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> But they are not independent though, they will be owned by Wall Street should they go public. That depends on how much equity they issue as public stock. (And stock classes and v…

My reading is that it uses CV to identify potential click targets on the screen.

This appears to be a successor document: https://archive.org/details/common-user-access-basic-interfa...

I have joint problems in my thumbs and have trouble with thumb-heavy layouts, but have found the Sofle V2 to work well for me. For my hands it is important that the center thumb ke…

Although that's a different knot (I use the one originally referenced), I taught my kids the knot in the animation and it's worked out well. Added benefit: adults are impressed whe…

By way of experience report: I've been using this app for a week or so on my daily driver and it's been great.

I love reST and I think it lost primarily because of distribution. I.e., the people using it did not have large audiences and didn't put much effort into promoting it. It's a shame…

> polluted my codebase I'd love to hear more about that.

You might enjoy this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

> Zig doesn't even pretend to do memory safety - if you don't free something manually it won't get freed Preventing memory leaks isn't normally what people mean by "memory safety".…

I don't think the character is that uncommon in the output of slightly-sophisticated writers and is not hard to generate (e.g., on macOS pressing option-shift-minus generates an em…

I appreciate the consideration. I'll be watching Vedro with interest. I do like the nicer vedro.asserts mechanism. If that works with unittest and pytest it would be really nice. Y…

Looks pretty normal: https://playcanv.as/p/apIKHp7a

Your first and second points makes sense. They don't matter much to me, but I see how others could value those things. Aside: I also don't like the hamcrest syntax. I also don't lo…

As someone that loves Python and hates pytest, you have my support. (Although, I don't like using bare `assert`s in tests, but maybe you'll convince me.)

I'm not great at electronics, but it looks like it alternates turning on the two LEDs.

This is insane and I love it!

Stray thought: the way Zig uses first-class allocators might make it interesting for doing things with multiple memories.

"Even with a 13% bigger budget, we still managed to spend 92% of our money in 2024 paying contributors for their time." The Zig Foundation model of paying contributors is really in…

> I don't think anyone would sue you for patent infringement against your hobby project. You are mistaken.

There is no legal distinction between violating copyright "professionally" or not.

I don't know of a canonical XP team size, but "small" is the normal recommendation. 8-12 would seem larger than small to me. Personally, 8 is the largest I would have a team. At th…

> The ideal setup is to put 5 people in the same room with the PO and close to a few key users. (I suspect you are aware, but just in case this is new to you.) This is essentially …

The Information Society song "Mirrorshades" would pair well with this.

If you like that style of scifi, you may also like Adrian Tchaikovsky's work.