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Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:43PM (#50293924)
> `w_doto` for `cursorOffset`

Well, sometimes we call the cursor "the dot."

Re:BioWare Is Shutting Down on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:17PM (#50185255)
BioShock Infinite is a masterpiece.
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:17PM (#50169603)
This wasn't a joke. It is well-known that Wine is the best and the most stable implementation of the Win32 API out there (closely followed by ReactOS).
Re:A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:55PM (#50074859)
> came clearly recently. They're just...

I assure you this is not the last enlightening moment that you are going have about what the complex numbers are.

> Geometric Algebra

Ah... Haven's heard about that one in quite some time...

Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:39PM (#49986339)
If it did they should get the Novel prize.
Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:36PM (#49986298)
A cubic kilometer is a volume, it does not dictate the shape.
Re:Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:08PM (#49969946)
Is a widget a monad? Anyway, the examples in this tutorial are another proof that Haskell is the best imperative language!
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
Is it even possible for the same cyphertext to encode different messages using different keys?
Re:ReactOS 0.4.16 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:46PM (#49515202)
Why, this could be a fun excrement for sure
Re:ReactOS 0.4.16 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:44PM (#49515184)
Re:ReactOS 0.4.16 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:39PM (#49515133)
> lets you run macOS software

> must be running a 64-bit x86

Re:ReactOS 0.4.16 on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:27PM (#49515027)
> a new DC21X4 network adapter driver

Hasn't the point been for the OS to be compatible with the existing Windows drivers?

Re:So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021) on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:04PM (#48897239)
The Feynman Lectures and/or Berkeley Physics Course [1] would give one the basics one would ever need.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Physics_Course

Re:Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:26PM (#48750324)
> If there was a Linux Apple App Store, I would buy stuff from it.

I believe you.

> I already buy from Steam.

I believe this even more.

Re:What five simple habits can do over 35 years on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:33PM (#48362276)
> Healthy lifestyles: 21 or less units of alcohol per week

Looks Good

> we have created operations

It seems that addition (for instance) was "created" long before us.

On the other hand, it seems highly unlikely that a civilization similar to ours could "invent" an essentially different kind of mathematics (or physics, etc.)

Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#48113057)
A fun name... (I wonder how many non-native English speakers realize that the two occurrences of 'oo' in 'googlebook' are not pronounced the same.)
Re:If AI writes your code, why use Python? on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:05PM (#48111934)
For some reason it took a while for Copilot to write an executable machine code for Hello World.
Re:What's a Mathematician to Do? on Monday May 11, 2026 @04:49PM (#48100468)
> once someone attains a postdoc-level...

... they will discover that level is already crowded by LLMs

> buying a single large capacity drive

Now that's a terrible idea. You shouldn't trust any single device with terabytes of your data, regardless of whether it is low-cost or Chinese.

Re:Category Theory Illustrated – Types on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:53PM (#47681232)
> in the way you are linking them

This is what the text says, not me.

Re:Category Theory Illustrated – Types on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:51PM (#47681203)
> In one system, a set can contain itself

But doesn't this lead to a contradiction (or to making the system of little use)?

Re:Category Theory Illustrated – Types on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:49PM (#47681180)
> category theory can use set theory, but does not depend on it

But aren't, say, the morphisms between two objects necessarily a set (termed "hom-set")?

Re:Category Theory Illustrated – Types on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:30PM (#47632547)
Except such set is empty and thus does not contain itself.
Re:Category Theory Illustrated – Types on Friday April 03, 2026 @05:21PM (#47632466)
> a set can contain itself

Can it?

> a term can have only one type... Due to this law, types cannot contain themselves

Doesn't look like one follows from the other...

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