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To be precise, it takes 1 employee to say "used in X". It takes corporate decision to say "used by X". And it takes a written agreement to be able to use the trademarked logo of X on your page. (I know, because I have collected more than 60 such agreements to show logos on a page).
What is also missing from the text is why -- more specifically, why should someone set up a DoH instead of a DNS service.
Not to mention vLLM :-D
I completely agree that it is the best choice for a document language.
To the point that I have to ask: what other alternatives are there?
What a wonderful analysis and visualization! Simple, easy to understand, and providing some insights.
Com'on, it's not that bad. The idea of these organizations is that, since they're using and testing this software, "we'll see any issues first, we'll let you know, and we'll deal with it." The quoted part bears some resemblance to the tasks of Akrites.
Remains to be seen whether history will repeat itself: when the tax breaks/ free AI use stops, will anyone keep doing this?
Disclaimer: I have had nothing to do with this initiative, and was not consulted on the name.
That's wonderful!
I can also recommend a book from my library: Typoésie by Jérôme Peignot (Imprimerie nationale editions, Paris, 1993), ISBN 2-11-081272-9 (or newer edition 9782742757985).
From the book description: The works of the great typographers of the 20th century are featured: Maximilien Vox, Cassandre’s “Bifur,” Piet Zwart, the Americans Martin Solomon and Herb Lubalin, Raymond Gid, and Guy Levis Mano. The book also showcases the visual poetry of the Germans Gomringer, Mon, and Rühm; the Brazilians de Campos and Pignatari; Emmet Williams; Christian Dotremont; and Jacques Roubaud; and the “typoems” by painters such as Matisse, Magritte, Duchamp, Lissitzky, Raymond Hains, Jiri Kollar, Jasper Johns, and Valerio Adami. Even mathematics and musical notation are included.
Exactly the same feedback: I got all 100 correct, and the results were the same as yours.
As it usually happens in this kind of "check your vocabulary" tests in English, being Greek gives you an advantage in higher levels ;-)
The $100K was for doing the work to make the offer to buy Letterbox.
This offer need to somehow include something like $160M.
The comment you're replying to pointed out that there is no explanation how this money will be raised. "50 people, $2200 each" does not cover it.
No, you don't get the holidays back -- nor do you get weekends, if you're sick.
On the other hand, I've been in a company where there were long discussions about whether the extra day on leap years is a working day or a vacation day...
Thank you for helping maintain the Unix lore.
As the old joke goes:
"For your birthday, I wanted to get you a pocket calculator ... but then I thought you'd already know how many pockets you have."
was Metafont the only outline-based font technology
Surely Karow's Ikarus was earlier than that.
One of the main innovations of Metafont was the use of "pen"s, so that one would describe a single path and the software would trace it and imitate the use of one or more pens, to end with an outline of something with thickness, and essentially more curves. It mimics how drawing and writing actually happens.
AFAIK, Zapf did not like this approach at all, as he was used to design typefaces the traditional way, by specifying all the curves. Richard Southall embraced the new paradigm and used Metafont as it was supposed to be used, but produced only a couple of demo typefaces (mainly the nmt family) and a handful of commercial ones (I can now only remember Colorado, with Ladislas Mandel, used in the phone directories of US West). I think he also implemented Melior, but of course this was never distributed as it was a proprietary Zapf design.
Note: all the above are based on recollections of my discussions with Zapf, Southall, and Knuth, in the distant past. All my relevant printed materials are in a different country right now, and I don't have easy access to them.
RIP. I've actually found the Handbook of Programming Languages (4 volumes) that he edited much more useful than his Unix history.
I met him in a few conferences, back in the day. We ended up talking more about linguistics than Unix history, somehow.
They definitely also had NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access): on multi-CPU systems, you had a variety of ways to specify where you wanted your data to live (stay close to one CPU, for example).
People who look for solutions in this space (Time Series DB for measurements, for example) can also look at the good ol' RRDtool https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ first released more than 25 years ago...
And thank you for this. In my professional setting, this is a very valuable addition -- provided it works correctly, of course ;-).
Now if we could also have comments inside the code ("BEGIN/END snippet by Copilot"), that would also be great!
I concur completely. Back in those days, the very basic stuff you mention (awk, sed, make) were being built by a handful of people, all sitting together, and the few outsiders who were submitting enhancements (even before these were called "patches") knew the email addresses to send these to. For Sendmail, you should contact the people at Berkeley, for most of the others you sent to Bell Labs.
Then software started appearing from other points. We were getting new versions of software after email announcements -- and later on, on comp.sources.unix -- and we were reading the comments to see that other people were contributing, too.
The way you publish your software (especially today) essentially boils down to how much you are looking for contributors vs. users (vs. no one at all).
Most of this is based on Copyright legal framework, which is surprisingly homogeneous around the world. The discussions about ownership of AI-generated material are exactly the same in EU.
Yes, and if the same come ends up in someone else's hands, they can state "we didn't steal it, a GenAI generated it for us, the same as it did for you". Given the non-deterministic operation of current GenAI systems (a major difference from compilers), it would probably be hard to prove either position.
One of the minor but very welcome latest updates of Microsoft Windows was the addition of the capability to type Win+- to get an en-dash (–) and Shift+Win+- to get an em dash (—).
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Grik-spiking werld.
You can still start such a company now. The tricky part is to gain the trust of customers.
Well, if it's AI-generated, it's not really copyrighted by you and you cannot license it under GPL, since you did not write it.
Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!
I believe the major hurdle would be from the "renter" part.
Usually such installations are only allowed to be done by the owners, not tenants.
Interesting, but some of the information is conflicting: the design was about "No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror" but then the 24-hour arc talks about "(top, 12 o'clock position) clockwise".
Placing midnight on top forces an orientation, while specifying clockwise makes mirroring impossible.
But this is only on the text description, the actual clock would work anyway.
People are still be born in Sparta, Greece; no time travel needed.
It's pretty straightforward to sync the contacts on the phone with the contacts on Fastmail via CardDAV, using DAVx5 for example.
Right! ed was the first one, and its ideas and commands influenced sed (a "streams" ed), and ex (an "extended" editor, which also had a "vi"sual mode).
It's even easier to exec a hash of argv[0] and print it.