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Re:State of Text Rendering 2024
on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:35AM (#40944955)
If you click the Google Docs link at the top of the document, you can then export it to html/txt/pdf.
Re:Neofetch developer archives all his repositories: "Have taken up fa...
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @09:15AM (#40728002)
In case anyone is looking for alternatives, there's a well-maintained fork of neofetch called hyfetch. There's also a neofetch clone written in C called fastfetch.
Re:Show HN: Collaborative ASCII Drawing with Telnet
on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:16AM (#40659074)
Using shift for erase isn't a great choice. In many terminals, holding shift prevents mouse input from going to the running program, and instead allows you to use the terminal's text selection functionality.
Re:Forested wetlands are missing from maps
on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:29AM (#40617425)
The problem is that the Sun is significantly brighter now than it used to be back then, so the amount of heating from the same amount of methane/co2 is proportionally more now too
Re:Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:24PM (#40380867)
On the other hand, HF is great at dissolving glass (silicon dioxide), which is something that most other acids won't do.
Re:Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:20PM (#40380830)
I guess accidentally getting tardigrades inside your mouth isn't anywhere near as bad as getting concentrated sulphuric acid in your mouth.
Re:Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years
on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:53AM (#40366967)
The increase of temperature also causes the release of methane, which is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.. Things aren't looking great
Re:X.org on NetBSD โ The State of Things
on Monday May 06, 2024 @06:08AM (#40272962)
There's nothing that forces a Wayland compositor to be written in C. I've seen ones written in C++, Zig, and Rust, but you could really use any language as long as you can still call the appropriate system/kernel APIs
Re:Losing My Hands
on Friday May 03, 2024 @07:54AM (#40246621)
I strongly doubt that it'd be purely psychosomatic.. Spending 14 hours a day hammering away at a keyboard will physically damage your wrists.
Re:Hyprland Crash Course
on Saturday March 23, 2024 @07:09PM (#39803688)
That's possible with Niri, with its center-focused-column and default-column-width settings. It's not a traditional tiling WM, though
Re:Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:17AM (#39765413)
You can easily hit a similar problem in other languages too. For example, in Rust, std::fs::File isn't buffered, so reading single bytes from it will also be rather slow.
Re:Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:01AM (#39744682)
Presumably, the AI would have access to just do all the git and web server stuff for you.. The bigger problem I see would be if the AI just refuses to give you what you ask for.
Person: I want A
AI: Here's B
Person: No, I wanted A
AI: I'm sorry. Let me correct that... Here's B
.. ad nauseum.
Or alternatively:
Person: <reasonable request>
AI: I'm sorry, I can't do that
Re:GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:24AM (#39466094)
How would that work for having a layer larger than the image?
Re:Useful Uses of Cat
on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @08:31PM (#39461996)
That doesn't work for the first step though, where you want to print the file to stdout without processing it in any way
Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothin...
on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:58PM (#39402164)
You could still offer the mocked APIs, but have them be opt-in. Also, having the compiler throw an error doesn't mean that an older, already compiled executable won't work.
Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothin...
on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:51PM (#39402076)
As far as alternatives to what the article suggested go, I think the ideal solution would be to have a compile-time error, so the developers never even get as far as having their printing code try to run on the Xbox. And since it's a compile-time error, there doesn't need to be any kind of runtime error handling or cost either.
Re:Too Dangerous for C++
on Friday February 09, 2024 @07:17PM (#39322129)
Not every program that's written will even be multithreaded, and there's a significant cost to using atomic operations when you don't need them. What is the disadvantage of having non-atomic Rc be available?
Re:Slint GUI Toolkit
on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:20AM (#39227445)
The Qt licensing model is actually a bit less restrictive, since Qt is distributed under the LGPL, and Slint is full-fat GPLv3
Re:Damn Small Linux 2024
on Thursday February 01, 2024 @12:18PM (#39218409)
It would be rather difficult to fit any newer linux kernel onto a floppy, together with all the other software.
Re:Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, has reached 0.1.0
on Saturday January 27, 2024 @08:27AM (#39155355)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367687
Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, has reached 0.1.0
Re:Too much serendipity
on Monday January 22, 2024 @04:10PM (#39095496)
Lead(II) acetate specifically is sweet.
Re:Learn Datalog Today
on Sunday January 21, 2024 @12:25PM (#39080451)
It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be any decent open-source implementation of Datalog. If you go for full Prolog instead of Datalog, there are several (Scryer Prolog being my personal favourite).
Re:Second Teleportation
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @08:52PM (#39050673)
Yet another example of how HN's automated title modification screws things up
Re:OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:01AM (#38991599)
The TenaciousD?
Cosmic: The Road to Alpha
Re:Scientists discover enzyme that makes urine yellow
on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:42AM (#38880208)
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) is yellow, and when you consume it, the excess ends up going into your urine, making it more yellow (and fluorescent).
Re:Optical Media Durability (2020)
on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:58PM (#38764597)
DVDs have the optical layer sandwiched between two layers of plastic, while a CD is only one layer of plastic with the optical layer coating the other side.. So a sharpie should be fine on a DVD, but might be problematic on a CD
Re:2023: Slint in Review
on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:11AM (#38720580)
https://slint.dev/blog/slint-1.1-released mentions that there is AccessKit integration.