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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • [Meta] should articles be allowed?

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  • I don't think I'd find make the time to read articles so personally I'd prefer just having the art here (and of course articles can be linked to from the post body - but would probably be overlooked).

  • It's not much, but I've made my first working Gentoo install!

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  • My first Gentoo install was also because it was an ageing laptop that was too slow for anything else. Luckily it wasn't my only machine, since the install times for some things were quite long.

  • JSON Patch

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  • If you need to refer to a key with ~ or / in its name, you must escape the characters with 0 and 1 respectively. For example, to get "baz" from { "foo/bar": "baz" } you’d use the pointer /foo1bar~0.

    I guess they're using ~ for escaping since backslash is already escaping text content, not that you'd see it very often in keys.

    Having magic values instead of using ~~ and ~/ feels ugly.

  • A farewell from HackSpace magazine

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  • More conglomerates and monopolies.

    Like the tiny publishing house Raspberry Pi Press who publish under Creative Commons? Maybe save your anger for a more worthy target (there's plenty out there).

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    How large would a city/base on the moon have to be in order to be visible with the unaided human eye from earth?

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  • Iron Sky, one from the "so bad it's good" shelf.

  • A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

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  • It's far from my field, so I'll have to take your word on that!

  • A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

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  • [Making cracks visible is] helpful, but what would be ideal is a way to not just find the cracks, but to fix them.

    That's what the article says, they're hardly implying it's nonsense. Or are you saying that the self-healing is nonsense? There are examples of self-healing materials, like Roman concrete.

  • A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

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  • I don't know that I agree - it's worth researching these things because if it works that's great and that paper proves that other people are working on the visibility problem.

  • The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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  • Nope, it's still great on Windows. Perhaps they went to Linux since it's still Windows-only.

  • A Smartphone Can’t Help You Now: How Horror Movies Solve Their Cell Problem

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  • The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!!

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  • Good article, apart from talking so much about choosing a language for the user and ignoring the Accept-Language header, which exists solely for this reason.

    Most websites seem to ignore this header and just show you whatever their geo-ip says.

  • Lost Henry VIII portrait discovered after historian spots it in background of X post

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  • You're just making up big numbers and ignoring what I'm saying.

    Either it's done centrally, in which case it's feasible if they have funding, or it's done SETI-style and users share the load (and could have data limits, etc).

  • The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!!

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  • True, the article does say that

    [the local sheriff] placed a sign at the end of the driveway warning people to stay away from the house and to call him with questions.

  • Lost Henry VIII portrait discovered after historian spots it in background of X post

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  • In a world where you can stream 4k video, you think a few images are going to be a problem?

  • Lost Henry VIII portrait discovered after historian spots it in background of X post

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  • Not at all - you'd have to train a model but then it could be run locally. You could even have something like SETI at Home, and run it on volunteers' computers.

    I suppose some social media charges for access and it might not be a good idea to scrape for something like this (or at least admit it).

  • The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!!

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  • The farm should put up a sign or plaque at that spot that they can point their official and vigilante visitors at.

  • Lost Henry VIII portrait discovered after historian spots it in background of X post

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  • What do you mean by this? I'd say you definitely could, although it would need an expert to sort through the candidates to find the ones with following up on.

    AI seems to have hit its limits, but this kind of stuff is what AI is great at.

  • French rail lines disrupted by ‘coordinated sabotage’ ahead of Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony

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  • Where are you getting that from? The article you're commenting on say otherwise:

    France’s state railways company SNCF called the overnight disruption a “massive attack aimed at paralyzing the high-speed line network.”

    Similar article from The Standard

    They were focused on the TGV high speed train network which covers the whole of France, and which is particularly busy at this time of year.

    Eurostar’s Brussels-Lille-London trains are not affected.

  • First move in No Win No Fee action against River Wye pollution

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  • Downvoted as this is an ad for the solicitors, although I am happy to hear about people fighting for water quality.