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No, I didn’t change the title. Blame the submitter :)

Latex is a tool.

description of git worktrees, in particular their usefulness for the workflow around openjdk backports

https://jmtd.net/ I've been blogging for about 20 years. Exactly what I write about has changed over that time (of course), but in recent times I've been writing about my PhD (appl…

> but the fact that a two records can't share field names That is awkward sometimes yes. Record fields are functions, and you can't have two functions with the same name in the sam…

openjdk 11 rhel8 image for openshift shipped yesterday

> I started running a vanity domain name around 2000, for email and Web, and have a few thoughts based on that... > > Hosting chronology something like: home Linux box on ADSL, 2 d…

Me too. I have a simple static site/blog with mostly textual content going back to around 1999 and I'm lucky to have a reasonably unique firstname/lastname combo (ish); my blog cur…

> Try googling for John Carmack, And what should the top match for John Carmack be, in your opinion? Where is his homepage? FWIW on Bing I got his Wikipedia article first and his t…

Thanks. I didn't know that, but I don't install FB because of some other stuff I heard they did (like monitor the mic). Likewise messenger. I do access FB, but only from within Fir…

I'm trying to determine whether iOS apps could sniff my clipboard, and i haven't proven that they can't; it doesn't seem to be a specific permission that needs to be assigned or ca…

For ultra purity, there's basically only Chocolate Doom (or DOSbox and the original game). For modern features (but losing the Doom "feel"), (G)Zdoom or Doomsday; for stuff in the …

Doomretro is lovely, but if you really want a close-to-pure-as-possible experience, look at the (parent) project Chocolate Doom.

The OP's example ( is-positive-integer) has tests, and is only three lines long, and is on major release version 3.X, because despite all that , it had serious problems in versions…

Obligatory obnam plug: http://obnam.org

The user interface/experience of PGP/GPG is not great, and that could do with fixing. However if you already understood how to use PGP (and granted that's unlikely for the users Mi…

They almost certainly are not moving ATA commands over those ribbons, so SATA wouldn't be much use.

Perhaps the title-writer has been infected by the BBC news editorial policy. They seem to be turning clickbait titles into a fine art, combined with renaming articles so you think …

There is a wonderful rich history of screensaver lock snafus, nicely summarized by JWZ here https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getti... and the icing on the cak…

If you need 8G of resident memory to have the apps you want running then you need 8G... no shortcuts. That is a pretty high figure, though. Afaik things like disk caches aren't res…

This was one of a series of stories re-published by Penguin for their 80th anniversary, as part of a series of shorts priced at 80p each. The Forster book had two stories (can't re…

I think this is a big problem in the Java world, possibly more so than many other languages/communities.

Took me a few days, but here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvfJoy1rjmo

Took me a while but here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvfJoy1rjmo