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Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:43AM (#50181891)
Looks like the upgrade instructions for PHP 8.3 for Fedora 39 and earlier are not working ... yikes.
I've tried so many fonts in my coding life, but I think I've finally found my forever font: JetBrains Mono. Crisp, all characters distinguishable, slightly larger lowercase for better reading ...

I recently compared it once more to others – https://www.programmingfonts.org/ makes it easy to narrow down to your favourites one by one ... JetBrains Mono still wins. :)

Re:Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer? on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:59PM (#43120839)
Inside the house? How? They shit wherever they happen to be ...
Thank you.
Re:Diagrams · Diagram as Code on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:11PM (#42053350)
Diagrams from code are nice ... until you want to nudge that one particular little thing ...
Re:The Best $4 Ever Spent on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:30PM (#41673341)
Consider the possibility that your brother might be a cat ...
Re:Saffron: The Story of the World's Most Expensive Spice on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:21PM (#39923342)
They've figured out how to detect and cut off the flowers. No solution to picking the threads yet.
Re:Saffron: The Story of the World's Most Expensive Spice on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:15PM (#39920949)
A couple of years ago I trained some ResNets to detect saffron flowers and their stigmas and then simulated the picking process in Blender. One would have to develop a suitable soft gripper and use a precise pick-and-place robotic arm (delta robots are great for this), but IMHO the amount of manual labour during harvest can be solved with today's technology.
Love it. One suggestion: it would be nice if one could choose the galaxy. I'm not from here, so ...

("Check your galactic privilege!") ;)

Re:It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings on Thursday February 15, 2024 @08:20PM (#39391833)
LOL I just played through Lemmings in one of those DosBox emulators a few days ago ... so much fun!! The music alone brought back some good memories.
Re:Antagonistic AI on Thursday February 15, 2024 @01:06AM (#39379634)
> if an antagonist bot is mistaken, it's hard to convince it that a different answer is the right answer, it almost always sticks to its original mistake

s/bot//

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If they can't tell whether you'll be a good fit after the screening interview, the tech panel interview, and the interview with the hiring manager and who else, then that says more about the company than about you.
Re:Reverse Engineering DOS Software as If It Were 1990 on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:46PM (#39233242)
Oh SoftICE, you got me past many shareware nag screens ... :)
Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:08PM (#39212366)
> Admittedly it’s mostly empty space, but so is the universe.

Fair enough ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re:165 m Private Submersible Superyacht on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:05PM (#39199749)
Oh, to have the privilege of spending my time on a grey brutalist vessel ... all my friends on their slick yachts would be envious, I'm sure.
Re:Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards on Sunday January 28, 2024 @12:51PM (#39168027)
We'll find out in a year ... boy should be 12 by then.
Re:Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:27PM (#39125060)
Uh-oh, I just read Children of Time ... and so it begins ... :-o
AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion WebUI is one of the most powerful tools in the generative AI space. And it has an API – which Stable Boy uses to bring SD WebUI's numerous capabilities to GIMP 2.10.