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> but the decision to not ship with a regular installation UI in OG macOS X came with the tradeoff of not cleanly _uninstalling_ software either. config files etc were always left …

I remember years ago before LLMs my colleague told me he was impressed by my Google-fu. I was just as speechless whenever I saw him type his search queries which led nowhere. Appar…

Location: Germany (UTC +1/+2), EU citizen Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: no Technologies: C# and previously C++ and Java, prefer functional style and privately dabble with …

PS: Did some research and while it is true that a ZWNBSP will break up ligatures in many systems, that’s not its intended use. It’s there to prevent line breaks (up to Unicode 3.2)…

No, a ZWNBSP that’s not at the start is just a regular ZWNBSP. Can be used to break up ligatures for example

> The usual "0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3" is _not_ imprecision. Correct. That’s using the wrong base. Decimal floating point doesn’t have that problem.

I install these Python builds into distroless containers with uv python install and it just works. (If you try this with Google’s images, use gcr.io/distroless/cc, libgcc/libstdc++…

FWIW, ruff sees your line comment and keeps each item on its line. It only adds a trailing comma and additional space. It also does not collapse lines when there’s a trailing comma…

That’s how we distinguish the Cox–Zucker Machine [1] from other Cox-Zucker Machines (scnr) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox–Zucker_machine

Yes, you don’t get that far without it.

Can’t get it running on Firefox 152.0.6 (aarch64), no extensions. [chrome-demo] chrome assets ready [gecko] warning: unsupported syscall: __syscall_madvise [gecko] embed-xul: main(…

If scoping were actually viable, public CAs could also sign your private intermediate CA with a name constraint and it would be trusted everywhere.

Python for example, although nowadays you can simply install pip_system_certs to change that behaviour. A lot of non-language tools bring their own certificate bundle as well, like…

MacPorts is still around and is a perfectly viable package manager, I prefer it over homebrew

IIRC Apple actually helped with MacPorts in the beginning

And with ULAs (fd00::/8) you can pick your own prefix. Officially you should pick a random one to prevent collisions when you connect private networks, but you can choose something…

Now with Unicode we actually have even more: NL Next line (from EBCDIC?) LS Line separator (invented by Unicode) PS Paragraph separator (same) The Unicode standard says that in add…

I wonder why in Windows 10 and 11 there is no obvious way to cancel this dialog. You can press Esc, but there are no buttons to do it.

I was hoping for a small phone as well since I’ve read rumours about the display being 5.3in when folded. However it also said 7.8in unfolded, which implies 4.1in × 3.3in folded… q…

Your comment put me on a side quest to research the differences between i.e., e.g., viz. and sc. and I have to admit that I’m still not 100% sure

Looks like I forgot to answer the other half :) Yes you can pin a specific Python like `uv python pin cpython-3.14.0-macos-aarch64-none`, it will create a `.python-version` file wh…

Yes you can set it via an environment variable (UV_NATIVE_TLS=true) or in your uv.toml (native-tls = true). However, check the docs, I think they are renaming it to sytem-certs.

Without HTTPS someone could alter the content, spread false information, inject ads, malware, and other stuff, redirect to some other site, … (This is a general remark, but it goes…