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by tzot 5y ago
You sansed the serif? What about the DPI-t?
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by tzot 5y ago
I can only assume that Firefox associates filled-in data with the name of the input control; in this case, “q”, which is probably typical for a search inputbox.
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by tzot 5y ago
> When I ask Google Assistant "where am I?" on my phone it tells me I'm in Manchester. Nice. > When I ask the same question on my Bluetooth headphones it says Liverpool. I can't get it to work. It's been like
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by tzot 5y ago
At work we had a very-late-technical-debt-move from “Python 2.7/Django 1.7” to “Python 3.8/Django 3.2” (with lots of associated libraries moving forward too) and we managed to reach a point where our codebase was common and functi
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by tzot 5y ago
The quote was: > "The more 'it's-only-Python-if-it-has-X' restrictions we have, the less appealing we become." We the Python language?
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by tzot 5y ago
In CPython 2, a `str` was bytes period ; no encoding was enforced, these bytes were not necessarily valid UTF-8, and a `unicode` had either UTF-16 or UTF-32 in-memory representation (decided at compilation time). In CPython 3, a `bytes`
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by tzot 5y ago
Flapping Pong?
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by tzot 5y ago
Σελήνη/Selene (the ancient name) is Luna: our moon. Lowercase φεγγάρι/feggari/fengari is moon: you would say «δίδυμα φεγγάρια του Άρη» for “Mars' twin moons”.¹ In the same vein, capitalized Ήλιος/Helios is Sol: our
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by tzot 5y ago
This video is already included in the web page under the “Watch a demonstration of the system running on real hardware. Recorded in October 2021.” paragraph.
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by tzot 5y ago
Any automatic removal of common words when slugifying the article title was quite unfortunate here: “We Fight for the Users” vs “we-fight-users”.
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by tzot 5y ago
> My biggest objection to that naming scheme would be the numbering. If you have multiple people working on an app, it is likely that you at some point get multiples of a number as people add models simultaneously. What happens if there
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LibreLogo: Programming Environment in LibreOffice(help.libreoffice.org)
12 points by tzot 5y ago|1 comments
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by tzot 5y ago
I did a double take when I got the info from a LO startup tooltip.
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by tzot 5y ago
Thanks; my assembly experience was with earlier processors, with a single argument for their test instruction (kind of like calling x86 test with two same arguments). I should have checked what the x86 test instruction does before replying
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by tzot 5y ago
I believe in most (if not all) architectures that have it, a test instruction is the same as comparing to zero; so testing zero sets the zero flag :)
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by tzot 5y ago
A renamed `expr` of the shell.
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by tzot 5y ago
> if{= 1==2} {err 'math is broken'} {out 'math works'} So you ended up with kind of like TCL's choices (`then`, `else`, `elseif` are optional; prefix expressions with `=` (`expr` in TCL's case, although it&#
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by tzot 5y ago
I assume you mean (0.5m)³, which is 0.125m³.
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by tzot 5y ago
So is that the “Weeping Angel” clock?
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by tzot 5y ago
Or plain `>&2` since the `1` is implied for '>'
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by tzot 5y ago
It's one more process to run, so `cat single_file | ` can be easily substituted with `<single_file `.
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by tzot 5y ago
`grep . *` has different output than `cat` if `*` expands to more than one filename: every line is prefixed by the filename it exists in.
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by tzot 6y ago
Like random3821 commented, it's about American English not being “proper” English (while supposedly if the US of A were a British colony, it would be “proper”.)
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by tzot 6y ago
I remember a flame war between US-English and UK-English speakers, where one of the former said “if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German now” and one of the latter ones said “if it weren't for the French, you'd s
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by tzot 6y ago
Doesn't this point to the same article as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25171662 ?
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by tzot 6y ago
I remember a joke from my childhood, where an American tourist is browsing a local farmer's market commenting how small everything is compared to American produce, so when the tourist sees watermelons and asks “and what are these?”, th
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by tzot 6y ago
> The flavors were sublime with tomatoes rich in umami intermingling with spicy olive oil and savory farmer's cheese. And then you can dip bite-sized chunks of fresh bread, one by one, in the mixture of the olive oil and the vegetab
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by tzot 6y ago
It also sounds very similar to Mike, the computer at the Moon in “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress”, which predates the 80s.
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by tzot 6y ago
How else could it be? https://youtu.be/ALBViu_o-cw
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by tzot 6y ago
s/diodos/diolkos/

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