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I agree that the bickering is tedious and old at this point (and perhaps has been since the start), but there is a sense that the technical arguments miss the point of what the con…

This isn't necessarily an endorsement of one protocol/ecosystem over the other, nor do I have direct experience with integrating Matrix or XMPP (though I run the latter on my home-…

Indeed it is/was, though I cannot seem to find an original copy on the internet, so I uploaded to the repository[0]. I'm not sure what the requisite toolchain is, though. [0]: http…

Ah, that's too bad! AFAIR zrafa's site[0] was the place to go for bootloader/kernel files specific to the 620LX/660LX, but the userland should work on any 6xx series. [0]: https://…

I was part of a project that helped bring a usable Linux distribution on this line of palmtops -- JLime (you can find references on the net, but the main site has since gone dark).…

I always felt that rebasing as part of a workflow was part lack of discipline when creating commits, and part desire to hide work that is incomplete or "imperfect". As with most th…

You are entirely correct -- I got tunnel vision/brain fart and mixed NF and NR up, newbie mistake! NR is initialized to 1 on the first line, and is incremented for every subsequent…

Awk is actually very intuitive once you learn the basics (should take about an hour). Awk is essentially a line-oriented pattern matching language, that is, a collection of pattern…

FWIW, I've had better mileage out of `dtrt-indent` by increasing the `dtrt-indent-min-quality` option to `90.0`, which has the heuristics a tad more strict in choosing the correct …

Have you tried using http://forecast.io/ ? You can get historical forecasts via the JSON API[0], which is, from what I can tell, free for low-volume use. [0]: https://developer.for…

I used to help port Linux to various devices like the HP Jornada [0] or the Ben Nanonote [1], both of which have (up to) 32MB of RAM available. Finding a suitable web browser with …

The New Yorker also published an excellent piece on Perelman and the solving of the Poincaré back in 2006: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destin... It's inte…