This letter written by Charles Babbage in 1840 is fascinating ...
... since it appears to be his earliest ever attempt to describe computational recursion in plain language
He *had* to use plain language -- the very concepts he was struggling to enunciate didn't yet have names
As Bruce Sterling puts it, this passage is “a breathless, painful description of the unique ability of software to operate on itself”
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![A letter handwritten by Charles Babbage, in a neat script. It reads, in part: "“Those who are acquainted with the loom are aware that by means of cards having certain holes punched in them it is possible to weave with the SAME loom ANY design however complicated. The design is translated into cards and these direct the motions of the threads. By similar means the motions of the Calculating Engine are directed. Any formula however complicated is translated into cards and these being placed in the Engine it works out that particular formula and gives its numerical value”. “In one respect however it advances beyond the cards of Jacard. For in the case of the development of functions it backs the cards more or less so as to repeat the operation according to any assigned laws thus enabling a small number of cards to supply the place of a great many and rendering it unnecessary to effect the algebraic redevelopment of a function in order to make the cards the LAWS of that development only being communicated by the cards”.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/602287 "A letter handwritten by Charles Babbage, in a neat script. It reads, in part: "“Those who are acquainted with the loom are aware that by means of cards having certain holes punched in them it is possible to weave with the SAME loom ANY design however complicated. The design is translated into cards and these direct the motions of the threads. By similar means the motions of the Calculating Engine are directed. Any formula however complicated is translated into cards and these being placed in the Engine it works out that particular formula and gives its numerical value”. “In one respect however it advances beyond the cards of Jacard. For in the case of the development of functions it backs the cards more or less so as to repeat the operation according to any assigned laws thus enabling a small number of cards to supply the place of a great many and rendering it unnecessary to effect the algebraic redevelopment of a function in order to make the cards the LAWS of that development only being communicated by the cards”.")
Hello folks! It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — i.e. "the opposite of doomscrolling”, in which I ceaselessly roam the Internet’s Plutonian shores to find...The Linkfest
I've donated to #SuperSwingDistricts, a strategy for donating to local candidates in important races that are also likely to "turn out" many voters who wouldn't have voted for the federal candidate otherwise. Thanks @glyph for building and sharing this 💜
Please take a look, this strategy seems compelling to me:
High-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library by MyShell.ai. Support English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. - myshell-ai/MeloTTSGitHub
If only there was a different browser with arm64 builds 😁
From: @benschwarz
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⭐ At the moment Google Chrome isn't available on arm64 architecture. Automations that use Chrome have to run on hotter, more power hungry and expensive CPUs 🔥 If you want to see Chrome running on more efficient hardware, star this issue: https://iss…Front-End Social
still don't have it as the flatpak....
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
UNCONFIRMED (nobody) in Release Engineering - Release Automation: Other. Last updated 2024-09-07.bugzilla.mozilla.org
I think the tide is starting to turn in GNOME and free desktop accessibility for blind people. Check out this positive message on the Orca mailing list, from a former vocal critic of free desktop accessibility: freelists.org/post/orca/Thanks…
Note: This has nothing to do with the work I did earlier this year prototyping a new Wayland-native accessibility stack. So I'm not being self-congratulatory.
[orca] Thanks so much for Orca, orca at FreeListswww.freelists.org
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*blushes* Hey, that sounds like something I'd write.
Oh hey, I wrote that like yesterday! :)
At W3C@30, Jun Murai spoke about "One internet and the web" "So what started from the original idea, like a dream, 60 years ago, now turned out to be a reality. And, this is a space we are working for.w3c.social
Having to tap the "don't support the Factorio devs sign" again but no one will listen because no one really cares.
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In early summer of 2021, we had a thread regarding this situation. While it was discussed in the gaming community for a bit, it faded away fairly quickly. During today's Nintendo Direct, I hadn't...ZeoVGM (ResetEra)
The GNOME Foundation Board is seeking input on what people would like to see from GUADEC in the future. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
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The GNOME Foundation Board of Directors is planning to revisit our future events strategy, particularly the question of where GUADEC should be held. We would like to hear input from the community before we discuss it ourselves.GNOME Discourse
Writing in plain language, providing clear instructions and page titles and other important guidance and tips for content writers.Mitesh Gudhka (WCAG)
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QUIC backends use flow control windows initially set to 128KB. In #14880, the maximum size used by the quiche backend was increased to 1280KB, but that of the ngtcp2 backend remained at 128KB. With...GitHub
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This thought was triggered by a comment on an article about Rust: lobste.rs/s/ktwhai/rust_prism#…
To be clear, language complexity isn't a good thing for its own sake. Still, reading that comment made me have that sudden reaction.
This, slightly further down in the comments, along with the idea of Kernighan's Lever, gets to the problem with that sort of flexing:
"This implies that programmers exist in isolation. Most of the code I read was not written by me. If the subset of the language that I stick to is a completely disjoint subset to the one a collaborator sticks to, we can’t review each others’ code. If I jump into a new project and it’s using a distinct subset of the language to the one 1/2
@torvalds on the removal of some [russian] entries from the MAINTAINERS file:
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"'It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted [...]
[…] the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.
If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. […]
[…] I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."
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Bear in mind that the difference between a "disposable" vape and a "technically rechargeable" one is basically just the addition of a USB port that had to be intentionally removed from the off-the-shelf electronics used to make it.
Selling "technically rechargeable" devices as cheaply as the "disposable" ones they replace won't fix the problem.
In terms of material use, ten "disposable" vapes are about the technological equivalent of a smartphone.
Imagine a phone you threw over your shoulder after making ten calls.
