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zokier
8mo ago
I feel this is one of the weaknesses of Linux/unix ecosystem. The freeipa/sssd/nss/pam/krb/ldap/dns (+keycloak/samba/...) etc stack is just incredibly byzantine. I'm sure it is technically v
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8mo ago
Metamerism is closely related topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)
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8mo ago
I think this press release adds much needed context: https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/bancomat-bizum-epi-sibs... Especially these parts: > The cooperation builds on the success of existing solutions, connecting
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8mo ago
> There are a few high resolution satellites but there frame is very small and not suited for complete coverage. If they are geostationary they cant look anywhere, or they have to look at an angle giving oblique photos. If they are movin
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8mo ago
> but storage format as text is just fundamentally problematic. Why? The ast needs to be stored as bytes on disk anyways, what is problematic in having having those bytes be human-readable text?
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8mo ago
> arguably unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory terms I'll bite. How do you argue that?
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8mo ago
These are also available in the excellent Stellarium software: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-skycultures/blob/ma...
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8mo ago
Also, how to get your google account banned for abuse.
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8mo ago
Big reason why TUIs were popular in the first place is because they are so much simpler to build. Compare ncurses to GTK/Qt, they are completely different leagues. One of my pet ideas is to build a ncurses compatible/style library
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8mo ago
That tree carbon capture estimate is probably conservative here if planting trees achieved de-desertification and resulted a larger thriving ecosystem.
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8mo ago
Also email as a protocol (SMTP) predates RFC5322 by 25 years or so.
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8mo ago
Camera ISO and noise can be really complicated and even contentious topic. One complication is that some cameras are "ISO invariant" and on those cameras afaik it is beneficial to stick to the one or two native ISO values. There i
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8mo ago
While deciday is workable hour replacement and milliday is decent minute replacement, the metric time would be missing decent seconds replacement. The next named prefix, microday, is 86ms which is very small for humans. Of course it is not
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8mo ago
You might enjoy "Precision Clock mk4": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144750 It has automatic timezone. The article also explains why it isn't as simple as it seems
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8mo ago
Not really. If the explanation was "air is blue" then the naive expectation would be that sun would appear blue against blackish background, basically the image of sun is being filtered through the atmosphere; if sun is white and
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9mo ago
Thanks for the pointers! one more thing, that guide says: > You can choose UD-Q4_K_XL or other quantized versions. I see eight different 4-bit quants (I assume that is the size I want?).. how to pick which one to use? IQ4_XS
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9mo ago
For someone who is very out of the loop with these AI models, can someone explain what I can actually run on my 3080ti (12G)? Is this something like that or is this still too big; is there anything remotely useful runnable with my GPU? I ha
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9mo ago
> There is a herculean effort on the part of package maintainers to build software for distros, and no one has been building 32 bit version of software for years, even if it is possible to build from source. There is only a very limited
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9mo ago
Wouldn't such analysis in the general case run afoul of Rices theorem?
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9mo ago
Note that you can do point-to-point network links directly with thunderbolt (and usb4). https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/ip-thunderbolt-conn... etc
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9mo ago
> A common bathroom nightlight draws ~7 watts. Philips "60W" equivalent (806 lm) LED lamps are 3.8 watts.
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9mo ago
The solution is to run ipv6 on the overlay and have the customer site gateway thing they have to translate it to target ipv4. Conveniently you can do the translation it more or less statefully and very easily because you can just embed the
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9mo ago
Are you claiming that scrapping together boxes and whatnot with line drawing characters is more efficient than just drawing the lines directly?
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9mo ago
> Embedded-graphics includes bitmap fonts that have a very limited set of characters to save space (ASCII, ISO 8859 or JIS X0201). This makes it impossible to draw most of Ratatui's widgets, which heavily use box-drawing glyphs, Bra
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9mo ago
Notably wrapped by build123d into cad as a code package
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9mo ago
in what way does scandir avoid stat syscalls?
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9mo ago
https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/#parsers https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/wiki/List-of-pars...
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9mo ago
CommonMark is such posthoc spec
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9mo ago
Well, mister has psx core. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PSX_MiSTer
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9mo ago
Fractions of inch are still tolerable. But just having "#X" drills and screws is pretty silly. 7/32" might need some mental arithmetic, but #6 is just unknowable.
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