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why the sharp divide around december 2022, with almost none imported before that and plenty after?

Is it ironic, though? "Right to repair" has to do with freedom, sure, but not free-as-in-beer. It doesn't mean "it costs me no money to repair things". It means "I am not prevented…

Have you tried writing with your non-dominant hand? I'm a righty and I find left-handed writing effectively impossible.

With Talon on Mac I believe this is possible (Mac has surprisingly nice accessibility APIs), but I don't know whether Talon on X11 can do it. If it's possible it would probably(?) …

Is this duplication the reason why the OP is flagged? Otherwise I'm flummoxed - it seems a perfectly reasonable/normal article.

> (The same principle can be used to entice people to leave a crowded sauna — just pour water on the hot rocks to generate loyle.) I have never come across the word "loyle" before,…

I think that's actually IBM Selectric Script, not Scribe (the images are labelled at the bottom not the top). https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10922/script-ibm finds two uses of it…

It turns out to be not that hard to just compute the language of the regex, if it is finite, and otherwise note that it is infinite: import Prelude hiding (null) import Data.Set (S…

You're correct, and I don't see any good way to avoid this that doesn't involve enumerating the actual language (at least when the language is finite). Oof, my hubris.

Here's a simple Haskell program to do it: (EDIT: this code is completely wrongheaded and does not work; it assumes that when sequencing regexes, you can take the product of their s…

This depends heavily on how repetition is implemented. With a backtracking-search implementation of regexes, bounded iteration is pretty easy. But the linked webpage appears to com…

^ and $ are a problem, although one with a workaround. The standard theory of regular expressions focuses entirely on regex matching, rather than searching. For matching, ^ and $ d…

title typo: "Purely Functional Data Structure" -> "Purely Functional Data Structures" (pluralization) reads a bit weird otherwise - sounds like it's discussing a particular purely …

Corporations make profits if their products are worth it to people, true. But in a sufficiently unequal world, what's "worth it" to a rich person matters more in the market than wh…

> All of these low-level concerns make working in AI feel like the candle that burns bright and short. I'm oscillating between the most motivated I've ever been and some of the clo…

This is a great set of examples for showing off how current chatbot AIs have impressive capabilities but are also prone to getting important details wrong. For instance: 1. The des…

> If you are hell-bent on using FixedBufferAllocator only and you want to avoid copies, there is a way. Using two buffers (and separate allocators backed by them), it is possible t…

One argument is: if font designers had to pick just one price, instead of charging a higher price to bigger customers and a lower price to smaller ones, they'd need to pick a highe…

This situation is beginning to improve if you know where to look. There are several typeface designers who offer both low prices and reasonable licensing terms for their fonts; for…

Possibly a mistranslation? I can't read Khmer, but someone on twitter claims there were 12 contacts (rather than infected individuals) with the index case (the deceased girl, I ass…

It seems to me the author misses a purely practical reason to have respect for a variety of religions: peaceful and happy coexistence. Historically a lot of blood has been spilt ov…