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> curried functions often don't compose nicely Same for imperative languages with "parameter list" style. In python, with def f(a, b): return c, d def g(k, l): return m, n you can'…

Current social consensus is that copyright exists and one can only use software on conditions stated in license. Thus, proprietary and copyleft have same protection. Another possib…

Copyleft is copyright held in smart way. Nobody can take code under GPL and make its _copy_ proprietary because it would be violation of copyright. In the other thread you argued t…

Most of FOSS is not a free gift, but asks for some form of repay. MIT asks for credit. GPL asks or credit and GPL'ing of things built atop. Unlicense is a free gift, but it is a mi…

Easy to check: try to speak with someone talking foreign language you don't know and estimate what percentage of what they said you understood from tone of voice etc. I would guess…

https://tixy.land/?code=%28%28t%2F4%2Batan2%28x-8%2Cy-7%29%2... a radar

It's impressing that browser can display many levels of recursive iframe.

√2 with floating point is obviously closest representable number. With fixed point it is obviously closest representable number as well. With rationals, you need to arbitrarily lim…

- after few operations denominator exceeds 64-bit range, so you either need bigint, or make fractions approximate, what is in affect fixed point - often you use decimal fraction on…

Thanks for sharing! A bit of css, and it's possible to read mastodon posts with a web browser! head {display:block; background:Canvas; color:CanvasText;} meta[content] {display:blo…

Was nvidia driver foss or proprietary?

With proprietary software, how many times a producer did fix breakage or add missing feature for you because you bought a licence (subscription)? How fast was it?

Keycap displays could be used to shuffle letters, thus prevent touch typing and force neck moves.

Chronosort is closer to radix sort, as both are O(n) if values are bounded. Queue-sort (aka heapsort) is O(n log n).

There are two commands that do work in shebang: /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env. Everything else will break sooner or later: BSDs, Nix, Linux distros with separate /bin and /usr/bin and s…

After failing too many times looked up how it is supposed to look https://img.shapecatcher.com/svg/9731.svg >, then got it on second approach https://cdn.imgpaste.net/2023/01/14/K6…

Call it "JSON API", that pinpoints all important characteristics of most "REST" APIs lacking HATEOAS.

Right, I forgot storage. Yet in the context of "a model (spreadsheet) with bounded storage and bounded computation steps count is TM complete when looping is externalized", one can…

Notably, finite automata are Turing complete. (TM is DFA + looping).

Reading this I think I understood what's behind "some tangential thing is majority of success" claims: it is multiplier, not percentage of absolute level. "One can be 4x more perfo…

Nope, depending on your workflow, you can miss features of Krusader like archive integration, browsing over ssh, lock-step navigation in panels, selection modes, builtin editor/vie…

C begins to increase rate of adding breaking changes. C23 is about to - add keywords that was valid identifiers before - remove K&R parameter syntax - change semantics of the most …

It's like turning your car's engine off overnight because that uses fuel.

> Firefox is may freeze the user agent to a two-digit number like "Firefox/99.0." Opera did that when version went up from 9 to 10. Too many websites looked at first digit of versi…

That's how I use pass on Linux. A key shortcut is bind to script that calls "xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname", selects credentials set based on it, asks for master password wi…