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Re:Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @06:09PM (#49901426)
> The biggest early selling point of Tcl was Tk

You're not that old, are you? :) Before www, expect was the way to go.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect>

Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state on Sunday March 29, 2026 @08:24PM (#47568974)
I don't use the VPN, but I still happily use their privacy-oriented (Firefox-based) Mullvad browser.

https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/

Re:Chuck Norris has died on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:22PM (#47460117)
Strange if you never heard about Bruce <s>Lee</s> Schneier.
Re:Chuck Norris has died on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:15PM (#47460040)
Chuck Norris haven't died, he just went to carry out the Last Judgement of God (ant probably torture Satan on the way).
Re:U.S. Capabilities Are Showing Signs of Rot on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:57AM (#47277620)
Have you guys tried to read it with javascript turned off, as I always do? Works for me.
Re:Wikipedia in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise on Friday March 06, 2026 @06:59AM (#47273898)
Learning from fiction? Let's learn from the Dune then and start Butlerian jihad already.
Re:IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:59PM (#46545680)
Funny that Yandex's AI agent is called Alice.
Re:North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV... on Saturday September 13, 2025 @09:24AM (#45231918)
I believe the logic is simple, the same as with advertising illegal drugs: lies can be seductive and do harm. HK officials make people consider any outer information as lies-filled propaganda, and thus justify the prohibition.
Re:North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV... on Saturday September 13, 2025 @09:07AM (#45231795)
Not about to defend NK regime, but to make it fair, and not to play "they are bad guys, thus we're good guys".

First, doubts of people not right away believing any news about NK are justified, given how many lies about NK, like executing by feeding to dogs, were spread. So don't take them as NK defenders, it may be just a healthy skepticism.

Second, note that NK kills their citizens for what is illegal in their country, which is gross, but in 2019 Americans killed North Koreans for what was pretty legal, and got away with it [1].

Third, it looks hypocritic to read how horrible is that people got prosecuted for just watching videos. We all know that in so called civilized democracies, people's life can be ruined (luckily not taken) for possessing illegal video materials, it's just legality differs by jurisdictions.

West's true advantage is that we're much more shy in capital punishments, however we're still far from humanistic ideals, and I believe concentrating only on NK regime crimes lets the mindset "they being so bad, then we're not so bad after all".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-...

Re:North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV... on Saturday September 13, 2025 @08:33AM (#45231535)
You should also mention that capitalism is evil (so is everyone who believes to it), otherwise it's lie by omission.
Re:North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV... on Saturday September 13, 2025 @08:30AM (#45231511)
Given that NK hackers have probably much more incentives to do their work well than western ones, you shouldn't wonder that they do.
Re:I made a website that makes you cry on Thursday July 31, 2025 @06:47PM (#44751060)
Made me laugh, thank you! Laughing is healthy, though should be taken more often than once a week. For the record, it gave me https://player.vimeo.com/video/994963176
Re:How to Incapacitate Google Tag Manager and Why You Should (2022) on Friday July 04, 2025 @06:25PM (#44468415)
If you block Google Tag Manager, you probably also want to block Yandex Metrics and Cloudflare Insights.
Re:What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:56AM (#44298040)
And it's a very bad practice. No experiment ever should be taken without an assistant (sitter in this case).
Re:Why Claude Code feels like magic? on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:07AM (#44297707)
Would it surprise you seeing eg. seeing on the front page articles about both Nobel prize winners and Darwin award winners? What is intelligence, after all? We expect AI to be as smart as Einstein or Terens Tao, but so far, we see that LLMs are pretty good at behaving just like humans, that is, most times stupid.
Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:17PM (#41831684)
> I would indeed expect an upright 'd'. It's an operator, not a variable. I don't recognize the tradition you're mentioning.

That's strange. I've never seen a math article in English with upright 'd' differential, only have seen it in German and Spanich articles. It's also math italic in TeX (you can check Knuth's TeXbook).

Re:Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX on Sunday October 13, 2024 @08:47AM (#41827554)
Typst authors being germans, one can hardly accuse them in the "everyone uses English" attitude. Typst `dif` math operator (as in dx/dt) produces upright 'd', quite unexpected to ones used to slanted 'd' tradition.
Re:Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:15PM (#41240404)
Speaking of mystical abbreviations — CAR, CADR, CDR !
Re:Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @06:04PM (#41240324) 

    seq 10 | paste -sd, -
Re:Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equat... on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:56AM (#38249246)
And they were right imho. Having a clear notion of a subject is good for both physics and mathematics, but what's good for physics or engineering, is not enough for math, in math, you also need rigorous reasoning, or you'll fall into subtle mistakes.
Re:Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equat... on Monday November 13, 2023 @06:39AM (#38249150)
Note though, that nonstandard analysis isn't compatible with more "intuitionistic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy (in place of axiom on choice), which free you from Banach–Tarski paradox and have some other appealing properties.
Re:Scientists create artificial protein that can degrade microplastics... on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:41PM (#38169421)
It's good news, but reminded me at once Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters (1971) by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis, where a bacteria made to utilize plastic went wild and started destroying wire isolation everywhere, causing multiple crashes etc.
Re:No dogs were harmed in the making of this app on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:46PM (#38134028)
I read is as a reference to https://xkcd.com/242/

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