I would like to thank Apple for delivering another design choice for the tireless anti-Apple folks out there to rip on for the next 10 years. They were almost beginning to run out of steam on the Magic Mouse charging port.
Have you ever heard of an undecillion? It's a truly staggering amount, a number followed by 36 zeros. And Google has just been fined that amount by Russia.
Sky News: Russia fines Google more than world's entire GDP for blocking YouTube accounts.
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The LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) has appointed Prof. Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, from Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPr) as the newest certified LibreOffice developer. Prof.
Two can play at this game! Chinese sanctions against Skydio — the U.S.’s largest drone maker — have left the company (which supplies UAVs to Ukraine's military) scrambling for a new battery supplier. Yes, folks, Beijing has pulled the batteries from the drones. (The reason for the sanctions is the sale of attack drones to Taiwan.) ft.com/content/b1104594-5da7-4…
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ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH Dubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis.
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This is the AI Era. Companies are racing to incorporate as many AI features as possible into their devices. While some features may seem like gimmicks, others
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As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.
Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC in May 2024.
@robini71 I'm fine if they want to offer a ton of Christmas music channels but I canceled my Sirius XM subscription when I could no longer get to the All Channels button just to get to the full channel list. I subscribed to them for around a year. I liked them because their high quality audio setting sounded so much better than other radio apps I tried. But when I could no longer get a list of channels, I gave up and I really don't miss them.
I can totally understand all points in this thread. The only reason I still have my subscription is because it only cost me five dollars and change per month if it decides to ever increase in price, I may reconsider. I do love their Christmas channels and the dance music channel and Frank Sinatra channel, but beyond that it is a difficult cell when I try to justify keeping it.
@robini71 Just recently got an account for Hockey, because the NHL app can no longer be relied upon to offer an easy and accessible way of aeverssing all the radio feeds for the various teams. My only experience of music on Sirius has been in my sister's vehicle, which has been unimpressive. I'll have to check out this high quality option I guess. Tidal has definitely got me spoiled.
@cublanco @robini71 Yep, Sirius XM definitely offers a lot of sports. I enjoyed the audio feeds of news channels and it was nice to have EWTN with everything in fabulous audio quality.
Meet Steve, a photographer from London who is deaf and low vision. He is an ex-civil servant who then went on to do freelance technology journalism and travelled the world.
I'm thrilled to announce my first blog post on my homepage. Finally, after months of setting my site up, I now have acquired ✨content✨. In this one I share my experience as a volunteer for the matrix conference 2024. Thank you again for this opportunity @matrix @plainschwarz 10/10 would do it again
Images by Jan Michalko for the Matrix.org Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 Intro From September 19th to 22nd of this year the Matrix.org Foundation held their first own Matrix Conference in person here in Berlin.
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Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about objects moving with constant acceleration? This blew my mind.
As I explained yesterday, medieval scientists were deeply confused about the connection between force and velocity: it took Newton to realize force is proportional to 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But in the early 1300s, a group of researchers called the Oxford Calculators made huge progress in understanding objects that move with changing velocity.
They discovered something called the Mean Speed Theorem: an object moving at constant acceleration over some period of time goes just as far as if it were moving uniformly with the velocity it had at the middle instant of its motion!
That's really cool. But it gets better. They gave homework problems called 'sophisms' to the students of Merton College at Oxford. And in 1335, one of them named William Heytesbury wrote a book called 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠, which gives us a look at what these problems were like. Some of them required students to know the Mean Speed Theorem!
Later in the 1300s, Nicolas Oresmus in Paris gave a picture proof of the Mean Speed Theorem. For example, he pointed out that the triangle ACG below has the same area as the rectangle ACFD.
Why did it take so long for Galileo to rediscover this stuff? How did the knowledge of the Oxford Calculators get lost?
Git is a version control system that developers use to track changes in their code, cooperate with other developers, and even revert changes if something goes wrong. While most developers know common…
The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.
Very often drivers yell at me something like "go ride a bike way". It's often on a road where there is no bike way nearby and there is no legal restriction for me riding the road. But when there is a restriction for motorized vehicles, nobody cares. Like literally every day on this road. That's what #cycling in #Prague looks like.
