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Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @05:29PM (#49746818)
XIX century dickensian society and Gilded Age barons were replaced by the time of the New Deal.
Re:Astra for Law on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:43PM (#49746280)
If we have enough energy and raw materials to keep building, yes, it will be an utopia made real. But if there is energy scarcity, then other two outcomes can arise.
Re:Pyscripter – open-source Python IDE written in Delphi on Thursday October 23, 2025 @05:55PM (#45687782)
And with LLM Support: OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and local LLM models using Ollama.
Back in the day, when business computing emerged (COBOL, Mainframes...), it appear the distinction between systems analysts and programmers. Analyst understand business needs, programmers implemented those specs in code.

Years later, the industry evolved to integrate both roles, and new methodologies and new roles appear.

Now humans write specs, and AI agents write code. Role separation is a principle of labor division since Plato.

Re:Giving people money helped less than I thought it would on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:55PM (#44955644)
Results for Group A (1000$/m) closely resemble results for control Group C(50$/m). Metrics like % of Unsheltered participants, change in full-time employment, % of participans in a house they rent or own... have a diference of 1 or 2 points.

Thats the point of the author, those are minimal variances, and insuficient to claim inpact due to basic income.

Personal opinion. The study itself exert a nontrivial influence on participants. The act of being engaged, regular check-ins... affect positively. Their lives improve independent of the financial component because they are part of the study, not because of the amount of money in the procedure.

Re:Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:13AM (#44742824)
I was surprised when the 64bit fork appears in github.

The OpenLook 64bit fork is available at [1], it has 64bit & X11R7 patches. It has a miriad of changes related to ids sizes, %ul, function casts, and a migration from X11R4 to X11R7.

Sadly, if a legacy applications is old enough to be linked to OpenLook, it surelly require adaptation. They need their own migration to transition to 64 bits and X11R7. This openlook fork is the start of the journey to resurect them.

[1] https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit

I usually go with the FOSS https://pgmodeler.io

Its feature-rich, albeit focused on Postgres. And it's ability to compare database schemas makes updating and applying diffs much easier.

Re:Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty on Thursday February 27, 2025 @11:31AM (#43195871)
The dataset consists of books from the Anna Archive, each identified by an ISBN. The ISBNs and titles are extracted from datasets [1], which include magazines and books primarily in Chinese, English, and French.

Example: Germany publishes five times more books than the Netherlands [2], and Spain publishes twice as many books as the Netherlands. However, in visualizations, Germany appears similar to the Netherlands, while Spain and Mexico do not align with the high-level labels [3].

[1] https://annas-archive.li/datasets

[2] https://internationalpublishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

[3] https://software.annas-archive.li/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

Re:Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:59AM (#42897723)
Impressive presentation.

Note: The presentation reflects the contents of Anna's archive exclusively, rather than the entire ISBN catalog. There is a discernible bias towards a limited range of languages, due to Anna's collection bias to those languages. The sections marked in black represent the missing entries in the archive.

Demo video in his X account (Spanish)

https://x.com/JordiNeil/status/1873200671610003640

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