 8y ago
"OPPOSITION GUIDELINES Part 6 Proof of Use" http://euipo.europa.eu/en/mark/marque/pdf/part%206-EN.pdf Section II.5.2: "It is not necessary that the mark must be used everywhere in the Comm
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by pjtr 8y ago
I was very surprised to learn that diff / patch file formats are essentially unstandardized. Shouldn't there be an RFC or something?
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by pjtr 8y ago
I even think it's intentionally obfuscated. The obfuscation misleadingly suggests the arbitrarily chosen thresholds 30k and 50k are somehow meaningful. This encourages group-association-based / class-divide-based outrage-sharing,
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by pjtr 8y ago
How does it compare to Godot Engine? https://godotengine.org/features (Free and Open Source under MIT license)
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by pjtr 8y ago
Those public records are the Commercial Register: https://sz.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml?uid=C...
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by pjtr 8y ago
So "It seems not that many people have enough time and long-term interest in contributing significant improvements to such projects" wasn't that wrong. ;)
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by pjtr 8y ago
Ah, I thought my ~300 milestones was pushing it. :) I see. Milestones still have no custom fields. Did you ever send your customizations upstream?
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by pjtr 8y ago
I would say the mailing list has become much less hostile and more supportive then. The data model has not changed much, so that criticism is still relevant. The templating engine has been switched again (ClearSilver -> Genshi -> Jinj
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by pjtr 8y ago
It seems not that many people have enough time and long-term interest in contributing significant improvements to such projects. GenericTrac was mainly a plan by Christian Boos, who worked a lot on Trac in ~2005 - 2013, but has not actively
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by pjtr 8y ago
If you like that ticket tracking system (Trac), maybe consider getting involved with that itself as well: https://trac.edgewall.org/query?status=new&keywords=~bitesiz... 'bitesized' tickets are "small wor
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by pjtr 8y ago
Can you give some examples of its power and customizability? What does JIRA do that for example Trac can't? (Trac can often be customized with 10 lines of simple Python (or CSS, HTML, JS) dropped as a single file into the plugin folde
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by pjtr 8y ago
Isn't that exactly what is possible with "3. Interface stub files"? https://www.bernat.tech/the-state-of-type-hints-in-python/#3...
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by pjtr 8y ago
Also Visual Studio 97, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019.
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by pjtr 8y ago
That's really cool. Great job!
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by pjtr 8y ago
Fun indeed! Can you talk about how the artists authored the original models? Was it an automated conversion from a standard polygon model or from a full voxel model? Or was it all drawn in this special slice format directly somehow?
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by pjtr 8y ago
After seeing Comanche in 1992, the term "voxels" for a time was quasi-synonymous with "heightmap terrain" to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_(video_game_series) There used to be quite a f
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by pjtr 9y ago
Maybe the Oberon project Bluebottle OS[1] / AOS / A2? It's a ZUI[2] desktop. There seem to be only very few example videos[3] online. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS [2] https:/&#x2
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by pjtr 9y ago
Alternatively: https://send.firefox.com/
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by pjtr 9y ago
From the article: "an acceptable compromise has been found, and the text-only option will remain. But, once a year, those subscribers will get a message asking them to click on a link to confirm their continued interest in remaining on
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by pjtr 9y ago
This reminds me of elastic tabstops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop#Elastic_tabstops Does Sublime Text support those? Any other popular editor? If not, why?
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by pjtr 9y ago
Another strange one is the (old) Visual Studio syntax with its :i (actually often quite helpful) and $1 instead of \1 (even in the new syntax). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2k3te2cs(v=vs.110)....
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by pjtr 9y ago
The Gunstar Heroes boss reminds me of an old demo effect called vectorballs or "bobs" https://youtu.be/Itv3f7o7Zac?t=167 combined with a Doom-style pre-rendered set of rotated sprites.
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by pjtr 9y ago
It's more like a Trac distribution / fork with only few patches to the core, but with some additional plugins and a custom theme. Trac itself is more active (and stable) though and still has one of the best ticket systems, reposit
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by pjtr 10y ago
In the first code snippet, while (b > lenb) should be while (b < lenb)?
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by pjtr 10y ago
Not Java, but C# http://parallel-checker.com/
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by pjtr 10y ago
Or may link to the "Docs" section? It mentions a paper that connects this to APL: "APL on GPUs - A TAIL from the Past, Scribbled in Futhark A paper describing an APL compiler (apltail) that operates by translating APL into a
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by pjtr 10y ago
How does it differ from XMPP server-to-server gateways? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...
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by pjtr 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-scale_macroeconometric_m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Earth_Simulator_Proj
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by pjtr 10y ago
I often wonder what's missing to create and simulate a detailed economic model down to the individual level for and entire country or even the world. There are only 7 billion people to simulate, that doesn't actually sound like th

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