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    Comment #48966753

    https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2/

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    Comment #48210912

    This might be useful: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/toxcancel (Redirects to xcancel.com (a mirror of x) when the browser is about to load an x.com page).

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    Comment #45286270

    Isn't this what the european Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is about? See https://orcwg.org/cra/ and the work of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group in general.

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    Comment #43471505

    https://git.tricoteuses.fr/tricoteuses/a_propos has the French constitution and others (e.g. "Code Pénal": https://git.tricoteuses.fr/codes/code_penal/commits/branch/m... ) under g…

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    Comment #37222980

    This behavior is controled by the AUTO_CD option: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html . To enable it yourself: setopt AUTO_CD

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    Comment #36759904

    This sounds a lot like Shape Up from the guys at Basecamp: https://basecamp.com/shapeup

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    Comment #36614413

    Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

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    Comment #33598338

    FWIW, LibreOffice automatically inserts an actual Unicode NO-BREAK SPACE when I type ":" at the end of a word (if the language is set for French of course). If I insert an actual S…

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    Comment #32840346

    Relevant: https://jakarta.ee/about/faq/#collapse-1

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    Comment #32157223

    Yes apparently: https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/

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    Comment #30643027

    This is not representattive of modern Java, which has much better APIs. Since Java 11: public HttpResponse fetch(String url) { HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient(); HttpR…

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    Comment #27074856

    This analogy is not a new idea, see "The transactional memory / garbage collection analogy" by Dan Grossman at OOPSLA 2007: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1297027.1297080 PDF a…

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    Comment #25849368

    > It mostly goes to show that containerizing application code for execution in a managed environment in nothing new. I'm sure this was also done somehow in the mainframe world. Yes…

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    Comment #20527266

    It's necessary because the water used to cool reactors is rejected in rivers. In normal circumstances the temperature increase this causes is under control, but right now it risks …

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    Comment #18065479

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Mov...

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    Comment #17347664

    And Emacs (C-x r t), and Eclipse (Alt-Shift-a to switch to rectangle mode).

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    Comment #16717021

    It invokes "ls" twice. There's no guarantee the maximum width obtained from the first invocation is still correct for formatting the result of the second.

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    Comment #14946822

    Pandoc ( https://pandoc.org/ ) can do it: pandoc -f markdown -t org -o marketing-checklist.org marketing-checklist.md

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    Comment #9827747

    p2 ( https://www.eclipse.org/equinox/p2/ ), the provisioning platform used in Eclipse, uses a SAT solver (specifically, http://sat4j.org/ ) to resolve complex plug-in dependencies …

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    Comment #6126862

    The (probably very small) pieces of software on-board the Pioneer 10? It was launched in 1973 and has certainly never been touched since.

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    Comment #6096199

    This is most likely the inspiration: the company is named "Supertoy Robotics", and the A.I. movie was based on a Brian Aldiss short-story titled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long".