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srott··on Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars
I agree, with my kids I rarely do it in less than an hour
srott··on HTML Spirograph (2021)
Just in case you missed it, the same guy also has a gear generator

https://geargenerator.com

srott··on GitUI
I was missing interactive rebase, as it is missing from libgit2

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui/issues/32

srott··on How to do OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python
you can use clipboard with pbpaste/pbcopy commands

ocr-text "$1" && pbpaste

srott··on The curse of the goitre in Switzerland
In Slovakia, another landlocked country with lack of natural iodine from rainfall or diet, dementia became part of the culture. 30% (!!!) of population suffered from dementia. Iodizing salt raised IQ by 10 point every 10~ years but the damage is irreparable…
srott··on Ratatui
React & tui

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-blessed

srott··on Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python (2003)
Why just numerals :)

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

srott··on Responding to “Are bugs and slow delivery ok?”
Working rapidly without bugs is preferable to working slowly with bugs.
srott··on Paper Models of Vintage Computers
My wife broke the paper feeder on a HP deskjet while trying to print on a heavier photo paper and the OfficeJet failed even loading it.
srott··on Paper Models of Vintage Computers
Can some recommend a printer that won’t break apart after printing on a cardstock?
srott··on C++ Coroutines
I think even gccgo used threads as coroutines, not sure if it's still the case
srott··on Xournalpp++ – closs-platform, open source note taking software
Anyone have any recommendations for a nice Linux tablet with a decent stylus support ?
srott··on Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
x64?
srott··on Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64 (2019)
Fallen in love…

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ux2na/german_wife_...

srott··on TUIs
My personal favorite:

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

srott··on Goto (2007)
> There is no need to use GOTO when a language has functions/procedures and exceptions.

... and defer

srott··on FoundationDB: A distributed unbundled transactional key value store
Perhaps you were referring to DabbleDB?
srott··on Manim: An animation engine for explanatory math videos
There is a link to "our online Jupyter environment."...

https://mybinder.org/v2/gist/behackl/725d956ec80969226b7bf9b...

srott··on WinBox: Window manager in a web browser
Reminds me of an old project called netwindows (http://web.archive.org/web/20050701000610/http://www.netwind...).

Looked almost as intuitive and easy as WinAPI, PDF documentation has 200 pages.

srott··on Museum of Bad Album Covers
Nothing beats Yugoslav album covers

https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-vintage-album-covers-yugosl...

The music is even worse

srott··on MyNOR: Single board computer that uses a single NOR gate as its ALU
No, AFAIU the computation is serialized, driven by the microcode and this gate is reused for every step
srott··on LTUI – A cross platform terminal UI library based on Lua
My favorite:

https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed

srott··on Clang vs. other open-source compilers
This one is also outdated:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc7-cla...

haven't checked recently, because gcc sped up and still produces better binaries

It can dump AST and much more: https://godbolt.org/

srott··on XML is almost always misused
you've just invented plist, wonder if it can be validated by a schema..

  <dict> 
        <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
        <string>FMWK</string>
        <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
        <string>4.8</string>
...
srott··on Cat Colors
Then check the grcat tool :)

https://github.com/garabik/grc

srott··on Firefox 64 Released
Congratulations, nice round version number!
srott··on In field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Not bad for a roof of concept...
srott··on Common combinators in JavaScript
It would definitely be harder to play combinatris with longer identifiers...

http://dirk.rave.org/combinatris/

srott··on How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)
I'm curious what was the story of Dabble DB, and why they killed it.
srott··on Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
I remember few years ago Git under Windows was very slow, is it still true?
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