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No silver option?

> Excellent technical history, but it misses what made Olivetti incomparable: Adriano's human-centric philosophy that business and human culture were inseparable. > > The article m…

> The whole patch quilting thing is awful. Just keep the patches as commits. I'd say that `quilt` the utility is pretty much abandoned at this point. The name `quilt` remains in th…

Kudos on releasing Yandori! We have been (low-keep) working on something similar (more from an academic point of view) for the past few years: This is the introductory article (ope…

We need to drive down the cost of dealing with nuclear waste. Possibly to zero, because that is a cost that will have to be paid basically forever. Between 1961 and 2023 «5,600 TWh…

There is work going on at freedesktop to standardize drop-in config files: «basedir: support separate (vendor/local) trees and masking for config files» https://gitlab.freedesktop.…

MailmanLists is a valid service run by competent people: https://www.mailmanlists.net/ They provide plain good ol' GNU Mailman lists. You can bring your own domain or subdomain. Th…

Related to this topic (spouse with Alzheimer), there is a touching story by Alice Munro: "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the closing story of the book "Hateship, Friendship, Cou…

Just a remark: the person whose fingerprints have been reconstructed and that was the defense minister of Germany at time of the stunt (Ursula von der Leyen), is now the president …

> The only thing that Japanese dont get ( and they somehow still dont ) is Software. cough Ruby cough

In far fewer words: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png

> If there was such small incentives I would've immediately subscribed $5/m to following project: Nodejs, Postgres, Node-Pg, [...] Who would receive that money? Only the core devel…

> it's very common - risc-v also has a 2-instruction compressed subset > > Note: "jalr zero, 1b" can also be written as "j 1b", "jalr zero, 0(ra)" can be written as "ret" `j` and `…

> While we're at it, can we stop replacing physical knobs and buttons by dumb touch sensitive buttons ? I feel like a cave man when I have to repeatedly press "+" on my induction h…

> I don't know how they're encoded on their database. All hentaigana are available in Unicode 10. They can be found in the Unicode block 1B000–1B12F (Kana Supplement + Kana Extende…