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It doesn't help that "Akrides" sound like a Bond villain EvilCorp run by Dr Ambergris whose face is horribly disfigured from a series botched face lifts that's plotting to populate Mars with big boobed clones running around dressed only in brassieres, just like his lead concubine, Dorothy "Dirty" Sanchez (Don't blame me for Kam Fleming's knack for double entendres...) who leads his team of equally big boobed secret helicopter pilotresses.

This is, of course, ridiculous, and Dr. Ambergris is just an amalagam of Muammar al-Gaddafi and some 2nd rate wannabe strongmen not worth mentioning that I made up for fun.

It splits the community and number of possible volunteer hours for one. It also splits the canon into different versions. More projects fight for the attention attention (and possibly donations) of the audience.

There are lots of reasons it could be preferable to centralize. OTOH their mission is limited and some competition is healthy, if only to explore alternative ways to do things.

More to the point, if the police or whoever shoot someone in self defence, that someone is "killed". If I, or the police shoot someone for fun, it's "murder". In both cases the victim is "killed"

Yes, I mistyped, Freudian slip. And I can't edit or delete anymore. I'm terribly sorry.

Very sad news to hear. People of his caliber are sorely needed in the community. My condolences to everyone close to fefe.

Toning down aggressive phrasing is not "doing a 180", calling the change from "only losers left at GitHub" to "the engineering excellence has left" lying seems disingenuous.

Also, most people are aware that "Europe" the continent is unlikely to make such decisions, so it's pretty obvious what's meant by context.

Feels like the "demonstrated it's no longer necessary to solve sudokus" statement may have been a joke :)

Unfortunately no Linux, Windows or even HTML targets?

Wonderful little tool! Something similar has been swirling aronud my head for a while. Thank you for sharing, it looks very useful.

I get the impression that someone doesn't like Java and used chat gpt to create a one-to-one typescript port.

I dislike Java as much as the next guy, but I believe the true value of tools (and this tool in particular) is in the embedded wisdom and experience of their creators/Terrence Parr. Just generating a functionally equivalent port doesn't add much value.

That said, that's just a first impression, I have no idea what motivated this fork

I was tasked with auditing third party scripts at a client a couple of years ago, the marketing people where unable to explain wtf tag manager does concretely without resorting to ‚it tracks campaign engagement´ mumbo jumbo, but were adamant they they can’t live without it.

Considering they handle and transport a lot of money, it's safe to assume they don't meet to make back of the envelope estimations concerning weight and volume.

Fun fact, people who work at the Fed just print their salary at the end of the month.

This would be a coherent argument if the paper was submitted by an email address. Instead the paper was submitted by a person. The email address serves to identify the person. Only the person can redact the paper.

Could you give a concrete example concerning what sort of notation caused you difficulty in the past? Asking because it seems odd to me that you feel you need to learn „all“ the notation to get started.

Starting in elementary school you slowly build up topics, mathematical intuition and notation more or less in unity. E.g. starting with whole numbers, plus and minus signs before multiplication, then fractions and decimal notation. By the end of high school you may have reached integrals and matrices to work with concepts from calculus and linear algebra…

It makes little sense to confront people with notation before the corresponding concepts are being taught. So it feels like you may have a different perspective on notation as a layperson that are no longer obvious to more advanced learners.

Exactly, Typescript doesn't stop working because of random runtime errors, it stops working because you didn't update the toolchain tangle last Thursday and then some configuration file got out of whack with the tsc defaults ;-)

Not to mention you're not blowing money up Bezo's botoxed arse.

If it was a movie with Kevin Costner how can you question it's veracity!?

This is interesting and sets off a bunch of ideas. It might be fun to generate a printed version that can differently depending on how it's lit, either red/green or tricks with pwm'ing LEDs...

How happy are you with the results?The execution is great, but I feel the idea didn't really validate well. Every single sample ended up with pictures like this: (https://hotel.trvcdn.com/380/de/800024805/700034633/nh-colle...). While I'm impressed at how accurately you can detect chairs with wheels, that doesn't seem to be an indicator of an ergonomic workspace. Quite frankly, I would have preferred (and been fine with) sitting on the bed with my laptop in every hotel I clicked on.

Ok, I'll bite: why have you been looking for ways to identify the make and model of hotel chairs?

Possibly even have a product and not just renderings.

I want it to receive regular updates for the reasonable lifetime of the product provide by the original manufacturer! Kazam!

Same, T460 and a T480 I think. Updated to an SSD and maxed out RAM. My only quibble is max 1980x??? Screen resolution. ThinkPad are so cheap when they come back from their leasing contract, not sure why not more people are excited about them.

Even if you don't use Linux, they typically come with a Windows Pro license built in.

What are Maggie and Kasper's list? Could you provide a link, please?

Did you translate the original French to modern English or modernize the new translation?

I wonder how those would compare. Translating the original would probably be the 'correct' thing to do, from a literary point of view. Poses some interesting question, though.

But when Sam Altman owns all the money in the world surely he'll distribute some it via his not-for-profit AI company?

So data.illinois.gov has been hacked?

You could wire it up either way. In general the LED is extremely likely to outlive the rest of the laptop, though.