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1. 241.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   Thank you for that! It's been very useful!
2. 242.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   Thank you for this, it's amazing!
3. 243.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   The full 30 minutes of "The Way Things Go": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAVrSSNfHw
4. 244.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   To be precise, it takes 1 employee to say "used in X". It takes corporate decision to say "used by X". And it takes a written agreement to be able to use the trademarked logo of X on your page. (I know, because I have co
5. 245.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   You are of course correct that 7-bit ASCII includes lower case characters. I don't think there exists "6-bit ASCII", but the original ASCII did not have lower case (the slots were empty). We're talking early '60s he
6. 246.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   Most people are too young to remember that when you typed your username in all-caps in the login prompt (because the CapsLock key was on by accident, for example), the login(8) program assumed you were in a connection that could only do 7-b
7. 247.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   I know you've only asked for a translation, but if you are interested in more, there is an edition by Oxford University Press (April 11, 2002), 480 pages, ISBN 978-0198752714. An English translation by Christopher Rowe that strives to
8. 248.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   There are already mentions of all the greats in other comments: Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, as well as Lang, Murnau, Griffith and others. I wanted to mention a silent film I watched recently, Lonesome (1928) https://letterboxd.com&
9. 249.▲
   by zvr 2y ago

   I am currently finishing a similar project, producing PDF from original Markdown input, with the added difficulty that input is spread over many files and directories. I chose LaTeX as the typesetting engine, since I know it fairly well and
10. 250.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Express your support for Free Software maintainers and contributors by participating in the "I Love Free Software" Day: https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/index.en.html
11. 251.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I am not sure I understand the question. Doesn't the "Download" section of the page provide links to the binaries for different platforms? https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/#downlo
12. 252.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    On the git part: the text only mentions "git commit checksum", not "branches and tags" -- and it couldn't, since these are not immutable nor are they restricted to hex characters. My point above is that the EBNF def
13. 253.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    No, it's the opposite problem. For example the text talks about "ASCII alphanumerics [09-A-Za-z]", the relevant EBNF rule is called "ALPHANUMERIC", but its definition is only letters. It's not the problem that
14. 254.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    The EBNF in the page does not match the textual description: - "ALPHANUMERIC" is only letters, not numbers - "BUILD_REF" can contain dashes/hyphens "-" - "GIT_COMMIT_REF" is the let
15. 255.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    By this metric, you probably never have any control. Even the domain name you're using is not "yours"; you only rent it for a while and you may lose it.
16. 256.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Or the "Untangle" puzzle from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Constantly one of the first additions to any new device I acquire (Andro
17. 257.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Oh, of course the development is fun and exciting and a learning experience. But before inviting others to use something, please think of how to make its use more clear. After all, I assume you post this so that people use it, not only admi
18. 258.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    As you set out for Ithaka / hope your road is a long one -- Ithaka , C.P. Cavafy
19. 259.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Creating command-line utilities is nice, but I personally lament the lack of man pages when people write something new.
20. 260.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I can point out that Greek needs n=2: for accent and breathing.
21. 261.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Back in the day, the Tcl conferences (and the EuroTcl in Europe) were great sources of information. Only about half of the presentations were for Tcl internals and extensions. The rest were about other projects that were using Tcl in some w
22. 262.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I think all the arguments of the article still hold if one changes "Lua" to "Tcl". (well, the general arguments, not anything related to the Xedge framework).
23. 263.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Having used many *roff variants (e.g., troff, nroff, ditroff, groff) over decades and also having rather extensive experience with LaTeX, I'd now definitely choose the latter for any serious typesetting task. Pain points include many c
24. 264.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Thanks for the info.
25. 265.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Have you maybe documented what you have done, so that others who want to follow the same path can look up some information?
26. 266.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I appreciate it when there is also a "License" section in the README itself.
27. 267.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    Now, this is extremely interesting! I am not a fan of encoding information in the presentation layer and I would use an extra column to show the "certainty" explicitly, but using different fonts in addition is an excellent idea. M
28. 268.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I look every few years to see whether there is a solution for me, but unfortunately I have not found anything. Among all the people I interact with, the only set of contacts that I do not need to save their info is co-workers in the same co
29. 269.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    No, posting things (for example on YouTube) counts very well as prior art and helps you invalidate (or limit the scope of) patents that appear later. For a well-known case, consider Hangprinter, by Torbjorn Ludvigsen: a 3D printer without a
30. 270.▲
    by zvr 2y ago

    I don't think the one year "countdown clock" is valid any more, but IANAL and if you really want to know, consult a patent attorney.