If you’re not in any hurry, The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth.
Although technically that’s several books, not a book.
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
If you’re not in any hurry, The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth.
Although technically that’s several books, not a book.
Edit: I’ve just noticed that there’s an active QMMP project. That would be an even better option.
With that licensing, I think it might be better for anyone wanting to contribute time and effort to be looking to resurrect XMMS or XMMS2* instead. Heck, they even supported Winamp skins.
* There were apparently two unrelated projects called XMMS2. Take your pick.
If the block feature goes away, I guarantee it will come back for - at the very least - the highest tier of paid accounts almost immediately afterwards.
I can’t imagine any of the large corps that still use Xitter for customer communication will be happy not being able to block serial trolls. Or people with legitimate grievances who won’t go away.
Looks like the original was “light mode”. The image is a colour-reversed image of the free PDF version which is on the creator’s site at the bottom of the page.
Direct PDF link: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf
Google’s money is a bit scummy these days, and definitely not something that should be relied upon long term, but I hope Google are making some kind of monetary donation.
One way to fight back is to try to get the video ID of the advertisement from the debug info, go to the video directly and leave a dissatisfied comment. This will work until they hide that ID anyway. Or the advertiser turns off comments. At that point we’re left with sending our disapproval in other public forums, preferably the more public the better.
“Your ad was shown to me on a pause screen where I don’t want to see ads. As such I will ensure that I do not purchase your products for the foreseeable future and that I will recommend that friends and relatives do the same. Thank you for participating in YouTube customer feedback.”
Trying to figure out what they’re trying to say with “British educated”. It’s the Mail, so is this dog-whistling that we’re supposed to be proud of what she did, or is it more that we “shouldn’t be letting these foreigners in” to get an education here?
Or is it hedging bets both ways, because that wouldn’t surprise me either.
FWIW, a certain Osama bin Laden was British-educated too. He went to Oxford.
That’s a thorny question: Do comments need to be in the base standard, or can that be offloaded to those building on it? It doesn’t look like it would be hard to have (comment "foo bar baz")
in an expression and have a re-parser throw that out.
Is the complaint that no two groups of people will use the same comment standard if left to their own devices? It’s not like the other data from different sources will always match up. What’s one extra, and fairly easy to handle SNAFU?
That said, yes, I think I’d be more comfortable knowing there was an accepted comment format. The aesthetic seems to be Lisp-like, and I notice that the Lisp comment marker, the semicolon, is currently a reserved character, that is, it’s illegal to use it unquoted. Maybe they’re thinking of adding that at some point.
Time for a law to be passed that kills off this bad idea permanently.
With governments (of all alignments) in the pockets of, or otherwise under the influence of, the very large corporations whose advertising would stand to benefit from this, I have only the following to say: Good luck with that.
Given that magic eye pictures are basically a certain convolution of a repetitive source image (or random noise) and a depth map, it ought to be possible for an AI, if not a standard procedural algorithm, to at least attempt to “factor out” the source and map from the result image.
Whether that even counts as seeing and whether this guy’s neural network could do this, or maybe “see” in some other way is open to question. But I’m guessing it’s a no.
Yeah, that’ll go great when the car is suddenly driving 14 miles down the driveway of the house I lived at as a child - a driveway that is walkable in less than a minute - before entering the garage which is a large house that slightly resembles a place I used to work and has a view over a clock tower that may or may not be larger when you look at it from a different angle and I think I’ll nap in this bed that’s here.
Now tell me: Where is the car relative to its position when that five-second-long dream sequence began, and will that pedestrian ever walk again?
Any tool someone invents will be used to train an AI to circumvent that tool.
In fact that’s how a lot of AI training is done in the first place.
Because you touch y… wait no. That doesn’t work here.
Let me channel my inner Microsoft and think of the most asinine…
OK, yeah, you’ll have to touch and hold the right hand side of the screen for three seconds, then the left and the right for a further three, let go of the right and keep touching the left for three more, let go and then the settings will pop up. I call it “Son of sticky keys.”
There will be no other way to get to those settings.
That free idea reduces (potential) ad watch time which reduces money, so there’s no chance they’ll implement it.
If they thought they could get away with serving an ad every 15 seconds, they’d do it.
Cost or no cost, IoT should not be able to brick devices on the whim - or unexpected dissolution - of a faceless corporation.
Unfortunately too many people are trusting of monolithic entities which promise the moon and then decide what they really meant was “bend over”.
I may be channelling a bit of Louis Rossman here.
That said, the other comments here suggest that the device in question still has all features when accessed from the front panel, which is a step up from a lot of other IoT behaviour. Owners who don’t want to pay for the app should still disconnect it from any connectivity and keep it that way just in case the manufacturer decides to remove that functionality as well.
And if it stops working altogether without network connectivity, take the L and maybe mail it back to the company’s head office with no return address. Let them deal with the e-waste.
Most people don’t need multiple profiles either.
Dude, if that’s all-caps HARD, then I don’t know how you’d classify, say, compiling things from source and fixing any problems that might crop up along the way. Or fixing missing DLL / OCX hell when trying to get an old Windows game running under Linux, because let me tell you, I’ve done both of those and had to give up. firefox -P
is heaven by comparison.
You could even put it into a shortcut and you wouldn’t have to type it any more.
Yes the interface sucks, but HARD is not it.
“Hard” is a strong word. It’s not built into the default interface, granted, but it’s not that hard to use FF’s command line: firefox -P
They have said they’re thinking about rejigging the whole thing though.
Peeked at Bluesky the other day and was thinking “wow a lot of these posts are in Portuguese”. It took an embarrassingly long time for me to connect the dots.
Anyway, my point is, damage has been done to Xitter’s user base in Brazil. How much damage remains to be seen.