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631.
SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (1995)(mcjones.org)
9 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
That is impressive at first glance, no question. To stay with the example of the bookshelf, you would only follow this path for several or very many books, as in the example with the cookbooks. I have no idea how good the Geminis or GPTs of
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by smartmic 3y ago
I broadly agree with that. Repeated training with self-generated data is the technological equivalent of incest and can lead to nothing good.
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Little Languages for Pictures in Awk (1989) [pdf](github.com)
4 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
At the very least, the article has brought to the forefront the awareness that, in addition to all the other effects of the hype, the research and use of AI on a large scale also consumes an extreme amount of energy. Since we should all be
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by smartmic 3y ago
Of course, this is a known way to do it for hackers. But the article clearly mentioned boundary conditions, among two are violated by the netcat trick: * It needs to be useable for a non-technical person * Its flow has to be consistent acro
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The Debian Voting System(seehuhn.de)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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A Career Cold Start Algorithm(boz.com)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|3 comments
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MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework(mamedev.org)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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The (mostly 90s and 2000s) Shareware CD-ROM Collection(archive.org)
5 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Unison File Synchronizer(github.com)
80 points by smartmic 3y ago|26 comments
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Use Troff – a set of macros and tools to use troff efficiently (2018)(pjfichet.github.io)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
The best thing about Perl in comparison to Python is that programs written in Perl age very well. You can run decades old scripts without any updates, versioning and/or dependency hell or other headaches. Even better, also across platf
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by smartmic 3y ago
I am sorry, but a poem from chatGPT, any AI, doesn't trigger any emotion, there is no resonating body, however small, in me. It is simply wasted time, even if it is a "well" written poem. If art was not made by humans, the ou
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Microsoft's Unix-to-Windows Migration Guide (2003) [pdf](archive.org)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Nice. Here are two passages that remind me of "history repeats itself". > Looking back it seems such a simple idea to replace the hierarchical structures used to build databases with tables of rows and columns > First of all
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"Legislative Innovation" as redirection activity(tante.cc)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Pycco – quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming docu generator(pycco-docs.github.io)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning(science.org)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system(github.com)
531 points by smartmic 3y ago|277 comments
651.
by smartmic 3y ago
Well, Apple is in control of your system. Same story with Microsoft software. Maybe yet another nudge to think about the core values of Free Software?
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by smartmic 3y ago
Tangentially, I learned a few days ago that any attribute that can contain a URI will be executed as javascript if the URI uses the javascript: key For a list, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2725156/comple
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Neatroff – a new implementation of the Troff typesetting system (2017) [pdf](litcave.rudi.ir)
49 points by smartmic 3y ago|8 comments
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Use Plaintext Email (2019)(useplaintext.email)
79 points by smartmic 3y ago|75 comments
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by smartmic 3y ago
Anything changed since 2021 or new developments / insights?
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AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language(asmbb.org)
280 points by smartmic 3y ago|127 comments
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OPEN100 – a development framework for a small, pressurized water reactor(open-100.com)
2 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Open Hardware Observatory – Find good DIY and open hardware projects(en.oho.wiki)
3 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart(ameliaearhart.com)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments
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Markua Introduction(leanpub.com)
1 points by smartmic 3y ago|0 comments

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