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Comment #49242541
Might as well give up on CSS and just use brutalist HTML in that case.
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Comment #49231175
In the hexagons, 30-degree lines could be considered as well — there might even be solutions when treated analogously to pandiagonal magic squares.
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Comment #49230860
A BSD or MIT (or any other) license doesn’t remove copyright. For example, copyright reserves the author the right to also release the work under a different license in the future.…
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Comment #49230506
I hope you mean µg.
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Comment #49230463
Finally an interesting article about AI!
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Comment #49230426
“Opus” is/was a lot of things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus#Computing
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Comment #49230385
Direct link: https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ms-wo... Versus the port: https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/2026/08/17861716...
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Comment #49226678
I’m assuming you can only use it with string literals, hence it is less universally useful.
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Comment #49226629
It was before everything became widescreen. 1280x1024 at 19” was pretty common I think, which is 86 PPI and would correspond to FHD at 25.5”. I still have a 27” 1920x1200 from 2007…
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Comment #49226439
There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. Fonts tended to be more optimized for (sub)pixel-level hinting in the past, though, while newer fo…
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Comment #49226359
Admittedly I’m not so familiar with Python; it does work in Java. In that case, introducing a less hazardous string concatenation operator would seem more universally useful.
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Comment #49226332
I’m not sure what you mean by manual formatting. You do need a place in your program where you fill in the parameters into the respective localized string template. I agree that th…
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Comment #49226300
Personally I do find the first version clearer, because it is based on general language rules.
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Comment #49226293
It’s unclear what the big advantage is over `print("Age: "+age)`. It’s even more characters, in that specific example.
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Comment #49226191
> why use format strings Because these are used for locale-specific configuration data. `"This is here: {x+y} blah"` on the other hand isn’t a string (mere data), it’s a program, b…
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Comment #49226014
That probably would be worse, because you aren’t seeing how your examiner reacts and will be imagining the worst.
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Comment #49223498
It’s fine in landscape for me, but here you go: “The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great problems of slavery. Let us …
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Comment #49223457
> step by step That’s basically what “pari passu” means.
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Comment #49223285
My family name was already taken as a domain 25 years ago, but well, you can’t expect to be able to own any but the most rare names. However, the space is large enough that you can…
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Comment #49223151
I regularly listen to recent music, but often tracks I explicitly search for, and autoplay based on those I “liked”. My “Liked Music” playlist has several thousand entries, so I su…
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Comment #49222982
There is a browser business when the browser company is also in the ad business.
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Comment #49222893
You can actually tap on the channel name and scroll down to see the About section (at least on iOS). I never had genAI tracks being suggested on YouTube Music. Though it might be a…
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Comment #49222860
You’re just saying that 90% of your internet usage is YouTube?