robinsonb5

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by robinsonb5 5mo ago
Those would be the Pork Futures Warehouse from Discworld.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
> I've always enjoyed working in Tcl/Itcl and Tk/Itk In the near future I need to lash up a windows utility to generate a bunch of PDF files from a CSV (in concert with GhostScript), with specific filenames. I was trying t
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
My memory wasn't playing tricks on me after all - Suse Linux 6.3 had KDE 1.1.2 with several nice themes [1] - I'm pretty sure the version I used back in the day was SuSE 7 (a boxed copy, bought from Staples!) [1] https:/&#x2
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
I'm sure it was version 1.something that had the Bryce theme - I remember being annoyed that the scrolling title feature had disappeared when KDE2 came out. But it's always possible that my memory's playing tricks on me.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
This brings back memories of Chunky-to-Planar conversion on the Amiga, where the Xor trick was combined with bitshifts and masking to rearrange the bits in 8 32-bit words in reasonable time.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
KDE1 had some very nice themes! I remember using one that drew inspiration from the visuals of Bryce on the Mac. Dark mode theme - and animated window titles which would scroll gently if the window title was too long to fit.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments that plauge our RAM chips today.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
> If someone else uses your exact same prompt to generate the exact same code, can you claim copyright infringement against them? No, because they've independently obtained it from the same source that you did, so their copy is &quo
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
Copyright law forbids the creation of derivative works (excepting any region-specific fair-use rules) so you're only allowed to create them under the rights granted to you in the terms of the license - thus under this particular licens
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
> Surely the person doing so would be responsible for doing so, but are they doing anything wrong? You're perfectly at liberty to relicense public domain code if you wish. The only thing you can't do is enforce the new license
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
Not a lawyer either, but: > What if I take the design, print it, include the thing in a staged photo, and sell prints of the photo? Probably fair use, provided the design wasn't the main focus of the photo, but merely part of the &q
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
I actually hope it doesn't! The results are impressive, but for the vast, vast majority of applications the actual speedup achieved is basically meaningless since it only applies to a tiny fraction of memory accesses. For the use case
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
> A QR (or barcode) library is exactly the type of thing I’d assume would still work fine, since there’s nothing new to do, the parsing rules don’t change, it’s a static, known, solved problem. I agree with you - and yet the barcode libr
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
> And people throw out things instead of repairing them because they don't know how. Part of it is the materials used now, though - many things get thrown out because the plastic bodyshell got old and brittle, and broke. (Plastic is
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
PostScript is awesome - I still use it to do this day for hacking together Variable Data Printing projects, with the aid of GhostScript.
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by robinsonb5 6mo ago
Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
I have an eMachines-branded PS/2 keyboard within easy reach, which I rescued when a colleague was throwing out an old PC. It's only a rubber dome board, but it's one of the best feeling rubber dome boards I've ever encou
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
This year's average phone is already going to have less RAM than last year's average phone - so anything that reduces the footprint of the apps (and even more importantly, websites) we're using can only be a good thing. Plus
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
...or worse, the libraries do get written, but multiple times in mutually-incompatible forms that are tightly coupled to specific compositors / desktop environments. (Screengrabbing, anyone?)
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
Yes, they did eventually. If I'm understanding correctly, the original design used a simple funnel shape with 45 degree sides (suitable for the resource-limited systems of the day), and when they eventually re-implemented it they used
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
It's slightly irritating to see Amazon get credit for that, when Bruce Tognazzini used that same solution 40 years ago when working on the classic MacOS interface! (Apple forgot about it again for OS X, but that's a different stor
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
The agent obviously knows the Train Man.
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
> so implementations appeared Indeed - implementations, plural. Incompatible with each other, naturally.
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
The point of a policy is to make a decision and then communicate that decision, so that you don't end up in a lengthy argument (or make inconsistent decisions) each time a particular situation arises. You're right that it won&#x27
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
Suspend / resume? I'll settle for "keyboard works". (From what I've learned so far, some magic incantation is required to convince Linux that a Lifebook E559 is a laptop not a tablet. I'm finding I have way les
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
Plenty of people have already said join a gym. I'll build on that and say try and find one that offers group classes - anything from the Les Mills line up, for instance. For several years until Covid struct, I used to do Body Combat tw
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
> I am not quite able to think of what you mean by that but I do think that there are some ways to do it but its a problem that internet faces at large of abuse in general and its a careful line between privacy and abuse. My main goal is
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
It sounds really good - though obviously less automated than what I had in mind. What's needed is something with less friction - which could be achieved using a browser extension - but also needs something to prevent shilling and other
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
I've had a vague idea rattling around in the back of my brain for a while now, for some kind of endorsement system using public keys and signatures, so I can apply an endorsement to a particular site (perhaps with some kind of hash of
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by robinsonb5 7mo ago
There are two pillars to managing RAM with virtual memory: the obvious one is is writing one program's working set to disk, so that another program can use that memory. The other one - which isn't prevented by disabling swap - is

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