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 323 Minimus oculos rotundos et os subridens in peponi insculpit (Minimus carves round eyes and a smiling mouth into a pumpkin). Silvius cupit cultellum tractare, sed tata eum vetat (Silvius wants to handle the knife, but Daddy forbids him).
I think this one turned out to be the most informative one, or at least it piques my curiosity the most.
I think I'll try following along this graph with curl's version history at hand. For example, I now wonder what kind of refactoring happened around late 2011 - the older code amount drops rather sharply there :)
Oh this is really nice! You've inspired me to generate this for the Linux kernel. The git blames are running now... I parallelized it, but it's still going to take a while! :)
@hikhvar @dascandy Yeah, it's not as steep as with curl, but I'm starting to see it getting deeper with each segment. The 2016-2018 segment seems to eat into prior areas much more than the other year segments.
@hikhvar @dascandy I'm curios to see how much of what's left from "start of git history" in Linux is blank lines and comments. :) I'll need a whole new scanner for that. :P
@kurtseifried @hikhvar @dascandy Yeah, once this finishes I'm going to rework the caching and also store paths. Then I can re-run it with arbitrary path filters. The counting phase is fast. The blame phase is sloooow. 😅
and yet it runs the simplest form of blame. It could be argued that blame -CCC would give the more "right" info, but that's just so slow it's unbearable to use for this
@pierstoval cool, just ask if there's anything I can help you with. You might spot that I have a way to list all tags and I get the age of the project at those moments in time. If you have tags like that, you can do it the same way otherwise you need to figure out a different way to identify snapshot moments.
I got caught up in many things so I didn't have time to continue, but I'll certainly work on it during the next days! I'll keep you in touch, in case you're interested :)
I'm interested! If it helps, @kees made a port of the script over to python to make it perform better on larger code bases like the Linux kernel: github.com/kees/kernel-tools/t…
@pierstoval each line is a date and then line number counters for all the different time "slots" separated with semicolons, so that looks like perfectly fine output
Really the best visualization of this dataset so far!
I find it confusing that only even years like 2000, 2002, etc. are listed. Did you skip every 2nd year? If data for each two years is accumulated please write "2000-2001" in the key.
@dboehmer I wanted to keep the labels simple to reduce the amount of text, as it quickly becomes "heavy" otherwise. But yeah, I'll think of how to improve it.
a) write "2000 f." for 2000–2001 like common for giving page numbers in citations. (I just learned that "f." is for giving someone’s birthdate in Swedish 😁 ) en.wiktionary.org/wiki/f.#Adje…
b) Use "≤" or "≥" mathematical operators. As the key is most probably read from the top to the bottom maybe give the lower number year instead like - ≥ 2023 - ≥ 2021 - ≥ 2019 - … - < 2000
You’re so quick! I find this better than take 4, for sure.
If you want to minimize text space I’d consider this the optimal solution.
But to be honest I think it’s a bit too technical even—for software people. it takes a moment to understand this means each color represents two years …
More than ½ h after posting my suggestions I tend to think option C (that I added to the post) might be the most common notation: just "2023/24". Don’t you think? At least Germans use that a lot.
@dboehmer unfortunately I think that version gets too messy, probably because too many numbers. Without being crystal clear what it means. I think I'll stick with the ≥ for now.
@dboehmer for me, reading the graph part makes everything very clear. Like, the year number is just a point in time, at the transition between two years (e. g. black covers 2010-2012).
It would also be possible to work with dashes, like saying "up to 2002", though that needs a different numbering then:
It might be interesting to see this with log scale on y axis and, if those lines seem to decrease roughly linearly, to compare how halflifes change over time.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says the company is "short-staffed" amid WordPress's ongoing drama with WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress.
"A good sysadmin always carries around a few feet of fiber. If he ever gets lost, he simply drops the fiber on the ground, waits ten minutes, then asks the backhoe operator for directions."
Congrats to the @thunderbird team and especially @cketti on the Thunderbird Android release! 🎉
It's been a while since the Prototypefund [1] days and me complaining about the white icon background during 36C3 and being responsible for the pink icon background about an hour later [2]. (Which caused a steady supply of angry users after this was released as a stable version 1.5 y later.)
This adds a desaturated version of K9-Mails envelope color as the
adaptive icon background color.
This should look a lot better than a plain white background.
Also slightly enlarge the icon shape.
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