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by troymc 2y ago
A lot of people are using Linux without even knowing it. Android uses a modified version of the Linux kernel; it depends on the Linux kernel project. According to Statcounter, Android has about 72% global market share on smartphones, with i
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by troymc 2y ago
Neocities has a similar vibe. https://neocities.org/browse As its name suggests, it was inspired, in part, by Geocities.
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Maybe Publii? https://getpublii.com/
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by troymc 2y ago
Fun fact: Second Life, the virtual world, has an in-world scripting language called LSL, and it gets compiled to bytecode that gets run on a virtual machine. Initially, it got compiled to bytecode that ran on an in-house virtual machine, bu
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by troymc 2y ago
The article is about a new paper in the journal Health & Place . That paper is open access and can be found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382922...
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by troymc 2y ago
For web apps, see https://stackshare.io/ For many desktop apps, if you go into Help > About, you'll see a list of all the open source libraries used, and their associated licenses (as required by the license). In Ch
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by troymc 2y ago
WordPress.com is also based on open-source software (WordPress) and can connect to the Fediverse via Activitypub [1]. Similar to WriteFreely, there's even a WordPress.com desktop app [2]. That said, I understand the allure of a simple,
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1/++
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by troymc 2y ago
If pygamelib interests you, you might also be interested in Pyxel: https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
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I learned quite a lot by viewing the source of this delightfully clean and spartan website. You don't need a DOCTYPE tag? You don't need a head tag? You don't need to declare the charset? The body tag has a "background&q
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by troymc 2y ago
OctoPrint has been doing that since 2012. It's a clever idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctoPrint
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https://bubblespop.netlify.app/
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by troymc 2y ago
"Ad blocker?? Sounds great! I'll have to ask Bob how I can get one."
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One of the proposed explanations was that lots of people actually had fingers which naturally posed like that, which, if true, would be of interest to people in biomedicine. The paper was published in Acta Biomedica , an international, pee
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The circulatory system of a fetus undergoes many changes at the time of birth. For example, in a fetus, the left and right atria of the heart are connected (allowing blood to bypass the lungs, which are not yet in use). Upon birth, that &
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by troymc 2y ago
"But it's surprisingly challenging to publish books on the web in nice, cohesive, tight, easy-to-navigate HTML format." Quarto is one great option for doing that today. Bonus: it can also generate EPUBs and PDFs, all from one
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by troymc 2y ago
I thought I was the only person who watched that movie!
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by troymc 2y ago
Yes, in fact at least one of them got funding from YC: Matterport. There are many others: Kuula, Cupix, iStaging, EyeSpy360... Real estate companies use them a lot, e.g. to create a virtual tour for prospective buyers.
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by troymc 2y ago
I was unable to determine whether the website was: A) Real, straight-up, what-it-says-on-the-tin or B) Satire. I mean, who wouldn't want a robot that opens walnuts by smashing them with its fist? What a great party trick! It for sure w
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That averages out to about 5 paid trips per minute, which is impressive considering the number of places where Waymo is offering paid trips: currently San Francisco, Phoenix, and parts of LA.
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It seems the folks at OpenAI were surprised by how popular ChatGPT became. Because they didn't expect it, they didn't do the usual things to protect the "ChatGPT" brand, such as buying the .com domain name. They also did
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by troymc 2y ago
Here's Natron's page about safety: https://natron.energy/our-technology/safety I don't think the battery is a big block of pure sodium. That would be unsafe. The battery electrolyte contains sodium ion
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Maybe it's Mabel's retirement party.
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by troymc 3y ago
I ran out of art to buy. Must have more art.
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Google Cloud Functions is another online service where you can run arbitrary Python code "in the cloud" (on Google's servers). They have a free tier. And if you want to use it... you have to give them your credit card informa
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As a general rule, an online server should never be left "open" so that anyone can run arbitrary code there. Such servers quickly get turned into bots for botnets (which do things like denial-of-service attacks for their commander
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"The runtime engine that powers Anvil’s app hosting is open source. This means you can host your app anywhere..." Source: https://anvil.works/open-source
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Anvil [1] is another "pure Python web framework", where you write both the client and the server code using Python. (The client code gets converted to JavaScript so that it can run in the browser.) Anvil has been around since 2016
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Some software and websites show (or showed) a little country flag for each language. For example, German would get the flag of Germany. Don't do this. It is flawed for so many reasons... Here's a whole blog about this, by someone
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I wonder if something like this could be used instead of conda or pixi to manage Python packages, the used-version of Python, the Python virtualenv, etc.

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