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by racingmars 5y ago
Yeah browsing around their web site and product pages I couldn't find anything. After I signed in to Wolfram Cloud for the first time, I got an email with a little bit of explanation of the Basic plan: With this introductory Wolfram
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by racingmars 5y ago
This chart is showing what messaging providers are willing to give to law enforcement, not a reflection of the technical capabilities of the messaging provider. I assume what they're showing for Telegram (basically no data except I
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by racingmars 5y ago
To be nitpicky -- The AS/400 is not a mainframe, it's what IBM calls a "midrange system" positioned between commodity x86 servers and mainframes. Today, the AS/400 OS (OS/400, or as it's known now, IBM i)
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by racingmars 5y ago
The article talks about options for remaining contributions for which they can't get in touch with the contributor, and says: "We can check if copyright even applies to the particular contribution. Very small contributions may not
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Popular 'coa' NPM library hijacked to steal user passwords(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by racingmars 5y ago
Not a Linux distribution, but the Unix implementation in z/OS, IBM's mainframe operating system, is painfully POSIX-compliant.
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by racingmars 5y ago
Given how successful Go has been without generics, it appears generics are not essential in a modern industry language. I'm happy generics are coming to Go, but living without them hasn't been difficult. (Like the article author,
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by racingmars 5y ago
The instructions say you must enter "algebraic notation," but I couldn't figure it out until I took a peek at the source code to see how it was trying to parse input. You always just enter source square to destination square.
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by racingmars 5y ago
Yep -- looks like you got the pointer you needed, but I have it running on a SPARCstation 20 under Solaris 2.6 and it works well! The SPARCstation also has a SunPC card in it, so I have Windows 3.11, Mac System 7.5, and Solaris 2.6 all runn
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by racingmars 5y ago
To quote Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Stlye: "Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed face in a text size. The 66-character l
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by racingmars 5y ago
I keep checking the release notes waiting for the -accel hvf patches for Apple ARM/M1 hosts to make it into a release... looks like I'll still be waiting! I can't figure out how to keep track in the patch system of which patc
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by racingmars 5y ago
> The only "real" reason you need a loadbalancer is that you want to save IP addresses. What?! Load balancers tend to be in place for availability and scalability reasons, not to save IP addresses. Sure, there are many use case
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by racingmars 5y ago
Doesn't seem to be mentioned in many mechanical keyboard articles these days, but I still find the buckling spring style switches an absolute joy to type on. The classic IBM Model M keyboard.
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by racingmars 5y ago
Even if you completely ignore whatever sponsorship YouTube has with the organization, the sheer idea of awarding YouTube a prize related to freedom of expression/freedom of speech is what's laughable. I suspect some people think t
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by racingmars 6y ago
We may eventually get there, but I think the article presenting this ruling as furthering a split-circuit situation is overplaying it. The ruling itself specifically addresses the 9th Circuit Dominoes ruling, and how the facts of the case a
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by racingmars 6y ago
The one I have to use frequently is the restricted ksh environment in IBM's IVM/VIOS server, which is AIX. I believe it does log a short set of command history to a file, but it'd not available with, say, the up arrow. In gen
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by racingmars 6y ago
What definition of "shell" are you basing this on? Some (current) Unix systems I use have default shells that have neither command history nor tab completion. Easy access to command history and tab completion are certainly nicetie
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by racingmars 6y ago
Because often I need to highlight text in the terminal, copy it, then highlight text somewhere else (e.g. in a text input field in a browser, the address bar in the browser, etc.) and paste over it. Selecting the specific destination text I
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by racingmars 6y ago
I'd love to see a reference to US case law to substantiate this claim. I'm pretty sure if I bought a font from Adobe and posted it online, they'd take issue with it. Is the particular implementation of a font eligible for cop
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by racingmars 6y ago
I've developed negative feelings toward autotools over time, but I'm not sure how much I should be blaming autotools versus the projects that use autotools. One annoyance is that it often feels like "./configure ...&quot
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by racingmars 6y ago
"Analog" meaning the ability to represent data across an uninterrupted, infinitely-fine continuum, versus "digital" meaning only able to represent data as discrete steps. Continuous versus discrete. The comment that the
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by racingmars 6y ago
hahaha... I have a pet snake, and I definitely think she should be allowed to live in this world. She's such a fascinating creature!
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by racingmars 6y ago
If the painting itself is old enough to be out of copyright, then a photograph of it that is just a photograph of the work itself is not eligible for copyright protection. At least that's my understanding. It hasn't crossed the th
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by racingmars 6y ago
The project appears to be based on XeTeX, which is covered by the MIT license. I don't know the full history of XeTeX, but if it was indeed a re-write of TeX/LaTeX from the ground up (and not based on the TeX source code), then th
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by racingmars 6y ago
Probably want to take the "#/29" off the end of the link, so we're not linking to the last slide of their demo presentation!
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by racingmars 6y ago
I don't know why this bugs me, but from the article: "(Aside: The hard bit may be getting a new enough SQLite, at the time of writing Homebrew on macOS has it, else you likely need to use an unstable source like nixpkgs-unstable.)
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by racingmars 6y ago
No, Xorg (or at least the component of Xorg I think you're thinking about) is the server -- specifically, the display server. Clients -- the individual applications you run -- connect to the display server to draw themselves. (so, e.g.
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by racingmars 6y ago
Welcome to the world of flight simulation! I've been in to flight simulation for a long time, and while there are definite rough edges that need to be improved, this really does represent the next leap forward in what's available
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by racingmars 6y ago
> Even dumber question, why do they need to be circular? The wafer is round because it's cut from a cylinder of silicon. And the cylinder is a cylinder because spinning is involved in the process to make it. Hence, thanks to centrip
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by racingmars 6y ago
This reminds me of the Airbus concept. They follow what's called a "lights out" design for all of those buttons on the overhead panel. When things are set and working the way they should be for normal flight, there is no indi

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