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Their business model is selling ads. They don't give a rats ass about the open web.

XML source + XSLT can be considerably more compact than the resulting transformation, saving on hosting and bandwidth.

Can CSS be used to produce plots from XML data? https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/ https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/

For one, in many cases the XML + XSLT is more compact than the rendered output, so there are hosting and bandwidth benefits, especially if you're transforming a lot of XML files wi…

There's even a JS implementation of XSLT 3.0 already (SaxonJS).

Because those neglecting it are the same that want to remove it. So it's not “we want to remove it because it's neglected”, but “we want to remove it so we'll neglect it”. This is …

Also, fun fact, XSLT 3 relies on XPath 3.1 which can also handle JSON.

Most of the issues of using client-side XSLT is that browsers haven't updated their implementations since v1 nor their tooling to improve debugging. Both of these issues are resolv…

That's Richard Spencer trying to explain Pepe the Frog. Relevant commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKICKcMU3MU

It does, a least in my case (AMD RX580 with distro amdgpu driver).

The intuition with the columns of pennies over a plate doesn't translate because in the plate case the surface is fixed (the surface of the plate) so the pressure depends on how mu…

The equations are conceptually simple: Navier-Stokes equations (conservation of momentum) and conservation of mass. The behavior is emergent.

And the biggest takeaway to me was that the software is still heavily bugged, especially the UI.

IME it's also a good idea to organize periodic get-togethers to "coalesce" some collaboration aspects that are harder to manage remotely.

That goes both ways though. It also means that you can get hired by some company on the other side of the world that possibly offers better conditions than anything local.

CUDA uses a single-source approach, meaning that the host (CPU) and device (GPU) code are in the same file. So it requires a special compiler (nvcc) that splits the original source…

The problem is that the only way to win against non-free software is to provide viable free-software alternatives. Free software cannot win on ideology alone, it _has_ to provide t…

> RMS doesn't care about "open source" Apparently, he also doesn't care about free software enough either, since he apparently prefers users to switch to something they can _use_ t…

The problem is that Stallman has painted himself in a corner here. On the one hand, he says: don't use LLVM/Clang, it's dangerous, use GCC instead; on the other hand, he says, no, …

The first thing that shows up in a VIM session is a small introductory text that includes type :help or for on-line help And of course the GUI also has the familiar Help menu as mo…