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U+1FB67;Upper Right Block Diagonal Upper Middle Left to Lower Middle Right [pdf]

Posted by pettou on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:37AM
from the unicode.org dept.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf

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Re:Blend2D – 2D Vector Graphics Engine on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:29AM (#19582268)

I'm eagerly following the project for several years now, very well done Petr and Fabian!

A Clear History of Glass

Posted by pettou on Saturday January 05, 2019 @05:34PM
from the lensrentals.com dept.

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2015/09/a-clear-history-of-glass/

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Re:Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:52PM (#18462681)

You might also like Knuth's (3/2)-ary Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4AaGQIo0HY

Re:Vapid: an intentionally simple CMS on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:08AM (#18030571)

What are the differences between Vapid and Grav?

Explain xkcd

Posted by pettou on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:58AM
from the explainxkcd.com dept.

http://www.explainxkcd.com/

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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range

Posted by pettou on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:24AM
from the pcg-random.org dept.

http://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html

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Awesome typography

Posted by pettou on Friday March 09, 2018 @01:38PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/Jolg42/awesome-typography

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Re:LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating poin... on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:04PM (#16531601)

I don't see any changelog, does anyone know what's new since the last release?

James Webb Space Telescope Innovations

Posted by pettou on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:55PM
from the jwst.nasa.gov dept.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/newtechnology.html

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Testing camera weather resistance

Posted by pettou on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:50PM
from the imaging-resource.com dept.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/articles/2017-weather-testing-nikon-d850-vs-sony-a7riii-canon-5div-olympus-e-m1II

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Sokal affair (1996)

Posted by pettou on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:51AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

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Wheel theory

Posted by pettou on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:17AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory

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Re:Faces of Open Source on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:58AM (#15569644)

And all the photographs: http://facesofopensource.com/

Faces of Open Source

Posted by pettou on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:55AM
from the pixls.us dept.

https://pixls.us/articles/faces-of-open-source/

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The Magic Words Are Squeamish Ossifrage

Posted by pettou on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:07AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamish_Ossifrage

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CotEditor – Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for MacOS

Posted by pettou on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:52AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor

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Build an OctaPi [cluster of 8 Raspberry Pis]

Posted by pettou on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:02AM
from the projects.raspberrypi.org dept.

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/rpi-python-build-an-octapi

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Pattern-defeating quicksort

Posted by pettou on Thursday June 29, 2017 @04:37AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort

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Re:SVG backend for PDF.js on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:43PM (#14650228)

Type `PDFViewerApplication.preferences.set('renderer', 'svg');` in the console, and reload the page/viewer:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/8564

SVG backend for PDF.js

Posted by pettou on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:42PM
from the mozilla.github.io dept.

https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

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Flat: Generative infrastructure for Python

Posted by pettou on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:32AM
from the xxyxyz.org dept.

http://xxyxyz.org/flat/

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PyPy v5.8 released

Posted by pettou on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:49AM
from the morepypy.blogspot.com dept.

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/06/pypy-v58-released.html

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Re:Open Source License Business Perception Report on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:17AM (#13994415)

Could someone knowledgable please comment on ISC License [1]? Why would one use it over MIT/BSD?

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/ISC

Re:PyPy2.7 and PyPy3.5 v5.7 released on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:01PM (#13924056)

Congratulations and thank you!

One question to PyPy developers: CPython 3.5 [1] introduced math.gcd which uses Lehmer's algorithm [2], are there any plans to include it in PyPy, too?

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue22486 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%27s_GCD_algorithm

Wireless wonder: The new Pi Zero W antenna design

Posted by pettou on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:59PM
from the raspberrypi.org dept.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-zero-w-wireless-antenna-design/

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[Proposal] BigInt: Arbitrary precision integers in JavaScript

Posted by pettou on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:08AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/littledan/proposal-bigint

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Re:Parallelization of SAT Algorithms on GPUs [pdf] on Saturday February 18, 2017 @04:42AM (#13674198)

Please, do you have any recommendations for books about SAT solving for beginners?

Blend2D: Next generation 2D vector graphics engine

Posted by pettou on Friday January 27, 2017 @03:51PM
from the blend2d.com dept.

https://blend2d.com/

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Re:Help supplement a database of RAW images on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:13AM (#13389750)

From the announcement: "...a site where contributors could upload sample raw files from their cameras for everyone to use – particularly developers".

http://www.darktable.org/2017/01/rawsamples-ch-replacement/