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I did a small research project years ago (like 16 years ago) where I tried to detect hosts in promiscuous mode. The entire effort wasn't super relevant even in 2010 because switche…

I'm going to hazard a speculative answer with poor evidence: love. The ants love one another, as shown by their child-rearing, grooming, playing, the "antennating" mentioned in the…

Super nostalgic for me just to see the name. My computing teacher gave me a Knoppix LiveCD when I was about 18 and I immediately fell in love with Linux. Within weeks I was (repeat…

A converter would be fantastic, too. I experimented with having a few LLMs try to translate TikZ to Cetz and none of them were great. The best thing I have found so far is tylax ( …

Oh man, good on you identifying a product that needs to exist. I've used a few TikZ editors (both online and desktop) and none of them are just amazing. But, I've taken my papers t…

Not OP, but I can comment on my anecdotal experience switching. Typst is great. I had been using Markdown with Pandoc to write a book. I frequently needed to use raw LaTeX commands…

Moreover, I'll appeal to authority and point out that Ratatui's motto is "Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces" ( https://ratatui.rs ).

Not OP, but thank you for your sharing this. If you don't mind a follow-on question, I always hear people talk about the "runtime" in languages like Go and libraries like Tokio. Wh…

I think Python might be the first language to adopt a named sentinel value type. Has anyone seen a design like this in any other programming language?

The header of an IPv4 packet has the source and destination addresses, both as 32-bit values. These fields are adjacent, and there's other stuff next to them. If you appended more …

For what it's worth — my last workplace did not allow cell phones in the building and I learned to love it. When people attended meetings, we all made eye contact and talked about …

That is an insightful response, I may quote you on this.

I remember a colleague jumping through hoops trying to get Python installed on an enterprise computer. We never did get to a yes and resorted to using PowerShell instead. The polic…

Cool! I just recently began learning the Raspberry Pi Pico. Could anyone recommend a specific display that I could use with the Pico 2/2W and Mousefood?

This 1951 film shows a chemist who invents a fabric that threatens to upend all aspects of the textile economy.

Similarly: "The indication for machine-generated text isn't symbolic. It's structural." I always liked this writing device, but I've seen people label it artificial.

YouTube is actually one of my very first places to go for new concepts. For example, one of the recent Advent of Code puzzles was solvable with "coordinate compression," a techniqu…

Sports. CrossFit and similar social sports have been healthy for me and for many others, and I think the community is at least equal to the exercise in improving people's lives. No…

Love it, I always enjoy good examples of hard problems solvable with a constraint solver.

It also has mixed square brackets and curved parentheses. I stopped reading the article when I saw this.

This is not the first article I've seen where developers say they're getting overwhelmed by AI-generated bug reports. Maybe this is a new way people can volunteer to help open sour…

Hadn't thought of it from this perspective. An untraceable signal coming from the moon would also be useful for military communications. Electronic warfare and signals intelligence…

Year ago I wrote a very simple SAT solver in Java. I initially used List but later primitive arrays to represent my formulas and clauses. The change made a modest and measurable di…