Now imagine the next "disposable" device that uses the same amount of materials.
We shouldn't be banning individual products. We need a comprehensive Circular Economy Bill that bans ALL products that don't fit strict criteria of sustainability, reuse, repair, remanufacture and compostability.
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Craig Dalzell Imagine a new innovation in portable electronic technology. With this new gadget, you can speak to your friends and family, no matter how far away they are. This device – a “telephone…Common Weal
Et voilà pour la facturation électronique on sera obligés de passer par des prestataires privés, propriétaires, et payants.
Un surcoût pour toutes les entreprises, particulièrement les petites.
Russell Contreras zeroes in on findings of the PRRI "Challenges to Democracy" study. Who, precisely wants to round up immigrants and put them into camps?
79% of Republicans vs. 22% of Democrats
75% of white evangelicals
61% of white Catholics
58% of white mainline Protestants
#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #violence #MassDeportations #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants
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As Moira Donegal reminds us, Trump's plan to round up immigrants, put them into camps, and deport them is a "moral abomination," no matter how many white Christians lust for it and how the corporate media whitewash it.
"What is being proposed is a vast cruelty, a human tragedy, and a costly national investment in racism."
#Republicans #Trump #JDVance #immigrants #violence #MassDeportations #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants
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This would be a horrific program of ethnic cleansing – yet most of the media reaction has focused on the economic costsMoira Donegan (The Guardian)
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I guess we’re still a long way away from calling this what it is: white supremacy AND anti-Blackness
Mediocre, unremarkable white dudes getting graded at a lower standards but receiving greater outcomes is NOT new but this time, like George Floyd, it’s too obvious to ignore
chudák kengura 😢
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V prírode ju ľudia vídali viac ako rok.Ľubica Stančíková (SME.sk)
Takové monstrum se jen tak nevidí. Jakub Vágner chytil pod Bítovem obřího sumce
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Jen dva týdny poté, co známý rybář a dobrodruh Jakub Vágner chytil na Vranovské přehradě na Znojemsku rekordního sumce o délce 264 centimetrů, oznámil další monstrózní úlovek. Obří ryba, kterou chytil u hradu Bítov, měřila 252 centimetrů.Ilona Pergrová (Deník.cz)
FOSDEM Security Devroom 2025 planning. Contribute to security-devroom/fosdem-2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Trying to add TLS session handling for OpenSSL's QUIC implementation. Hit a wall in github.com/openssl/openssl/iss…
Any QUIC implementation takes years to get working. Until then, it will stay experimental.
I am very glad that @samueloph slashed the Gordian knot and pushed curl with ngtcp2+gnutls out there for everyone.
Tested with OpenSSL 3.4.0 in curl. When adding: SSL_CTX_sess_set_new_cb(ssl_ctx, cf_osslq_new_session_cb); SSL_set_app_data(ssl, ); to the main SSL* instance of a QUIC connection, t...GitHub
If you have built #curl for visionOS, maybe you can help this user out?
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Hi, I'm recently wrapping a C libaray, which depends on CURL, into a swift package. It is then used for building a native visionOS app. I've been following the official document for building from s...GitHub
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There are uses of %lx and %zx in the codebase, but parsefmt interpreted them as %x.GitHub
Po prvnim dni zatim nase nejuspesnejsi kampan. Nas cil mit kazdy mesic nejvic nejuspesnejsi kampan vsech dob pro rijen odskrtnut.
53 Thieves, faze 1:
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K tomu Asher nasadil druhou fazi s receptem na buchtu. Muzete potrenovat na finale pece cela zeme, vyniknout na Instagramu a ziskat vinyl.
Asher Roth, faze 2:
unreleased.art/new-dessert
Not a label. Not management. Just a collective of artists, dreamers, & designers trying to change an unfair industry.unreleased.art
tbh the tab overview is still one of my favorite things about GNOME Web
(and other GNOME apps that have it but I use it most often in Web)
Let's restart the highscore thread again, people are saying it got too long. End of the previous thread: mk.nyaa.place/notes/9zoixlwqn6…
So I figured out how to keep touchpads working in gamepad mode ^^ It involved reverse engineering the payload for the ID_SET_DIGITAL_MAPPINGS feature report - neither SDL nor kernel driver do it, so I didn't have any reference this time.
Anyway, now touchpads are fully working, with the same behavior as for Steam's gamepad action set - right touchpad moves pointer and does a left click on press, left touchpad does a right click on press and that's it. I'm not sure why it doesn't also scroll, but I wanted to keep it consistent (steam's desktop action set scrolls it and middle clicks on press instead, tho it does mean you have to use L2 to right click)
When Steam is running, you still have to switch to gamepad action set or you'll have double input, but I don't think I have any way of mitigating that - oh well. When Steam is not running, it will switch everything automatically at least, so at this point it's probably good enough. I'm yet to find an example of any app doing it well, so I don't think libmanette apps would stand out in a bad way here.
So, at this point I mostly just need to clean up the code and think again about what the public API should look like.
That said, I want to rework libmanette API entirely. It's not in a very good state right now, it's a lot more convoluted than it needs to be.
Ok, now all gamepad input works. I could also really easily hook up accel and gyro, but need to think how to expose them in libmanette first (and we'd probably want to support them for evdev too, we don't atm) On Highscore side, if libmanette report…Nyaa~ Place
ID_SET_DIGITAL_MAPPINGS structure, as well as general steps documented somewhere online, as it would have helped me a lot. ^^
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Composed by Yann Tiersen.All the Amelie music bought Yann Tiersen in limelight and now he is compared with other musicians like Chopin, Erik Satie, Phillip ...YouTube
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