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Nipah Virus Confirmed in Kerala(thehindu.com)
2 points by pksadiq 7y ago|0 comments
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GNU Guile 2.9.2 Beta Released(lists.gnu.org)
5 points by pksadiq 7y ago|0 comments
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by pksadiq 7y ago
> Well, increased water consumption has a lot of ecological problems as well. Well, using paper costs more water than using water itself. Also, the ecological problems of using paper is far worse than using water alone[0][1]. [0] https:
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by pksadiq 7y ago
I find GNU Emacs M-x gdb pretty productive when used with M-x gdb-many-windows. Especially, I like the way I can browse and look deep the local variables (middle-click [or Shift-Enter] on any pointer variables in "local" window, w
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by pksadiq 7y ago
As per the standard, main() can take no argument [ie, main(void)] or 2 arguments [main (int, char asterisk asterisk) or equivalent] or some implementation defined manner. See 5.1.2.2.1 in C2x working draft[0]. [0] http://www.open
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GNUnet – a software framework for decentralized peer-to-peer networking(gnunet.org)
5 points by pksadiq 8y ago|0 comments
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by pksadiq 8y ago
APT many not be using HTTPS. But APT does support HTTPS builtin since version 1.5. I couldn't find any changelog or NEWS for that, but https://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-transport-https says so. I myself uses HTT
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by pksadiq 8y ago
As a side note, 99% of the statistics are made up, including this very sentence.
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> Writing object oriented code using lots of boilerplate C macros seems quite a bit more tedious ... If you are not aware, recently (since GLib 2.44), the boilerplate code required in C is a lot less than it was required before. Say for
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> how do I get started writing my app to target the Librem 5? For commandline applications all you need is to develop for GNU/Linux. It should work pretty fine on Librem 5 too. If you want to develop GUI applications see libhandy[0]
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> Also, KDE is removed and GNOME + Wayland is default. Yeah, and the important part is that migrating from RHEL 7 with KDE to RHEL 8 is not supported: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp
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by pksadiq 8y ago
Release notes here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... For those that matters, MongoDB is not included because it uses Server Side Public License: https://access.redhat.com&
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> Does anyone have insights into the possible motivation behind this? I consider the following as possible reasons: 1. GTK+ is completely (GNOME) community owned (QT is a company owned, which companies like to avoid) 2. QT is LGPLv3+&#x2
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Show HN: My GTemplate – A Simple feature rich GTK3/GTK4 template in C(sadiqpk.org)
2 points by pksadiq 8y ago|0 comments
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> To be fair, the way malloc is used is actually the preferred way. Is it really right? In C, isn't it considered bad to cast malloc result as it masks some mistakes? Also, the code doesn't check for NULL for the malloc result.
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by pksadiq 8y ago
If you are trying to use htmlize, download the file[0] to src directory, such that htmlize package is available as ~/web/src/htmlize.el Now run emacs: ~/web$ emacs --batch -q -l src/htmlize.el\ -l src/my-
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Blogging with Emacs org-mode(sadiqpk.org)
109 points by pksadiq 8y ago|33 comments
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by pksadiq 8y ago
I was astonished to see that Microsoft provided this software (R) under the terms of GNU GPLv2 or GNU GPLv3 explicitly (but not any later version)[0]. May be because this is a derivative work from GNU R. That's a good news for free sof
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by pksadiq 8y ago
>> When you see someone driving a nice car, you rarely think, “Wow, the guy driving that car is cool.” Instead, you think, “Wow, if I had that car people would think I’m cool.” Subconscious or not, this is how people think. > Just
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> GTK 3 has something like that, too. Yeah. It's called Broadway. If someone wish to give a try, see https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html
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by pksadiq 8y ago
> Facts like street addresses are not copyrightable. Google says it is[0]. It might be true because when you get street address from Google, you are also getting the mark on the map for the location. Whether it's true legally or not
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by pksadiq 9y ago
When you comment about culture, be sure you know something about it. It's pretty much hard to get a woman married once divorced (pretty much every village in India at least, to say). But for males that isn't usually the case. And
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> The strangest thing is that there's a sizable number of women who support the law in its current form. Different localities have different cultures, and for some, it's good. Say for example, in my locality (Kerala), Muslim me
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Even more recent updates from China Manned Space Agency: http://en.cmse.gov.cn/col/col1763/index.html
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> People just have different opinions. Most of these people don't even know how the technology works. Enabling firewall makes them feel secure because it shows them a Green tick mark in a green circle. A file shred application is go
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Zuck could use FB data for his own presidential run Well. It could be true for Google CEO, and many others. Technically, there are too many bad things that can happen. Laws are what that's preventing those. My computer can phone
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Disclosure: I bought more FB today May be you can consider the moral side of what you are doing, if you care. This makes me really sad. People say, they care about privacy - theirs and others'. But they are okay making money inves
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by pksadiq 9y ago
The last commit to the file is on 4 Oct 2016. So you could expect that.
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by pksadiq 9y ago
Quitting Facebook isn't as easy as it might seem. The same way as it's not easy to escape from the effects of smoking. Not because you can't, but there is always a chance of passive smoking. So, as long as we have some relati
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by pksadiq 9y ago
> Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs I'm surprised that this post is linked to a non-https URL while the website supports https. I wish HN have some policy/recommendation to prefer https URLs t

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