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by troymc 2y ago
From the linked post: 'A "computer algebra system" would have accomplished a similar goal, but been much slower and much more complicated'
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by troymc 2y ago
RSS is human-readable XML, so you could just manually update your RSS file every time you write a new post, in a text editor.
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by troymc 2y ago
There are seven coronaviruses known to adversely affect humans but not all of them cause the common cold [1]. Indeed, one of them (SARS-CoV-2) causes COVID-19, which is not the common cold. [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/
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by troymc 2y ago
Check out RealityCapture [1]. I think it's what's used to create the Quixel Megascans [2]. (They're both under the Epic corporate umbrella now.) [1] https://www.capturingreality.com/realitycapture [2] https:
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by troymc 2y ago
It sounds like you need to quit and get a different job. Maybe you should do a different kind of work. Lots of people derive happiness, even joy, from their work (including software developers; Steve Gibson [1] is a good example of that). I
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by troymc 2y ago
WordPress is a lot more than it's core code. There's a whole ecosystem of plugins, for example, and the usual place to share them (wordpress.org/plugins) is, essentially, controlled by one guy. It's not so easy to fork
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by troymc 2y ago
Not to be confused with EczemaScript or AcneScript.
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by troymc 2y ago
The web already has lots of options for people who don't want to be paid. That's not the problem! The problem is that there's no web-standard way for people who do want to be paid to indicate how.
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by troymc 2y ago
That's often how it goes. The market starts out with lots of small businesses, but over time it ends up up with a few giant companies. Economists call it industry consolidation. There are some interesting nuances at the beginning and t
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by troymc 2y ago
I wonder how many of those packages end up in Vada, Italy. Or Cody, Wyoming. Or Buda, Texas...
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by troymc 2y ago
In some ways, Zig is simpler than C, it's true, but it also adds some nice things. For example, Zig introduces a robust error handling mechanism (try, catch, return err) that eliminates the need for exceptions or manual error checking
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by troymc 2y ago
Maybe ask ChatGPT?
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by troymc 2y ago
My take: In mitochondria, there is a trade-off between making ATP and making the building blocks of proteins. Different mitochondria can specialize in doing one or the other.
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by troymc 2y ago
I thought this was a headline from The Onion.
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by troymc 2y ago
No, Gemini is not built on top of the web (HTTP). It's an alternative to the web.
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by troymc 2y ago
AFAIK, the current location of Alexander's tomb is not known.
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by troymc 2y ago
My summary: they claim (with evidence) that they found the sacred purple sarapis (tunic) of Alexander the Great, and possibly some of his other things.
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by troymc 2y ago
1) Many people or orgs who are aligned with Ghost and want it to succeed long-term will be okay with paying a bit more for hosting on Ghost(Pro); they might see the extra cost as paying for the continued existence and development of their p
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by troymc 2y ago
OpenAI has ads? I thought it was mostly a freemium business model.
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by troymc 2y ago
Opera already does ad blocking before you add any extensions, so the manifest v3 thing is a bit of a red herring.
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by troymc 2y ago
Maybe Lemon Squeezy? Stripe recently acquired them, so they're probably not going insolvent any time soon.
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by troymc 2y ago
Using a merchant of record is a good idea in 2024, now that every little jurisdiction wants you to collect their sales tax for them, and to remit that sales tax to them. (That wasn't always true.) Stripe recently acquired Lemon Squee
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by troymc 2y ago
It's not easy, that's for sure. These days, big organizations tend to develop an internal "Design System" along with some implementations. Many of those design system implementations are, in fact, open, so you might just
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by troymc 2y ago
If you like WordPress and want to use it to create a static site, you can. 1. Run a local installation of WordPress on your PC. For one option, see localwp.com (no affiliation). 2. Use WordPress to design whatever website you want, using al
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by troymc 2y ago
Maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965812
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by troymc 2y ago
When there are many possible transportation options, I sometimes use... https://www.rome2rio.com/
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by troymc 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/327/
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by troymc 2y ago
Churchill's famous quote wasn't about capitalism, it was about democracy , which isn't the same thing at all. Here's an article with his full quote and the history of the idea he was expressing: https://quote
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by troymc 2y ago
That make sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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by troymc 2y ago
The license is the "Business Source License 1.1" [1]. The Business Source License (BSL) 1.1 is a software license created by MariaDB Corporation. It's designed as a middle ground between fully open-source licenses and traditi

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