Posts by ssokolow@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #9tknWN4SpVBTZeeKXI by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-06T03:09:31Z
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@brandon @cosullivan *chuckle* I remember seeing the discussion of that here.Anyway, Google Translate does have a few other quirks that need to be massaged. I'm not sure whether I mentioned it in another branch of this thread or elsewhere, but I'm compiling a guide for what I'm learning while dogfooding an experimental Tesseract OCR frontend I've been cleaning up to push to GitHub, intended for OCRing manga and the like(It was a sleep-deprived rush experiment, so it needs refactoring first)
(DIR) Post #9tlypCeR5V6pPhcKps by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-06T16:50:57Z
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@arteteco @hrisskar At the moment, I'm using something I hacked together using rxvt-unicode, a customized version of its kuake plugin, and GNU screen for tabs but, when I use something polished and ready-made, I use Yakuake.(Partly because I'm a KDE user and partly because, when I last evaluated the options ages ago, it felt most polished.)
(DIR) Post #9tpJsVZjrhvdUDiXR2 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T07:30:53Z
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@freemo I remembered what it was that Trump did wrong about the CDC.https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/TL;DR: When top national security officials handling pandemics left in 2018 (supposedly pushed out by Bolton), he either didn't replace them or replaced them with friends and allies rather than properly qualified people.
(DIR) Post #9tpT0UHdS4uDNq84ZM by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T09:13:02Z
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@freemo Point. Not all of the relevant decisions were direct trump appointments, so I should have been more clear that some of it is decisions made either by or as part of internal politicking for/against people he did appoint.
(DIR) Post #9tpXvDMVRBgxE2iEfQ by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:08:19Z
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@freemo My intent in posting that was to get to the kernel of truth behind the criticism of Trump.That criticism being that, whether it was people he appointed directly or decisions made by them, Trump isn't blameless in this, even if only because he appears to be a very poor judge of how people he brings on will affect the function of the organization as a whole.
(DIR) Post #9tpYzZp7y33M09kBRg by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:20:02Z
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@freemo I'd rather not get started on how Jared Kushner was given too many jobs and was under-qualified for them.
(DIR) Post #9tpZEZ9oj8bAHLZKAi by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:23:02Z
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@freemo You won't see me disagreeing there. Both sides are incompetent in their own ways. The democrats blend theirs with spinelessness.
(DIR) Post #9tpZjRsfpZkEgjHAoq by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:28:35Z
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@freemo True. Personally, I think the republicans have been more destructive with their dishonesty and incompetence, though. Like Brian Kemp ordering the beaches open under penalty of fines or incarceration or Trump's oddly insistent pushing of hydroxychloroquine when it has not yet been proven effective and can have serious side-effects.
(DIR) Post #9tpazjSyJfLboeaBf6 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:42:44Z
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@freemo I dunno. From what I've seen so far, democratic misconduct has been primarily focused on character attacks, while the Republicans have been the ones making the mistakes with direct consequences for the nation as a whole.
(DIR) Post #9tpbgCaoPn6MJRV7w0 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-04-08T10:50:12Z
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@freemo It's clear we have very diffierent perspectives on what has taken place.Unfortunately, it's rooted in perceptions of trends (ie. "But overall") and I don't have time to go dig up a big pile of citations right now to counter that.
(DIR) Post #9ubzXiwmdK9o5uIwz2 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-05-01T19:01:17Z
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After encountering a public domain tileset on itch.io that appealed to me so much that I'm now considering experimenting with game development, I decided to start compiling a list of game assets on Itch.io that are under Debian-compatible licensing terms.(i.e. Not the usual "don't redistribute or sell alone or in assets packs" terms which violate the FSF, OSI, and Debian definitions of Free and/or Open.)https://itch.io/c/845926/libre-game-assets(The description also lists other sources like OpenGameArt.)
(DIR) Post #9uc6wfYB6CwETgdafw by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-05-01T20:26:47Z
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@freemo Is it a roguelike? If so, 0x72's Dungeon Tileset (either version) is the best candidate I've found so far:https://0x72.itch.io/16x16-dungeon-tilesethttps://0x72.itch.io/dungeontileset-ii
(DIR) Post #9vIUEngZytarTuKavY by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-05-22T03:48:02Z
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Nice to see Microsoft releasing the GW-BASIC source under the MIT license. https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASICNow any retro-hobbyists who know enough x86 assembly have a starting point for supporting embeddable scripting on ancient DOS systems.#dos #retro #programming
(DIR) Post #9vIUaEVBTT9AjQDlB2 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-05-22T07:09:44Z
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@design_RG No problem. I only wish Microsoft were releasing QuickBasic 4.5 under MIT... or even just as a closed-source freely-redistributable compiler under the same terms as the 2.0 version of the Setup Toolkit from the Windows 3.1 SDK.I grew up on QBasic 1.1 and always wanted the compiler. Now that I'm old enough to have acquired a copy, I'm reluctant to make my creations depend on compilers I can't share when I put the source on GitHub.
(DIR) Post #9wUO1QZIhNnCYPyrc8 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-06-26T18:52:00Z
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I just remembered a fascinating post on the history of the number sign which I thought everyone would appreciate:https://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-sign-of-number.htmlAlso, two other good posts from the same blog:https://widespacer.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-lost-key-of-qwerty.htmlhttps://widespacer.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-hidden-secrets-of-qwerty.html
(DIR) Post #9yRznWThpHUKpEGaYq by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-08-24T06:19:48Z
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I just discovered the Nightwish song "The Islander"... another case of "every metal band must have at least one soft song".A beautiful celtic folk-ish song that I recommend everyone check out, even if they don't like Nightwish otherwise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--tFFz44zvc(And the music video is beautiful too)
(DIR) Post #9yV71ocGT61YHqubKq by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-08-26T02:53:20Z
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@namark Thanks. :)My Nightwish listening has been very random and none of those are ones I've listened to yet.
(DIR) Post #A0m4W9LvAOxFusEsb2 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2020-11-02T02:20:07Z
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In case anyone's interested, I just posted a run-down of simple C/C++ test frameworks that'll build for real-mode DOS with Open Watcom C/C++ 1.9, plus preliminary research for how to do functional testing on a DOS program.http://blog.ssokolow.com/archives/2020/10/31/automated-testing-for-open-watcom-c-c-and-dos/#dos #retrocomputing #c
(DIR) Post #A3a8AvjITQfxwW9iEq by ssokolow@qoto.org
2021-01-25T02:13:02Z
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It turns out there's an amusing anecdote behind the decision to split stdout and stderr:https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html
(DIR) Post #ADR0Zzxv5LZuiEtWt6 by ssokolow@qoto.org
2021-11-15T19:15:04Z
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A great analogy for SIMD just developed over on /r/rust/: SIMW: Single Iron, Multiple Waffleshttps://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qucind/stdsimd_is_now_available_on_nightly/hkpy4y4/