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by pxc 9mo ago
There's a lot of chatter here about macOS' Unix certification. But in a post shared by another user, it appears that the actual content of that Unix certification vindicates OP— macOS' official Unix compatibility requires d
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by pxc 9mo ago
That's awesome! My family has users of both, so this might be a convenient way to use a pleasant language to write mobile apps that all of my family members can play with.
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by pxc 9mo ago
If I use Skip to make a cross-platform app, will TalkBack be able to read it to users as well as VoiceOver?
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by pxc 9mo ago
> The CEO should be in prison. Yes. > Exactly, was it a burglary when your front door is open, lights on, spotlights on your wall safe, with the keys still inserted? The thing isn't just the discovery of the "open door"
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by pxc 9mo ago
From an educational perspective, regular expressions are also a great way to teach about state machines, computational complexity, formal languages, and grammars in a way that has direct applications to tools that are long-lived and ubiquit
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by pxc 9mo ago
> What is so hard about self hosting one's own repo? Maybe nothing! I was genuinely asking. I still don't know what Actually Good™ forges are out there these days, generally suitable for corporate use in place of the likes of G
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by pxc 9mo ago
I met regexes when I was 13, I think. I spent a little time reading the Java API docs on the language's regex implementation and played with a couple of regex testing websites during an introductory programming class at that age. I&#x2
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by pxc 9mo ago
What is the quality-first, high uptime alternative to GitHub? My employer uses both GitHub and GitLab, and while I think GitLab is better, its quality also frankly sucks. It's riddled with bugs that have just been marinating on the iss
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by pxc 9mo ago
As someone who ended up getting two bachelor's degrees so that I could somewhat deeply explore diverse subjects, I think schools would do well to have strong, distinct programs in: - computer science - computer engineering - so
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by pxc 9mo ago
Years ago, this book provided me with a useful introduction to the history of immigration to the United States and various crackdowns (vigilante and official) against it. It's not a difficult read, but its authors are leftists and the
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by pxc 9mo ago
How so?
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by pxc 9mo ago
Link?
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by pxc 9mo ago
> filtered out at some stage (an early one being college intro CS classes) Most schools' CS departments have shifted away from letting introductory CS courses perform this function— they go out of their way to court students who are
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by pxc 9mo ago
> Without exception, every technical question I've ever asked an LLM that I know the answer to, has been substantially wrong in some fashion. The other problem that I tend to hit is a tradeoff between wrongness and slowness. The fas
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by pxc 9mo ago
There's a superficial relationship because XFCE is often configured with a dock-like taskbar, but GNUstep is a GNU clone of Cocoa and the window manager from NeXTSTEP. It tries to mimic early macOS a bit more deeply.
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by pxc 9mo ago
Random hardware chosen without particular regard for compatibility ≠ hardware whose vendors never intended to support Windows. It's not the same test.
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by pxc 9mo ago
> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer. I don't think this is really it for many people (maybe any); after all, you can do all of
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by pxc 9mo ago
Bringing random hardware from vendors who never intended to support an OS is a weird criterion to judge an OS' "readiness" by— and one no one seems to apply to macOS or Windows.
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by pxc 9mo ago
After some digging, I think it was likely this one: https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5346/Digital-Humanities
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by pxc 9mo ago
I read a book maybe a decade ago on the "digital humanities". I wish now I could remember the title and author. :( Anyway, it introduced me to the idea of using computational methods in the humanities, including literature. I foun
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by pxc 9mo ago
I'm not making a legal argument. If someone else would like to make one, though, I'd be happy to read it.
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by pxc 9mo ago
Shouldn't this kind of thing be illegal as a matter of accessibility?
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by pxc 9mo ago
Huh? Who does that?
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by pxc 9mo ago
If it really is a watt or two less, that's a lot on a laptop.
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by pxc 9mo ago
Deportation isn't prevention. It's inherently reactive. Securing a border has to be done at a border (as opposed to, for instance, at people's homes, churches, and schools).
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by pxc 9mo ago
The victim of the shooting today was a woman married to a woman, as well.
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by pxc 9mo ago
> I don’t remember hearing that non-Nazis were loudly opposing the Nazis. They definitely did. > I don’t know German history very well It's worth revisiting. _The Nazi Seizure of Power_ by William Sherman Allen is available in a
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by pxc 9mo ago
Geez, thank you.
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by pxc 9mo ago
open-source ≠ gratis binaries Rules that require the distribution of source code don't require the distribution of binaries.
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by pxc 9mo ago
Edit: I misremembered a Rust crates capability (pre- and post-install hooks), so my comment was useless and misleading.

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